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Wows, just rummaging through some archives and found this poster.

From back in the days when a large proportion of NZG were in actual live performance bands!

Prize for naming the NZG members in each band.

I'm hoping The Random Samicks were some kind of nzg supergroup. 8 guitar players on stage, all playing different songs with their rigs turned up to 11. Kind of like watching a gearfest on stage.

kdawg2a wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 3:43 am I'm hoping The Random Samicks were some kind of nzg supergroup. 8 guitar players on stage, all playing different songs with their rigs turned up to 11. Kind of like watching a gearfest on stage.

Almost.

I'm struggling with 'The Rickshaws'

kdawg2a wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 3:43 am I'm hoping The Random Samicks were some kind of nzg supergroup. 8 guitar players on stage, all playing different songs with their rigs turned up to 11. Kind of like watching a gearfest on stage.

Yep. There’s even video somewhere....

Bg wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:09 am I'm struggling with 'The Rickshaws'

Awww c’mon. They were good!

I remember going to this gig. May even have some photos stashed away on a HDD at home somewhere.

Random memories include the Sammicks doing a New Order song, and the guitarist from the Mysterons with an amp that was bigger than the venue

Without searching I can't remember who drummed for the Sammicks and don't remember Kairos at all, could name the rest though.

Drummer was 'god himself' ?

Bg wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:09 am I'm struggling with 'The Rickshaws'

Don't fret, I also struggled with them

Kairos was zdali and denden aka my ex bro in laws.
We all know the master of the Mysterons
TOV was Kristie, and I believe young Mike Johns... lost track of that guy, great guitarist, beautiful man.
Rickshaws was my lot
And ARSE in that incarnation was god himself, Darkness, Ash and the other god himself, Beeg.

Yeah we did some New Order could have True Faith,Cure - A Forest iirc, Psychadelic Furs - Love my way and some other random songs... random.

Line up was me on gat/keys, James Morgan who used to be here, Ash on bass and God Himself on drums

Kairos were your ex-bros in law weren't they?

For some reason I thought you were in Transit with Kristie, memory is shot to shit lol

I remember it was Easter Saturday or something and we had to rush to the liquor shop before midnight...

lol snap

Mike pops back in every few years lol

Bg wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 2:38 pmlol snap

hah!

I replaced Mike on guitar in Transit of Venus in the last part of 2009 after he went overseas, later gigs.

I bought a reverb pedal off Mike on here in 2018. so he's been back and gone again.


I miss the original music scene from the early 2000's, bit of a lost era, back then we had our demos on MySpace, and I doubt many have made it over to Spotify or similar... not that I've looked.

Really loved the creative side of writing music and recording demos. Can't say I miss playing to 6 people and the bar staff at Galatos, Hysteria or the Kings Arms though.