Edmund Kuepper was born in Bremen, West Germany in 1956. His parents emigrated to Australia when he was about three years old, settling in the south-west suburbs of Brisbane. The suburb he lived in, Oxley, is far from the heart of the city and a visit paints it as the kind of place where people live only because it is close to the place they work and maybe because it's a cheaper mortgage. It is close to the industrial areas of Brisbane and is surrounded today by golf courses. It is also on Oxley Creek, a feature in Ed's work for decades to come.
School was reputedly not fun for Ed in the early years, being subject to racist taunts from the "native" school goers, and it's unquestionable that he would take the role of the outsider in many of his narratives later on. There, however, he would meet up with someone who he found as a friend, and later as a partner in crime.
Christopher Bailey was also born overseas in Nanyuki, Kenya in 1957. They left Africa early in Chris' life and his parents dragged him and "the brood" all over the place - including their native Northern Ireland - before finally settling in Brisbane when he was around ten years old. His home suburb, Inala, was a housing-comission estate filled with welfare- and low-income families, aboriginies and other immigrants. It too was miles from the city, and was close to Oxley Creek.
Ed and Chris linked up early at school, the pair being practically the only two males to have long hair. Bailey had been thrown out of Richlands High School and the pair soon found they had similar interests in music and politics.
Kuepper had been spending all of his spare time becoming involved in music, taking an interest in older recordings and newer. He was a fan of Black Sabbath, Rod Stewart, Roxy Music as well as the older bands, such as Sydney's Missing Links. However, it would be the Stooges and the album "Funhouse" that would have the biggest impcat on him. "That album," he says, "changed the way I looked at music."
Bailey's music tastes were given to him by his siblings. His sisters had a love for rockers of the old style - Eddie Cochran, Del Shannon and Australians like the Easybeats. His brother impressed upon him the folk troubadors Dylan, Guthrie and Seeger.
Ed had been playing guitar since the age of thirteen and kicking around with friends, playing and singing. Kuepper preferred singing, believing that a guitarist and songwriter could stay in the shadow while the singer up front could get all the attention. This suited Bailey fine - "Any rock band worth it's salt has the local looney on lead vocals. That was the role I performed," he says.
In 1972, they would meet Ivor Hay, from the nearby Corinda High, at a party. The introduction came through a mutual friend who was keen on forming a Rod Stewart covers band. The three of them would form a band almost immedately, taking the name Kid Galahad and the Eternals. Kid Galahad was taken from the Elvis movie ; the Eternals were from the sci-fi film Zardoz, who were portrayed as a bunch so decadent they were only waiting around to die.
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Come and help us pay for our travel from Melbourne. It will make you feel really good about yourself(John Merrick, the Elephant Man, had a benefactor who by all accounts slept extremely well and had regular bowel movements with an excellent firmness of stool) Apart from the charity side off things, we're not too bad either.
Hi The Saints, Crash Kelly's CD, "One More Heart Attack" is in stores and on now, please help spread the word and if you haven't already pick up your copy today - for a listing of U.S. store locations, check out the "Where Can I Get My Crash Kelly CD" blog on the MySpace page!!!
Also, get back to your rock roots with Crash Kelly's label mates, Saints Of The Underground in stores and on iTunes now! Please help spread the word and pick up your copies today.
David Virgin interviewed by Warhol Superstar Joe Dallesandro in June Issue of Hollywood's Punk Globe Magazine OUT NOW (With David Virgin on Front Cover! Click Pic' to read
Once again Mouthguard are heading to Europe.Join them at the Jubilee Hotel on the 11th July along with Blowhard,Provoke,The Pretty Boys,Protest,Pride of Place and The Skinwalkers and The Boss Sounds Djs.Doors at 7.30 pm and only costs $10 entry
Hate gonna get you down. Hate gonna put your face on the ground. Hate gonna let you down. Don't waste your time hating someone.
As long as birds sing in the trees, As long as fish swim in the sea, As long as love is on your mind, I will take you up and leave you high.
Well I'm free, I'm free, I'm free. Freedom means everything to me. I'm free, I'm free, I'm free. Freedom means everything , It means everything to me.
As long as there's meaning in the beat, As long as there's dancing in my feet. As long as peace stays on my mind, I will take you up, and leave you high.
Time gonna let you down. Time gonna leave you hanging around. Time gonna let you down. Don't waste your time waiting on someone.
As long as birds sing in the trees, As long as fish swin in the sea. As long as love is in your eyes, I will take you up and leave you high.
This Friday night the team at Punkfest presents punk legends Bastard Squad and fellow Melbournians Scratch n Sniff Both Playing live at the wonderful Jubilee Hotel; any self-respecting Punk fan will want to be there as both bands bring their full tilt Punk/hardcore thrash to Bris Vegas for the first time in far too long. Also raising the roof on the night will be a killer local support line up Consisting of Anger in Motion, Copius (YES THEY’RE BACK!!!) The Mercy Beat, and Brissy Favourites To Sha Mun Da.
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