{"id":1561,"date":"2008-07-14T17:44:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T21:44:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-07-16T20:27:27","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T20:27:27","slug":"daddy-cool-breaking-up-is-hard-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/daddy-cool-breaking-up-is-hard-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Daddy Cool: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/flop.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">The People have (not) spoken!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one of those oddities I sometimes happen across while researching other thread ideas. It&#8217;s a 1974 interview with an Australian band I&#8217;d never heard of before, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daddy_Cool_(band)\" target=\"_blank\">Daddy Cool<\/a><\/strong>. Can we SUMMON the Thunder Down Under, <strong>Homefrontradio<\/strong>, for some background on this band? I&#8217;m sure our old friend <strong>Links Linkerson<\/strong> could provide us with some <a href=\"http:\/\/australianscreen.com.au\/titles\/daddy-cool\/\" target=\"_blank\">links to the history and importance of this band<\/a>, but he refuses to play above ground. Despite not knowing a lick about the band, they tell an age-old story I think you&#8217;ll enjoy.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/opkV3L5yMm0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Following are some clips of the band in their prime! There&#8217;s something oddly catchy about this band. Check &#8217;em out!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nTheir breakthrough Aussie hit, <strong>&#8220;Eagle Rock&#8221;<\/strong>!<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oQfAZVsz6KM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another song I&#8217;d never heard of, on which the drummer sings!<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/orUfvI1_rQU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And yet another!<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oIG9osPPILM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This one&#8217;s not wearing on me anywhere near as well, but maybe it helps explain what the one guy meant in that interview when he referred to them spending 5 years playing &#8220;good music most of the time.&#8221;<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qc0leXVlAa4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In case there&#8217;s any confusion, the <em>band<\/em> is not to be confused with the following <em>song<\/em>, by a favorite of <strong>Townsman Hrrundivbakshi<\/strong>!<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YgemkqLRing?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>These clips haunt me with at least 4 questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I wonder what became of the members of Daddy Cool, especially <strong>Ross Hannaford<\/strong>, the bespectacled guy who wanted to try something different?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Andyr<\/strong>, what&#8217;s your take on the drummer &#8211; both his chops and his Look?<\/li>\n<li><strong>HVB<\/strong>, does this band straddle a hippie\/goofball aesthetic in a way that you can find tolerable, if not even pleasing?<\/li>\n<li><strong>E. Pluribus Gergely<\/strong>, how much do you think Daddy Cool records could go for on eBay?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>I look forward to these responses and more!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The People have (not) spoken! Here&#8217;s one of those oddities I sometimes happen across while researching other thread ideas. It&#8217;s a 1974 interview with an Australian band I&#8217;d never heard of before, Daddy Cool. Can we SUMMON the Thunder Down Under, Homefrontradio, for some background on this band? I&#8217;m sure our old friend Links Linkerson <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/daddy-cool-breaking-up-is-hard-to-do\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}