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Thread #61341 Message #996145
Posted By: cobber
03-Aug-03 - 08:21 PM
Thread Name: 1960's Australian Folk Albums
Subject: RE: 1960's Australian Folk Albums
All this talk about Colin Dryden reminds me of another little story. About 1068, I bought a D35 Martin 12 string guitar (Beautiful guitar but couldn't stand the Australian climate. I'd just picked it up and was driving into carlton when I spotted Colin walking along the footpath so I stopped to show it to him. We sat in the gutter for an hour or more with people walking past shaking their heads while Colin explored the sounds it made and showed me all sorts of riffs that I didn't know. My main memory of Colin (apart from his self-destructive style of living) is of a man with a very generous heart who would encourage and help younger musicians like myself. He was also prone to bullshit a bit. For years he had me convinced that he had written the tune "Lannigan's Ball". I've always believed him to be the composer of the beautiful song, "The Factory Lad", in fact we even credited him with it when we recorded it. Can anyone confirm this? Or not, as the case may be.