Sunday evening 22/4/2012. Method - the 2 piece band with a huge sound played a fantastic set at the Ocean View Hotel at Dudley. With Bill Jacobi on amped up acoustic guitar and Frank Corby on drums Method played an awsome gig. Be sure to catch them touring and look out for their new CD – Times Like These.
Method 2 Oceanview 22-04-12
Method 4 Oceanview 22-04-12
Method 7 OceanView 22-04-12
Frank Corby Method 22-04-12
Bill Jacobi Method 23-04-12
The surf jumped up and stayed up for about 5 days in a row.
Redhead surf 20-04-12
Redhead 1 20-04-12
Redhead 3 21-04-12
Late afternoon scenery 19/4/12 at Redhead Beach
Redhead Beach 19-04-12
Late afternoon pot of gold at the end of the rainbow at Merewether Beach 24/4/12
Merewether Rainbow 24-04-12
Redhead bodyboarder 06-04-12
Redhead Bodyboarder 10/3/2012
Redhead Bodyboarder 10-03-12
Redhead surfer 11/3/2012
Redhead surfer 11-03-12
Horshoe Beach early morning 8/4/2012 Photo by Jo Layzell
Newcastle Harbour 8-4-12
Stormy night drive 8/4/12 Photo by Ellen Moore
Stormy night 8-4-12
The band Zappa Plays Zappa Newcastle Panthers Club 8/4/12
Dweezil Zappa Band 8-4-12
Dweezil Zappa and the band were awsome, fun and brilliant and showcased the many fine tunes from Frank Zappa’s massive 60 plus album repertoire in a 3 hour show.
Dweezil Zappa guitar solo
Dweezil Zappa at Panthers 8-4-12
Zappa plays Zappa Band with dance contestants
Zappa Dance Contestants 8-4-12
Dweezil Zappa and Dancers
Dweezil Zappa and dancers 8-4-12
Singer Ben Thomas Zappa Plays Zappa with Dance Contestant.
Ben Thomas & dance contestant 8-4-12
Guitarist Jamie Kime
Zappa plays Zappa guitarist Jamie Kime 8-4-12
Dweezil signing autographs after the concert
Dweezil Zappa signs autographs 8-4-12
Redhead Lovely arvo 18/8/11 and a few good waves and some good surfers out.
Redhead Surfer 18/8/11
Redhead surfer 18-08-11 1
Redhead surfer 18/8/11
Redhead surfer 18-08-11 8
Redhead surfers 18/8/11
Redhead surfers 18-08-11 5
Redhead Bluff with the late arvo sun showing out its colour.
Redhead Bluff 18-08-11
But it went pearshaped Friday arvo 19/8/11 a strong front hit wiping the surf out for the weekend.
Storm coming 19/8/11
Redhead beach storm 19-08-11
Bad moon rising 19/8/11 Storm clouds on the way
Redhead stormy sky 19-09-11
Boys at the Barby for TR’s 21st Crows Garage 1980
Crows Garage party 1977
Sidewinder cranking at the Mawson 1978 – Great Band!!
Sidewinder Mawson 1978
Chambers of Horror Newcastle Show 1979
Newcastle Show Chambers of Horror 1979
Peaceful Byron Bay early morning 1979
Bryon Bay 1980
Cold Chisel first came up to Newcastle in the late 1970’s and played at the local southern pubs and clubs the Orana, Belmont Sporties, Mawson, Swansea Workers and went on to bigger things quick. They always played their guts out and got a big Newcastle following. great guys too. Ian Moss wowed us with guitar, Jimmy Barnes revved the crowds, Don Walker’s songs made us listen and the beat was held by Phil and Steve.
Jimmy and the boys were outrageous and played great stuff. Ignatious was a showman and always up to mischief to say the least. Rumours were he left a lot of gigs in the roadies gear boxes. Here at he Belmont Sporties I had no idea what he was going to do next.
Cold Chisel toured Newcastle constantly making Newcastle a Chisel stronghold. The music suited our town’s working class fans and were always great shows.
After another great gig at the Mawson, Don Walker gets to sit down and relax and takes the jar going around. Don was always thinking… and well, just maybe he comes up with inspiration and the first words for a new song (Cheap Wine).
Lou Reed came to the Civic and gave a great show, I was lurking about a bit back from the stage with my camera when a big wild hairy guy picked me up put me on his front row seat and said “now take an fn picture mate”. Lou eyballed me, I clicked and then Lou just winked at me and carried on the great show.
A close inspection of Redhead Bluff (not too close, there’s rocks falling off – like in Billy the Mountain) shows a Tubular Section in it, recent rain has done some corrosive damage and has hollowed out a literally tubular gnarly slab.
A solid swell pumped through on the last Sunday of May 2010 and the wind held them up. Unknown surfer behind the Redhead Shark Tower.
Not somewhere in Europe – Hunter Valley Gardens in Cessnock’s wine country, a lot of very nice different types of gardens, very well put together.
Justin Lee, one of the most consistant long term surfers from the Lake Macquarie Beaches on a VERY solid day at Dudley September 2009. Photo by Geoff Connors.
The Redhead crew celebrate Gillys Graduation
Angourie 1978 4 guys out.
HOW TO GET MORE CHIPS.
In 1968, on a weekend surfari up the north coast, a small group of starving surfers head into town for a feed after a long day of surfing at Green Knob. They stop at their favorite Taree Fish & Chip Shop. The boys walk up to the counter and the beaming old guy behind the counter asks “Yesssh Pleassshse Boyssssh! “ Yes he had a squeak to every S.
Without batting an eyelid one of the guys orders first (…let’s just call him Jim, a normally quiet reserved guy perhaps bouyed by a great day surfing) “Can I have a hamburger and 10 Cssssentssss worth of chipsssh pleassssh!” (10 cents worth is about $3 worth now)
We all roll our eyes and figure we will be thrown out and go starving now… but the gentleman remains cool and proceeds to take the other orders then make the food.
After a tense 10 minutes of subdued behavior from us, he hands over the first order to Jim – and low and behold there is enough chips to feed an army! The rest of us get the standard portion serving of chips.
I guess he felt an affinity to the fellow speech afflicted Jimmy – or perhaps he just admired his cheekiness! The moral of the story – be an up front complete bastard and you can get away with anything.
Ronnie is getting good waves up the coast right now, here is Byron Bay in May 2010, photo by Ronnie Rudder.
Dweezil Zappa, son of Frank, brought his dad’s music to life again in Newcastle at the great Civic Theatre in April 2009. Dweezil played amazing guitar. I saw Frank Zappa play back in 1972 and 1974, awsome. He had guest Norman Gunston (actor Gary MacDonald) play a harmonica solo. Here Dweezil rips out another guitar solo, this one was from the song Montana. My daughter Ellen took this picture.
Col Smith Shaping Channel Boards
In 1935 Tom Blake made a hollow surboard and put a fin on and surfing moved quicky ahead with many changes since.
Well, the hollow board has started to come back with technology advances, Weber is making chambered epoxy /styrene composites and Pope is making hollow epoxy boards and now many craftsmen are making chambered wooden boards again.
A good surfboard is regarded as a work of art, in this case a work of art – is a good surfboard.
Redhead regular David Chung met up with some other like minded Aussies and attended a mind blowing week on the NSW South coast making their own wooden boards under the guidance and trained eye and skilled hands of US craftsman Paul Jensen.
Here is a link to Paul Jensen’s blog, giving details of the process of building a wooden board.
http://www.hollowsurfboards.com/2010SapphireCoastAustraliaTripReport
Check out Paul Jensen’s Website: http://www.hollowsurfboards.com/
David’s new board detail:
Manna Fish 5?10? x 21? x 2.5?
Built by hand October 2010 at Manna Park Merimbula
Decks – Blackwood, Western Red Cedar and Paulownia
Rails – Cork and Ply, Fins – Marine Ply
Inspired by Steve Lis
Designed by Paul Jensen
Board Construction and Fins by David Chung
Rails shaped by Jed Done
Glassing by Jye Byrnes
45+ hours to build and a lifetime to enjoy.
David Chung’s wooden Board – Deck
David Chung’s wooden Board – Bottom.
Here is a collage of the week making the board :
Making of David Chung’s Manna Fish November 2010
The little crab in the top left was keeping very busy making this sand sculpture 1978 Marks Point.
