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The Boys Next Door
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Australia (1973 – 1980)
1)The Boys Next Door
“Boys Next Door” was formed in 1973 by Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, and Phill Calvert and others while they were attending Caulfield Grammar School outside of Melbourne, Australia. They were later joined by Tracy Pew on bass in 1975, and Rowland S. Howard in 1978 on guitar, thereby solidifying the line-up that would be The Birthday Party, to which they changed their name in 1980.
2) Boys Next Door
Known to some as “the Beach Boys of the Midwest, “, The Boys Next Door were among the relatively few competent emulators of the Beach Boys/Jan Dean vocal/hot rod/surf sound, and certainly among the very few competent emulators to emerge from outside of California. Formed in Indianapolis, they issued a few singles in 1964-67, the first of these billed to the Four Wheels before they reverted to the name
The Boys Next Door (which they’d been known as before making their recording debut). They were made up of James Adams, Steve Lester, Jim Koss and Steve Drybread. The group had an extremely clean-cut image and sound, right down to the circa-1964 Beach Boys pinstripe shirts seen in some photos.
Actually, however, their recordings were pretty good and energetic, with melodic harmonies and a fairly kinetic drive. The early Four Wheels singles were convincing SoCal hot-rod pastiches, and singles such as “Mandy” were respectable approximations of the Beach Boys sound circa 1964-65 that could have fit in well as tracks on Beach Boys LPs of the period.
“Boys Next Door” was formed in 1973 by Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, and Phill Calvert and others while they were attending Caulfield Grammar School outside of Melbourne, Australia. They were later joined by Tracy Pew on bass in 1975, and Rowland S. Howard in 1978 on guitar, thereby solidifying the line-up that would be The Birthday Party, to which they changed their name in 1980.
2) Boys Next Door
Known to some as “the Beach Boys of the Midwest, “, The Boys Next Door were among the relatively few competent emulators of the Beach Boys/Jan Dean vocal/hot rod/surf sound, and certainly among the very few competent emulators to emerge from outside of California. Formed in Indianapolis, they issued a few singles in 1964-67, the first of these billed to the Four Wheels before they reverted to the name
The Boys Next Door (which they’d been known as before making their recording debut). They were made up of James Adams, Steve Lester, Jim Koss and Steve Drybread. The group had an extremely clean-cut image and sound, right down to the circa-1964 Beach Boys pinstripe shirts seen in some photos.
Actually, however, their recordings were pretty good and energetic, with melodic harmonies and a fairly kinetic drive. The early Four Wheels singles were convincing SoCal hot-rod pastiches, and singles such as “Mandy” were respectable approximations of the Beach Boys sound circa 1964-65 that could have fit in well as tracks on Beach Boys LPs of the period.
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cyber330 wrote:
RSH...Love you forever
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Severin_ wrote:
R.I.P.Rowland. You'll always be missed but never forgotten
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betamerak wrote:
R.I.P Rowland S Howard
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Bethankurt wrote:
my favorite guitarrist of my world R.I.P.
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isles wrote:
listening to shivers, i'm stunned.. i can't believe he's dead.
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adellealex wrote:
Speechless :0(
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efiut wrote:
Rowland S. Howard is died.
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BlackCoffeeDuck wrote:
Anyone read OVERLAND #197 "THE MONARCH OF MIDDLEBROW" Anwyn Crawford on the deplorable career of Nick Cave. One of the most interesting essay on him. Check it out here: http://web.overland.org.au/?page_id=1925
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http://www.myspace.com/bertolaeosnoctivagos
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YgorCanute wrote:
nice
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watermellen wrote:
Definitely my favorite Nick Cave project
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flowerette wrote:
I'll set my mouth on fire and kiss you 'til you blister
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hungerkunstler wrote:
fans of Tracy Pew join: www.last.fm/group/Tracy+Pew
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sing-sing wrote:
Somebody's Watching!))
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timeticks wrote:
Why is Brave Exhibitions the top song?? Has someone got it on repeat or something??
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HellsFire wrote:
AH, Phill Calvert <3
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EdieNippoli wrote:
AH, Tracy Pew <3
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Mick_Harvey wrote:
AH, Mick Harvey <3
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Jim_Sclavunos wrote:
AH, Rowland S. Howard <3
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eyecandy_horror wrote:
AH, Nick Cave <3
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