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sluttery-withoutshame · 3 months

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The drum solo that made me cream my pants at the age of 14.

The sideways glance tho

#rob hirst #drum solo #midnight oil

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the-hottest-band-tournament · 7 days

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Round one

Earth, Wind & Fire

Formed in: 1969

Genres: R&B, pop, funk, post-disco

Lineup: Maurice White - vocals, kalimba, drums, percussion

Verdine White – bass, backing vocals

Philip Bailey – lead vocals, conga, percussion, kalimba

Ralph Johnson – percussion, backing vocals, drums

Roland Bautista - lead/rhythm guitar, vocals

Larry Dunn - keyboards, synthesizers, minimoog

Andrew Woolfolk - flute, saxophone, percussion

Fred White - drums, percussion

Johnny Graham - lead/rhythm guitar, trumpet, percussion

Albums from the 80s:

Faces (1980)

Raise! (1981)

Powerlight (1983)

Electric Universe (1983)

Touch the World (1987)

The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, vol. 2 (1988)

Propaganda:

Midnight Oil

Formed in: 1976

Genres:

Lineup: Peter Garrett- Vocals

Jim Moginie- Guitar, Keyboard

Martin Rotsey- Guitar

Peter Gifford- Bass

Rob Hirst- Drums

Albums from the 80s:

Place Without A Postcard (1981)

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1(1982)

Red Sails in the Sunset (1984)

Diesel and Dust (1987)

Propaganda: The Australian protest rock band, Midnight Oil's done songs on indigenous issues, nuclear disarmament, asbestos mining, and so on. They wrote Dead Heart for the handover of Uluru to the Pithantjatjara people and donated all the royalties for it. If you listen to US Forces, Beds Are Burning, Power and the Passion, you'll feel their anger and passion and energy.

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saltyground · 5 months

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I don't think I ever zoomed in on this image before. 🤔

#boy. idk how to state this politely but with nips like that you're gonna cause a scene!!!#dont even get me started on his arms and. and. the veins on his biceps. good lord #guys what if i just post oils all winter break. i got all As i deserve a lil something right????#rob hirst #midnight oil

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bbbrianjones · 1 year

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rob hirst of midnight oil - diesel and dust era (1984-1988)

#rob hirst #midnight oil #im back <3 you missed me ? i've missed you too here's some rob hirst to remind you all who is the king of my gif making skill #him going fucking ham and singing his heart out in that last gif is the entire reason i brought this back #that is literally me on a friday night in my room #also he is too powerful in the beds are burning videos so therefore there's only one and you can't see his face

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longliverockback · 1 year

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Midnight Oil Earth and Sun and Moon 1993 Columbia ————————————————— Tracks: 01. Feeding Frenzy 02. My Country 03. Renaissance Man 04. Earth and Sun and Moon 05. Truganini 06. Bushfire 07. Drums of Heaven 08. Outbreak of Love 09. In the Valley 10. Tell Me the Truth 11. Now or Never Land —————————————————

Peter Garrett

Bones Hillman

Rob Hirst

Jim Moginie

Martin Rotsey

* Long Live Rock Archive

#MidnightOil #Midnight Oil #Peter Garrett #Bones Hillman #Rob Hirst #Jim Moginie #Martin Rotsey #Earth and Sun and Moon #LP #Alternative #1993

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sonic-gonzo · 1 year

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Last night at the Vanguard Newtown NSW Australia - BACKSLIDERS (040223)

#Backsliders #Aussie blues band #Dom Turner #Rob Hirst #Backsliders band #Vanguard Newtown #The Vangurard Sydney #Live music sydney #blues band

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thepermanentrainpress · 2 years

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Gallery: Midnight Oil @ Malkin Bowl - Vancouver, BC Date: June 1st, 2022 Photographed by: Ray Maichin

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drrav3nb · 5 months

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GET TO KNOW ME MEME: favourite ships [2/10] - Ubbe & Alfred (Vikings)

I do not trust my own noblemen as much as I trust you.

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garadinervi · 2 years

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Outports, (digital supplement), Longbarrow Press, Sheffield, 2020 (pdf here). Feat. James Caruth, Fay Musselwhite, Matthew Clegg, Alistair Noon, J.R. Carpenter, Rob Hindle, Peter Riley, Andrew Hirst, Kelvin Corcoran, Nancy Gaffield, Mark Goodwin, Pete Green, Angelina D’Roza, Brian Lewis, Chris Jones

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earthandsunandmoon · 2 years

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i should have also sent midnight oil for your ask too,,, drop that fav babe!

Ok. You asked for it. it's not like i even listen to that band 🙄

Rob. Hirst. Rob fucking Hirst. the man of my dreams. I literally dream about him every night. He is on my mind 24/7.

He is knowledgeable, talented, talkative, hilarious, slightly cranky, occasionally sarcastic, extremely kind, speaks Japanese and French, and has made some of the best music the world will ever hear.

Oh, and also he’s really hot

the fucking muscles on this man are unreal. He is just a tiny little ball of energy and puts his whole heart into every performance. Also his singing voice is amazing (very evident on Red Sails in the Sunset. No one could sing “Kosciusko” like him!!). I remember watching the “Blue Sky Mine” video when I was like 16 and i saw him hanging off the train and I was just like WOW. that guy is hot.

He is just so neat and special to me and hot and makes me so happy. I will literally just shout “hirst!” to my sister and she knows I’m about to go off about my latest hot take. No other man can make me flail and cry and laugh like he does! He may have not finished his law degree but he deserved ten thousand honorary degrees imho. His writing style is honestly far better than that of any of the books and textbooks I was assigned to read this past year. He has such a good vocabulary and sharp wit but he is really down-to-earth as well. Even if he literally can not shut up and can talk for hours i will listen attentively because everything he says is interesting/slightly deranged in a good way.

I really love everyone in this band though. They seem angry and terrifying at first until you realize they are actually just the sweetest guys. I would die for Jim Moginie. Peter garrett is actually a tender sweetheart. Bones was the funniest person to ever exist and the glue that held the Oils together through the 90s. Martin's smile gives me heart palpitations. Giffo is, well, Giffo. It is my dream to take what has traditionally been seen as an “ass-kicking” pub rock band with a largely male fanbase and absolutely babygirlify this democratic socialist collective to no end.

Even though most of the members have experienced some sort of horrible family tragedy they still try to make the world a better place, singing hopeful songs and fighting for the causes they believe in. Idk they’re just really inspiring I’m embarrassing myself but I can’t help it. even the way Rob will talk about his own mental health helps me a lot. I was in a really bad place a few months ago and this band has pretty much helped me find happiness and purpose again. :’)

All that aside, he’s so fukcing hot. Just. Jesus christ.🥵🥵🥵🥵 I’ve never really been into muscular dudes but. how could i not. he’s not just muscular he’s perfectly proportioned and healthy and cute and his personality is just. ahh!

I just love him a lot.

#why was this so hard to write!!#i feel like i only got half of my thoughts into words lol #i just. i need to inhale rob hirst he is more important than oxygen to my life #oil posting on main 🥴#but thanks for asking emmi <3 #only you are allowed to read this everyone else dO nOT READ i am down so bad for tjis guy #im an embarassment

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ourshadowstallerthanoursoul · 3 months

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An audience with... John Paul Jones

(from Uncut, April 2010 - link)

You’re stuck on a deserted island, you have one instrument you can bring. It is: a) piano, b) bass or c) mandolin? (Gary Attersley, Ontario, Canada)

Oh… that’s horrible! I’ll probably get Hugh Manson – the guy who builds all my bass guitars – to build me some monstrous instrument that encapsulated all three! Hugh and his brother Andy Manson once actually designed me a triple-necked guitar with 12-string guitar, six-string guitar and mandolin on it! Andy also designed a triple-necked mandolin. But I guess if it really came down to it on a desert island, it would have to be the piano, because you can do so much on it. You’re a whole band. The bass is not much fun on your own.

John, it’s so good to see you so engaged with today. Any advice for old farts who can’t move on? (Andrew Loog Oldham)

Who are you calling an old fart? I dunno, Andy, you tell me! Ha ha. He’s done a good job of staying up to date. Andrew, of course, gave me the name John Paul Jones. I was John Baldwin, until Andrew saw a poster for the French film version of John Paul Jones. I thought it ’d look great in CinemaScope, as I wanted to do music for films. I imagined it saying “Music By John Paul Jones”, over the whole screen. I never realised then that he was the Horatio Nelson of America!

I know that you’ve been getting heavily into bluegrass lately – who are some of your favourite bluegrass artists of all time? (Ryan Godek, Wilmington, Delaware)

Apart from Bill Monroe, you mean? Oh, there’s loads. I’m friends with the Del McCoury band, I love that style of classic bluegrass. I love Sam Bush’s Newgrass stuff. And of course there’s Nickel Creek, Chris Feely, Mike Marshall. I love it all, really. One thing I like about bluegrass is that you don’t require amplifiers, drums and trucks. You can pull an instrument out of a box and get on with some instant music making. I carry a mandolin around wherever I go. I also like the fact bluegrass musicians play more than one instrument. There’s a tradition of them swapping instruments. In bluegrass bands I swap between double bass, fiddle and banjo.

One Butthole Surfers anecdote, please? (Dave Grohl)

Ha! I was brought in to produce the Butthole Surfers’ 1993 album, Independent Worm Saloon. I guess it was to give it a heavy rock vibe, but it didn’t work like that. They were actually incredibly hard-working in the studio, but I do recall running up a phenomenal bar-bill at the San Rafael studio. And then there was Gibby [Haynes, Butthole Surfers’ frontman] and his… eccentric studio behaviour. Gibby did one vocal take shouting into his guitar. He held it out in front of his face and screamed at it. Ha! He was trying to find out if it picked up through the pick-ups, which it kind of did. And that was pretty good.

How’s the violin coming along? (Sean, Berkshire)

I started about three years ago. With the guitar, or the piano, you can sound OK quite quickly. With the violin, it takes much longer. Once you get past the first six months of scraping, of muttering to yourself, “What is this fucking horrible noise on my shoulder?” you get the odd musical bit, and you think, ‘Oh, this is starting to get good.’ And you continue with it for a while. I’m getting into country fiddle playing, Celtic folk songs, a bit of swing. Basic stuff, but very satisfying.

Why not record a second ‘Automatic For The People’ with REM? (Franz Greul, Austria)

They haven’t asked me! But doing the string arrangements for that album was a great experience, actually. They sent me the demos of their songs, and we went into a studio in Atlanta, with members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. They were great songs, something you can really get your teeth into as an arranger. And I’ve been good friends with them ever since.

How did you first meet Josh Homme? And is he still a notorious party monster? (Rob Hirst, Kippax, Leeds)

Well, I think we’ve all calmed down rather a lot. Dave introduced me to Josh at his 40th birthday party. It was a ridiculous themed place where they have jousting with knights. As Dave said, it was like somewhere you’d have your 14th birthday party. Or maybe even your 4th. Anyway, Dave sat Josh and I together for a blind date. Which was reasonably embarrassing for both of us, surrounded by people going “prithee this” and challenging each other to duels. But we survived the trauma and went into the studio the next day, and just started jamming. And I knew immediately it was going to be something special.

If Them Crooked Vultures had Spice Girls-like nicknames what would they be? (Paul Jones, Liverpool)

Dave would be Smiley Vulture. He can’t stop grinning. Josh would be Slinky Vulture. He’s a slinky kinda guy. And I’d be Speedy, I guess. Or Jumpy. So there you go. Smiley, Slinky and Speedy. Or does that sound more like the dwarfs?

I remember you being a pretty funky bass genius back in the day! What memories do you have of those sessions? (Donovan)

The sessions with Don and Mickie Most were great, because we were given a free hand. I usually got leeway, because I was the sort of Motown/Stax specialist, so producers in the mid ’60s would get me in for cover versions of American records, and none of them could write bass parts convincingly enough, so I was London’s answer to James Jamerson, I guess! And I was certainly encouraged to get kinda… funky when I worked with Donovan.

How did it feel to see Jimmy Page and Robert Plant venture off in their own project in the ‘90s without mentioning a word of it to you? (Danny Luscombe, Hull)

Oh yeah, I was pissed off about it. The surprise was in not being told. It’s ancient history now, but it was a bit annoying to find out about it while reading the papers. It came just after Robert and I had been discussing the idea of doing an Unplugged project. Then I’m on tour in Germany with Diamanda Galás, I turn on the TV and see Robert and Jimmy doing it, with someone else playing all my parts! I was pissed off at the time. You would be, woudn’t you? But… it’s all in the past, isn’t it?

Did you listen to much work by Josh Homme or Dave Grohl before you were contacted in relation to joining Them Crooked Vultures, and if so, how did you honestly rate it? (Ralph Ryan, Lisronagh, County Tipperary)

I did like the Foo Fighters and Queens Of The Stone Age, before I’d met either of them. There’s a tendency for people – especially musicians from my generation – to say that there has been this terrible decline in musicianship, that today’s bands haven’t got the chops, blah blah blah. But that’s not true at all. There’s always some people for whom technique on an instrument isn’t necessary. They can get their ideas across without being able to have the chops. But Josh really does have the chops, he just doesn’t feel the need to flash them about all the time. In fact, there were a few riffs he gave me that I had to simplify, because they were bloody difficult to play. I really had to work at it, where he could just flick it off. He is an astonishing musician.

Were you serious when you told Peter Grant that you wanted to jack it in to become choirmaster at Winchester Cathedral? (Brian Fisher, Manchester)

Ha! That was a tongue-in-cheek joke, although I was serious about leaving Led Zeppelin in 1973 unless things changed. But Peter did sort things out pretty quickly. What kind of choirmaster would I have made? A bloody good one! Listen, any way that they’ll pay you for making music is just the best situation in the world. I’d do it for nothing. I don’t care what music it is. I just love it all. The rubbing of notes together. I love it all. I would be very passionate about whatever I decided to do.

What was the worst session you ever did as a jobbing session player? (Adam Burns, Castleford, West Yorkshire)

I generally have fun memories of that time. I’d criss-cross London playing two or three sessions a day, going between Trident and Olympic and Abbey Road and Philips in Marble Arch, you know. You’d be backing Shirley Bassey, Cat Stevens, Lulu, whoever was paying you. The worst experience was a Muzak session. With Muzak sessions, the music was deliberately boring. I distinctly remember one session where I embellished the bass part a little bit, just so that it wasn’t so boring for me to play. They said, “No, you can’t do that. Any interest in the music will distract people’s attention from when they’re meant to be eating.” Or standing in a fucking lift. For fuck’s sake! So I was like, “OK, thanks, bye!”

#john paul jones #jonesy #led zeppelin #robert plant #planty #jimmy page #pagey #john bonham #bonzo #60s #70s #70s rock #70s music #rock music #ourshadowstallerthanoursoul

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saltyground · 6 months

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beardy 1980s rob :')

#he really did that #anyway i ignored facebook for a few weeks and then i see someone posted the 2nd photo and my life is made whole #it's the point in the semester when everything is due at once and i am so overwhelmed #but you know rob hirst is hot and thats all that really matters!!!#midnight oil #rob hirst

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bbbrianjones · 1 year

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rob hirst of midnight oil - blue sky mining era (1990-1991)

part 2 + bonus :

#rob hirst #midnight oil #part 2 here!#with my fav video!!! love u forgotten years <3 #love the gloves and his big coats. he's such a babe !!!#again love him just vibing in the background of the videos #just a babygirl off in his own world

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longliverockback · 7 years

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Midnight Oil Diesel and Dust 1987 CBS ————————————————— Tracks: 01. Beds Are Burning 02. Put down That Weapon 03. Dreamworld 04. Arctic World 05. Warakurna 06. The Dead Heart 07. Whoah 08. Bullroarer 09. Sell My Soul 10. Sometimes —————————————————

Peter Garrett

Peter Gifford

Rob Hirst

Jim Moginie

Martin Rotsey

* Long Live Rock Archive

#MidnightOil #Midnight Oil #Peter Garrett #Peter Gifford #Rob Hirst #Jim Moginie #Martin Rotsey #Diesel and Dust #LP #Big Music #1987

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realindevelopment-returns · 1 month

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blast from the past day, saw the 1990s cinema moofie classic speed staring keanu reeves pre matrix, sanda bulloch pre almost everything and a scene stealing dennis hopper. suspension of disbelief from the moment this starts, the credits look horribly dated but everything else stood the test of time.

arrived straight from work, had an hour to kill and the moofie was on at the casino... rather than a drink or a spin i spent the time continuing reading my latest rawk n roll autobiog, midnight oil's drummer rob hirst's tour diary of the oils in post 9/11 u s of a willy's bar and grill. this is a fun read, the paranoia of the times, the searches, a band that's on it's way down and playing their gigs to smaller crowds than the last time, a rock n roll hall of fame visit to find their autobiog on the database hasn't been updated since 1993, cops wanting to see the tall, bald guy, the acoustic set at the local radio stations, the meet and greet afterwards. the internet era. a tremendous read so far.

a happy monday

#and they found out why cleveland rocks

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fingerspitzengefuhl2 · 1 year

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Rob Hirst from Midnight Oil, perhaps one of the world most underrated drummers

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