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Strypey

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 03:15:21 +1200

Kia ora Russell, I heard this story on Radio1, thanks for documenting it online. 10CC taking TTHW's money for folking up Dreadlock Holiday is like suing a busker for belting out 'Stairway...' on a Saturday night in town. There's no way Hip-Hop Holiday could have been mistaken for the original,…

vangam

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:05:50 +1200

It wont be Godley and Creme, but Stewart and Gouldman, surely?

peter mclennan

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:04:31 +1200

Three The Hard Way album now live on iTunes too... http://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/old-skool-prankstas-feat./id548210717

steve gray

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 19:57:12 +1200

russell, if posters to youtube have turned embedding off, you just take the address from the bar and is exactly like embedding. a very cool cheat. hope thats kinda clear x

Yamis

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:04:16 +1200

Hey Yamis – at a guess, that venue sounds like one of BFMs legendary Private Functions at the Turners And Growers warehouses that used to be on the waterfront, before that part of town got totally cleaned up. As far as the song goes, heck, that description covers a bunch…

Yamis

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:40:44 +1200

Sweet, I will check it out. I'd know as soon as I heard it, but all the main stuff that I hear just doesn't gel with what I remember. This song got the crowd cranking. As I recall it was the 'energy number' of your set. I jizzed in my…

peter mclennan

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:50:43 +1200

Yamis

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:35:26 +1200

Actually reading through the posts again it was quite probably the Auckland Uni Orientation gig mentioned above.

Yamis

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:29:07 +1200

grant – I know 3THW played at the 1995 BDO – found a photo of me and two of them in RIU from the 1995 BDO when my band Hallelujah Picassos played....

Peter, help me out here. I saw Hallelujah Picassos play in about 1994, 95 maybe in downtown Auckland…

Yamis

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:20:18 +1200

I so loved that song when I was a 17/18 yr old starting out at Uni. Was listening to RATM, Cyprus Hill, and wandering around wearing baggie black jeans and adidas jackets.

Kyle Matthews

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:28:14 +1200

Only distantly related to hip hop (he does some beat boxing in his music), but I’m quite taken with Kishi Bashi. Uses his violin (both in the traditional sense, and more like a guitar, strumming), vocals, beat box, and a loop pedal to create some fantastic music.

Bandcamp

And here…

peter mclennan

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:07:18 +1200

grant – I know 3THW played at the 1995 BDO – found a photo of me and two of them in RIU from the 1995 BDO when my band Hallelujah Picassos played....

Simon Grigg

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:40:39 +1200

Wicked stuff, thanks Russell. I'm just thrilled we were able to get it out again as it's a hugely important NZ album long MIA. We intended to reissue it back in 2004 but as you say we didn't have a copy – none of the band had a copy and…

Jonathan Ganley

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:46:22 +1200

Here's how the pop picking was done long before we had The Audience ... the two gents in the photo were working at HMV in Wellington. The year was 1957. That valve amp looks pretty cool ... and they had the New Musical Express for reference.

Thanks National Library.

__HMV…

Martin Roberts

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:43:50 +1200

Wow, that brings back memories. Auckland Uni Orientation 1994, iirc. 3 The Hard Way then Supergroove blew my mind and I mostly sat out the Muttonbirds to catch my breath.

First live rap I had ever encountered, incongrously mixed with my first ever crowd surf and fluoro pink shorts that…

Russell Brown

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:28:08 +1200

BTW, are you going to respond to Sweetman having a crack at you in his blog today, Russell ?

Nah. But I'm somewhat struck that he's still grieving over one tart comment two weeks ago, given that his whole thing is based on attention-seeking snark. Poor love.

Gareth Davidson

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:21:25 +1200

but the twerp who uploaded it disabled embedding

Surely nothing the Firefox streaming media download plug-in couldn't work around? Download it, then re-upload to the 'tube again, this time without disabling embedding? I'd do it but I'm at work an stuck on Ye Olde Explorer 8 (recently "upgraded" from IE6…

Grant McDougall

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:17:42 +1200

I may be wrong, but I think I saw 3 The Hard Way in early '94 at the first NZ Big Day Out. Their name's certainly on the posters for it.

I took a pic of a rap act on the stage behind the grandstand and IIRC there weren't any…

peter mclennan

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:33:28 +1200

Thanks, Russell. This Hiphop holiday vid should embed.... http://youtu.be/hPY9AIxLDio

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Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:33:28 +1200

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