Dragon, originally from New Zealand, but like a lot of bands of that era relocated to Australia which had a bigger market... The brothers Marc Hunter (singer) and Todd Hunter (still part of the band) were the mainstays. They went over to the US and in front of a lot of big studio execs they had a concer t in Exas where a wasted Marc let fly with a lot of venom against Americans and thus destroyed their chances of a major record deal.
Marc Hunter is still greatly loved in Australia - even 25 years after his passing. I don't care if this sounds like 80's cheese, or The Outfield, or Ultravox, or whoever is out there that made a slight sound that sounds like something in this song. I don't care if it's sell out rubbish and not as good as their prog-rock stuff (which I haven't heard and will never get around to listening to). Their hit songs were a part of my youth and that was a great youth. This song was played at many fun parties I attended in my twenties, and I have had some laughs with friends as we stayed in cafes in Sydney and waited for the heavy rain to pass as this song played on the radio. Sometimes watching a reaction video to a song that's been part of my existence feels the same as having a stranger page through my old photo album and making comments about the places and people that had played a role in my life. It just feels strange. Try reacting to Dragon - Love's Not Enough (a song Dragon did after booting out Marc Hunter) and Marc Hunter's Big City Talk. Both songs I liked but have never had any particular affection for.
"Sometimes watching a reaction video to a song that's been part of my existence feels the same as having a stranger page through my old photo album and making comments about the places and people that had played a role in my life. It just feels strange." - Great analogy! 😃👍 It's the memories connected with them that make certain songs special to us! And when other people (including those running reaction channels) hear those songs for the very first time, THEY don't have any such memories! So all they hear is the actual song, and either it speaks to them or it doesn't! Hence I also can't blame Chris for being underwhelmed by 'You're The Voice' and neither Cynthia for saying "I didn't like this at all" when listening to my suggestion of Saga with 'Scratching The Surface"! But more than anything else, I regard them more like our hosts anyway, providing us viewers with a forum to interact in 😊 Music is a VERY personal experience!
@@mightyV444 I completely agree. I do associate this song with my life in Sydney in the early to mid 80's, with my friends and family. Of course, there are a lot of other songs that were also a big part of my life. I don't really get annoyed by opposing comments. I just keep my mind on what role a song played in my life at a time. 😉
@@australianbananapie2017 - Despite this song playing everywhere and all the time back then, my memory closest connected with it is hearing it on the bus' radio during a school trip to Bremen, in the North of Germany (where I'm originally from; I've been living in NZ for the past 20 years) 😀 I also still remember U2's 'Where The Streets Have No Name' playing only moments earlier, for which I was very grateful, too: The 'Joshua Tree' album had been released only recently, and I'd bought my copy the day before going on this school trip, feeling bummed out about not being able to listen to it for a whole week! 😏 So hearing that one song helped me pull through, LOL! 😄
''This Time'' by Dragon has a music video that was shot in Kings Cross in the mid 70's. It was Dragon's den. I believe the video was shot not long after the death of their drummer Neil Storrey. For a group that had just lost their drummer to drugs, they don't look very sad and sorry in the clip.
Either they were thinking "The show must go on", or they were on drugs themselves during that video shoot?! 😉 And I think that's the clip in which Todd Hunter is wearing some funky silver boots, right? 😁
@@mightyV444 it is!!! It's a weird video... I'm sure they were all on something as they're running around rainy old Kings Cross in semi-drag. Nobody else in the video looks happy but them. ha ha
@@OnceWasRStrathfield - LOL! So true that it's a weird clip! 😄 I'd seen it for the first time last May during a 12-hour long 'NZ Music Month Video Marathon' at the local community centre 😁
@@mightyV444 Dragon look like a poor New York Dolls tribute band in that video. Even Paul Hewson is smiling and looking like he is (trying) to have fun. Everytime I see some footage of Kings Cross I cringe and smile a little. It's just that sort of place.
Well done. Austech nailed it with this one. # 1 in Australia (and maybe, New Zealand) and # 88 in United States. I noticed a lot of South American bands doing covers of this song on TH-cam, so I assume it was also a hit around those areas. Dragon had to reform to pay off debts, and decided to just keep it together for the hell of it and got themselves a # 1 with the right single. You chose an interesting picture to bookend the video on. The picture you chose is Dragon around 1976 with their late drummer, Neil Storey, at the bottom left. He'd die of a heroin overdose not long after the picture was taken. Curious to know why Paul Hewson isn't in the picture. Fun fact: Drummer in this video (not on the recording) is Terry Chambers of XTC. He quit XTC, married himself an Aussie and continued enjoying live playing with Dragon until Marc and Todd Hunter got too much for him. Thin keyboard player in shades is Paul Hewson. He wrote the band's 70's hits and would quit in 1985, and die of an overdose a week or so later. He didn't like the 80's direction Dragon were heading to. Another guy in the clip is American musician, Alan Mansfield, who had worked with Robert Palmer ('Clues' period), before moving to Australia and marrying Sharon O'Neill. Dragon were a troubled band before Rain and a slightly less troubled band after Rain.
@@sdwill66 Yes he did! I remember the news coverage at the time. He was only 43. Three deaths : 1976, 1985 and 1998.. and I believe an early member of Dragon (before the hits) had died in recentish years too.
@@OnceWasRStrathfield - Thank you for all that info! I recognised Terry Chambers only after you'd mentioned him! 😅 I did know he had emigrated from the UK to AUS after leaving XTC, though 🙂
I was in Rio de Janeiro a few years ago and a live band began jamming this song out. I knew it was an ausie/kiwi tune coz my mum would play it once a while But hearing it played live by some cover band in Brazil was weird!!!
The New Zealand band that had lots of hits but never a Number One in New Zealand, much like Bruce Springsteen never had a Billboard Number One in America.
These dudes were part of the Australian zeitgeist ... there's no aussie baby boomer that doesn't know who these guys are.. probably more famous in oz than their homeland nz. Check out ''Star Kissed'' on countdown. Band were fresh off the boat and in the countdown studios, and they just look young and excited. then check out ''wait until tomorrow''. ''star kissed'' and ''wait until tomorrow'' are early tunes, not as commercial as what they were know for..
I just watched that Countdown 'Star Kissed' clip: Pretty cool! Also for the fact that Marc Hunter actually sung live and extremely well, too! 😀👍 I hadn't heard that song before either, so thank you for the suggestion ...Axl! 😊
in terms of chart success ...(which i don't count as a barometer of "good " necessarily ) -this band had as many hits in australia as most of the major overseas legends . Pound for pound , they had an incredible run and amount of very catchy but classy pop songs .....if they were american they probably would be a world wide band
dragon were never my thing. i found them to be frustrating because they seemed to care more about drugs, radio play, the singles chart and countdown then they did about making good solid records.. like Australian Crawl, Dragon could have been so much better... but I can't begrudge them for their success in Australia and the roles they played in people's lives. In spite of them sounding like many Canadian bands from the 80's and other big production bands, I have to say this song drags me back to sydney in 1983 whether I like it or not and just feels very Sydney to me. I have no nostelgia nor a feel of a time and place when I hear ''Land Down Under'' by Men At Work, but this bloody song puts me there... makes me remember my girlfriend as well as my mates, my co-workers, my family.. blah blah blah.. the video having shots of Kings Cross enhances that feeling.
Chris, that "other guitar" is the controller part of a Roland guitar synthesizer! Basically made to trigger synth sounds through strings instead of keys 🙂 The earlier versions of this system had very conventional-looking guitars, and this one's the futuristic-looking one from the mid 80's, and quite a few guitarists were using that one, too (Including Rick Springfield's! 😉) As an example: The synth sounds of the instrumental part in The Police's 'Don't Stand So Close To Me' were created with a guitar synth 🙂
I assume it was Alan Mansfield (the guy playing that guitar) brought all that into the new Dragon. He worked with Robert Palmer prior to joining Dragon and marrying Sharon O'Neill.
The Sigue Sigue Sputnik guitar! Tony James of Generation X/Carbon Silicon/Sigue Sigue Sputnik had one. Though i think he only used it for Sputnik, and even then probably just for the look.
@@Sandy-dd4le - LOL! I remember Eric Clapton not being very fond of Sigue Sigue Sputnik! 😅 I was in my mid teens then and thought at least 'Love Missile F1-11' was quite entertaining (I can almost not believe I actually remember the proper song title!) 😄 And speaking of Generation X, Billy Idol's guitarist Steve Stevens _also_ had used that synth guitar 🙂
@@mightyV444 i didn't know Steve Stevens used one! , i only ever remember Tony James, I'm sure i remember seeing a picture of Prince with one, but i dont have any idea if he actually used it for anything. I might pay to hear Clapton whine about the Sputniks though!
Just to make it clear, I wasn't throwing any shade towards the nice couple reacting to this video.. I just need to remind myself to keep my eyes away from the comment section. teehee ;-)
Your first Dragon reaction was ''April Sun In Cuba'' which came out in 77 or 78. The same line-up that made ''April Sun'' is the same line-up that recorded ''Rain''. However, the video is slightly deceiving due to XTC's Terry Chambers replacing Kerry Jaconbson and bashing Jaconson's parts in the video.... and having Alan Mansfield being a new member. I think it's a credit to Dragon that they could reform and update their 70's rock J.Giels band sound to a more updated 1983 ''heaps of bands sound like this in Canada'' type of sound. I was a bit of a Melbourne punk rock/post-punk music snob in the day, so Dragon were some big Countdown band as far as I was concerned. They played at my favourite joint - The Crystal Ballroom - around '79, and acted like they were kings of the world. I can appreciate their efforts now.. but only just
You guys are taking the Micky (taking the piss) Playing this kiwi song IT HASN'T BEEN PORING RAIN HERE SOME SMART ASS SCOOPED UP THE WHOLE BLOODY PACIFIC OCEAN AND DUMPED IN ON US 😜✌️💦🏄🌊🌨️⛈️🌩️🌧️💧☔⚡🌪️
Hi guys ..l was a roadie from Melbourne Australia.one of dragons drumers l worked for in an Australian pub band check them out on utube.. called ( the spaniards / song ( what can l do ) live on count down ...
I told a story on the other Haniers' reaction to Dragon video about how I used to see Marc Hunter in Kings Cross, and how he advised me sternly to not take drugs or become a stripper. It was weird because he looked like he was off his head and the women he was with looked like strippers! I got scared, said ''yes sir'' (what a geek I was) and ran away while his weird stripper friends cackled like it was the funniest thing in the world. He embarrassed me! So, please react to Marc Hunter doing Big City Talk. He looks in the Big City Talk video the way he did when he scolded me, and I'm sure the same ladies that laughed at me are also in the video.
I came to Australia from England in the late 70's and unlike most poms I didn't come to the country to whinge and judge and compare it to my own old boring country. I never understood English people that did that. Although I couldn't sit through a Dragon album I knew they were a world class singles band with rock-pop that could rival the world's best at the time. Marc Hunter looked reptilian, so of course he was perfect for a band called Dragon.. and being from New Zealand made them slightly different to their Aussie contemporaries. I don't have much of an opinion on ''Rain'', et al. it was just big 80's production music with average songs for radio. you're best to try ''are you old enough'', ''still in love'', and ''this time''
Dragon was the first pub rock band I went to see, and they didn’t disappoint. Down in St Kilda at The Venue long before they tore it down, and supported by Uncanny X-Men (better than I expected) and Jump Incorporated. I remember it had Doane Perry on drums at the time who was awesome, and I think Tommy Emmanuel was the guitarist at that point in their career, too. I can’t be certain if it was him on stage or if he’d left the band by then, but whoever was on guitar was superb, as I recall. Dragon was fantastic live, very polished. They had a bunch of great songs, probably with two different eras, a very 70s sound and then a very 80s one. You may possibly have heard of them in America under the name Hunter. Body And The Beat was their best album for me, it had Rain but it had so much more. Marc was unfortunately a mess and it hampered their career, although some fans loved seeing his antics. Tommy Emmanuel was in the band for a while on electric and acoustic guitar before his main solo career.
I'm pretty sure the other Dragon song you two had checked out was 'April Sun In Cuba', which must be their most popular song here in NZ, their home country, but I've always liked this song 'Rain' much better 😊 This is 80's Dragon, as opposed to 'April Sun...' being 70's Dragon, hence the different sound 🙂 Nice choice, great reaction! 😀👍
this was a huge hit, stayed in the top 10 for something like twenty weeks
The drummer in the video is the EX XTC first batterist. Terry Chambers.
1:06 A shot of Darlinghurst Road, Kings Cross with the iconic Coca Cola sign.
Dragon, originally from New Zealand, but like a lot of bands of that era relocated to Australia which had a bigger market...
The brothers Marc Hunter (singer) and Todd Hunter (still part of the band) were the mainstays.
They went over to the US and in front of a lot of big studio execs they had a concer t in Exas where a wasted Marc let fly with a lot of venom against Americans and thus destroyed their chances of a major record deal.
Fantastic song by a fantastic band. Their best imo.
Dragon - This Time - Official Video - 1976 austech
horrible video lol
@@Robbo766 lol but funny knowing the circumstances
Marc Hunter is still greatly loved in Australia - even 25 years after his passing. I don't care if this sounds like 80's cheese, or The Outfield, or Ultravox, or whoever is out there that made a slight sound that sounds like something in this song. I don't care if it's sell out rubbish and not as good as their prog-rock stuff (which I haven't heard and will never get around to listening to). Their hit songs were a part of my youth and that was a great youth. This song was played at many fun parties I attended in my twenties, and I have had some laughs with friends as we stayed in cafes in Sydney and waited for the heavy rain to pass as this song played on the radio. Sometimes watching a reaction video to a song that's been part of my existence feels the same as having a stranger page through my old photo album and making comments about the places and people that had played a role in my life. It just feels strange.
Try reacting to Dragon - Love's Not Enough (a song Dragon did after booting out Marc Hunter) and Marc Hunter's Big City Talk. Both songs I liked but have never had any particular affection for.
"Sometimes watching a reaction video to a song that's been part of my existence feels the same as having a stranger page through my old photo album and making comments about the places and people that had played a role in my life. It just feels strange." - Great analogy! 😃👍 It's the memories connected with them that make certain songs special to us! And when other people (including those running reaction channels) hear those songs for the very first time, THEY don't have any such memories! So all they hear is the actual song, and either it speaks to them or it doesn't! Hence I also can't blame Chris for being underwhelmed by 'You're The Voice' and neither Cynthia for saying "I didn't like this at all" when listening to my suggestion of Saga with 'Scratching The Surface"! But more than anything else, I regard them more like our hosts anyway, providing us viewers with a forum to interact in 😊 Music is a VERY personal experience!
@@mightyV444 I completely agree. I do associate this song with my life in Sydney in the early to mid 80's, with my friends and family. Of course, there are a lot of other songs that were also a big part of my life. I don't really get annoyed by opposing comments. I just keep my mind on what role a song played in my life at a time. 😉
@@australianbananapie2017 - Despite this song playing everywhere and all the time back then, my memory closest connected with it is hearing it on the bus' radio during a school trip to Bremen, in the North of Germany (where I'm originally from; I've been living in NZ for the past 20 years) 😀 I also still remember U2's 'Where The Streets Have No Name' playing only moments earlier, for which I was very grateful, too: The 'Joshua Tree' album had been released only recently, and I'd bought my copy the day before going on this school trip, feeling bummed out about not being able to listen to it for a whole week! 😏 So hearing that one song helped me pull through, LOL! 😄
@@mightyV444 Cute story. Which song did you hear? ''Rain'' by Dragon?
@@australianbananapie2017 - No, I meant 'You're The Voice' , sorry! 😄 I'd only heard (of) Dragon after moving to NZ 🙂
''This Time'' by Dragon has a music video that was shot in Kings Cross in the mid 70's. It was Dragon's den. I believe the video was shot not long after the death of their drummer Neil Storrey. For a group that had just lost their drummer to drugs, they don't look very sad and sorry in the clip.
Either they were thinking "The show must go on", or they were on drugs themselves during that video shoot?! 😉 And I think that's the clip in which Todd Hunter is wearing some funky silver boots, right? 😁
@@mightyV444 it is!!! It's a weird video... I'm sure they were all on something as they're running around rainy old Kings Cross in semi-drag. Nobody else in the video looks happy but them. ha ha
@@OnceWasRStrathfield - LOL! So true that it's a weird clip! 😄 I'd seen it for the first time last May during a 12-hour long 'NZ Music Month Video Marathon' at the local community centre 😁
@@mightyV444 Dragon look like a poor New York Dolls tribute band in that video. Even Paul Hewson is smiling and looking like he is (trying) to have fun. Everytime I see some footage of Kings Cross I cringe and smile a little. It's just that sort of place.
@@OnceWasRStrathfield - No idea what just brought me back to these comments, but Paul Hewson also is Bono's real name! 😄
Well done. Austech nailed it with this one. # 1 in Australia (and maybe, New Zealand) and # 88 in United States. I noticed a lot of South American bands doing covers of this song on TH-cam, so I assume it was also a hit around those areas. Dragon had to reform to pay off debts, and decided to just keep it together for the hell of it and got themselves a # 1 with the right single. You chose an interesting picture to bookend the video on. The picture you chose is Dragon around 1976 with their late drummer, Neil Storey, at the bottom left. He'd die of a heroin overdose not long after the picture was taken. Curious to know why Paul Hewson isn't in the picture.
Fun fact: Drummer in this video (not on the recording) is Terry Chambers of XTC. He quit XTC, married himself an Aussie and continued enjoying live playing with Dragon until Marc and Todd Hunter got too much for him. Thin keyboard player in shades is Paul Hewson. He wrote the band's 70's hits and would quit in 1985, and die of an overdose a week or so later. He didn't like the 80's direction Dragon were heading to. Another guy in the clip is American musician, Alan Mansfield, who had worked with Robert Palmer ('Clues' period), before moving to Australia and marrying Sharon O'Neill. Dragon were a troubled band before Rain and a slightly less troubled band after Rain.
And poor old Marc Hunter died young from cancer.
@@sdwill66 Yes he did! I remember the news coverage at the time. He was only 43. Three deaths : 1976, 1985 and 1998.. and I believe an early member of Dragon (before the hits) had died in recentish years too.
Dragon never had a number one in NZ
@@TheMarathonomahos that's because they had taste
@@OnceWasRStrathfield - Thank you for all that info! I recognised Terry Chambers only after you'd mentioned him! 😅 I did know he had emigrated from the UK to AUS after leaving XTC, though 🙂
I was in Rio de Janeiro a few years ago and a live band began jamming this song out. I knew it was an ausie/kiwi tune coz my mum would play it once a while
But hearing it played live by some cover band in Brazil was weird!!!
One of the best New Zealand classic rock songs.
The New Zealand band that had lots of hits but never a Number One in New Zealand, much like Bruce Springsteen never had a Billboard Number One in America.
Interesting fact! I would've suspected to at least 'April Sun...' to have been an NZ #1!
@@mightyV444 only got to Number 9 if I remember rightly
@@mightyV444are you old enough was the highest hit in NZ at 6
@@TheMarathonomahos - Ah! Okay! Still in the Top 10, though 🙂 Thank you for the info! 😀👍
Incredible! Listen to any classic rock station here in NZ and you'll hear them heaps.
These dudes were part of the Australian zeitgeist ... there's no aussie baby boomer that doesn't know who these guys are.. probably more famous in oz than their homeland nz. Check out ''Star Kissed'' on countdown. Band were fresh off the boat and in the countdown studios, and they just look young and excited. then check out ''wait until tomorrow''. ''star kissed'' and ''wait until tomorrow'' are early tunes, not as commercial as what they were know for..
I just watched that Countdown 'Star Kissed' clip: Pretty cool! Also for the fact that Marc Hunter actually sung live and extremely well, too! 😀👍 I hadn't heard that song before either, so thank you for the suggestion ...Axl! 😊
Dragon - Cool Down.. lead singer Marc Hunter also had a solo career. Island Nights, Big City Talk, Sideshow..
in terms of chart success ...(which i don't count as a barometer of "good " necessarily ) -this band had as many hits in australia as most of the major overseas legends . Pound for pound , they had an incredible run and amount of very catchy but classy pop songs .....if they were american they probably would be a world wide band
Dragon were quite dependent on catchy songs and heavy drugs.
"Puff The Magic Dragon" comes to mind 😂
@@mightyV444 lol
@@I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83 - 😁
Cheesy 80's sound.
I really liked Dragon growing up in the 70's and 80's
dragon were never my thing. i found them to be frustrating because they seemed to care more about drugs, radio play, the singles chart and countdown then they did about making good solid records.. like Australian Crawl, Dragon could have been so much better... but I can't begrudge them for their success in Australia and the roles they played in people's lives.
In spite of them sounding like many Canadian bands from the 80's and other big production bands, I have to say this song drags me back to sydney in 1983 whether I like it or not and just feels very Sydney to me. I have no nostelgia nor a feel of a time and place when I hear ''Land Down Under'' by Men At Work, but this bloody song puts me there... makes me remember my girlfriend as well as my mates, my co-workers, my family.. blah blah blah.. the video having shots of Kings Cross enhances that feeling.
April sun in Cuba was other one a long time between those songs is why it is so different
Chris, that "other guitar" is the controller part of a Roland guitar synthesizer! Basically made to trigger synth sounds through strings instead of keys 🙂 The earlier versions of this system had very conventional-looking guitars, and this one's the futuristic-looking one from the mid 80's, and quite a few guitarists were using that one, too (Including Rick Springfield's! 😉) As an example: The synth sounds of the instrumental part in The Police's 'Don't Stand So Close To Me' were created with a guitar synth 🙂
I assume it was Alan Mansfield (the guy playing that guitar) brought all that into the new Dragon. He worked with Robert Palmer prior to joining Dragon and marrying Sharon O'Neill.
The Sigue Sigue Sputnik guitar!
Tony James of Generation X/Carbon Silicon/Sigue Sigue Sputnik had one.
Though i think he only used it for Sputnik, and even then probably just for the look.
@@OnceWasRStrathfield - More interesting trivia! Cheers! 😀👍
@@Sandy-dd4le - LOL! I remember Eric Clapton not being very fond of Sigue Sigue Sputnik! 😅 I was in my mid teens then and thought at least 'Love Missile F1-11' was quite entertaining (I can almost not believe I actually remember the proper song title!) 😄 And speaking of Generation X, Billy Idol's guitarist Steve Stevens _also_ had used that synth guitar 🙂
@@mightyV444 i didn't know Steve Stevens used one! , i only ever remember Tony James, I'm sure i remember seeing a picture of Prince with one, but i dont have any idea if he actually used it for anything.
I might pay to hear Clapton whine about the Sputniks though!
Love love love dragon and you reviewed XTC before and their drummer is the drummer for dragon on this clip and two of their albums…
Just remembered I've got the 12" single of this. Brings back memories of my misspent youth.
Just to make it clear, I wasn't throwing any shade towards the nice couple reacting to this video.. I just need to remind myself to keep my eyes away from the comment section. teehee ;-)
But that's where the *real* fun starts! 😂😉
@@mightyV444 Well, I have had some nice conversations on here - that I can admit to - teehee ;-)
@@australianbananapie2017 - Aha! 😄 And great to hear that, too! 😊👍
Your first Dragon reaction was ''April Sun In Cuba'' which came out in 77 or 78. The same line-up that made ''April Sun'' is the same line-up that recorded ''Rain''. However, the video is slightly deceiving due to XTC's Terry Chambers replacing Kerry Jaconbson and bashing Jaconson's parts in the video.... and having Alan Mansfield being a new member. I think it's a credit to Dragon that they could reform and update their 70's rock J.Giels band sound to a more updated 1983 ''heaps of bands sound like this in Canada'' type of sound.
I was a bit of a Melbourne punk rock/post-punk music snob in the day, so Dragon were some big Countdown band as far as I was concerned. They played at my favourite joint - The Crystal Ballroom - around '79, and acted like they were kings of the world. I can appreciate their efforts now.. but only just
That 80's gated snare sound though!
You guys are taking the Micky (taking the piss) Playing this kiwi song IT HASN'T BEEN PORING RAIN HERE SOME SMART ASS SCOOPED UP THE WHOLE BLOODY PACIFIC OCEAN AND DUMPED IN ON US 😜✌️💦🏄🌊🌨️⛈️🌩️🌧️💧☔⚡🌪️
Hi guys ..l was a roadie from Melbourne Australia.one of dragons drumers l worked for in an Australian pub band check them out on utube.. called ( the spaniards / song ( what can l do ) live on count down ...
I heard 'rain' was a metaphor for the heroin plague, at that time.
I told a story on the other Haniers' reaction to Dragon video about how I used to see Marc Hunter in Kings Cross, and how he advised me sternly to not take drugs or become a stripper. It was weird because he looked like he was off his head and the women he was with looked like strippers! I got scared, said ''yes sir'' (what a geek I was) and ran away while his weird stripper friends cackled like it was the funniest thing in the world. He embarrassed me!
So, please react to Marc Hunter doing Big City Talk. He looks in the Big City Talk video the way he did when he scolded me, and I'm sure the same ladies that laughed at me are also in the video.
from my country and i seen them play in 1995. great band
I came to Australia from England in the late 70's and unlike most poms I didn't come to the country to whinge and judge and compare it to my own old boring country.
I never understood English people that did that.
Although I couldn't sit through a Dragon album I knew they were a world class singles band with rock-pop that could rival the world's best at the time. Marc Hunter looked reptilian, so of course he was perfect for a band called Dragon.. and being from New Zealand made them slightly different to their Aussie contemporaries. I don't have much of an opinion on ''Rain'', et al.
it was just big 80's production music with average songs for radio. you're best to try ''are you old enough'', ''still in love'', and ''this time''
Dragon was the first pub rock band I went to see, and they didn’t disappoint.
Down in St Kilda at The Venue long before they tore it down, and supported by Uncanny X-Men (better than I expected) and Jump Incorporated. I remember it had Doane Perry on drums at the time who was awesome, and I think Tommy Emmanuel was the guitarist at that point in their career, too. I can’t be certain if it was him on stage or if he’d left the band by then, but whoever was on guitar was superb, as I recall.
Dragon was fantastic live, very polished. They had a bunch of great songs, probably with two different eras, a very 70s sound and then a very 80s one. You may possibly have heard of them in America under the name Hunter.
Body And The Beat was their best album for me, it had Rain but it had so much more.
Marc was unfortunately a mess and it hampered their career, although some fans loved seeing his antics.
Tommy Emmanuel was in the band for a while on electric and acoustic guitar before his main solo career.
I'm pretty sure the other Dragon song you two had checked out was 'April Sun In Cuba', which must be their most popular song here in NZ, their home country, but I've always liked this song 'Rain' much better 😊 This is 80's Dragon, as opposed to 'April Sun...' being 70's Dragon, hence the different sound 🙂 Nice choice, great reaction! 😀👍
Try ..dragon..(are you old enough. )
Gee mate, don’t get too excited
Typical of the 80s. I have never heard of this band before but they're very much like Ultravox.
Now for some MiSex - But You Don't Care