48 year old who lives in California here, mid life crisis past a few years back, just took 6 months off work… and Australia Crawl for me is the greatest undiscovered band of all times. My new mission in life is to make sure everyone knows. I feel like I stumbled across the spark, the energy I need through this music to reinspire my life.
I recommend the Sirocco album and then.. everything else! While you are there, if you like the Aussie surf sound, check out Midnight Oils title album and Head Injuries album and maybe the Sunnyboys best of. I have to agree, the sophistication in Aussie Crawl songs is a real notch up over most pub music. Even still, there is a very rich vein of Aussie music from around 1975 to the present - when all music from ACDC, Oils, Radiators, Divinyls and Cold Chisel to INXS, Wa Wa Nee and Pseudo Echo was pub rock tested - if it didn't rock or swing you'd cop a beer can in the head (in my playing experience, if your music did rock, you'd have to play through the set twice and when your fingers were bleeding and you were 7 schooners down, a girl in leather would twist your arm and tell you to play another song or she'd break your f'n' arm - real story from 1990). Some would argue the peak was '78 to around '88, but I am sure many younger Aussies would beg to differ. The introducing of drink-driving laws in the mid-80's seemed to end the pub scene, which was the cauldron of our music then. It was partially replaced mind you with JJJ Radio's yearly 'Unearthed' competition which gave us Silverchair, and the festival scene (Big Day Out, Splendour in the Grass etc). There is a whole catalogue out there
Australian Crawl were a great band. I loved their hits including Reckless, Boys Light Up, Downhearted etc but James Reyne's (Crawl's lead singer) song about heroin 'Hammerhead' still lingers in my mind. For another Aussie beach video classic check out Come Said The Boy by Mondo Rock. Australian music in the 1980s was simply amazing. We really took it for granted at the time. They were great days indeed. th-cam.com/video/Tu1GLEh3wO4/w-d-xo.html
As a Pom starting his first job in Melbourne in 1980. This was the first real Aussie song that I heard on the radio and it is still one of my all time favourites.
Johnny Turk60 ......”awful”? Actually, if you knew of the actor Errol Flynn, the lyrics are quite profound. Guy’s voice is fabulous and the music speaks for itself. Australian Crawl was a quality band in a time when we were spoilt for choice.
Came home on leave from the navy and this album had just come out, i think the tape was missing a few layers from the constant playing in the mates car
My Dad was an event organiser in the 70s and 80s, got to see and meet all the great Aussie rock bands as well as some legends from abroad. Rip Big Man, love ya.
I remember arguing with workmates back in the early 90's. long before the internet and mobile phones, that James Reyne didn't sing this song. They all laughed and none and them believed me. One even rang up the radio station that just played it. Yep, they too said James Reyne sings it...Years later, still working at the same place, when TH-cam came along...Proved it!
@@queenslander954 This is the point. There was no TH-cam back in the 90's so I had no proof that James Reyne didn't sing the song.It sounded like James Reyne, how could I prove otherwise when even the radio station said it was James Reyne?
Bought the album when it came out all those years ago...I still have the record; like an old friend or lover, it has aged well enough...the cover of the LP is like a "record" of the changes in a lifetime and the roads one travels, small cracks and lines on the cardboard; a map of distance and time ...when I play it I know that a little more sound is removed from the grooves and the sound changes a little through the years, the changes are small like the clicks and pops from the stylus; a sonic clock of great times in the past. And yet, in spite of all that has happened in those 41 years, the songs are clear and fresh and so are all those memories....thank you Australian Crawl. Important and real.
Invest in a good turntable and your records don’t wear audibly even after a few hundred plays. A record cleaning machine - Disco Antistat - will clean off the clicks and pops.
racketman2u .......I’ve seen all the bands you cited but you missed my favourite live acts, Midnight Oil and Divinyls. Hunters and Collectors were a mighty live gig too.
RIP Guy Gillis McDonough, your lyrics/songs defined an era that we can never get back. Unfortunately, guess you were just blessed if you lived through the 70's 7 80's
When Time Travelling is Invented- I'm heading to Gold Coast Australia 1981! What a Great Time to Be Alive! Aussie Crawl are 1 of the Most Underrated Aussie Bands along with The Sunnyboys! -Cheers👍🇦🇺
Rest peacefully gorgeous Guy 💔 You were such a talented songwriter and singer, what you achieved in 28 short years is nothing short of amazing… Your amazing work lives on, it is timeless 🌟 If only you were still here…
Born and bred fourth generation gold coaster. It was amazing in the 80s . I'd rather live in Brisbane these days. My old man still lives on my grandparents old farm
The mate and I nearly ran over the camera man on our pushies going for a surf one Friday morning as I called in sick to work (gee I hope my old boss is not reading this but I was only an apprentice lol soz boss) when they were filming this out the front of Grundys waterslide at 6:30 am, I didn't see him because we were watching OZ Crawl cross the road from the surf.
Bryan Downie I agree with you mate. I grew up in the 80's. It was the best. riding my pushie around without a worry. fishing down the creek, building cubby houses, playing out on the road till 9 oclock at night in summer kissing girls. It all went south when mass immigration started. Compare the crime stats with immigration rates. The politicians will never acknowledge this. My kids are in at 5 now.
+Bryan Downie Yep. Now Australia is but a shadow of what it was just a mere 20 years ago. The goodie goodies and the stupid pollies have fucked this country for eternity. I can only say that I'm proud to have been a part of the wonderful 80s (born in 1970). We had the best time, a time kids cannot have nowdays. I'm sad to say it but I'm glad I'll be dead in the next 20-40 years, because I have no confidence in the way this country is going. Humans are Fucked
immigration has totally fucked this country for us and particularily the aborinines. muslims have more rights than the people who were here first. muslims are better off in this country than Aboriginal. What a joke hey.
46years here I guess. 2023. still rolling Australian Music. Greetings from Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil I was a skate dude. With my walkman. SIDE A - Metallica - SIDE B Australian Crawl. The chicks loves Australian, A-hA...
Nawww what an awesome memory. I listen to a lot of 80's and 90's music because my mum and dad used to play music a lot when I was young and I picked up their taste in music. That's one thing I am very grateful to them for.
@@BigRamifications yes, they had good airplay, especially in Rio de Janeiro and other coastal cities. Other popular australian bands in Brazil are Midnight Oil, Hoodoo Gurus, Men at Work, Gang Gajang, Spy vs Spy...
@@Dasilva0 Cheers man 👍 appreciated. Was recently informed of the Spy v Spy connection by a buddy of mine [Australian] so your story checks out 😄 His mail is the Spy v Spy seed was sewn in Brazil thanks to the pro surfing tour, and your boys taking a liking to some of the tunes Aussie surfers would crank up during R+R.
Just heard this tune for the first time,March20,2017. Like the tune a lot& have always been an Errol Flynn fan,tho he died when I was 2yrs old. Also tho I'm from the U.S. I love Australia&of course the Sheilas!
The "apple isle" mentioned in the 1st verse is the nickname for Tasmania, which was the site of Australia's most notorious and inhumane convict settlement - also touched upon in the lyrics. It's also a bit of a running joke on the mainland that Tasmanian's are incestuous cousin-fuckers, hence the "inbred smile" which was mentioned........ The jargon and in-jokes are there coz Errol Flynn was born in Tasmania [in 1909], which would have been one of the most isolated, far flung, barely populated, backwards hick outposts in the English speaking world. He came a looooong way, did my boy Errol.
Actually, there were a couple of silent film stars in Hobart, so it was not unprecedented and in the case of one of the stars, her husband tried to get a film production site set up in Southern Tasmania, along the lines of Hollywood. A similar shift in Hollywood USA happened when tax issues affected film work in Florida, and they shifted to California, but you can still find the old TV and film studies in Florida's east coast in a much neglected state with the 50s TV studios used for TV with some classic films being done in the same "underwater " studios. History can turn on a dime.
Yeah, but they chose the best for the vid mate - James Reyne wouldn't have it any other way, not like they went out on the street and grabbed 10 at random :)
Currently reading original Aus Crawl member Bill McDonoughs must read book SONS of BEACHES. His brother GUY truly was ERROL. His overseas adventures in the early Seventies, even before they were famous, are truly entertaining. A truly legendary song! ... Guy Errol McDonough lives on!
The name Errol has been prominent in Australian culture for decades. Errol Flynn - the Australian born Hollywood star. One of the most prominent members of the Golden era of Hollywood. This song - Which was about the aforementioned Flynn. It is a classic of Australian culture. Errol Gulden - Australian football star, who has made this song, and his name, prominent again. And was named after this song. Incredibly cool.
Aussie crawl. my .fav.band ever and .errol.what a bloody legend. and I was teenager in the 80s and what a great fucken time I had it was bloody awesome .up shit creek now without a paddle to many greedy bastards
Grunge and the rise of Indie music killed off the 80's style of rock/pop music. Not that there was anything wrong with Grunge or Indie. We had some really good Oz Grunge bands but only a few. The 80's was pretty much anything and everything goes as far as music went. Thats what made it such a great decade globally for music. But the 90's became very genre specific.
na adolescência escutava essa música, e isso no início da década de 90 na saudosa Fluminense FM a Rádio Rock e hoje descobrir que eles não são dessa mesma época ...
Oi,pessoal! Cara,eu estava procurando a versão ao vivo no Brasil,em que no final ele dizia "Tchau, obrigado"(em português),e que eu ouvia na Rádio Cidade, até que finalmente encontrei! Era o James Reyne em carreira solo,e o vídeo está no canal dele, só que não podia comentar lá.🤬 Vim lavar a alma aqui! Quem lembra dela?
Great song. Aussie Crawl had some awesome songs. Just reading Guy's brother's book about their childhood, life and time with Australian Crawl. Very interesting. Amazing how much Guy did in his short life. RIP to talented Guy and gorgeous Brad. Gone too soon. ❤
This filmclip is my early teens, this music, up to no good in Surfers and on that beach day and night, always on those slides at the end of Cavill ave, and we were always sneaking into the pool/sauna/spa's of some of those high rises particularly the Beachcomber which was our fav. We didn't have quite so many babes in the spa with us, but we had a few on occasion - Jesus, I miss the 80s!!!!!!!!
I saw somebody make reference to Brazil when expressing their fear of Australia losing its identity. I find this ironic considering the only place in the world that actually cared about Australian Crawl and other Aus.Rock bands was Brazil.
I heard Reckless on the radio growing up in Malaysia in the late 80s and early 90s, along with Chisel, Midnight Oil, John Paul Young and AC/DC. The world knew plenty about Australian rock, it wasn't just Brazil.
Guy was gay and shy. Also a heroin addict which makes you a loner. When he died he was full blown AIDS. Nobody knew what it was back in 1984. Poor Guy. He had so much more to give.
Eu tenho 42 anos, moro no Brasil, e ouvia MUITO essa banda quando ia surfar no Rio de Janeiro e em Ubatuba. Spy vs Spy é melhor ainda. Gosto muito do trabalho solo do James Reyne também
Great song and the Grundy's water slides bring back some good memories of my childhood in the 80s. The GC is so different now but there are some little reminders of the past hidden here and there...
Hangin at Iluka, pickles on the windows at Maccas, any bogan was a 'Brisso' haha.. Great memories of Surfers as a kid in the 80s. I remember being wrapped to see Guy in a Beat t-shirt - favourite ska band at the time. With his mullet, ear ring and red Jazzy, he was the ultimate Aussie rocker.
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48 year old who lives in California here, mid life crisis past a few years back, just took 6 months off work… and Australia Crawl for me is the greatest undiscovered band of all times. My new mission in life is to make sure everyone knows. I feel like I stumbled across the spark, the energy I need through this music to reinspire my life.
Listen to Trouble Spot Rock. A very underrated song of theirs.
not undiscovered in oz mate
I recommend the Sirocco album and then.. everything else! While you are there, if you like the Aussie surf sound, check out Midnight Oils title album and Head Injuries album and maybe the Sunnyboys best of. I have to agree, the sophistication in Aussie Crawl songs is a real notch up over most pub music. Even still, there is a very rich vein of Aussie music from around 1975 to the present - when all music from ACDC, Oils, Radiators, Divinyls and Cold Chisel to INXS, Wa Wa Nee and Pseudo Echo was pub rock tested - if it didn't rock or swing you'd cop a beer can in the head (in my playing experience, if your music did rock, you'd have to play through the set twice and when your fingers were bleeding and you were 7 schooners down, a girl in leather would twist your arm and tell you to play another song or she'd break your f'n' arm - real story from 1990). Some would argue the peak was '78 to around '88, but I am sure many younger Aussies would beg to differ. The introducing of drink-driving laws in the mid-80's seemed to end the pub scene, which was the cauldron of our music then. It was partially replaced mind you with JJJ Radio's yearly 'Unearthed' competition which gave us Silverchair, and the festival scene (Big Day Out, Splendour in the Grass etc). There is a whole catalogue out there
Australian Crawl were a great band. I loved their hits including Reckless, Boys Light Up, Downhearted etc but James Reyne's (Crawl's lead singer) song about heroin 'Hammerhead' still lingers in my mind. For another Aussie beach video classic check out Come Said The Boy by Mondo Rock. Australian music in the 1980s was simply amazing. We really took it for granted at the time. They were great days indeed.
th-cam.com/video/Tu1GLEh3wO4/w-d-xo.html
Between a rock and a hard place and every other album mate, get into them
The world doesn't give Guy McDonough enough credit....died too young...what a talent
Check him out:th-cam.com/video/hu5U25xCPWs/w-d-xo.html
He is still greatly missed
So true… Guy was immensely talented!!! 🌟 Imagine what he could have achieved….
If I had to pick a face to represent Australia in the 80s then I would pick Guy's face. Don't know what it is but he's just so early 80s.
What did he die of?
2024 and this is still a masterpiece.❤❤❤
Yeah❤
"Oh Errol, I would give everything just to be like you." The dream of many a young man. A great song that gets even better with age.
An appropriately played after #21 Errol “Golden Boot” Gulden kicks another goal for the Sydney Swans AFL @ the iconic SCG …
@@ma3stro681 "I would give everything, just to be like him"
Errol died at 50.
Yess❤ guys still dream on 😅😅😅😅
An absolute classic song from a great aussie band. love the 80's
As a Pom starting his first job in Melbourne in 1980. This was the first real Aussie song that I heard on the radio and it is still one of my all time favourites.
It's awful !
Johnny Turk60 ......”awful”? Actually, if you knew of the actor Errol Flynn, the lyrics are quite profound. Guy’s voice is fabulous and the music speaks for itself. Australian Crawl was a quality band in a time when we were spoilt for choice.
and the 70s and the 60s and the 50s, the best music years, a progression!
@@lindadote if U say so
Such a fantastic vocal performance by Guy McDonough - brilliant Australian musician taken way too soon.
Yeahh😢😢😢
40 years later and still sounds good 👍👍👍
My thoughts also...in a comment here too.
Classics NEVER die 👌👌
Yes❤
Came home on leave from the navy and this album had just come out, i think the tape was missing a few layers from the constant playing in the mates car
My Dad was an event organiser in the 70s and 80s, got to see and meet all the great Aussie rock bands as well as some legends from abroad. Rip Big Man, love ya.
Man that would have been absolutely awesome to experience! My father was part of the film crew who shot a video clip for Mondo Rock in Sydney
My dad was a builder on the mid north coast of NSW. So we missed out on all this but we had our own stories.
They were the days
Wowww😢bless ❤
I remember arguing with workmates back in the early 90's. long before the internet and mobile phones, that James Reyne didn't sing this song. They all laughed and none and them believed me. One even rang up the radio station that just played it. Yep, they too said James Reyne sings it...Years later, still working at the same place, when TH-cam came along...Proved it!
The bloke that sings ‘Errol’ is Guy McDonough from Australian Crawl & James Reyna only sings on the chorus .. you can see it in the clip
@@queenslander954 This is the point. There was no TH-cam back in the 90's so I had no proof that James Reyne didn't sing the song.It sounded like James Reyne, how could I prove otherwise when even the radio station said it was James Reyne?
Took me 40 years of listening to find that out. More respect for the band.
It couldn't have been James Reyne singing.... you can understand the words. 😅
This quintessential Australian anthem and other classics keep us in a happy place during this unusual time
The 80s as a kid in Wollongong,was great.
All my kids love this - I still think it is one of the all-time greatest rock vocal performances. Doesn't get much better this.
I don't believe that this song has so few likes, it's such a great song! I'm from Porto Alegre-RS, Brasil.
Amigo,quero encontrar a versão ao vivo no Brasil,na qual o vocalista.ao final,diz(em português):TCHAU E OBRIGADO!
Tambem sou de poa
So are you a fan of Vspy Vspy then? If you are check out the band Midnight Oilth-cam.com/video/3xAm7wqm18s/w-d-xo.html
Ouvindo esse clásico, em Porto Alegre, cidade baixa. 🎶🎼🎶🎧
Também sou!
Bought the album when it came out all those years ago...I still have the record; like an old friend or lover, it has aged well enough...the cover of the LP is like a "record" of the changes in a lifetime and the roads one travels, small cracks and lines on the cardboard; a map of distance and time ...when I play it I know that a little more sound is removed from the grooves and the sound changes a little through the years, the changes are small like the clicks and pops from the stylus; a sonic clock of great times in the past. And yet, in spite of all that has happened in those 41 years, the songs are clear and fresh and so are all those memories....thank you Australian Crawl. Important and real.
Invest in a good turntable and your records don’t wear audibly even after a few hundred plays. A record cleaning machine - Disco Antistat - will clean off the clicks and pops.
Dragon, Chisel, Crawl, MAW, Mentals, INXS; for a time, aussie rock ruled.
Don't forget Acca Dacca
And icehouse
Daddy cool
Midnight oil
racketman2u .......I’ve seen all the bands you cited but you missed my favourite live acts, Midnight Oil and Divinyls. Hunters and Collectors were a mighty live gig too.
RIP Guy Gillis McDonough, your lyrics/songs defined an era that we can never get back. Unfortunately, guess you were just blessed if you lived through the 70's 7 80's
That voice tho.such a powerful and unique voice from such a little bloke. Rip guy.
James is not dead
@@jonciterzen7570 I wish he was 😒
Hence why he said RIP Guy rather than RIP James.
Australian crawl was guy.
Guys voice made Australian crawl
Men at Work, The Sunnyboys, Spy vs Spy, Hoodoo Gurus, Wedding Present there were so many good australian bands in that age.
Guy, what a legend. Shame he didnt have more tracks with Australian Crawl.
When Time Travelling is Invented- I'm heading to Gold Coast Australia 1981! What a Great Time to Be Alive! Aussie Crawl are 1 of the Most Underrated Aussie Bands along with The Sunnyboys! -Cheers👍🇦🇺
Oh Errol
Rich Lee … hey ? thats what they all said, Want a cigarette
35 years listening to this song and still Errol is the only word I know
Totally relate to this song. I was born in Hobart and so was Errol haven't quite managed to get as far as he has but I've only lived 33 years.
Yea mate , you better get yourself up to New Guinea and start prospecting for gold.
This is the greatest Aussie song ever. It’s a masterpiece!
youre very simple now, arent you ?
Rest peacefully gorgeous Guy 💔
You were such a talented songwriter and singer, what you achieved in 28 short years is nothing short of amazing…
Your amazing work lives on, it is timeless 🌟
If only you were still here…
Back when the Gold Coast was a nice place.
*hehe* yeaaaaa
Born and bred fourth generation gold coaster. It was amazing in the 80s . I'd rather live in Brisbane these days. My old man still lives on my grandparents old farm
just arrived (family in tow)
Essa música me faz recordar de minha juventude e do tempo em que ia para a praia com meus amigos!
I just listened to a whole heap of hip hop records at home, then chucked this on. Great stuff 👍
The film clip captures the time so well. Australia was so much simpler and better back then.
An absolute classic song from a great aussie band. love the 80's
Dragon, Chisel, Crawl, MAW, Mentals, INXS; for a time, aussie rock ruled.
Dragon are Kiwi
The Oils were the greatest of them all in their heyday …
You forgot Midnight Oil.
This song takes me straight back to 16 years old. Man what a time.
I know exactly what you mean. 14 for me.
Me too because I am a qualified lesbian
The mate and I nearly ran over the camera man on our pushies going for a surf one Friday morning as I called in sick to work (gee I hope my old boss is not reading this but I was only an apprentice lol soz boss) when they were filming this out the front of Grundys waterslide at 6:30 am, I didn't see him because we were watching OZ Crawl cross the road from the surf.
This is the way Australia was before everything went tits up, man this country was awesome.. it will never be the same.. so sad.. Aussie Aussie Aussie
Bryan Downie we a mini usa now, shits fucked.
Bryan Downie oi oi oi
i agree
Bryan Downie I agree with you mate. I grew up in the 80's. It was the best. riding my pushie around without a worry. fishing down the creek, building cubby houses, playing out on the road till 9 oclock at night in summer kissing girls. It all went south when mass immigration started. Compare the crime stats with immigration rates. The politicians will never acknowledge this. My kids are in at 5 now.
+Bryan Downie Yep. Now Australia is but a shadow of what it was just a mere 20 years ago. The goodie goodies and the stupid pollies have fucked this country for eternity. I can only say that I'm proud to have been a part of the wonderful 80s (born in 1970). We had the best time, a time kids cannot have nowdays. I'm sad to say it but I'm glad I'll be dead in the next 20-40 years, because I have no confidence in the way this country is going. Humans are Fucked
immigration has totally fucked this country for us and particularily the aborinines. muslims have more rights than the people who were here first. muslims are better off in this country than Aboriginal. What a joke hey.
46years here I guess. 2023. still rolling Australian Music. Greetings from Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil
I was a skate dude. With my walkman. SIDE A - Metallica - SIDE B Australian Crawl.
The chicks loves Australian, A-hA...
Lindas australianas. Ótima música.
Por isso gostei dessa música.
Kkkkkkkkk.
As mulheres do clipe da música kkkkkkkkkkk.
Doubt most Aussies would even know who they were singing about these days. Love ya, Errol.
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn, born 20th June 1909, Battery Point, Tasmania.😊
Aasn9 .......yep, there’s a few of us still around.
In like Flynn mate
Your right I was talking about Errol and these young guys didn't have a clue who he was 😞
Read 'My Wicked, Wicked Ways' a couple of weeks ago. Wow. He lived quite a life.
RIP Guy. you are a legend
Yes so true
Yea he went far too early , seemed like a good guy.
The drugs got him .such a shame
Great song Great vid, not sick of it even after all these years.
The lyrics in this song.......so massively underrated.
Immigrated to Australia in 1981 and remember watching TV for the first time in oz and this song came on on Countdown.
I'm 52yo now. Sooo many great memories of 1981 wish I could go back.....
R.I.P. Guy McDonough
This is such an awesome band! 80’s Alternative at its best!
Not alternative at all🤔
I will never Die neither that’s why I ❤ it so much !!!!
Those were the days of amazing Aussie rock bands, they were as good as anything that came out of the US or UK.
Can't get enough 57 year's later still listening
I remember when I was younger my grandfather would play this non stop .....
Because his name is Errol what a Aussie banger
Nawww what an awesome memory.
I listen to a lot of 80's and 90's music because my mum and dad used to play music a lot when I was young and I picked up their taste in music.
That's one thing I am very grateful to them for.
Errol Flynn invented Hedonism, but he just called it being on the piss & chasing skirt until it killed him.
Fez parte da minha infância! Escutava com meu irmão mais velho..amo!
Aussie Crawl was known to Brazilians?! Did they get played on the radio, or did you discover them another way?
@@BigRamifications yes, they had good airplay, especially in Rio de Janeiro and other coastal cities. Other popular australian bands in Brazil are Midnight Oil, Hoodoo Gurus, Men at Work, Gang Gajang, Spy vs Spy...
@@Dasilva0 Cheers man 👍 appreciated. Was recently informed of the Spy v Spy connection by a buddy of mine [Australian] so your story checks out 😄
His mail is the Spy v Spy seed was sewn in Brazil thanks to the pro surfing tour, and your boys taking a liking to some of the tunes Aussie surfers would crank up during R+R.
What a great actor . Errol Flynn
Cracking album
Full of classics
Every note, every image a blast from my past. Fabulous.
Just heard this tune for the first time,March20,2017. Like the tune a lot& have always been an Errol Flynn fan,tho he died when I was 2yrs old. Also tho I'm from the U.S. I love Australia&of course the Sheilas!
The "apple isle" mentioned in the 1st verse is the nickname for Tasmania, which was the site of Australia's most notorious and inhumane convict settlement - also touched upon in the lyrics. It's also a bit of a running joke on the mainland that Tasmanian's are incestuous cousin-fuckers, hence the "inbred smile" which was mentioned........ The jargon and in-jokes are there coz Errol Flynn was born in Tasmania [in 1909], which would have been one of the most isolated, far flung, barely populated, backwards hick outposts in the English speaking world.
He came a looooong way, did my boy Errol.
Erm. As you were, then.
Actually, there were a couple of silent film stars in Hobart, so it was not unprecedented and in the case of one of the stars, her husband tried to get a film production site set up in Southern Tasmania, along the lines of Hollywood. A similar shift in Hollywood USA happened when tax issues affected film work in Florida, and they shifted to California, but you can still find the old TV and film studies in Florida's east coast in a much neglected state with the 50s TV studios used for TV with some classic films being done in the same "underwater " studios. History can turn on a dime.
Just as well you put a word in for the sheilas mate or I rip your bloody arms off!
So many things in this song and film clip remind me of growing up in Australia in the eighties.
What an amazing voice Guy has...awesum..
I lived this music and loved it. How simple and uncluttered does the Gold Coast look compared to now.
done early on a sunday moring, shhh
Aussie chicks in the 80s were really authentic, natural and beautiful.
... until Pamela Anderson came along, and then they all became plastic. LOL
Then the fat acceptance movement became a thing..
Yeah, but they chose the best for the vid mate - James Reyne wouldn't have it any other way, not like they went out on the street and grabbed 10 at random :)
Still they are, mate.
Still plenty of em about!
As a Tassie, 25yrs an expat.
Sweet to hear again and...a Fun film clip. Thx
One of my favooorite songs of all time, mate!
Great lyrics man. Great song. I lived in the New Guinea highlands for a time too.
slave trading up there mate . or as Errol called it indentured labour ? .. he did some bad things , but he was the original Hedonist.
@@queenslander954 what " bad things" did Errol do ?
Guy had the better Voice. RIP Guy!
agreed, james was a poser
Jodie Ratcliffe such a powerful voice for such a small bloke
Love his Lisp when he sings. :)
Guy wrote and sang some memorable songs. His voice and James Reyne’s working together transformed the Crawl.
Spot on. Imagine if he hadn't died ..
Amazing voice
Currently reading original Aus Crawl member Bill McDonoughs must read book SONS of BEACHES. His brother GUY truly was ERROL. His overseas adventures in the early Seventies, even before they were famous, are truly entertaining. A truly legendary song! ... Guy Errol McDonough lives on!
My God such a Talent Guy was, gone way way to soon!! Should have been so much more from him!!!
The name Errol has been prominent in Australian culture for decades.
Errol Flynn - the Australian born Hollywood star. One of the most prominent members of the Golden era of Hollywood.
This song - Which was about the aforementioned Flynn. It is a classic of Australian culture.
Errol Gulden - Australian football star, who has made this song, and his name, prominent again. And was named after this song.
Incredibly cool.
Errol Flynn had a huge cock, and was a well known ladies man. That's what this song is about. Get it right bro google Errols long dick
It's a funny clip I wish could be like him (girls all around) it's a piss take bro
Aussie crawl. my .fav.band ever and .errol.what a bloody legend. and I was teenager in the 80s and what a great fucken time I had it was bloody awesome .up shit creek now without a paddle to many greedy bastards
You can thank the 90's for that one.
Grunge and the rise of Indie music killed off the 80's style of rock/pop music. Not that there was anything wrong with Grunge or Indie.
We had some really good Oz Grunge bands but only a few.
The 80's was pretty much anything and everything goes as far as music went. Thats what made it such a great decade globally for music. But the 90's became very genre specific.
Only 2.4mil views disgraceful for this gem 😢😢😢
Coolest clips of all time! Life at it's best.
na adolescência escutava essa música, e isso no início da década de 90 na saudosa Fluminense FM a Rádio Rock e hoje descobrir que eles não são dessa mesma época ...
dont have a clue what youre saying but for some reason i think youre brazilian and have a natural bullshit detector and this came through easily?
Don’t know what you said mate , but you sound fair-dinkum
ô música boa!!!!!!!!! Amo :)
Blz
Oi,pessoal!
Cara,eu estava procurando a versão ao vivo no Brasil,em que no final ele dizia "Tchau, obrigado"(em português),e que eu ouvia na Rádio Cidade, até que finalmente encontrei!
Era o James Reyne em carreira solo,e o vídeo está no canal dele, só que não podia comentar lá.🤬
Vim lavar a alma aqui!
Quem lembra dela?
Great song. Aussie Crawl had some awesome songs. Just reading Guy's brother's book about their childhood, life and time with Australian Crawl. Very interesting. Amazing how much Guy did in his short life. RIP to talented Guy and gorgeous Brad. Gone too soon. ❤
Great song.
Que maneiro ! Nas festas nos anos oitenta rolavam esses sons. A onda era tomar vinho com um monte de fruta misturada. Era bom demais.
Wish the Gold Coast still looked like that, lucky i live down near the south coast of NSW where it still does look like that, for now.....
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Where are you now man? I’m in Wollongong
How good is this ? The best .
This filmclip is my early teens, this music, up to no good in Surfers and on that beach day and night, always on those slides at the end of Cavill ave, and we were always sneaking into the pool/sauna/spa's of some of those high rises particularly the Beachcomber which was our fav. We didn't have quite so many babes in the spa with us, but we had a few on occasion - Jesus, I miss the 80s!!!!!!!!
who's listening tvo this 2019? ausmusic rocks
I really love this song I was only young 16yr love it
muhammad shakil still listening now 47
Powerful vocals!
Australia needs America , we are always allies, music is always beautiful
Greatest Australian song ever...
My Aussie wife showed me this, as a Mexican I think it's badass all Mexicans should be jamming to this
Good on you my Mexican m8 and congratulations on snagging an Aussie wife they are great ladies the Aussie women.
Grande música, grande banda! Uma das melhores anglófonas, ainda que eu tenha muita dificuldade para entender o inglês australiano.
Eu sou australiano, minha esposa é brasileira. Obrigado por apreciar minha cultura. Obrigado por apreciar a música australiana. Deus o abençoe.
@@dihexa7256, de nada, amigo. Adoro a cultura do seu pai e sou louco para conhecê-lo. E parabéns pelo seu português!
Top stuff. Absolutely ace.
who's listening tvo this 2019? ausmusic rocks
An absolute classic song from a great aussie band. love the 80's
Is this the only song ever that has Swashbuckling in the lyrics? Gold!
come on where are all the swans fans
Love guy , absolutely amazing voice .rest in peace my favourite brother.
Remember it well..1981..year 7 Figtree high , Wollongong, Australia..summer was hot.. school six though..
Nooo it never used to get hot back then ..shhhh the climate loonies don't believe you 🤣
They are the best aussie band ever. IMO
O som dos anos 80 o melhor
I saw somebody make reference to Brazil when expressing their fear of Australia losing its identity. I find this ironic considering the only place in the world that actually cared about Australian Crawl and other Aus.Rock bands was Brazil.
I heard Reckless on the radio growing up in Malaysia in the late 80s and early 90s, along with Chisel, Midnight Oil, John Paul Young and AC/DC. The world knew plenty about Australian rock, it wasn't just Brazil.
One of the best Guy's ever.
Surfers International and that slide. Brings back 80s summer holiday memories.
James loved himself but Guy had the real persona and voice if you ask me.
Yep bang on
Guy was gay and shy. Also a heroin addict which makes you a loner. When he died he was full blown AIDS. Nobody knew what it was back in 1984. Poor Guy. He had so much more to give.
@@mickfitz76 How do you know he had Aids? There wasn't even a test for it in 1984.
Swans erroll a bloody hero
Rest in peace Guy 🌷
GO AUSSIES!
PROUD TO BE! ♡
Guy had the better Voice. RIP Guy!
Ageless music, love it
Great Song... an absolute Aus Crawl classicFun song, fun time
Bons tempos, boas músicas
Missing you so much guy ❤
What a bloody great Aussie song and video. Ahh good old days I say
Errol Gulden ❤❤❤
Eu tenho 42 anos, moro no Brasil, e ouvia MUITO essa banda quando ia surfar no Rio de Janeiro e em Ubatuba. Spy vs Spy é melhor ainda.
Gosto muito do trabalho solo do James Reyne também
Yes my bro 🤙🇦🇺🍻
Great song and the Grundy's water slides bring back some good memories of my childhood in the 80s. The GC is so different now but there are some little reminders of the past hidden here and there...
Hangin at Iluka, pickles on the windows at Maccas, any bogan was a 'Brisso' haha.. Great memories of Surfers as a kid in the 80s. I remember being wrapped to see Guy in a Beat t-shirt - favourite ska band at the time. With his mullet, ear ring and red Jazzy, he was the ultimate Aussie rocker.
I was 9 when this song came out and I loved it, still do.