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| Classic Line-up | Original Album Discography | |||||||||||||
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Jim Keays - Vocals Doug Ford - Guitar/ Vocals Glenn Wheatley - Bass Colin Burgess - Drums
Aug 1968 - Jan 1972 |
The Master's Apprentices 1967 Masterpiece 1970 Choice Cuts 1971 Nickelodeon (Live in Perth) 1971 A Toast To Panama Red 1972 Now That It's Over (Best Of) 1974 Do What You Wanna Do (Reunion Album) 1988 | |||||||||||||
| A Brief History Of The Masters... | ||||||||||||||
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I was just under a year old when The Masters Apprentices released their debut album in June 1967 (Sorry don't mean to make you sound old guys!). In early 1973 at age 6, I discovered an album "20 Explosive Hits 1971" in my mothers record cabinet.
I was lucky my mother was a music fan (my father has never bought a record in his life!), otherwise my life could have been very different. Anyway I fell in love with 'Black Night', a track on that album by British group "DEEP PURPLE".
DEEP PURPLE have been one of my favourite groups ever since. However there was one other track on that album that I really liked, something called 'Future Of Our Nation' by a strangely named group I thought, "MASTERS APPRENTICES".
I just loved the heavy guitar sound on that track. So that's how I discovered the band. It wasn't until I was older that I realized they were an Australian band! I heard some of their songs on the radio as I was growing up, and bought a Best Of Album "Now That It's Over" when I was a little older.
I didn't hear much more about the band for years, that is until in 1988 when the reunion occured.
Jim Keays reformed the classic line-up of the Masters and they appeared on Hey Hey It's Saturday (a TV show on Australia's Channel Nine Network).
I also saw a reunion concert at the Palace in Melbourne during February 1988 which was excellent. The band released a new album "Do What You Wanna Do" later that year and even had a hit single with a revamped version of "Because I Love You".
The following year all the interest had died and I didn't really think of the band again until around January 1992. I was interviewing "BUDGIE" guitarist John Thomas for the BUDGIE Fan Club 'Sabre Dance' I run. John spoke of two Australian guys 'Colin & Denny Burgess' joining the final line-up of the "GEORGE HATCHER BAND" in 1978.
John went on to play with both Colin & Denny Burgess in "BOMBSHELL" for a year before John left to join BUDGIE in late 1979. When I got back to Australia in 1993 I managed to track down Denny Burgess via his sister-in-law. I actually met up with Denny and interviewed him for 'Sabre Dance' in 1995.
In September 1995 the band recorded a new version of "Turn Up Your Radio" with special guests "HOODOO GURUS". I was present when the Masters reformed once more to headline "The Last Great 60's Show" at Melbourne's Festival Hall on 13th November 1996.
Earlier this year they were inducted into the ARIA Hall Of Fame and Australia Post featured 'Turn Up Your Radio' in their stamp release titled Rock'n'Roll - The Early Years. | ||||||||||||||
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