MUGS GAME: A SUBURBAN ODYSSEY

MUGS GAME: A SUBURBAN ODYSSEY by Dave Warner Audiobook
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Sounded ID: 9781662190445

ISBN: 9781662190445

Publication Date: May 01, 2021

Publisher: Author's Republic

Language: English

Author Name: Dave Warner

Narrator Name: Dave Warner

Studio Narrated Audiobook 5 hrs 1 mins | BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY | Music

MUGS GAME: A SUBURBAN ODYSSEY

Author
Dave Warner
Publisher
Author's Republic
Narrator
Dave Warner

Studio Narrated Audiobook

This audiobook is a traditionally narrated work produced in a studio with a live voice actor and contains no content generated using Voice Replica technologies or synthetic narration.

A mix of narrative, music, poems, reflections and historic interviews narrated by me about all the influences that led to the ultimate recording of my 1978 album Mugs Game.
I grew up in the 1960s in Perth, Western Australia, the most isolated city in the world, yet harboured the dream of playing rock music like the Who, or the Beatles or the Doors. Garage bands progressed to songs: some introspective about my life as an adolescent in a sea of Laminex, some angry, satirical rock inspired by Frank Zappa and the Fugs. In the late 1960s original Australian music was almost unheard of. Wha...

A mix of narrative, music, poems, reflections and historic interviews narrated by me about all the influences that led to the ultimate recording of my 1978 album Mugs Game.
I grew up in the 1960s in Perth, Western Australia, the most isolated city in the world, yet harboured the dream of playing rock music like the Who, or the Beatles or the Doors. Garage bands progressed to songs: some introspective about my life as an adolescent in a sea of Laminex, some angry, satirical rock inspired by Frank Zappa and the Fugs. In the late 1960s original Australian music was almost unheard of. What there was tended to be a faithful recreation of American or English pop music, and nobody sang in an Australian accent. I knew that the most powerful art, including rock music, needed veracity and that presented me with an awful dilemma: if I was to write truly original, powerful songs, I would have to make them about my boring, unfashionable, Australian middle-class life. In 1972 I formed probably Australia’s first punk band Pus. After a stint in London I refined the concept of my music into what I called `suburban rock.’ This culminated in Mugs Game (Mushroom). It went gold in three months but its genesis was way back in 1963 and it evolved steadily along the way as my life was influenced by friends, fellow musicians and constant romantic rejection.
This 4.5 hour long audio-book is the story of my life from 1963-78 told with assistance of 57 songs and poems, including all Mugs Game tracks in full plus earlier demos, and other songs of that time never before recorded.
My life-long friends and fellow Suburbs Tony Durant and John Dennison talk about the early days and the evolution of the band and Mugs Game.
In some ways, I think my story is the story of every musician who went on to form a band and write and record an album. But it is of course, uniquely mine too – the Suburban Boy trapped in the Mugs Game. A true suburban odyssey.

Chapters

# Title Duration
1. 01 INTRO MUGS GAME A SUBURBAN ODYSSEY

0 mins 12 secs

2. 02 CHAPTER 1 THE WORLD BEGINS AT BICTON

23 mins 33 secs

3. 03 CHAPTER 2 THE DAWN OF CREATION

17 mins 40 secs

4. 04 CHAPTER 3 SONGWRITING ON BORING HIGHWAYS

10 mins 53 secs

5. 05 CHAPTER 4 SUBURBAN BOY

15 mins 08 secs

6. 06 CHAPTER 5 PUS

20 mins 37 secs

7. 07 CHAPTER 6 OVERSEAS

23 mins 51 secs

8. 08 CHAPTER 7 DEFEAT AND EXODUS

33 mins 18 secs

9. 09 CHAPTER 8 THE RETURN

23 mins 32 secs

10. 10 CHAPTER 9 FINDING THE SUBURBS

30 mins 20 secs

11. 11 CHAPTER 10 THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

18 mins 56 secs

12. 12 CH 11 LIVE RECORDING AND THE BLANK CASSETTES

21 mins 02 secs

13. 13 CHAPTER 12 ONE FOR THE MONEY INTERVIEW WITH BRUCE FINLAYSON 6NR 1978

11 mins 54 secs

14. 14 CHAPTER 13 HEADING EAST

15 mins 30 secs

15. 15 CHAPTER 14 RECORDING MUGS GAME

30 mins 26 secs

16. 16 OUTRO MUGS GAME A SUBURBAN ODYSSEY

0 mins 06 secs

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