The Waltons were a band from Perth, Western Australia who played in the 1980's. (Pablo) Val Tarin - Vocals & Guitar; (John-Boy) Craig Weighell - Vocals & Drums; Wally Walton - Bass; (Tennessee) Glen White - Lead Guitar.
Cover Art by Fred Gilbert
Engineered & Mixed by James Hewgill at Northlake Studios.

The Waltons: My Husband Beats Me

I am honoured and very happy to have a song - kinda about me - by Trevor Hilton, a wonderful creative mind, a brilliant musician - and my friend (I admit). Outa the blue. Made me laugh & cringe  - I hope you do too :)

Peter Morse Song

Avomine

(dis)Respectfully downloaded from ultimathuleDOTinfo - for exposure through FaceBook (which has a block on that URL for mysterious non-obvious reasons.) I will delete on request.
 "Jaroslav Kovaricek is known to radio audiences across Australia as the voice of Dreamtime, a ground-breaking music show broadcast for many years during the 1980s on ABC-FM. The show successfully juxtaposed traditional western classical music with contemporary new age and ambient styles, and was immensely popular with audiences. In this interview Marc Cottee talks with Jaroslav about his work on radio, his experiences of running Australian ambient/new age record label Terra Australia, and about music and life in general."
An interesting interview for the first half, despite the annoying maundering non-questions from the interlocutor. Early on Mr Kovariçek makes some sharp points - as one would expect. Later it becomes a bit 'cosmic'  -  clearly, different intellects at work here.

Jaroslav Kovariçek - Musica Nova (interview)

A classic track from Trevor Hilton's 1987 limited-edition 'Xmas '87' album.
A critical homage to the Triffids. I hope he releases the whole album (and all the other years) on Bandcamp or iTunes one day.

Xmas 87 & 88

Xmas '87

You Smell Good

History on 6UVSFM with Niall Lucy, Nigel Harford and Adrian Wood. Perth, Western Australia, 1982. Moves into quite interesting discussion about drum machines - which were very new at the time. All pre-internet too: the geographic isolation sounds extraordinary - the parochialism, but there was no choice - the effort to overcome it was daunting. Consider in context. Discussion of 'And An A' - brilliant stuff, that was never on the radar of of 'Aussie Rock History.'

German Humour 6UVS interview 1982

From the Rue Bagot Recording Series (Subiaco, Western Australia 1990ish).
Glenn Rogers - Guitar, Peter Morse - Bass, Val Tarin - Percussion.
Mixed by Peter Morse on a Tascam Portastudio in the lounge room.

Nemesis (1990) (Glenn Rogers, Peter Morse, Val Tarin)

Another Love Pump 'classic'. 

The lyrics were a collaboration between Trevor, Fred and me. Val and Trevor drove the structure, I recall. I played bass. Val was over-dubbed doing bassy funk things. As far as I know.

At the time, I wished I was playing in a band like Joy Division, as all the funk stuff eluded me completely.  Hence the JD'y bass sequences. Plus I was a crap bass player, simply - but I loved Joy Division and The Cure.

It was never going to work. 

Would've been much nicer playing despairing Byronesque odes as far as I was concerned. Tombstones and death were my stock in trade.

Thomas did whirly keyboard feels over the top.

It was fun.

What these days we call a 'learning experience.'

Very shortly after this I hopped on my Yamaha XV750 and drove across the Nullarbor,

Planet '70's (1987. Hilton, Gilbert, Morse,Tarin, Kayser, Wood)

A Micro-Opera composed and performed by Peter Morse (Libretto, Narrator, Piano), Robert Frith (Baritone), Belinda Hansen (Soprano.) Inspired by 'modern' opera. On radio. Late at night.

This was a work specially performed for a party at Richie Gunning's Ballroom Party in 1987. I recall Jill Birt from the Triffids coming up to me afterwards and saying 'Peter - I didn't know you could play the piano.' I still can't. But it was fun!

It is a homage to the sort of obscure middle-European atonal 'opera' one would occasionally hear on ABC Radio National 'Musica Nova', hosted by the ineffably obscure Jaroslav Kobanaçek (??), around midnight. I think the name is imaginary - I really can't recall - the voice and music was unforgettable.

Rolf Und Samantha (1987: Morse, Frith, Hansen)

An ambient jam, recorded many years ago on a 4-Track Portastudio, by Val Tarin (Guitar) + Drum Machine, Thomas Kayser (Keyboards) and Peter Morse (Bass). In Sussex St, Victoria Park, Perth, Western Australia  c.1983. Just hangin' around having a bash at it.

Tarin, Kayser & Morse : Ambient Jam (c.1983)

Interesting to track the development of a musical idea: this is from Glenn Rogers' first album 'Ant's Feet' (2006) - but it's quite clear that the musical motif has been developing since 'Nemesis" https://soundcloud.com/peter-morse/nemesis-glenn-rogers-peter in 1990(ish). Different lead, but the structure and background are very similar.

Whatever - Glenn is a brilliant musician (and a good friend). And just maybe this evolved from a portastudio jam in lounge room 16 years earlier. And then 23 years till here. The persistence of a tune.That's the interesting point.

http://www.glennrogers.net/mp3-downloads/

First Day Of September (Glenn Rogers, 2006)

Best name ever. Perth, Western Australia c.1982. Cool stuff in the face of the Western Australian Romantic Paradigm.

Peter Morse

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