Clairsy's Tragic Music Box-1989: Seize The Day Boys!

Clairsy opened his Tragic Music Box and took us back to 1989, when petrol was way under a dollar per litre and Mel Gibson was breaking box office records with the Lethal Weapon franchise.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Delving deep into the archives of Earth music history.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Crazy's Tragic Music Box.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
All right, right, right, alright, ready to go back, Yes,
because it's nineteen eighty nine to day, and it was
a fabulous year because of the obvious we met. It's
the year we met, Yes, very self indulged at to
start a little old Eagle, a radio station called the
Eagle that didn't really fly.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well, it was AM and it didn't quite the l
that was in the days where it was all a you.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Know, a bit of an auction, silent yes, silent ballet.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Right, it was yeah, and we missed out by well,
let's just say we could have passed.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
The hat around it got us over the line. It
was not. It was pretty unfortunate. Things would have been
very different. It was to be called rock. Yeah, Rock
ninety three was going to be called one. That's all
in the past.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Two.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Nineteen eighty nine is the year, and Michael Keaton was Batman.
Let's be honest. He was so damn wasn't he.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
My favorite Batman other than of course you know the
real Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Absolutely, Mel Gibson returned as that loose cannon cop Martin
Riggs in Leith weapon Io with that killer Hollywood Mullet
and Robin Williams served up an inspired performance in Dead
Poets Society. If you were thinking Robin was just a
comedic performer before some of those great dramatic roles, so
damn good Clarby starts make your lives extraord's me chills.

(01:35):
Actually it was.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
It was a brilliant film and I can never watch
the end of it once.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Oh watched it just to go time. Yeah, it was
pretty good. Maybe want to stand on the desk. Tours
to Perth in nineteen eighty nine included noise works, Chris
de Burgh, Hoodoo Gurus, James Rain and Jimmy Barnes, and
thirty six years later they've all played here or all
scheduled to play gigs in Perth in twenty twenty five.
Now that's staying power. Speaking of which, the epitome of

(02:01):
staying power, in fact, it's in the dictionary is Ricard
and Susanna car They were into their fourth year together
reading news on seven Peres now forty and if you've
switched over on the same night to Channel nine, you
got Peter Wally Walthman and Conti at the news desk. YEP,
funny how times change. Some useless stats from eighty nine.
This is true. Meg Ryan tried on six hundred pairs
of sunglasses before choosing the pair she wore in the

(02:23):
movie when Harry met Sally. How bizarre. No one not
to me.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
That many pairs of sunglasses when I was, you know,
buying a pair.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
At that stage, No one and the crew said I'll
have what she's having because it takes too long. At
New York's Whitney Museum of American Art, they displayed Yoko
Ono's film Bottom Features. Of course they did. It was
a bit of a plan of music. It featured eighty
minutes of footage of people's naked backsides. And it's on YouTube,
but be worn. There are lots of hairy bums and
people walking away from the from the camera. That's art,

(02:57):
that's us, that's usty. They could have played the soundtrack
of some of her best hits nineteen eighty it is,
it's on YouTube, but don't maybe don't google it on
the work computer. Nineteen eighty nine was the year we
lost American actor Jim Backus. Now, of course he was
he ever said lovey, how he was the selfish millionaire first,

(03:18):
and how the third on Gilligan's Island, but also the
Star and Voice have missed him ago borrowed up. Oh
my good if you got it again, the memory too
of your childhood.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
A copy of The West Australian in nineteen eighty nine
was fifty cents petrol and Perth was about sixty cents
a leader. A lot of things you do for under
a buck one hundred dollars in nineteen eighty nine had
the same buying power of about two hundred and sixty
dollars today, right. I thought we'd wrap it today at
least with someone who you and I know very well,
and a song that the meteoric rise of a young

(04:01):
guitarist and singer songwriter from Scarborough Senior High School, Markazott
as Johnny Diesel and the Ejectors. That first album went
to number two on the Aussie Album Chart and gave
us three two Yeah I know, gave us three top
ten singles Don't Need Love, Cry and Shame at the
Old Soul Revival from the Tragic Music Box from nineteen
eighty nine on ninety six AFM