Lets do it
This was the group’s second single. “Rain and Tears” began climbing the national charts in New Zealand.
After about eight months of performing in various clubs in Sydney “The Tongues” were called home by manager Eldred Stebbing to promote “Rain and Tears” and support its entry into the Loxene Golden Disc Award.
“Rain and Tears” climbed to number one on the national pop charts and the band won the group section of the Loxene Gold Disk Awards in 1969.
The HR Tongues possessed an enthusiasm for onstage pyrotechnics arranged and engineered by the bassist John Walmsley. Mock up amplifiers and prop guitars would be ignited in mid performance along with loud sound effects, smoke bombs and other unexpected pyrotechnics that would keep the audience keyed-up.
Here are some of John’s pic’s from the Tongues era.
On returning to New Zealand John Walmsley decided to leave the Hi-Revving Tongues and head back to Australia.
Bassist Graeme Thompson took over from John Walmsley and at around the same time Richard Sinclair replaced Rob Node on drums.
In 1972 Caboose performed their last gig at the Coolangatta Hotel on the Gold Coast. Doug Smith was the lead vocalist at that time. The band was accompanied by a light show which included slide projectors, effects projectors, kaleidoscopes, epidiascopes (overhead projectors) strobe lights, mirror balls and spot lights manually operated by Wayne and his lady Edwina.
Gobbles Night Club Coolangatta Hotel
It was Bruce’s idea to have all the band members including those from the Hi-Revving Tongues meet at the Coolangatta Hotel on May 3rd 2014.
Below are some of the pics taken at the Caboose Hi-Revving Tongues reunion dinner. Just click on any pic to enlarge it and watch slide show.
Yes this is a photo gallery of pics taken during the late 60’s. Most of these images of the Krescendos band were provided by bass player Frank Muscat.
When Wayne made a surprise visit to Frank at his home in Mackay, Queensland in April 2016 Frank got out his well preserved photo album. The pair hadn’t met for just over 20 years. That was a real blast from the past and the two of them scanned the photos from the album digitizing memories of their past band days.
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