The jeweller my Mum got her prized opal ring from was a guy called Steve Gilpin... but soon he chucked in looking at stones and created rock as lead singer for "New Wave" band Misex. He'd cut this teeth at Dad's local pub in Lower Hutt singing 70's folk, Paul Simon, James Taylor confessional stuff.
One day in '72 Steve turned up at our house with his first 45 "Spring". He played it to Dad and gave me a copy. I spun that single over and over again on my little blue record player. Suddenly, at age ten, music wasn't something from someplace else, it was real. Hey, I knew someone who created music. "Spring" has long since been lost... I can't find a source anywhere.
Perhaps that's a good thing... better to be left with a classic... "Blue Day".
Hi BK
ReplyDeleteLast time we saw Steve was in a Pub in Sydney. Dale knew him quite well. A lost talent.
BK I suggested that John McCready read your blog here is his reply. Yes it seems Dale produced one of his songs How about that?
ReplyDeleteCheers Gilli
August 20 at 11:01pm
Yes I signed Steve as a solo after he was on New Faces with a song called knowing. I think Dale Wrightson actually produced a Steve Gilpin track for us (Lucky Old Sun I think). He later went to Misex and CBS Australia signed them so I worked with him a lot when I was running CBS in Aussie. Blue Day is actually my favourite Misex song.