Ted Blackall ?Energetic Flesh 1974 Oz Rock Brian Cadd rare EX

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Ted Blackall ?Energetic Flesh 1974 Oz Rock Brian Cadd rare EX

Original Australian pressing on WB

Excerpt from an online interview with Ted Blackall:

How old were you when you finished and what did you do then?

Nineteen or twenty. I went to work at Channel Nine. I was in the Graphics Department. I was prodigious at Illustration. I worked out all the American styles; I’m a really good learner because I want to know, particularly about that sort of thing. I got to do all the illustrations as a kid. At the same time I was working as a musician in a rock and roll band.

What was the name of the band?

Blackies Babies. We did a couple of originals but mostly covers. Beatles songs and we did a lot of soul music, Marvin Gaye and Otis Redding. I look back now at that time, I was the lead singer and guitarist in this band. Later on I went solo and actually recorded for Warner Brothers, my album was called Energetic Flesh (1974; produced by Brian Cadd). I had all the top musicians in the country working on this album with me. I had this vision. It was the first time I realised one can have any crazy thing that one wants if you have it clear enough in your head. I’m skipping a bit here…

We’ll get back to Channel Nine in a minute…

Yes. I was about twenty-eight when I got offered this recording contract and I did this recording with all my own original material. This was more ballads and rock, a bit mixed up. To do with my age; I was actually too young. I’d been brought up in such a precious atmosphere, a myopic atmosphere in a way, that I hadn’t experienced enough of life to be a rock and roll star. I was going to tour with Randy Newman and I found that, I was a young guy, newly married, we had a five year old boy; what came to me one way or another was a fork in the road; which was; ‘go with this thing here’; and the sex, drugs and rock and roll and what we all know about, or ‘go with your family and follow that’. I can quite safely say there was no choice for me. That just looked horrible without these guys (Ted’s family). We love each other and we loved our baby. It was a definite choice. All the people I recorded with were all on their second marriages and had split up and had their kids visiting on the weekend. That was a pain I just didn’t want to go through. That’s an abiding and permanent problem. People who have to live with that, I feel so sorry for them. I’m no better than anybody in terms of that. I was lucky enough to see it clearly at that time and understand that. I think it’s the rock and roll life that highlighted my family life, that clear polarity of that decision.

It’s like the mate’s line that says you can be with your mates and also be with your family but even that is a line that takes you away from your family; I’m not saying it’s always like that, but it’s a much more blurred line because your mates know your missus and your kid and their kids play with your kids, so the separation and the option isn’t quite as clear. I don’t have the moral fibre to say I made that decision because I’m such a good guy; it was just that this looked so horrible that the prospect of being without them, my family, was so absolutely and completely clear and that’s why I stayed with the art and kept on going with that.

These days Ted Blackall is an Australian artist renowned for his figurative and landscape paintings.

Musicians include:

Graeme Lyall, Ross Wilson Lobby Lloyd, Brian Cadd, Billy Green, Phil Manning, Barry Sullivan, Jim Conway and Steve Murphy.

A1         Every Day's A Honeymoon  

A2         Never Be The Same   

A3         Zig When I Zag

A4         Give Me Son   

A5         Oh No Don't Go           

B1         Forgive Me Fay           

B2         Valley Of Blood And Fire       

B3         There's Got To Be Something            

B4         I Can't Get Enough     

B5         Energetic Flesh

CONDITION:

SLEEVE: VG+ General surface and edge wear, nothing severe, no damage; sticker stain

RECORD: VG+ to EX-- some minor marks, minor occasional noise; clean labels