Sometime back in the '70's, The Trouts made a recording. Straight off a little Yamaha desk onto a cassette tape. It was recorded at what was then Geelong Teachers College and engineered by Norbert Majura, who died soon after in a car crash. This cassette has been kicking around my place for years, in danger of being thrown out or otherwise destroyed, and tonight I found it and recorded all of the tracks onto my computer. Then I messed with them in an attempt to get rid of some of the awful hiss and general sonic ugliness. This was probably not a success. Anyway, here are the results. Please don't blame me, I was just the bass player.
Mark Bell wrote the first three, and I think they're the best of the bunch, only a little damaged by his inability to sing in tune.. On Never Rob a Man I'm singing harmony with Dave Steel, and I think I should have done it more. Highton Girls was our Mega Power Ballad, the same basic chord pattern as Let's Get It On and a million other songs. And we didn't even know. Check out the burnin' lap steel intro. Stockman in The Snow warns against girls from Shepparton, which makes sense to me.
Dave Steel songs.
Song written by Peter Lillee? Rhymes "Geelong" with "Where I Belong", so is cool. Anyway, a favourite.
Other
There are a couple of others - "Me and Bobbie McGee", which is plain awful, and the infamous tearjerker/sentimental garbage song "Louise", which has severely under-recorded bass (like not audible man), and is in an indeterminate key due to tuning problems. In other words these are the worst of the worst, and I'm not posting them.
