Whuh?:
Ronald Strykert, 51, one of the founders of the band, was arrested Feb. 13 by Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies on an outstanding bench warrant on a charge of making criminal threats.Strykert threatened to kill the band's lead singer, Colin Hay, in December 2007 in an incident that was handled by the Sheriff Department's Lost Hills-Malibu station, according Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.The guitarist skipped out last May on his arraignment on a misdemeanor charge of making criminal threats, Robison said.
Strykert threatened to kill the band's lead singer, Colin Hay, in December 2007 in an incident that was handled by the Sheriff Department's Lost Hills-Malibu station, according Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.
The guitarist skipped out last May on his arraignment on a misdemeanor charge of making criminal threats, Robison said.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link
i can understand inter-band relations getting a bit heated at times but that's just "Overkill".
― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 17:58 (fifteen years ago) link
And yet the Gallagher brothers are both free.
― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Would've totally pegged Greg Ham as the MaW member who flipped out.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Overkill is classic. course it's cuz its very topical for me at the moment....
― III IV V (Bo Jackson Overdrive), Monday, 30 March 2009 22:09 (fifteen years ago) link
altho I liked the solo Colin Hay version that wound up on that episode of Scrubs better....
― III IV V (Bo Jackson Overdrive), Monday, 30 March 2009 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't mess with the Kookaburra.
"Larrikin claims the flute riff from the 1981 hit is stolen from Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree, written by Marion Sinclair for the Girl Guides in 1934."
also lol @
"Down Under, a number one in Australia, the US and the UK, tells the story of an Australian backpacker touring the world.
It pays tribute to "a land down under where beer does flow and men chunder".
The song also references popular Australian food spread Vegemite.
"I said 'do you speak my language?', he just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich," it says.
― wide swing juggalo (Euler), Thursday, 30 July 2009 11:25 (fourteen years ago) link
That reads like one of those "Unusual details in wikipedia articles"
― Stop wishing death on people just for the cool thread titles (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 30 July 2009 13:37 (fourteen years ago) link
The line
makes my head spin.
― wide swing juggalo (Euler), Thursday, 30 July 2009 13:40 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ the vegemite sandwich line, never heard that. the delivery makes the song, as a wee young boy i'd just sing along while making up gibberish lyrics
xpost - exactly!
― willem, Thursday, 30 July 2009 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost well, that's a coincidence (honest)..
This is the thread for unnecessary details in BBC News articles.
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 July 2009 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link
underrated movie.
― #/.'#/'@ilikecats (g-kit), Thursday, 30 July 2009 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Music company Larrikin has won the first stage of a copyright case over the Men At Work song Down Under.
We used to sing that song when I was at kindy, but I never heard the echoes of it in the Down Under solo until now.
― moley, Saturday, 1 August 2009 09:51 (fourteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8497433.stm
Yep, the girl guides have won.
― Mark G, Thursday, 4 February 2010 11:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Man At Work dies
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 April 2012 11:19 (twelve years ago) link
This band has not had the easiest of afterlifes.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 April 2012 12:44 (twelve years ago) link
Rather heartening how "Overkill" has become the band's most famous hit in recent years.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 April 2012 12:49 (twelve years ago) link
That sucks. Business As Usual was the first album I ever bought with my own money. In many ways my first favorite band.
RIP, Greg.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 19 April 2012 12:59 (twelve years ago) link
RIP
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
― it's smdh time in America (will), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
It's annoying that this guy is just being reported as the flautist, cos he was also the sax player on stuff like Overkill and Who Can It Be Now.
― Friends of Mr Caeiro (NickB), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
and he wrote and sang "Helpless Automaton", one of my favorite deep cuts from Business As Usual.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i was gonna say, the "Who Can It Be Now" sax is probably as famous as the "Down Under" flute
― lathe darkman (some dude), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
Aw, fuck no. He was my favorite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m13QMwLpruM
― pplains, Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
RIP :(
Btw. I consider "Overkill" to be their best song. "Down Under" was fun and all, but maybe too much of a novelty. "Overkill" was an excellent pop song, partly also thanks to the wonderful sax theme by Ham.
― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 19 April 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link