Lonesome cowboy music on mushrooms

@@gg_rider nothing to do with drugs just incredibly literate. Rowland was one of the best poets of our time

True but he's incredibly gifted technically as well. There's footage of him recording Jennifer's Veil in the studio and the touch and finesse he plays with are jaw-dropping. Truly one of the great guitarists of his or any era.

Not underrated. The only man in Australia I think, whose full name graces a street, except the ex PM Harold Holt who disappeared, presumably drowned while swimming off the coast of Mornington Peninsula. Have you heard of Rowland S Howard Lane, St Kilda? By statistics alone, Melbourne's favourite son.

Still, he didn't get as much recognition as, say, Nick Cave. But maybe that's just Cave. I personally can't name much Australian musicians, and those who I know worked with either Rowland or Nick (or both). So yeah, maybe you're right.

There are no streets dedicated to Nicholas E Cave. However, I'll repeat this: Rowland S Howard Lane, in the once infamous St Kilda, prior to rich capitalists taking over the old beach resort...is a shining tribute to the man who made Melbourne a place of interest to the international Avant-gard and underground musicians and artists that still flock there. I met him. Interviewed him, shared a few moments in time with a drink or a smoke. He was rather shy and sensitive. I never felt more cool than that time we tried to match his long strides from the Espy to the pier whilst passing a rolly...so to speak. Graceful, humble, vulnerable band not into competition that made his contemporaries rich and stink of money. He was suffering at the end something's that should NEVER have happened to him. Had I known the state of his existence I would have changed it. A brilliant guitarist. A talent unmatched.

@@pleiadian13 Bless you 💕🎸

dread true Like @Richard Benn said. Rowland’s gone because of illness.

@dread true It was cancer not drugs. I'm feeling a bit put off by your comment.

@dread true Tracy was an absolute monster of a bassist. I'm glad you admitted that you didn't know about the cancer. By the way, my comment was not in hopes that you would take yours down. I just felt like it was out of place and unrelated. Ok, be well.

'Cause you have to sort of *grow into* Rowland's songs - I mean, he's not a teenyboppers' rock'n'roller - and so many of us were just kids (or weren't even born) when Rowland was in his prime. I wasn't around yet in the days of These Immortal Souls, let alone the days of the Birthday Party or the Young Charlatans. I only found out about Rowland's music when I was in university, and by that time Rowland had already died. Besides that, so many of us aren't from Melbourne, or aren't even Australians at all, and Rowland - far more than Nick Cave - was always something of a local hero. I'm Canadian, and (as I said) I didn't hear about Rowland until a few years ago. Hardly anyone knows about him, around here, except me. Sad to say, Rowland remains one of the most underrated artists in the history of rock'n'roll.

Wonderful. It takes something special to sound that good solo.

I’m 19 that’s why

I only found them through the old pics, cardboard setlists and posters my dad collected from the Boys Next Door and The Birthday Party live shows when i raided his filing cabinet circa 2014.

@kemkarm tbh im just using the fingerings he is doing on the video, its mostly open chords, C, D, Am chords

I dont remember him looking ill at them - i remember him slightly back and stock still cept his guitar loved it

akedwards76 Good point. I think I prefer this version to the one on Teenage Snuff Movie, which I find a bit too drawn out. It’s nicely orchestrated, but maybe those strings are just not needed.

Fucking parties of tommorrow's people...

Jack The-Ripper Pretty sure by this point cancer was assaulting him.

@@written12 cigarette ?

I mean, lungs ?

@@olivierswijngedau4085 no, liver cancer from Hep c he got from his herion addiction earlier in his life