Thursday, June 19, 2025

Rose Tattoo : Boggo Road Jail 93 (Live At Boggo Road)

 



ALL I NEED IS A 
ROCK N' ROLL BAND,
SOMEWHERE NEW TO PLAY
AND I'M ON MY WAY
I'M ON MY WAY

Rose Tattoo

 are an

 Australian

 rock and roll band,  

led by

 Angry Anderson

which formed in

 Sydney in 1976.

 Their sound is

 hard rock

 mixed with 

blues rock influences, 

with songs including

 "Bad Boy for Love",

 "Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw"

, "Nice Boys", 

"We Can't Be Beaten" 

and

 "Scarred for Life". 

Their first four albums

 were produced by 

Harry Vanda

 and 

George Young

 who also worked with

 AC/DC. 

They disbanded in 1987,

 subsequently 

reforming briefly

 in 1993

 to support 

Guns N' Roses

 on an

 Australian tour. 

They reassembled again

 from 1998 

and have since

 released

 two more

 studio albums.

According to

 Australian rock music

 historian 

Ian McFarlane,

 Rose Tattoo

 are

 "one of the most revered 

bands of all time. 

The Tatts played peerless,

 street-level heavy blues 

with the emphasis 

on slide guitar 

and strident

 lyric statements".

 Guns N' Roses,

 L.A. Guns, 

Keel, 

Nashville Pussy, 

Motosierra, 

Pud Spuke, 

Helen Schneider, 

Skrewdriver, 

and the 

Uruguayan band

 the Knight's Night

 have covered

 Rose Tattoo songs. 

On August,16th 2006, 

they were inducted into

 the Australian 

Recording Industry 

Association

 (ARIA)

 Hall of Fame.

Seven former members 

have died. 

These include four 

of the 

early recording line-up:

 Dallas Royall

 (1991), 

Peter Wells

 (2006),

 Ian Rilen

 (2006),

 Lobby Loyde 

(2007), 

Mick Cocks

 (2009),

 Neil Smith

 (2013) 

and 

John Meyer

 (2020). 

Five of these 

died from cancer: 

Royall, 

Wells, 

Rilen, 

Loyde,

 and

 Cocks.

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