A Night Among Legends!

G'day,
I can't avoid it, I am an aging old buggar.
Fast approaching the derelict age of 40 I look back with fondness my favourite years during the 80s. Ahhhh traveling Australia, dirty magazines, photography, Central Coast with the grandparents, but most of all I loved the music.
There was something awesome about 80s music, something we appear to have lost with the current dribble musicians force upon us nowdays. I mean 'KYLIE' , for crying out loud, just SHUT UP!
Thankfully there is somewhat of a revival for 70s and 80s bands, such great names as Pseudo Echo, Real Life, Split Enz, Go West etc are are starting to pop up again. 'Idols Of The 80s' and 'Countdown' concerts continue to keep the dream alive.
Perhaps its a 'Mid Life Crisis' but I find myself trying to go to as many as possible, something I rarely did while young.
The other week we went to see Dragon, one of those legendary bands from New Zealand (like Split Enz) who did well and we pretty much claimed were Australia's. New Zealand has produced some amazing bands over the years, which silences those people who feel their only claim to fame is personal relationships with sheep.
The current lineup is all new except for band original Todd Hunter, brother of former lead singer Mark Hunter who sadly passed away in 1998 with lung cancer. It was his death that brought a reality that I would never see Dragon, one of my favourite bands, in concert.
Thankfully Todd reformed the band, with entirely new people, in 2006 and is currently touring Australia to promote their 'Dragon Remembers' CD. The CD being a group of songs, sung by them, covering other famous Aussie musicians also no longer with us (Crowded House-Paul Hester, INXS-Michael Hutchience etc etc).
Twas quite a moving night really, especially when people started screaming out when it came time for the INXS tribute to Michael.

Anyway below is a number of shots taken during the evening.

A few shots of the band in action!

Peter Garrett, formerly lead singer of Midnight Oil, was also in attendance at the the concert. During the break in the concert, a, thankfully, intoxicated Colonel went up and got talking to him. This resulted in yet another chat and photo opportunity. Today Peter is a federal politician which, to us Oils fans, seems an incredible waste of talent. We all live in hope that one day he will again stand in front of the band :-)
Todd Hunter doing what he does best. The whole band was awesome and truly up to the task of being the new 'DRAGON'. However you could tell the crowd was there to see Todd, the only original. He is, afterall, a music legend nowdays. This is not to detract from the rest, Mark Williams (lead singer) was an incredible singer and bleedin funny to go with this.

At the end of it all the band came out to meet the audience, something that so few do, even at South Juniors (would have loved to meet LRB). Todd, an obviously very nice guy, was met and signed my T-Shirt. Colonel was so excited he grabbed the nearest woman to be his wife in one of the following shots.