19 Jun 2010

Time To Think

From Musical Chairs, 2:15 pm on 19 June 2010

Keith Newman revisits the wild times and rocky road stories of five intersecting Kiwi bands including Father Time and Think.

Father Time

Father Time Photo: supplied

Think: (Left to Right) Phil Whitehead lead guitar, Don Mills keyboards, Ritchie Pickett vocals/guitar, Nevell Jess drums, Alan Badger vocals/bass guitar.

Think: (Left to Right) Phil Whitehead lead guitar, Don Mills keyboards, Ritchie Pickett vocals/guitar, Nevell Jess drums, Alan Badger vocals/bass guitar. Photo: supplied

Father Time and Think were two hard gigging, crowd pulling 70s superbands. Their intersecting membership was drawn from the cream of pub groups who defied the odds by transcending chart covers and glam to give punters a taste of original Kiwi progressive rock.

"You can't stay here... He's a Maori!" - "he" being Bunny Walters, the most famous pop star in the country at the time. Twenty (appalled) people turn around and go and find somewhere else to stay...

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Father Time at The Cabana

Father Time at The Cabana Photo: supplied

Music Details

Time to Think Part One: Off Beam and on from Freeway:

Think, Light Tile, We’ll Give You A Buzz, Atlantic/WEA

Father Time, You, (Bedgegood), New Zealand's Top 12 Groups

TMA Records, TMA 1

Beam, Bus Rider, (Kurt Winter), Family

Beam, We Can Work it Out, Lennon-McCartney, Family

Maria Dallas, Tumbling Down,
Bunny Walters  - Brandy (Tower of Strength or Take the Money and Run)

Movement, Share The Land,(Winter/Cummings), unreleased
Freeway/Movement, Ziggy Stardust (Bowie) live, unreleased

Freeway, Gimme Some Lovin’ (Winwood/Spencer Davis) unreleased
Freeway, Nights In White Satin (Justin Heyward) unreleased
Freeway, Gene Genie, David Bowie, unreleased
Freeway, Man Who Sold the World, Bowie, unreleased

Movement, Smoke On the Water, Blackmore, unreleased,
Father Time, You, (Bedgegood), New Zealand's Top 12 Groups TMA Records, TMA 1

Human Instinct, For A Friend 2, Whitehead-McDonald, Human Instinct, Peg Leg, Rajon, RJCD004

Time to Think Part Two: Fizzin and Buzzin

Think, Light Tile Badger/Jess/Mills/Pickett/Whitehead) We'll Give You A Buzz, Atlantic Z2001
Freeway, Gene Genie, Bowie, unreleased

Father Time, You, (Bedgegood), New Zealand's Top 12 Groups

TMA Records, TMA 1

Human Instinct, For A Friend 2, Whitehead-McDonald, Human Instinct, Peg Leg, Rajon, RJCD004
Think – Light Tile, (Badger/Jess/Mills/Pickett/Whitehead) We'll Give You A Buzz, Atlantic Z2001
Think, Look What I’ve done, (Badger/Jess/Mills/Pickett/Whitehead), We'll Give You A Buzz, Atlantic Z2001
Think, Rip Off, (Badger/Jess/Mills/Pickett/Whitehead), We'll Give You A Buzz, Atlantic Z2001
Big Ladies ((Badger/Jess/Mills/Pickett/Whitehead) – Think, We'll Give You A Buzz, Atlantic Z2001
Think About Your Children, (Badger/Jess/Mills/Pickett/Whitehead) We'll Give You A Buzz, Atlantic Z2001
Think, Stringless Provider, (Badger/Jess/Mills/Pickett/Whitehead/Stanton),  We'll Give You A Buzz, Atlantic Z2001
Think, In my Room, Think, (unreleased)

Steve Gilpin/ Fragments Touch my String, Gilpin, (unreleased)
Think, Arrived in Time, (Think), Atlantic Z10004

Think, Good Morning (Think), Think, TKA 1A
Think, Peanut Joe (Think), Think,TKA1B
Sunset in Phenang (Think), Think (unreleased)
Ritchie Pickett & the Whitehead Brothers, 3am Hamilton Sunday Morning (Pickett),  All Strung Out in A Bunch, Boatshed BSRCD007

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