Coogee Bay Road Musicians
Trevor Daly
Mr. Pineapple is a songwriter, singer, bass player and guitarist based on the NSW south coast. He has played in numerous rock cover bands for over many years in Sydney and on the south coast including ”The CriX™ and ˜Dark Beach”. He writes, records, co-produces and releases original music with other local musicians as Wasp Island.
Theo ten Brummelaar
Mr. Doughnut is primarily a singer and a drummer, but also dabbles in guitar, bass and keyboards. Like Mr Pineapple, he has been in numerous cover bands along with his wife Ms. Muskstick over the years primarily in Los Angeles where they lived for 25 years. These included Dangerous Aliens and One Olive Martini. Later Ms. MuskStick and Mr. Doughnut along with Mr. Beer Bottle formed Cruise Control which started off playing covers but eventually wrote their own material.
Kaspar von Braun
Mr. Beer Bottle loves bourbon and makes sure life remains as complicated as possible. He has yet to see a decent electronic hi-hat, loves splash cymbals and humbucker pickups. Kaspaer was in Dangerous Aliens in Los Angeles and still lives there. He recorded all his parts at his home and has similar studio setup as the one in the Blue Room in Sydney.
Sallie Cruise
Ms. Muskstick is mainly a backing vocalist on this album but features in Ex, a song written by her, Trevor and Theo about their previous partners. Ms. Muskstick has been singing and playing music with Mr Doughnut either as a duo or in bands for all of their married life (Road to Ruin, Dangerous Aliens, Cruise Control and One Olive Martini). Something she holds dear and has brought her great happiness.
Danielle Dalvi
Danni lives and breaths musical theatre and works for one of the companies that produce large musicals in Australia and around Asia Pacific. Consequently she sings well and lent her voice to the backing vocals on several tracks.
Jim Franklin
Jim Franklin decided at the age of 17 that he wanted to spend his life as a musician. His big problem was that it took him a long time to work out where his musical niche should be. He started on parallel paths as a rock keyboard player, ‘banging on his Rhodes’ (and twiddling on his synthesizer and trilling on his organ) with a bunch of other Fools, frequently rehearsing at Coogee Bay Road, as mentioned in the eponymous song, and playing at various fairly low-level venues in Sydney. (By the way, the Rhodes on which he banged back then is the very same Rhodes on which he banged in making recordings for the above-mentioned song, and the synth on which he twiddled for that song is the same one from back then, too. Both the synthesizer and the Rhodes are still working perfectly, and are now vintage instruments. But the shakuhachi he played for that song is newer, from about 1991, and is not yet vintage, and his Haken ContiuuMini, used on ‘The Big Blue Dick’, is quite new, from 2019.) In the late 1970s and early 1980s, at the same time as banging around with those (then) young (but now old) Fools, he was also studying classical composition, and eventually decided that he really wanted to head in that direction. So he abandoned the other Fools and went to Europe go continue studying. Later he came back, and worked in Australia as a university lecturer, composer and live-electronics performer. He still wasn’t completely happy with it all, though, feeling that he didn’t belong 100% in that musical world either. Accordingly, somewhere in there he started learning shakuhachi (in Australia and Japan), eventually becoming a certified shakuhachi master, ‘blowing on his tube’. After that, he took off again for Europe and established a long, solid, viable career as shakuhachi performer, teacher and composer. But the composition stuff he’d studied didn’t die quietly, and he started combining shakuhachi and electronics (especially live-electronics) in a series of new compositions, as well as composing for shakuhachi and other instruments, notably piano. This seemed to be the right thing, finally. When COVID19 hit, he moved (in early 2021) to Japan with his (Japanese) wife. They now live not far from Kyoto, and Jim is working primarily on recordings for shakuhachi and live-electronics, spending a lot of time in his recording booth. This seems to be the final roost and musical niche, apart from occasional, amusing excursions into the past, to bang/twiddle/blow etc as requested by the other Fools from yesteryear. Some of the results can be heard on a couple of songs on this album.
Cyril Fort
Cyril lives in Paris and plays a mean guitar. He obviously has taste as he has a Strat like Mr. Doughnut whom he met at a jam session in bar in the 14th in Paris. He did his guitar parts at home in France and used BLA BLA BLA
Mandy Henderson
Mandy is in northern Los Angeles and Ms. Muskstick and Mr. Pineapple met her while she was working at a place called Lucky Baldwin’s pub in Pasadena and they’ve been friends ever since. She was a regular at their yearly Soirees and was kind enough to go to Mr. Beer Bottle’s place and lent her remarkable voice to several tunes on this album.
Marty O’Sheil
Saxophone Player, Singer Songwriter creates a range of songs from relaxing to lets party, featuring Tenor Saxophone, Vocals, Guitar & Keyboards, as well as Quiz "songs". The 25 albums so far, are streaming to over 150 countries.
on YouTube, Apple, Spotify & other streaming sites, links on his web page. Marty recorded his saxaphone parts in his home in upper north Queensland using A Mac with Logic