Tex is a Saint

[saintbrat]

yet another celebrity Supporter-- Tex Perkins

Favourite Player was Fraser

now it's Kosi.

[stinger]

call me ignorant if you like ...but wtf is he....

[saint66au]

Yeah I read that ..called himself a "massive fan who considers St Kilda his 2nd family"

Well..throwing modesty to the winds, the two areas of culture in this town I like to think I know a little about over the years are the rock music scene and the St Kilda Football Club. Tex, I think your a bloody awesome vocalist but Ive NEVER heard that you are a Saints fan, let alone the fanatic you profess to be in that article. Anyoneelse heard of this previously?

Did see you puffing on a fag outside the AFL Members on GF day a few years ago though

[saint66au]

call me ignorant if you like ...but wtf is he....

This performance sends shivers up my spine every time I watch it. Prbably the high point in this shows (glittering) history IMO

[saintbrat]

I must be younger than you Stinger- I've at least heard the name

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Perkins

but I did go searching

is there an article saint66au?

he was on Marngrook tonight - I hadn't heard the connection before.

[stinger]

call me ignorant if you like ...but wtf is he....

This performance sends shivers up my spine every time I watch it. Prbably the high point in this shows (glittering) history IMO

...none the wiser....great song though...love the horn playing by Joe Camilleri....

[Bernard Shakey]

Tex is a great singer and performer (one of the best New Years Eve's I've had was at The Corner with The Beasts of Bourbon, about 1990), but if he is a Saints man now, it is completely because he is on the bandwagon. He aint no sports fan.

[Armoooo]

Hate to show my ignorance too but never heard of the bloke.

[Shades]

I went to school with his little girl top bloke signed all my mums cds for me

[Quixote]

call me ignorant if you like ...but wtf is he....

This performance sends shivers up my spine every time I watch it. Prbably the high point in this shows (glittering) history IMO

Think that butchers The Pogues actually.

Shane McGowan would be turning in his Taiwanese drunken haze.

[widereceiver]

Billy Miller from the Ferrets is a Saints fan. A real Saints fan, y'know in the outer at Linton Street when it was pissing down rain. Sorry, but never saw Tex there...

[claystreet]

Billy Miller from the Ferrets is a Saints fan. A real Saints fan, y'know in the outer at Linton Street when it was pissing down rain. Sorry, but never saw Tex there...

Was never much of anyone in the outer when it was hosing down. Me and my mates would stand near the only wooden pole just near the guys with the BBQ on the Nepean hwy end flank/pocket . Dont think i spotted Billy out there. Ahhh the good old days and was i p****ed off when we moved to Waverly

[Raven]

For those who don't know him, tell me if you recognise the following line:

"You better get a lawyer son, you better get a reeeeeeeal good one"

[terry smith rules]

For those who don't know him, tell me if you recognise the following line:

"You better get a lawyer son, you better get a reeeeeeeal good one"

"don't drop the soap"

[plugger66]

I must be younger than you Stinger- I've at least heard the name

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Perkins

but I did go searching

is there an article saint66au?

he was on Marngrook tonight - I hadn't heard the connection before.

Jesus is younger than Stinger.

[doggerel]

This is probably 'his' most well know tune:


Saw them once supporting the Stones at the MCG in 1995, they did a good job, more so than the Stones anyway.

[Selhurst Saint]

Tex watched the Port Adelaide game at the Seabaths a couple of weeks ago with Matt Hardy.

[Selhurst Saint]

call me ignorant if you like ...but wtf is he....

You are ignorant.

[CaptainRiewoldt]

NEVER HEARD OF HIM??? WHAT?? He is australias greatest rock n roller along with tim rogers of you am I. CRUEL SEA??? HELLO??

Anyway I met him at the footy 2 years ago absolute champ i said hi love ya work then we talked sainters for a good 10 minutes.

Saints certaintly have some high profile names... molly, eric, tex, shane warne, mundine, fox, the crazy chris flannery and quite a few of the underground big wigs for some reason... yeah it dont make sense we didnt buy or at least bully our way to a few flags in the 70's!!

[Eastern]

Perhaps we should do a list of celebrities who follow the saints !!

I'll kick it off with one who stinger would know of;

Keith McGowan ......Midnight-6.00am, Mon-Fri on 3AW !!

[Bernard Shakey]

Stinger probably gets his hair done by Lillian Frank.

[bungiton]

Recommend, if you can get hold of it, any of the stuff by Tex, Don and Charlie.
From wikepedia

Tex, Don and Charlie is an Australian super group formed by Tex Perkins from The Cruel Sea, Beasts of Bourbon and others, Don Walker from Cold Chisel and widely respected guitarist Charlie Owen. Their first album Sad But True was released in 1993 with the second released in 2005.

The band was founded in 1992 as Tex Perkins relates: "I saw Charlie and thought 'Jesus Christ'. He was easily the best rock guitar player I had seen. He was really dexterous, but gutsy. Not flashy. I think it had a lot of jazz in him as well. I made a mental note that I'd like to work with Charlie and about I year later I heard he was playing with Don Walker in Catfish. Then somebody suggested I do something with Don Walker and I said 'Sure, as long as Charlie Owen is there'."[citation needed]

Don and Charlie had worked together a little, but as a group they barely knew each other when they cut Sad But True in 1993. Their potent, distinctively Australian country-blues cocktail matured on stage, as faithfully reflected in their heady live album of 1995, Monday Morning Coming Down.

[SENsei]

List

Molly Meldrum - humdrum
Eric Bana - actor
Steve Bedwell - 3AW
Mark Doran - SEN
Mark Fine - SEN
Bruce Eva - 3AW & The Age
Shane Warne - legend
Francis Leach - SEN
Chris Milne - actor
Geoff Ogilvy - golfer
Stephanie McIntosh - actor, former squeeze of the skip
Darren Berry - cricket coach
Michael Gudinski - music guru
Graham Kennedy - dead king
Matthew Hardy - comedian
Alicia Molik - tennis player
Michael Klim - socialite swimmer
Jennifer Love Hewitt - forum queen

There's a start.

[gringo]

I played in bands around melbourne in the early 1990s and just about every muso going around seemed to be a saints fan. Well everyone except Tim Rogers.

I went up to sydney in the mid 1990s to see the saints play at the SCG and saw a heap of guys from the melbourne music scene there. Most were underground bands no one that doesnt know tex perkins would know.. Probably the last time we had a big bandwagon jump.

The nocturnal lifestyle and hung over weekends didn't make footy the most enticing past time for a lot of musicians, plus Tex was a WA boy from memory and he was a busy touring for a good 15 years.

[widereceiver]

Tim Lane...


oh sorry, the acid kicked in again