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The roots of Rose Tattoo, AC/DC and everything else that's good about working class Australian rock has been reclaimed, remastered and re-released: a doomed band who pre-dated a rock trend that continues to burn strongly today.

Angry Anderson. With hair. The photos on this superbly packaged CD are almost worth the price of admission alone, but the allure of finding the missing link in the progression from the hard blues of Chain and Billy Thorpe to the 'outlaw' hard rock of Rose Tattoo and AC/DC also features highly.

Back in 1973, Gary 'Angry' Anderson formed a new band, featuring one guitarist who loved Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore, another who loved the Allman Brothers and a drummer who dug Led Zeppelin, among others. The full tale of the band's roots and their shortlived career are laid out in the superb liner notes provided by Australia's best and most reknowned music historian and archivist, Ian McFarlane.

Musically, you're not getting Rose Tattoo: the Early Days here, what you're getting are the very beginnings of the style of music later tagged 'outlaw rock' - of which Angry is seen as the high priest - worshipped by everyone from Guns'n'Roses to Aerosmith and every other leather-clad tattooed bunch of rockers since.

Title track/theme song Buster Brown showcases the roots of Australian heavy blues-rock and Angry's penchant for writing lyrics that address growing up tough on the wrong side of an Australian suburb; Young Spunk and Apprentice do the same, echoing a time when panelvans had murals and kids from private schools would never dream of having tattoos.

The album closes with four live cuts - two live from Sunbury, 1974 and two from the seminal music television show GTK; the final track is an extremely rare cut of Rose Tattoo from 1980, entitled Realise Legalise.

An important jigsaw piece in understanding the evolution of the Australian rock sound, and Angry Anderson's dedication to enshrining the Australian working class experience in music.

Buster Brown was a short-lived, but highly influential Melbourne band from the early Seventies, who are remembered as the breeding ground for some of Australia ’s most famous musicians (AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd & Rose Tattoo vocalist Angry Anderson being the most notable). Aztec Music’s reissue of Something To Say has finally made this slice of Aussie hard rock history available for the first time in over 30 years.

This deluxe package is housed in a 6 panel digi-pak, with a 20 page booklet with liner notes by Australian rock expert Ian McFarlane , rare photos and ephemera from the research team at Vicious Sloth Collectables, and has been digitally remastered by Gil Matthews .

As an added bonus, the CD features 6 extra tracks, including an extremely rare Rose Tattoo track “Release Legalise”, which was recorded for the Australian Marihuana Party in 1980 (released on the independent Repeal label as a limited edition pressing of 500 copies).

Tracklisting:
01. Rock and Roll Lady
02. Let Me In
03. Buster Brown
04. Roll Over Beethoven
05. Young Spunk
06. Apprentice
07. Something To Say

Bonus Tracks:
08. Rock and Roll Lady (Single Version)
09. Roll Over Beethoven (Live at Sunbury 1974)
10. Buster Brown (Live at Sunbury 1974)
11. Rock and Roll Lady (Live on GTK 1974)
12. Buster Brown (Live on GTK 1974)
13. Release Legalise (Rose Tattoo 1980)