I'm thinking ...   Photo by Clare Herder(?)                              ..... about way back when ....   The Adderley Smith Blues Band Sundown Carson The Dingoes The Big Combo   The Adderley Smith Blues Band   Photo by Len Weigh The Adderley Smith Blues Band photographed near the Victoria Market 1966   The Adderley Smith Blues Band From the Files of Manager Stan Rogers   Adderley Smith Blues Band 1966 & 1967 Date Venue Location Piano Lead guitar Drums Singer Bass guitar                 1-Oct-66 Queensbury Hotel Carlton Mark Dindas Kerryn Tolhurst Ron Issacs Fred Bond Graham Matters 19-Nov-66 Catcher   Mark Dindas Kerryn Tolhurst Ron Issacs Fred Bond Graham Matters 20-Nov-66 Catcher   Mark Dindas Kerryn Tolhurst Ron Issacs Fred Bond Graham Matters 25-Nov-66 Catcher   Mark Dindas Kerryn Tolhurst Ron Issacs Fred Bond Graham Matters 26-Nov-66 Catcher   Mark Dindas Kerryn Tolhurst Ron Issacs Fred Bond Graham Matters 30-Nov-67 Catcher   Mark Dindas Kerryn Tolhurst Ron Issacs Fred Bond Graham Matters 1-Dec-67 Catcher   Mark Dindas Kerryn Tolhurst Ron Issacs Fred Bond Graham Matters 2-Dec-66 Rendevous Mitcham Mark Dindas Kerryn Tolhurst Ron Issacs Fred Bond Graham Matters 7-Dec-66 Catcher             16-Dec-66 Catcher             17-Dec-66 Catcher             18-Dec-66 Catcher             23-Dec-66 Catcher             24-Dec-66 Catcher             25-Dec-66 Catcher             26-Dec-66 Catcher             30-Dec-66 Catcher             31-Dec-66 Catcher             1-Jan-67 Catcher             2-Jan-67 Catcher                               Shiras Coburg             Stonehenge Beaumauris             Biting Eye             6-Jan-67 Catcher             7-Jan-67 Catcher             14-Jan-67 Thumpin Tum             20-Jan-67 Catcher             21-Jan-67 Catcher             22-Jan-67 Catcher                             3-Mar-67 Catcher             4-Mar-67 Catcher             5-Mar-67 Catcher             11-Mar-67 Q Club Kew           12-Mar-67 East Recording   Mark Dindas Kerryn Tolhurst Ron Issacs Broderick Smith Barry Francis 18-Mar-67 Scene Canterbury   Kerryn Tolhurst Ron Issacs Broderick Smith Colin Graham 18-Mar-07 Queensbury Hotel   Mark Dindas Kerryn Tolhurst Ron Issacs Broderick Smith Colin Graham                 8-Apr-67 Catcher     Kerryn Tolhurst Ron Issacs Broderick Smith Colin Graham 28-Apr-67 54321     Kerryn Tolhurst Ron Issacs Broderick Smith Colin Graham                 6-May-67 Queensbury Hotel     Kerryn Tolhurst Ron Issacs Broderick Smith Colin Graham 11-May-67 Swinburne Tech             13-May-67 Queensbury Hotel             13-May-67 243 Swanson Street             27-May-67 Le Chateau                             10-Jun-67 Penny Farthing   Mark Dindas Kerryn Tolhurst Ron Issacs Broderick Smith   16-Jun-67 Le Chateau             17-Jun-67 Broadway Rosebud           24-Jun-67 Tom Foolery                             1-Jul-67 Q Club             7-Jul-67 Thumpin Tum                             1-Aug-67 King Pidgeon Barrel House Albury Mark Dindas Kerryn Tolhurst Ron Issacs Broderick Smith Colin Graham 16-Aug-67 Blues on Stage Opening Mark Dindas Kerryn Tolhurst Ron Issacs Broderick Smith Colin Graham 26-Aug-67 Blues on Stage   Mark Dindas Kerryn Tolhurst Ron Issacs Broderick Smith Colin Graham                 18-Oct-67 Blues on Stage                             4-Nov-07 Blues on Stage             8-Nov-67 Blues on Stage             18-Nov-67 Trip             26-Nov-67 Catcher             27-Nov-67 Catcher                               321 Dandenong             Eltham High Eltham Mark Dindas Kerryn Tolhurst Ron Issacs   Colin Graham 6-Dec-67 Upwey Club Upwey           12-Dec-67 Banyule High Heidelburg Mark Dindas Kerryn Tolhurst Ron Issacs   Colin Graham 20-Dec-67 Go set Xmas             31-Dec-67 Opus     Peter Karlanek   John O'Brian

 

 

And here are a few reminiscences about the Adderleys from Stan Rogers

I first met the ASBB at a club called Chicago directly opposite the Queensbury hotel. This club later closed down (no alcohol). Mark says the licensing closed them down. (I can’t remember, too drunk). So ASBB approached the Queensbury to use their dining room on Friday and Saturday nights for a small blues club. Similar to what had been across the road. We charged, I think 20c entry and the pub got the beer sales. Within weeks the pub was so full we had a queue down the street.
I was, as usual, collecting the money on the door. The pub went from this quiet corner pub with 2 or 3 customers on a Saturday night, to flat out unable to cope with the crowd.

Not long later the Catcher opened. I approached Graham Geddes, the owner, to see if we could do a late shift after we finished at the Queensbury @ 10.00pm. The Catcher was mind blowing, an old three storey warehouse converted to a disco. There was no first or second floor in the centre, just a void, with balconies. These two floors were food and lounge areas, with the bands on a huge stage on the ground floor. Melbourne was desperate to break out so thousands queued in the street till all hours, to get in.         
                                                                                               

We had to close the Queensbury so moved on to become the house band at the Catcher. These were long nights as we were there nearly all night, three nights a week sometimes. We were paid nothing, and by the time it was split six ways, it really wasn't a money thing. Kerryn used to get really angry with me because there was no money and not enough gigs. We were mainstream Blues and most of the music was hard to dance to, so this made it difficult to get the work, which now in hindsight was the same problem Max & Thorpie were having. The Beatles and Carnaby street were in full flight, so bands like the Chelsea set, Purple hearts, Mixtures, Jeff St john, Masters & the Groop were all the go.       

                                                                                                        

We were approached, by a new amplifier company to test their amplifiers in actual performances. Our mandate was to try as hard as we could to blow them up. Every Monday I would take them back and get a new set, and I am talking about a wall of amplifiers and speakers, the full width of the stage @ the Catcher. That was the beginning of Marshal in Australia.                                                                                

I managed the band from those early days, til Broderick & Kerryn got called up into national service. Ron Issac the drummer had opted for CMF for 10 years to get out of Nasho. His birthday was the same date as mine and I missed the ballot, so he would of as well.

 

When we started I had an old FJ Holden panel van. I remember all of us packed into the back racing from dance to dance with all of the equipment in the back along with whoever couldn't get a lift.     One time we were running late, and an ambulance passed me, so we pulled in behind and followed all the way into the city from Q club. 

 

 

Photo by ?

Mark Dindas, the piano player from asbb (left) and stan rogers now

 

 

Photo by Len Weigh

Blues Band St. Albans 64-65
Left to right: Barry Francis bass, Fred Bond, co-vocal, Johnny Oldaker drums, Broderick Smith vocals, harmonica, Brian Wale guitar.

 

Photo by Len Weigh

Adderley Smith Blues Band circa 1967
Left to right: Kerryn Tolhurst , Colin Graham, Mark Dindas, Broderick Smith,Ron Isaacs

 

Photo by Len Weigh

Adderley Smith Blues Band circa 1967
Left to right: Ron Isaacs, Kerryn Tolhurst, Colin Graham, Broderick Smith, Mark Dindas

 

Photo by Len Weigh

Adderley Smith Blues Band circa 1967
Ron Isaacs drums

 

The following is a suite of photos by Jim Colbert

Featuring The Adderley Smith Blues Band

Keyboard player is Steve Yates

Also Dutch Tilders

The venue is probably Blues On Stage Little Bourke St Melbourne

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo by Jim Colbert

Blues on Stage - Little Bourke Street Melbourne

(upstairs, name of venue ?)

Barry Duggan on flute

 

Photo by Jim Colbert

At the Biting Eye - 1967

 

(Photographer unknown)

ASBB 1966 at The Catcher
L to R - Mark Dindas piano, Fred Bond vocals, Ron Isaacs drums,

Graham Matters Bass, Kerryn Tolhurst  guitar

 

(Photographer unknown)

Catcher Promo

 

(Photographer unknown)

The band outside East Studios, Camberwell

 

Postscript for a blues band

Photo taken by David Dusting from the St. Albans train as it passed through Kensington

The building is now demolished and it can be revealed that the sign was painted by Len Weigh

 

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NOW AS A TREAT FOR FOR THOSE WHO HAVE VENTURED INTO THESE ARCHIVES

 FOR THE FIRST TIME ...  some blues recordings from the Adderleys

These tracks were recorded at East Recording Studios, Camberwell in 1967

but have never seen the light of day ... until now!

(Click to download)

 

White Boys Lost in the Blues

Snatch It Back and Hold It

You Don't Love Me

Black Night
Chitlin Con Carne
Mark's Boogie
Same Thing
Slow Blues

 

A note from Dave Ray (formerly of Blues Avalanche on 3PBS)
ASBB is great, bringing back memories of the band playing around the
Melbourne venues. I recall seeing them at Thumpin' Tum.  For your info I
have compiled a song writers list of sorts:
1. Snatch It Back And Hold It - Jr Wells
2. You Don't Love Me - Willie Cobb
3. Black Night - Jessie Mae Robinson
4. Chitlin Con Carne - Kenny Burrell
5. Mark's Boogie - Mark Dindas (?)
6. Same Thing - Willie Dixon
7. Slow Blues - Adderley Smith Blues Band (?)

 

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A REMARKABLE SUITE OF PHOTOS BY LEN WEIGH

THE ADDERLEY SMITH BLUES BAND 1967

Taken at Station Pier, the Victoria Market and at the Queensbury Hotel Carlton

Some buildings have now been demolished

(Click to enlarge)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Peter Rudge former manager for the Dingoes in the US