Le tennisman australien Pat Cash, vainqueur de Wimbledon en 1987 (contre Ivan Lendl) est un fan de Rory Gallagher!
Voici une interview de Pat Cash:at Cash is a true giant of the tennis world and despite retiring years ago he is still in demand as a TV pundit at the major tournaments as well as being a regular on the “Legends” circuit. His true love however is Rock music, an obsession that grew from his childhood back in Melbourne on hearing Judas Priest for the first time. He spent some time between preparing to commentate at Wimbledon and checking out Aersomith in Hyde Park, to chat to Mick Burgess about his passion for music.
What was the musical environment like growing up in Australia?There were quite a lot of live bands and that was the thing that we used to do. I suppose there were discos but we didn’t really venture that far. Certainly if you wanted to hear some music it was pretty easy, there were always plenty of bands playing in local clubs and bars. There was plenty of Rock `n` Roll that was good but not much Heavy Metal, that was more of an underground thing.
There was one big record store in the centre of town right in front of Flinders Street Station in Melbourne called Flinders Street Underground or something and you went in there and there was this big huge girl in there dressed in black. This is where you could get the new Motley Crue album or the new Iron Maiden album or whatever. Gradually you could get albums from the department stores in Town but in the beginning if you wanted anything by Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath or Judas Priest, which is what I was listening to at the time; this is where you could get them.
Did your parents influence your musical tastes?My parents are actually from a family of Opera singers believe it or not. My sister is an Opera singer, two of my Aunties are Opera singers and my Grandparents were singers. I sort of broke the mould really.
So what’s your Opera singing like?Ha !! We won’t go there I think.
Do you remember that moment when you first thought “Wow, this is the music for me?”My moment would have to be when I first heard Unleashed In The East by Judas Priest. You know at the beginning when the guitar sort of whirls up and then the drums come in. That was pretty much it for me. I was into Rock `n` Roll too. I liked Cheap Trick, they were one of my favourite groups when I was growing up but it’s fair to say that Unleashed In The East was the first one that really grabbed me.
My brother was listening to a lot of The Beatles and he had Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti and albums by Steely Dan and bits and pieces like that but I didn’t really listen to them. It was only in retrospect that I listened to Zeppelin and realized how good they were. Somebody said to me I had to hear Thin Lizzy and that didn’t really hit the spot until I’d got into Judas Priest. I went back and listened to Lizzy and went “Wow!!” and it broadened out after that.
Who was the first band you managed to catch live?Australia seemed to be missed out by a lot of the big bands. I think it was Thin Lizzy with Snowy White on guitar and Cheap Trick were around that time too. When Cheap Trick came to play I wanted to take my then girlfriend but she didn’t want to go but she said her best friend loved Cheap Trick so she asked if I wouldn’t mind taking her, so I agreed. We went to the show and had pretty good seats. When the lights went down and the band came on stage she jumped down from her chair and went straight down to the front for the rest of the night and I didn’t see her again. I waited around for a while and thought “screw this” and headed home. She had gone autograph hunting and I got a real bollocking when I returned home without her.
Who are the bands that you rate the most highly now?I like a bit of everything really. I’ve always loved Blues stuff. There’s something about it and I try to find some real fast Blues players. That’s one of the things I love, whether it’s Stevie Ray Vaughan or Rory Gallagher.
I just love Rory Gallagher. For a guy playing in the 60`s and 70`s to play like that, as fast and brilliant as he was, was just fantastic. I actually got the chance to meet him once, very briefly. I used to do quite a lot of charity gigs around Wimbledon time and we used to get a load of guys to come in, like the guys from Maiden, who are mates of mine. So I managed to meet him during one of these shows. (...)
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