“I don’t know if we’ll ever play together again but if we don’t this is a happy ending,” Joe Camilleri said at what may just have been the last ever Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons ever.
Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons reunited at Memo Music Hall in St Kilda for a sad occasion, to farewell their one-time bass player John Power who died in 2018.
Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons only show for 2019 So Young @memomusichall pic.twitter.com/7ynL4qeg52
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Falcon’s hierarchy Jeff Burstin, Tony Faehse, Gary Young and Wilbur Wilde performed a 90-minute set of pure musicianship. The Falcons have occasionally regrouped over the years but this could be the last time, I don’t know.
John Power’s daughter flew to Melbourne for the occasion, bringing her father’s bass guitar, which for last night made its last appearance on stage.
Last night may not only have been a farewell to John Power, but it may also have been, as Joe said, a farewell to one of Australia’s greatest bands of the late 70s and early 80s.
While these days revered, it was a long way to the top before Jo Jo Zep rock and rolled. The band formed in Melbourne in 1975 but it wasn’t until their fourth album when they had their first hit with ‘Hit & Run’.
Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons Hit and Run @memomusichall pic.twitter.com/lWhI7ufs3j
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Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons, 17 March 2019, Memo Music Hall, St Kilda
The Cthulhu (from Don’t Waste It, 1977)
Honey Dripper (from Let’s Drip Awhile, 1979)
Young Girl (from Let’s Drip Awhile, 1979)
So Young (from So Young, 1978)
Hit and Run (from Screaming Targets, 1979)
Just To Be With You (from Screaming Targets, 2014 reissue)
Boogie in the Barnyard (from Whip It Out, 1977)
Dancing Shoes (from Don’t Waste It, 1977)
Yes Indeed (from Let’s Drip Awhile, 1979)
I Need Your Loving (from Whip It Out, 1977)
You Made A Fool Out of Me (from Screaming Targets, 1979)
Security (from Screaming Targets, 1979)
Shape I’m In (from Screaming Targets, 1979)
Ain’t Got No Money (from Let’s Drip Awhile, 1979)
Route 66 (from Let’s Drip Awhile, 1979)
Beating Around The Bush (from Don’t Waste It, 1977)
The last two minutes of what may very well have been the last ever Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons performance pic.twitter.com/7kMuLmoMgG
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