But For The Grace Of God

Buck Billo and Maxi sing “But For The Grace Of God” the first hit song for Keith Urban. Born in New Zealand, Keith Urban learned to play guitar as a six-year-old in Australia, after a young woman asked to place an ad in his dad’s shop window offering guitar lessons. His parents made a deal with her that they would advertise in return for lessons for their young son. The boy had natural ability. By the time he was eight, Urban was winning talent shows. He also was involved in a youth acting company that required him to sing, dance, and memorize lines, all of which led to the ease on-stage, which would serve him well in his music career. With his father deeply interested in American culture and country music, it was also natural that Urban would gravitate toward country music early on, when he was influenced by the singing of Glen Campbell, Dolly Parton, and Don Williams, and the songwriting of Jimmy Webb (“Galveston”). Urban added his own dimension to those influences when he discovered Dire Straits, and became interested in the guitar playing of Mark Knopfler and Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham, embarking on in-depth study and endless practice of their techniques. At the start of the ’90s, Australian country music was primed for a revolution. Keith Urban — young, brash, blonde, rock-ish — was part of that revolution. His first album saw him win several major awards. Throughout his rise Urban always had his eye on Nashville in the USA That’s where the music in his heart …
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— Filmed by Benjamin Porraz (7/5/2007). From the last gig ever by Paris notorious Freakbeat band: “SCOPE”… The group was on the verge of signing a Major management deal surfing on the 40th anniversary of the “Summer of Love” media celebration and still waiting to produce their first full-length album on Beatball music’s Superstar records from Korea! (The drummer and bassist split while the guitarist and leader of the band was gone on summer holidays to hire a new guitar player and regroup, trying to profit from the new band management opportunity cutting off from the founder of the band … in the process effectively forming new heavy mod psych band: Terence Christiansen; the organist disgressed from the plot and formed his own new mod R&B influenced band: the Twisted Wheels in 2008… later morphing into current Garage-Psychedelic band: the Soft Explosion with ex bassist of Paris’ number one neo-Garage/Psych band: the Men in the Moon) This is their unique FreakBeat version of the Warren Kendrick penned Garage classic: “Action Woman”! … Patterned over the Litter’s version lifted straight out of the legendary compilation series: Pebbles, Vol.1, track 1 (… that the band chose to cover so that they could feature on 2005’s Pebbles’ tribute comp’: “A Tribute to the Original Pebbles series Volumes 1 to 10” released by not-BFD records, paying hommage to Craig Shaw’s original Cult series that launched the whole Garage-Punk revival in the mid 1980’s and inspired so many new …