Jim Keays

Jim Keays fronted the successful Master’s Apprentices until they split up within the U.K. 1971. This designated a profession switch and he came back to Australia, where he worked well for Go-Set publication, formed the Rock and roll On Company, and appeared in the Mulwala Rock and roll Festival in Apr 1972. In March 1973, he starred within the Australian edition from the Who’s Tommy and in January 1974, Keays participated in the 3rd annual Sunbury Event. Keays then came back to music, documenting his debut single recording, The Boy From your Stars, an idea recording about an extraterrestrial visitor who efforts to warn folks of the earth’s imminent damage. Keays, playing the function of the youngster from the superstars, wrote a lot of the music and every one of the lyrics. “Kid’s Blues”/”&Inter-Planetary Boogie” (Dec 1974) and “The Boy From your Stars”/”Consider It on Easy” had been released as singles and Keays undertook an ambitious tour to get the recording, but because of the size of the display, just three concerts had been staged. The anti-drug track “CEASE”/”Love Is definitely” premiered in June 1975. Then created Jim Keays’ Southern Mix with Mick Elliot, Rex Bullen (keyboards), George Mix (bass), and Rick Brewer (drums). They released a reworking from the Experts Apprentices’ “Undecided”/”For Somebody” in Dec 1975, where period the lineup experienced transformed to Peter Laffy (acoustic guitar), Ron Robinson (bass), and John Swan. In 1977, Keays created the Manning/Keays Music group with Phil Manning. Another year, Keays created the Jim Keays Music group with Ron Robinson, Wayne Black (acoustic guitar), and David Rowe (drums). Guitarists John Moon and Geoff Spooner changed Dark, and by 1979, the music group had evolved in to the Keays having a revamped lineup of Moon, Bruce Stewart (acoustic guitar), Peter Marshall (bass), and Nigel Tough (drums). In early 1980, the music group began documenting an recording which was by no means finished because of Stewart’s ill wellness. The solitary “Lucifer Road”/”The Living Deceased” premiered as well as the band split up. The unfinished recording was finally released in 1983 like a single Jim Keays task titled Red within the Meter and “Lucifer Road” was re-released as an individual. Keays then started working like a DJ until a fresh cope with Virgin in 1987 noticed him fly towards the U.K. to record with maker Craig Leon (the Ramones, the Bangles) and ex-Sweet guitarist Andy Scott. Two singles had been released from your classes: “Undecided”/”Dubcided” (July 1987) and “Response”/”Bates Motel” (Oct 1987). The Experts Apprentices after that re-formed until Keays released his second single record in 1993, Pressure Makes Diamond jewelry, in the Gemstone label. BMG reissued the record in middle-1994, and Keays revived the Master’s Apprentices once again. Keays and his fellow Master’s Apprentices bandmembers had been inducted in to the Australian Record Sector Association (ARIA) Hall of Popularity in 1998. In 1999, Keays released his first reserve, His Master’s Tone of voice, which told the storyplot of the Experts Apprentices. In January 2000, Raven Information reissued Keays’ 1974 single record, The Boy In the Superstars, with five reward monitors. The Mavis’s added a cover of “The Boy In the Superstars” to the initial soundtrack from the Australian film Test People in-may 2000.