Yes Miscellany: 2005 - Trevor Rabin & Duncan Faure - A Rabbitt Rockumentary
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- Yes Miscellany
Date: 2005
Item: Trevor Rabin & Duncan Faure - A Rabbitt Rockumentary
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Very interesting mini-doc. Would love to have seen more of Mr. Van Blerk's interview. I'm probably one of the few Rabbitt fans in the US from back in the day. Heard them on R. RSA (shortwave radio), and got the LP when it came out. Thanks for posting this. Very cool vid.
thanks
My grandpa was one of them as well, and I’m carrying the torch!
Rock Rabbitt was a HUGE miscalculation on Patrick's behalf (it should have been a Duncan Faure solo album ) - firstly Trevor had left the band - and to call an album "Rock" with no real guitarist was short-sighted - but Rabbitt will always be South Africa's greatest rock band (first 2 albums) and Trevor.....well the rest is history ( I edited and compiled this video )
Awesome
I lived in Cape Town as a teenager 1975 - 1978 so was there during their rise and fall...............though I hesitate to use the word fall, for me Rock Rabbitt was their best album and it proved Faure was a huge talent and maybe Rabbitt should have stuck at it, maybe relocating to the USA and base themselves there. The UK would have been a no-no as Punk/New Wave was at it's peak 1977-1978.
They were big in Canada but many dismissed them as a Beatles knock-off. I was introduced to Rabbitt and Juluka by my South African ex-wife in the early 80's. They disappeared so completely that the only way to hear them again for the longest time was to buy old vinyl on-line.
How come they never made it in the US?
They should have left. The times were horrible in South Africa and Apartheid gained huge international attention after the 1976 uprising. There would have been no chance of international success, never mind tours, in those dark days. One of them did leave for the US and hasn't done too badly for himself 😂 Google Trevor Rabin 😉
Not sure, but I know that in the several articles i've read here and there, politics (i.e. apartheid) played a part. Two Rabbitt LPs were released in the US on Capricorn, but the band never made it here, and I think they would have had to emigrate to make it here in the US, because it would have been a tough slog to play places and bypass political questions. Even though the band's personal politics were probably anti-apartheid (one of their songs was an anti-apartheid track called Tribal Fence, written by another South African muso who had a few songs banned from the SABC), the politics of the time would have gotten in the way, which is really quite sad, because Rabbitt's music was exceptionally wide ranging, and very good.
Trevor Raben and Duncan Faure did make it in the US, as band-members of other bands.