Talk:Men at Work
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I am really young, but i really enjoy hearing to men at work even if they recorded songs in the 80s. Down under is really good. You should all listen to this song.
Same here, hey you should extend this article!
[edit] Inappropriately Phrased Section
I pulled this section out of the article due to the wording of it. It's good information, if it can be cited, but it needs to be cleaned up.
A correction on the other article. Jerry Speiser left the Men first, followed by John Rees. Men at work released an album down under
A correction on the correction. Jerry Speiser and John Rees were both fired from the band on the same day, according to Rees in a 1985 article in The Age, which is the major newspaper in the band's hometown of Melbourne. Rees stated that Speiser phoned him and asked, "Well, have you gotten a letter yet?", meaning that Speiser himself had, and that the letter spelled the end of the careers of both men with the Men. Rees also said that he had done a radio interview with Greg Ham just two days before being fired, and that it was very hurtful to him because Ham clearly knew that Rees' days were numbered, yet said nothing as Rees spoke enthusiastically about the band's future. Also at the time of the firing, Rees and Speiser were working on new tracks for the third LP.
Rees states that he was fired simply because he was Jerry Speiser's friend, and that the terrible relationship between Speiser and frontman Colin Hay was the direct cause of both men being kicked out of the band.
In a particularly nasty and transparent insult to Speiser, almost all of the percussion on the third LP, Two Hearts, was either done by Hay himself or by electric "drum programming."
Ron Strykert left the band during the Two Hearts sessions. One day, he simply stopped showing up to the studio. Strykert has stated that he was nursing a nasty heroin addiction at that point, and never really liked Men at Work in the first place.
Two Hearts was a total flop, especially when you compare the album to the smash hits of Business as Usual and Cargo.
Greg Ham left the group right after the release of Two Hearts, leaving only Hay to create a "new" Men at Work. It, too, was a complete disaster, and a major tour of the US had to be cancelled due to "lack of interest." Ironically, one of the members of the "new" Men at Work was drumming prodigy Chad Wackerman, a percussionist who Speiser greatly admired and respected, according to Modern Drummer magazine. In another irony, Speiser speaks enthusiastically in the same interview about the use of computers and electronics as a tool in drumming.
[edit] Picture
Just wondering if we can a picture of them because the page would look better with one.Thanks Sparrowman980
[edit] MySpace
I don't think MySpace qualifies as a reputable source of information according to Wikipedia standards. I removed the link to the MySpace page in the template, as it doesn't seem to exist; the other two (one in a footnote and another in the "External links" section) could well be "official", so I gave them the benefit of the doubt and left them there for now, but their veracity should probably be investigated. B7T (talk) 04:53, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
