north east regional extra | August 21 - 27, 2019
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August 21 - 27, 2019
Still rockin' on
By SHANE DOUTHIE OLD rockers never die they say, they just tour forever… or they just shake rattle and roll…. or they just play the same songs until they become popular again. The reason most continue to perform, however, is because they are having such a good time. Bruce Gregory can attest to that. He and the bands he has and still plays with have been familiar and popular entertainers around the region for two decades. He was brought up in a musical family and blessed with the rock rebel attitude from a young age - you could say he was always destined to be a rock musician. “My mother, father and brother all played music,” Bruce said. “My parents (Jim and Mary) taught me to play the piano and sing from a very young age (I guess three or four years old) but I wasn’t a very cooperative student so I was sent to other teachers in Wangaratta, but they didn’t have much luck either. “I taught myself guitar at the age of 15 when I was in a boarding house in Melbourne (doing a trade apprenticeship).
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◆ JUST CRUISIN’: Chris (Christo) Mangan (guitar), Chris Seymour (saxophone), Bryan (Rolie) Dwyer (drums), and Bruce Gregory (guitar) circa 2005 in the Cumbaroona days.
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