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Grunt Machine - Opening Titles
Television (Excerpts) – 1975
23 Nov 2013 - 01.47am
The screams at 00:18 and at 00:37 are sound-bytes taken from "Skellington" a track from the double live album "Colosseum Live!" of 1971, by British progressive rock / blues / jazz fusion band "Colosseum" and their vocalist at the time, Chris Farlowe.
4 Aug 2012 - 05.57pm
woah...man another acid flashback......man i hate to bee on my computwr right now.
5 Nov 2011 - 05.54pm
.... oh, I think Uriah Heep 'Dreams' was the music for the closing sequence, if I remember rightly :)
5 Nov 2011 - 05.50pm
Awesome ! I loved this show, the graphics, and the theme tune taken from 'Dreams' on the Uriah Heep album 'Wonderworld'. I didn' realise until today that Paul Holmes hosted it though. Far out !
12 May 2011 - 06.04pm
Designer Ron Highfield came up with the name when he walked into a production meeting in the Avalon office and said "it sounds like a grunt machine in here" Producer Brian Lennane said ..thats it!
15 Dec 2010 - 12.16pm
Great to see this after more than 30 years! I remember the opening sequence with the guy with the clock in his head and the "wah ah wah" sound. The other pix used to give me the creeps, I can I see why, as I was just a kid at the time. Thanks for posting this wonderfully trippy piece of Kiwi music nostalgia!
28 Oct 2010 - 12.49pm
out of it! I remember this from when i was a kid...GREAT
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