Welcome to Beeb’s new site. I hope you enjoy it! Submit a comment and we will make sure to add it to the list!

Hi Beeb great to see you are still doing what you obviously love to do so much. I’ve been an LRB fan from the 70s. Love quite a few LRB tracks but my fave LRB track has to be Long Way There the album version. Still does it for me, it’s just one of those really special pieces of music. It also helps that the album was me and my wife’s ‘courtship’ days and we’ve now being married 32yrs! Been trying to work out the guitar work any help with chords etc would be appreciated. Really great that LRB has touched so many people. I remember sticking to my LRB musical choices when the peer pressure was on to go all punk in England. All the very best to you in all that you do and the same to all the other LRB members.
Glenn
Yorkshire
England

Great website!

wow! Beeb;impreessive! love the ” select skin” we have all done so many different things musically.
i’m in the process of designing a rick brewer site called RickBrewerWith: to showcase all the different genres i play in.and to promote the new cds coming out ie worlds 1st techno drummer[no loops real unique drum sounds etc]

love the new website and congratulations on Zoot getting back together which i hope the shows go well and let’s hope for many Australian fans see the Zoot tour Australia which would be great

Beeb, Great to trawl through the website and rekindle some great memories trust things are well with you

Peter and Linda

Hi Beeb,
Like the new website, very slick.
I’m hoping the reformation of Zoot will lead to a tour Downunder…The ZOOTS ROOTS Tour.
best wishes
Milton

Hi Beeb. I’m a huge fan of your songwriting and I’ve tracked down two of your compositions on two soundtracks,
“Down On Down On Down” from “Heaven Tonight” and “Dreams” from Boulevard of Broken Dreams”. Are there any more of your songs available on soundtracks?

Hey Billy, thanks for signing my guest book.
I just read your comment. As far as I know they are the only 2 songs used in movie soundtracks. Of course Little River Band songs are used in movies all the time.

Beeb.

Hey Beeb, I’m listening to driven by dreams that you sent me years ago. I have thought about you and the family often. we miss you here in Jefferson city. hope all is well
and to here from you sometime.
Blessings, Trent Porter

Hi Beeb, I’ve been a fan if your work through all the bands – from ZOOT to LRB. Like you, I was born in Amsterdam and moved to Adelaide when I was 11 – except it was 1970! I wad into music and bands at school though never did anything – one of my classmates and goid friends was Warwick Hornby, who still plays bass with The Whitlams – the only one who ‘made it’! Keep on making music! Regards,
Rene Kling

Hello Beeb
I am looking forward to meeting you on the cruise ship Destiny in November….and I am so excited that Zoot are perfoming on the cruise..yayyyyyyy
I was on the Rick and friends cruise last year, which was amazing but this year, oh my, hang on to the hand rails, this boat is going to rock! See you there , cheers, x

I thought – it was about time to organise a phoneinterview about your backgrounder – sort of bio – let me know if this can be arranged.

Yvon, where do you live? You can email me at the comcast address.

Hey Gerard,

De hartelijke groeten uit Holland en enorm respect voor wat je bereikt hebt….!!!

Groet, Erik

Erik, are you my cousin’s son from Assendelft in Holland?
I’d like to get in touch with you if possible.

Hey Beeb

I followed you guys when you were with LRB! had a little crush on you when I was young! You still look Hot, thirty years later; you must be working out or something! Anyways, I was on You Tube and was watching some of your live performances and realized how much i missed you guys! Are you touring anytime soon in the Los Angeles area? Take care!

Hi Beeb,
thank`s for contact in Facebook.I´m a big LRB fan.
Looking always for music clips or interviews in Internet.
many greetings from germany.
Jürgen

Hello Beeb,

I am the girl who bought you the glass of wine on the Destiny cruise ship. I just want to thank you for such an awesome experience! Zoot was fantastic, your singing of Night Owls has given me a new favorite song. You are such a genuine, sincere gentleman and it was a highlight of my trip having you come over and speak with my friends and me. Your family is beautiful too. I can’t express the impression you left on me. I hope you and the Zoot boys tour together soon. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Hi Beeb:

What a pleasure it was meeting you while on Rick’s cruise last week. I cannot thank you enough for being part of such a wonderful event. Having you, and the other members of Zoot perform with Rick, was such a wonderful experience that was truly enjoyed by all on board.
I hope your participation is the beginning of many more years of Rick related events where you can share your incredible musical talent with everyone who loves Rick.
You might remember, I am the “girl from Texas” who coined the phrase. “Rickstrailia”.
Please know how much I truly thank you for taking the time to participate in Rick’s cruise. You’re an amazing and talented artist to whom I am grateful for the chance to have met.

Sincerely,
Suzette
George West, TX

Beeb!! My 9 year old and I met you on the cruise. We loved Zoot! Thanks for the kindness you showed the kid. It was lovely to visit with you and we look forward to more great things to come from Zoot.

Kind regards,
Kris
Draper, UT

Hi Beeb,
Thank you for the wonderful vacation on the Rick Springfield and Friends Cruise. I felt completely honored to be a part of the reunion. You guys had an amazing chemistry and sounded like you never stopped playing with one another. I think we need to start petitioning for a tour!

Thanks for being such a gentleman and taking time for photos and autographs. You made the trip special and one to remember!

All the best!
Terri Rehder
Gilbert, AZ

Hi Beeb, just looking at your new web site, looks great, alot of history there. Brings back alot of good memories we had with JohD’Arcy, he was a great guy.
Glad to hear the cruise went well, loved to have been there. Lets catch up when your next back in little ol Adelaide

Holy mackerel, Beeb! I could ask you about 100 questions about life, LRB, etc. I used the sing the “Beeb” parts in my friend’s band as we sang LRB songs in ’82!

Question #1: On “Lonesome Loser,” do the BGV’s drop out on the second half of the work “beaten [by the Queen of Hearts every time]“? Sounds like Glenn is the only one who carries it through the phrase. Maybe it’s just me…

You look great and we love you in California!

Hi Rob, the backing vocals on “Lonesome Loser” don’t drop out. It sounds that way because when you sing the word “beaten” you kind of lose the end of the word. I’m pretty sure that this is one of the few choruses we sang that we triple tracked to get that big vocal sound. I hope this answers your question.

Beeb: Just last night on my way home from work I was listening to a CD I made from a radio program I taped in 1984. It was a concert LRB did at Universal Ampitheatre in Southern California. LRB has always been my favorite group and your songs and vocals (along with Glenn and Graeham) really make it!! I’m so glad my brother told me about your new website.

Hi Beeb

What happened to BSG? I love Full Circle & the tour/concerets you did in Aus. I was hoping ti was going to continue. I thought there were also plans for a US tour. Very little mention of BSG too on this new web site. Pity you were sounding great together.

Tony

Tony, “Full Circle” was never released in the U.S. because of the ongoing legal problems concerning the Little River Band name. For the same reason it became difficult to interest promoters for us to tour. I decided not to mention more about BSG on my web site because it may be a dead issue.
But who knows what the future holds?

Hi Beeb,
I’m still in Cornwall UK with the memories of the LRB keeping me going
Your ‘Light of Day’ song seems to be timeless and still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand out when I play it to people on the keyboard. My two (James and Matthew) have flown the nest now and my wife and I moved to somewhere a little further out from ‘normality’ to a place with 6 acres for the horses/chicken and a few sheep.
Very Best Wishes to you and your family (‘like this new site by the way)
Gerry

Hi there Beeb,
I still haven’t come down from cloud 9384756!!!
Meeting you on the Rick Springfield and Friends cruise in November 2011, participating in Zoot Q & A time, having my picture taken with you and being able to speak to you, listen to you perform Night Owl AND if that all wasn’t enough, watch the best concert – ZOOT – perform – WOW! Words can not truely express what I feel.
I certainly hope it doesn’t stop there for ZOOT. Although if it did, I feel very priviledged that I was there in that “time warp”, we were all at the concert in our teens again.
Now you know it is not far for you to jet down to Cancun where Rick and friends are heading this year – wink wink –
The one thing I forgot to bring on the cruise, that I wanted you to sign, was my old TV Week pinup I have of you and the boys in MISSISSIPPI – now you have to come to Cancun
Thanks so much Beeb for an amazing experience.
Sandra

Hi Beeb,
It’s been a while since I’ve listened to LRB but on the last couple of days I am reminded why I loved the music. “It’s A Long Way There” was instrumental to me while learning to play guitar as a kid. Now some 30 years later I pull this record out and it brings back those memories of when music was still a very new, and powerful, influence. Thank you, and the band, for providing it!

Hello Beeb. I have a comment and a question. Love LRB stuff esp. live. Middleman is my personal favorite. Good reminder to me very often. That leads to the question. Where might I , if at all find guitar chords for this song.
Thanks

Hello Frank,

Send me your email address and I’ll email you the chords to Middle Man.

Beeb.

Wow! I can’t believe it! Thank you so much! I looked everywhere for these and was even willing to pay for them, but I could not find them. This song was very instrumental in my life with regards to my salvation. Thanks again for you kindness. I am sure you must very busy and for you to take the time to do this is just great!
Frank / amslitho2@att.net

Hi Beeb,
As one of the neighborhood kids I used to listen to ZOOT rehearse. Zoot along with their music and these rehearsals are still talked about even today especially on the Facebook page of the Netley Primary School Group….I was also wondering if you remembered a small Netley business by the name of Rite Amplifiers which was just down the road from where you lived.
Thanks

Hi Karen,

I’ve tried to search for Netley Primary School Group but nothing comes up on Facebook for me.
Don’t recall Rite Amplifiers either.

Beeb.

Ever since that first chance hearing of Diamantina Cocktail at a friends house (it was his older brothers record), LRB has been a constant musical companion. Not being an Australian, I have often wondered about a few recurring terms in LRB lyrics. In fact, a post from Frank asked you for the chords to Middleman, and I always wondered what or who is a “middleman”? The term is also used in the song I Dream Alone (as if I need to tell you that). Anyway, Happy anniversary to you and Donna and here to hoping the Its a Long Way There DVD will someday be released……..

Craig

Hi Beeb,do you remember me?We had a conversation on facebook a couple of months ago.We both are from Amsterdam.The DJ living in Morocco?Anyhow I finally managed to upload the CD I told you about at that time.If you’re interested please go to:House-Mixes.com,and then:Danny2,the CD is called:Supertramp Retrospectacle (Pop Rock) you’ll find it on page 2 of the list.I don’t know how long it’ll take to download.I think it’s an interesting site for sharing music.If you for example check where they download stuff you’d be surprised…This particular “Blend” for example has been downloaded 5 times and has been listened to 39 times until this very moment (22.2.2012) which in it self is astonishing,in view of the fact that practically everything you’ll find is House/Techno/Tribal etc.
PS:Don’t sue me please….De groeten uit Tanger,veel geluk met je carriere.

Hi Beeb,do you remember me?We had a conversation on facebook a couple of months ago.We both are from Amsterdam,Holland.
The DJ living in Morocco?Anyhow I finally managed to upload the CD I told you about at that time.
If you’re interested please go to:House-Mixes.com,and then:Danny2,the CD is called:Supertramp Retrospectacle (Pop Rock) you’ll find it on page 2 of the list.I think it might be interesting for you to listen to some of your own Music in a Non-Stop mix together with other Bands and Musicians.There is one Track I’m sure you’ve never heard before.I don’t know how long it’ll take to download.I think it’s an interesting site for sharing music.If you for example check where they download stuff you’d be surprised…This particular “Blend” for example has been downloaded 5 times and has been listened to 39 times until this very moment (22.2.2012) which in it self is astonishing,in view of the fact that practically everything you’ll find on the site is House/Techno/Tribal etc.Check it out…
PS:Don’t sue me please….Ik wil gewoon met anderen deelen waar ik van houd.De groeten uit Tanger,en veel plezier bij het beluisteren van de CD.

G’Day Beeb, I was working in the EMI art dept. in 1975 when I was told by an A&R man upstairs that they were going to sign an New Australian super group. So I think it was just before lunch when you guys came walking doewn the entrance to EMI to make a right turn to the elevator. The Art Dept was just behind the EMI showroom to your left all glass windows. You guys were very happy. It was a big day And I tried hard to get the nod to design your first album cover. They went with Peter Van Den Elshouts cartoon cover. It was the wrong approach. I had to wait 25 years later to do the Bulldog illustration for the Rhino collection LOL!
I hope that BSG can record an album of new songs and toss in a smattering of pre LRB tunes that you guys had hits with before. Then call me to design the CD cover
I would like to know if you are working on a second Solo album as well. Just wonderful tunes , great voice and play your guitar Beeb.
Cheers cobber. Paul Power in Pacoima USA

Hello Paul Power! Thanks for getting in touch with me and your entry will make a very interesting fact to add to the memoirs I’ve been writing for the past 4 – 5 years. You gave me Peter’s name and of course yours as well. I was working on releasing a bunch of demos I recorded between 1983 and 1990 but aborted the idea because I would rather hear them with today’s recording technology.
However, still playing my guitar and working on new songs. What are you doing in Pacoima?

Regards from Beeb.

Beeb, could you please help me figure out how to play “reminiscing” on guitar, especially the intro. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Chris, my suggestion is to ask Graeham who wrote the song. His web site address is http://www.graehamgoble.com

Good luck!

Beeb.

Hi Beeb,
Though familiar with the music of LRB (I was born in 1962 in Zaandam, Holland), I really started to appreciate it last year, when I was in Australia and drove many miles with my family listening to, amongst others, ‘It’s a long way there’. Which it was…. Anyway, now it’ll stay forever in my head, probably.
Thanks for the many times I enjoyed your music!
Any suggestions where I might find the tabs/music from your solo’s, since I play myself a bit?
cheers,
Albert Jan

Hello Albert Jan,

Can’t help you with the tabs/music for solos as I didn’t play them. LRB’s lead guitarists were Ric Formosa, David Briggs and Stephen Housden. Try searching LRB guitar solos on Google.

Beeb.

Hi Beeb,
Thanks for your reply. I’ll take a look around. Always thought you also played these solo’s. Where you on the bass guitar back then or did you play rhythm guitar? Anyway, great that you took the time to reply, I’ll tell my wife who is a great fan of LRB I was in contact with the one and only Beeb!
cheers, Albert Jan

Hi Albert Jan,

I only played bass guitar when I was in ZOOT. When the band broke up in 1971 I switched to playing six string guitars and started writing my first songs. In Little River Band I played rhythm guitar and some dual lead guitar parts and of course I was part of the vocal harmonies.

Beeb.

We love you in Belgium !

Thnx