Talk:Charlie McMahon

Midnight Oil
I am pretty sure I saw McMahon sitting in with the Australian rock band Midnight Oil in 1993 or 1994's WOMAD festival. Can someone with more knowledge about his work with Midnight Oil add something about this to the article? Badagnani 08:01, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Overview information about McMahon's involvement with Midnight Oil plus 1986 NT tour added tobalwin 05:10, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Peter Carolan
Did Peter Carolan play the hammered dulcimer or the Appalachian (lap) dulcimer? It's difficult to tell via a Google search. Badagnani 08:12, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Every website seems to say that he plays keyboards; none says he plays dulcimer. Where did this information come from? Badagnani 08:23, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Dulcimer information added via email reply from Carolan also see clipping reference 7 tobalwin 05:11, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Photo?
Can someone find a good photo of McMahon? Maybe from a CD booklet? None of the photos on his personal site or the didjeribone site are very good and Wikipedia allows for the uploading and use of photos that are part of CD booklets, or from the artist's website for promotional purposes. Badagnani 08:36, 13 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Have email permission from Bob King to use his "Let The Dog Out" back cover photo for this article but the one currently uploaded is more dynamic and fits into the space better tobalwin 05:15, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, you could insert it in another section, then. Photos can go anywhere in the article. Badagnani 08:43, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Its basically a horizontal version of the same photo besides it will up the kilobite count and it think the text is more important. There's lots of McMahon photos available for anyone after such [via a Google image search] but not much biography info which is why it was submitted.tobalwin 14:28, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Two Blacktowns
One Blacktown is the City (City of Blacktown), and one is a small suburb within that city (Blacktown, New South Wales). Confusingly, Blacktown and Seven Hills are both suburbs within the City of Blacktown. Badagnani 16:11, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Think I'll just go for "near Sydney"--tobalwin 06:33, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

It's possible, then, that both McMahon and his friend both lived in Seven Hills, which is one neighborhood/suburb within the City of Blacktown. Badagnani 08:44, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Feedback Interview
Managed to have a one hour phone conversation with Charlie McMahon on Aug 16 and he found no major inaccuracies in the article [which was a relief].He did note a couple of minor mistakes that had been journalist mistakes in the original paper clippings - these I have corrected apart for a problem with the 1973 Aquarius festival encounter where his memory seems to be at odds with Peter Carolans. I have asked Carolan to let me know his version of the incident and will edit this section [once I have Carolan's information] to take both memories into account. tobalwin 09:29, 22 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Great -- this shows that you work harder on this article than most Wikipedians, who are more content to criticize others' articles rather than work hard on their own. Good job on a job well done.  Badagnani 22:13, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Update done --tobalwin 10:53, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Article Length Comment
I have noted the reminder about article length but feel as the material presented here still comes 2 kilobites within the 32 kilobite limit, don't think it needs to be hacked around, at this stage anyhow but I will do some internal editing if information on any important situations not covered is submitted by other editors. tobalwin 09:29, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Birth Date
McMahon recently confimed his full birth date is June 19 1951. This information could be added to the leader section of this article. tobalwin 14:41, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Deletion and Additions
Deleted the Music Brainz link as it just referred back to this Wikpeida article and McMahon's own site. Added links to Video of "Land of The Lightning Brothers" and video of the "Ochre Dusk" dance suite both unavailable on cd. The last link is to the [Australian] National Film And Sound Archive data base search engine which holds and sells the Ochre Dusk video.--tobalwin 13:13, 1 September 2006 (UTC)Unfortunately I just discovered that contary to the information on the NSASA web site they do not sell copies to members of the general public so had to delete that link. However "The Lightning Brothers" DVD is currently available as I have just received a copy of it in the mail--tobalwin 10:20, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Photo Uploaded
In the absence of anything better for the time being [pity that great b/w photo had to go] I've uploaded a recent happy snap I took of McMahon. Does anyone read and write Russian? It would be great to get permission to use one of those Russian tour photos from the Churinga people [see "Google Image /Charlie McMahon /Churinga"] tobalwin 19:09, 16 October 2007 (UTC)


 * You can use babelfish.altavista.com to translate Russian. Badagnani 19:11, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Ah but is it understandable to the other party? Any time i've tried to read a babelfish translated sentence it scans like a randomly cut up ransom note and i'd have to translate most of the Churinga site to find out where the email link is.tobalwin 16:20, 20 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I missed that the photo had to be removed. Any reason why? Has someone asked Charlie if his photo can be returned (being the one on the photo)? Didgeweb 15:41, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

There's been a big change at Wikipeida lately regarding using copyrighted images without direct permission of the copyright owner [of the photo not the subject of the photo]probably. Uploading an image now requires specific copyright declarations which I suppose is why the b/w photo had to go but it would have been preferable for the removalist to have signaled their intention in the discussion section first. I couldn't find any record of when it went or who took it off. tobalwin 16:20, 20 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Okay, I've uploaded a photo of Charlie that I took a couple of years ago at a Belgium festival: [[Image:Charlie_McMahon_Sfinks.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]. Have I added the right text, owner things etc? When yes, it can be used on Charlie's page. Cheers Didgeweb 17:40, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Great photo - because it is of such higher quality then the Pine Creek one could you swap the positions of those two photos [with description]? tobalwin 15:44, 29 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Done. Badagnani 17:36, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Links
Currently the didjeribone.net site is off-line due to a severe server crash at the hoster. I hope to have the site online again in a few days. No need to adjust the link on the main page :-) Didgeweb (talk) 12:07, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
 * On-line again Didgeweb (talk) 04:42, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Online video no longer exists so I have removed the link.

tobalwin (talk) 19:08, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Added information about recent didge sample library CD and provided link. Added the myspace site which is now worth visiting because of 6 tracks on the player and a regularly updated live gig section. Changed the link for "Land of The Lightning Brothers" from "Video" to new "DVD" format.(tobalwin (talk) 10:47, 6 October 2008 (UTC))

Deleted a small section of the introduction giving full birth name and date information because I was recently told these items have been causing McMahon legal problems and unnecessary delays with the purchase of airline tickets etc. McMahon apparently never uses the name "Horace McMahon" for identification purposes but some people are taking it as so because it was mentioned in Wikipedia [the information came from only one source the newspaper article of his accident in 1967 and has never been confirmed as accurate by McMahon]. tobalwin (talk) 13:25, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Correction to article
In a recent interview I had with McMahon he said that contary to the closing narration statement in the ABC documentary "Mad Max Goes To Russia" he was eventually paid for his gigs in Russia so I have adjusted the article. -- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tobalwin (talk • contribs)

Album addition and Carolans passing
Added "Didge Heart" album and information about the death of Peter Carolan tobalwin (talk) 22:38, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

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Notes on referencing
I've added two tags to the article: Citation style The article text contains hard-coded reference numbers such as, but the references themselves are defined as an automatically numbered list. If the list is edited, adding or removing lines, all the later references will be re-numbered. Unreliable sources The references include names of websites without their URLs, unpublished sources such as emails, and sources listed only as. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:11, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

I have corrected the layout of the references section for this article as best I can so that it follows the Wikipedia style requirement. Unfortunately many of the casually collected newspaper and magazine articles cited still have not been traced although I hold photocopies of them but any approximate date of publication information that can be gleamed from the original article will be included and identified as such with the reference. tobalwin (talk) 18:39, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

References have been reformated in Wikipedia style so I removed the citation notice for this problem. I have left the citation notice for "unreliable sources" as in many cases I only have access to undated unidentified press cuttings so it would be helpful to have these clippings detailed or replaced with another published source.tobalwin (talk) 02:44, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

There has been new press about McMahon and Carolan published since this article first appeared. I will eventually rewrite it to incorporate those essays. At my request McMahon and Carolan have proof read this unsolicited article for historical accuracy. [User:Tobalwin|tobalwin]] (talk) 21:45, 8 January 2018 (UTC)