Talk:Mick Thomas

The Mansion on the Hill
As a posting here Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard indicates, the suggestion, currently in the article, that Thomas read The Mansion on the Hill when he was 15 seems unlikely - the book seems to have been published much later. For now, I've removed all but the first two sentences of this section from the article:


 * The family moved with the work, from Gippsland to Colac, Horsham and then Geelong, Australia. When he was 15, in Geelong, Mick Thomas started playing folk music. He read a book called The Mansion on the Hill by Fred Goodman, which put forward the idea that American folk begat rock. He was listening to Bob Dylan and John Hammond at the time.


 * "The book clarified a lot of things for me, and I loved the songs, the sheer simplicity of them." - Thomas[1]


 * "I thought it would be easy, but a 15-year-old kid in Geelong can't write a shearing song or a bushranging or a mining song. It doesn't make sense." - Thomas[1]

The full title of the book seems to be The Mansion on the Hill: Dylan, Young, Geffen, Springsteen, and the Head-On Collision of Rock and Commerce. Given the mention of Springsteen, it is unlikely to have have been written in 1975, but it would be nice to find the date for sure - maybe Thomas read it, but later than he remembered?

If anyone can help out, please do so. AndyTheGrump (talk) 18:54, 7 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I have a contact I can try, but it might take a while to find a RS to confirm this. If no one has any objectiions, I'd like to add a discography of Mick's solo work to this entry, and can probably find a few other links -- his support of St Kilda Football Club is somewhat legendary and I'll try too find something that merits this inclusion in this article. Punkrocker1991 (talk) 23:12, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

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