The Screaming Jets' Dave Gleeson has not sat idle during this pandemic.
Rather, Dave with his guitarist mate Crafty decided to entertain themselves and others in the process when lockdown first started with a weekly live-streaming showcase at Gleeso's South Australian property.Then last month, Gleeso and Crafty moved their Streaming Not Screaming show to the big smoke, bunkering down at The Gov in Adelaide every Sunday arvo.
"It all started out as a simple idea to run a stream out of my backyard to keep me busy and out from underneath the family's feet while isolating," Gleeso says.
"Fast forward three-plus months and now I've got my own show at The Gov. . . living the dream it would seem."
With Streaming Not Screaming now part of the Sunday furniture at The Gov, here Gleeso shares his love of 1970s cop shows. Epic.
1: The Rockford Files
Starring James Garner, 'The Rockford Files' was awesome. He was the coolest private dick in town who, along with his troublesome dad and prickly local homicide cop Dennis, was the man to get to the bottom of any fiasco.2: Cop Shop
Aussie police series that really held its own against the overseas stuff. Tough cop JJ, the beautiful Paula Duncan and of course the bumbling junior constable Roy Baker, were a staple of Australian cop drama for eight seasons of shootouts, car chases and bashings. . . stirring stuff.3: Starsky & Hutch
Cool clothes, cool cars (red and white cop car no less. . . go the Dragons), Huggy Bear, the flashy dressing pimp/ snitch and one of the leads. Starsky, played by Paul Michael Glaser, had curly hair. . . I had curly hair. Voila.4: The Streets Of San Francisco
Starring Karl Malden as a wisened old cop and a very young Michael Douglas as his wide-eyed young partner, I will never forget those car chases through the roller coaster streets of the harbour city. Cars airborne, tyres screeching and Karl Malden's nose with a massive bum-like crack in it.5: Columbo
Oh the crumpled, glass-eyed detective that never gave up till he got his man or woman.The slew of guest villains that played on the show through its time: Vincent Price, Martin Sheen, William Shatner and Martin Launay to name but four, were always ready to give their all to get one over the untidy and unkempt looking Columbo, whose disarming line: "Just one more question," was usually the precursor to his solving of the crime du jour.
