Location, Geelong, Australia
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Grasshopper

Formed In
1972
Band Members
Greg Bee – Guitar/Harmonica/Vocals
George Juszczak – Bass/Piano Accordion/Vocals
Frank Adams – keyboards/Vocals
Colin MacIntosh – Drums/Guitar/Vocals (Current)

OTHER DRUMMERS

Wayne MacKay
Peter Whitehand
Gordon Pendleton
Phil Kirby
Mick Ormisher
Ian Coots
Gary Crothall
Greg Mossop
Musical Styles
Pop & Rock Covers
Typical Gigs
Resident band at The Grovedale Hotel and Golf View Hotel. Also played at The Waurn Ponds, Sundowner, The Dinosaur and Torquay pubs, and cabarets, weddings, football clubs etc.
History
The band’s debut was at the Geelong Palais in September 1972. They won the final of Kevin Dennis New Faces (Channel 9) in 1976 and appeared on Hey Hey It’s Saturday (first color TV broadcast). Performed at the Kardinia Park Rock Concert in the late 1970’s.

Other gigs included Skandia Sailing Regatta, Geelong RSL, PakoFesta, Lorne NYE on the foreshore, Portarlington Mussel Festival and “Remembering the Palais Days’ event.
Support Gigs
The Searchers, Col Joy, Brian Cadd, Mississippi, and also backed Ronnie Burns.
Recordings
What A Night
She’s So Good To Me
Extra Notes
Grasshopper disbanded in 1983 and reformed again in 2013.
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