PUNTERS may drop everything when Daddy Cool himself — former Mondo Rock frontman Ross Wilson (pictured) — performs at the Williamstown RSL.
Ross Wilson and The Peaceniks will play new and old material, including Daddy Cool’s 1971 No.1 hit Eagle Rock, at the Way Out West Roots Music Club on October 26.
Since the 1980s, it’s been a regular sight at gigs for patrons to unbuckle belts and hobble around with their pants around their ankles when the song is played.
“I didn’t invent it, Australians invented it as a response to Eagle Rock,” says Wilson, who turns 65 next month.
“But in certain parts of the country, whenever Eagle Rock’s played —in bars, or uni, and it’s big in the military — they’ve got their pants around their ankles and sort of do this dance.
Wilson, whose last visit to Williamstown was about five years ago, has warned the custom may reveal itself at the RSL.
“The word’s getting out there; it’s happening a little bit more at my shows and also women are starting to do it,” he said.
“Up in Queensland, the University of Queensland, they lay claim, whether it’s true or not — I don’t think it is true but they claim that they invented it.
“So, you’ve got this thing in the student bar that one of the rules in the bar is that patrons are not to be ejected if they drop their pants to this song, Eagle Rock, but they must replace them at the finish of the song.”
Wilson’s performance is part of his Spring Carnival of Rock tour, which is promoting his latest album.
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— Goya Dmytryshchak
