My name is Warren Keats I was born in Ivanhoe in 1961
the younger son of Les & Joy Keats We lived in West Heidelberg
not far from the Olympic village
.
I was part of a musical family,
Older brothers Garry & Kerran both played guitar
Mum and Dad had a country band
And both brothers played in it.
I guess my first musical memories
are a strange mixture of sixties rock and roll radio
Buck Owens, Hank Snow, Jean Shepherd, The Twilights, The Easybeats,
Jimmy Rodgers, Bobby & Laurie And A Few Instrumental Records My Brother Left Laying Around
Like Amapola By The Spotnicks And Other Strange And Marvellous Things
The song that made me want to be a guitar player
was Apache by The Shadows
The sound of that guitar made me think I could
do worse things than make a noise like that
While the run of the mill life in West Heidelberg
usually involved stealin a car or getting a tattoo
this was probably a very sensible decision
I am now 51 years of age and
I am still one of the few kids From Marie Ave
that has not got a tattoo or an earring.
By the time I was about eleven
I got Garrys job which he inherited from Kerran
as the lead guitarist in the Keats family band
And so began a journey that we would share
my mum and dad and me for the next thirty years.
That was 1971
The Rest Of The Story is contained within these
web pages hope you enjoy the journey as much as i did