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Kim Salmon

Kim Salmon
Kim Salmon & the Surrealists.jpg
Kim Salmon & the Surrealists, Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne November 2008
Background information
Birth name Kim Leith Salmon
Born 1957 (age 59–60)
Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia
Origin Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Genres Indie rock, swamp rock, punk blues, grunge
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter
Instruments Vocals, guitar, banjo
Years active 1976–present
Labels Citadel, Shock, Half a Cow, Carrot Top, Mushroom, Polydor, MGM
Associated acts The Cheap Nasties, The Exterminators, The Invaders, The Scientists, Louie Louie, Beasts of Bourbon, Salamander Jim, Kim Salmon and the Surrealists, Kim Salmon and the Business, Antenna, Darling Downs
Website kimsalmon.com.au
Notable instruments
Yamaha G55 acoustic guitar

Kim Leith Salmon (born 1957, Bunbury) is an Australian indie rock musician and songwriter from Perth. He has worked in various groups including The Scientists, Beasts of Bourbon, Kim Salmon and the Surrealists, Kim Salmon and the Business, and Darling Downs. Australian rock musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described Salmon as one of the first Australians to "embrace wholeheartedly the emergent punk phenomenon of the mid-to-late 1970s" with The Scientists. He declared that Beasts of Bourbon were "masters of uncompromising gutbucket blues and hard-edged rock'n'roll". In 2004 Salmon was inducted into the West Australian Music Industry Association Hall of Fame.

Kim Leith Salmon was born in 1957 in the Western Australian port city of Bunbury. He later recalled wanting to be a nuclear physicist until, at the age of 13, he heard "heavy rock stuff" on the radio. He bought his first guitar, "an acoustic steel string thing", for A$14 and taught himself to play "Black Night" and "Tobacco Road". By the age of 18 Salmon had started a fine arts course at a university but deferred after a year, "I didn't really fit in with it". At the age of 19 he was a member of Troubled Waters, a cabaret covers band playing in a Fremantle strip club.

In August 1976 with Salmon on lead vocals and lead guitar, he formed Perth's first punk band, The Cheap Nasties. His early influences include The Modern Lovers self-titled album (1976), New York Dolls, and The Stooges. Salmon recruited his high school mates: Mark Betts on drums; Dan Dare on bass guitar; Neil Fernandez on guitar; and Robert Porritt on vocals. After Salmon left in December 1977 they were renamed as The Manikins.


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