LAS VEGAS WOULD HAVE BEEN THE PERFECT BACKDROP FOR JADE HURLEY AND HIS PIANO
Most of the time if you're good and have something special as a musician you'll make it big sooner or later, regardless of record company manipulations.
Even though aussie rock'n'roll veteran Jade Hurley has made a habit of playing the same songs over and over when performing live and has only written about 2 songs in his life, he's a great entertainer and real Houdini behind the piano, right down to playing the ivory keys with his feet.
Hurley to me is a performer who plays music, not a musician who performs. Essentially Jade has himself to blame for being snubbed by the record companies and promoters because he's always refused to venture out of his safe haven as a second generation performer of classic rock'n'roll songs, Hurley has forever settled for carving out a hard living by playing smaller venues to an audience of a few dozen and not a few thousand.
He is now in his early 70`s and his most famous cover performance is a song written by Tommy Dee, called THREE STARS, a tribute to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper.
Hurley always done a great job of articulating this song, and you cant knock the way in which he made a career out of recycling classic rock'n'roll and flavouring them with his piano pyrotechnics.
But to me Jade Hurley missed his vocation in life, he should have gone to Las Vegas and made a life and career for himself there.
Jade would never have had to leave, his robotic and predictable live set would have been okay in Vegas because you always have a new audience there because they are all tourists.
It's rather belittling, but his only career break was a regular slot on the Mike Walse Show in the early 80`s. He's the Johnny O'Keefe who never quite made the big time.
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