Mental as Anything were always special to me for one simple reason. Years ago I bought a guitar from Peter O’Doherty. Peter is the bass player of the Mentals. At the time that I bought that guitar from him he was playing lead guitar in a High School band that a mate of mine played in.

Mental as Anything had not formed at that stage. Peter O’Doherty’s big brother is “Reg Mombassa” Reg is his stage name.

The Mentals became famous as a pub pop rock band with lots of good times. I only saw them once in Sydney at somewhere like the Enmore Theatre. A good gig.

Some of their zany songs included. “If you leave me can I come too” “the nips are getting bigger” amongst others.  Mental as Anything are a great Aussie Rock band of the 80’s and 90’s

Nowadays Pete and Reg perform as Dog Trumpet.

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