Are you going to go along with it?' I wasn't going to be stuck-in-the-mud, so I said, yeah. When we got to Sydney, our Management said, 'Everyone will think you're Johnny Diesel. I wanted it to appear in the newspaper to amuse John Dalzell but the name stuck. 'I'm going to put an ad in the paper, does this nameless band have a name?' I told her we were 'Johnny Diesel and the Injectors'. 'You're starting to draw a few people,' she said. Then I got a call from the woman from the venue where we were playing one night a week. "A friend of ours used to refer to them as 'Johnny Diesel and his little injectors' I thought it was funny. "John had one kid and another on the way," Mark explains. As explained by Lizotte, the real story is that the band's name was never meant to be permanent it came about as the result of a casual joke concerning the band's bass player, John Dalzell. Īccording to music journalist, Ed Nimmervoll, the name Johnny Diesel was either from Lizotte's days as a petrol dispenser or from a corruption of John Dalzell's name being misapplied to him as the lead singer. The band played a mixture of R&B, blues and Southern rock they developed a local following in Perth but decided to relocate to Sydney in September 1987. 1986–1991: Band: Johnny Diesel & the Injectors īy June 1986, Diesel was back in Perth and had split from Innocent Bystanders leaving fellow member Ross Watson but taking Bremond, Dalzell and Sherritt, and they formed Johnny Diesel & the Injectors with George Dalstrom as a second guitarist. They had attracted the attention of hard rockers, The Angels, and went on to record another single and an album, Don't Go Looking Back, which was released later in 1986, however Diesel had already left the band. Innocent Bystanders travelled to Sydney to record their second single, "Dangerous", released in July 1986. In 1983 he joined Innocent Bystanders, a Perth pub rock band, and they released a single, "Lebanon" in 1984 with the line-up of Diesel, John "Tatt" Dalzell on bass guitar, Brett Keyser on vocals, Cliff Kinneen on keyboards and Sherrit on drums. Close Action included Diesel on guitar, Bernie Bremond on saxophone, John Heussenstamm on guitar and Sherrit on drums. The Kind had Diesel with Denise DeMarchi, Suze DeMarchi, Dean Denton, Gary Dunn, John 'Yak' Sherrit and Boyd Wilson. In his mid-teens, Diesel (as Mark Lizotte) performed with The Kind and Close Action. It was well regarded that Diesel's lead guitar talents stole the show and won first prize for the band. In 1981 Dark Spot entered the battle of the band competition in Fremantle with an original song penned by Duncan Andrews with Andrews on vocals and bass. Each band member tried out for the vocalist spot but it was thought that no one could sing well enough. Whilst the band was without a vocalist for some time, Andrews was on bass, with Bill Advic on electric rhythm guitar and Diesel on lead guitar. ĭuring his school days at Scarborough Senior High School he joined a newly formed band by Duncan Andrews named "Dark Spot". 1980) at Scarborough Senior High School when he decided on a musical career: "I was trying to get my head around algebra and suddenly I thought: 'Hang on, I don't have to do this. While his siblings became teachers, Diesel eventually settled on electric guitar as his main instrument.
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Henry was a professional saxophonist performing in the US and Australia, Diesel and his siblings were surrounded by music from an early age. Later moving to Perth, Western Australia, where he later had a job pouring petrol-an experience that provided inspiration for his music.
They arrived into Sydney, dad purchased a station wagon and the family drove down the Hume Highway and settled in Albury, NSW. His father, Henry Bertram Lizotte (born 19 June 1929), and his mother, Theresa Rita (née Morin, born 18 January 1930) were parents of Jeannine, Bruce, Michael, Laura, Donna, Brian and Mark. Diesel was born on in Fall River, Massachusetts, United States, and emigrated to Australia with his family, in November 1971.