Hi I'm Murray Wiggle. Hi I'm Emma Wiggle from The Wiggles
and we covered Tame Impala's Elephant for Like A Version.
The wiggles love animals and so we chose it because we like elephants and it was kind of a
tribute to Tame Impala as well who were amazingly successful and brilliant as it turns out.
We've seen Tame Impala a lot at the Arias. We're not really ever had a meeting per se but we're
very much inspired by the band. When we got into it we didn't realise how complex it would be.
I was actually really thrilled when Anthony contacted me and said we're doing this song for
Like A Version and do you want to come and play on it and I mean we still have a lot of contact
we see each other but I don't play with these guys so much. I was a little nervous because
I only made it to one rehearsal. You smashed it. I did all right. Yeah but if you notice if
you look closely in the video I've got a whole sheet of notes on the top drum because I needed
to. Actually I kept looking at Emma saying is that it? Seven eight and one two three because it is so
complex. We wouldn't normally play songs that are like that. No, we sort of just one two three four.
We wanted to keep it faithful to the original so the best way to keep it wiggly is just sticking
Fruit Salad. We can fit it in anywhere. I think because it was complex you know we wanted to pay
respect but also try and do our best. We've had a great time learning it because it is so different
to what we would normally play and really we don't get to play together as a band that often
anymore so it's special actually to have all of us in the one room. Yeah I really loved it
because yeah as you say you know I haven't been playing with these guys for a long time and just
to have the old and the new together has been really fun. Favourite element of elephant? Yep.
I like the guitar solo. Oh I think I'm just copying Kevin's guitar solo. Thanks Kevin. Well
I love playing it was really cool. Particularly for the guys who've been playing music for such
a long period of time, over four or five decades that you've been playing guitar it is like second
nature. I'm not from a musical background so it's not natural for me to play a musical instrument.
Which is pretty amazing how quickly Emma picked up the drums. That's why I had a cheat sheet.
Yeah one I remember from a while ago now I think was some AB Original doing Dumb Things and sort
of mash between Paul's song and the rapping that those guys do and the message too was just really
great. I just found that really inspiring and a bit overwhelming actually it was great. I love
Like A Version but I listen to triple j quite a bit but mostly because I'm friends with Meg Mac
so Meg and I went to school together and she's been here quite a bit so I feel really scared
to be here because it's very much her thing and she's so amazing it's interesting for some
of these younger artists that some of their most popular songs are their triple j Like A Versions.
It's quite an exciting song for us because it's kicking off the birthday year of celebrations,
30 years of wiggling. Yeah 30 years wow. I think Anthony came up with the song and kind of the idea
and the idea of you know we're all fruit salad so we can be individuals but we all live in the same
bowl and of course there's a nod to again Fruit Salad Yummy Yummy our classic old song. I mean
I wasn't involved in it at all other than playing it today so it was great for me I could just watch
and go yeah that's really great. But Fruit Salad's in it Murray. Yeah I know I was involved in that
part of it. It's just a thrill and especially hearing Lachy and Emma and Simon's beautiful
voices I mean we always had Greg in The Wiggles but Anthony and I you know we have a go but we're
not the greatest singers in the world but it's great hearing these guys. I think any time that
you get to play with Murray is pretty cool, rock god, so for us it's a real pleasure to be able to
play with you and because we haven't really played together as a band all together for eight years or
something yeah so it's nice to be all together and to see everybody particularly in this time
that we haven't been able to you know see other members of family or we haven't been able to tour
so this has been quite special. Yeah. I guess triple j isn't the natural home for The Wiggles
but you know it's really interesting because I did Splendour with DZ Death Rays and it's great
to come to triple j because I know a lot of the audience grew up with The Wiggles and so they are
excited about it and they do love to hear us do things and I think it's great to do something like
this to this song Elephant. It just shows another side I guess to us and another side to the song.
Yeah it's a real crossover project and we do we really love Tame Impala so hopefully it's
a positive contribution. Yes I hope Kevin Parker likes it. We tried really hard. We did our best
Kevin.