The first time I met the Sunny Boys they were destroying some old lockers at a railway station somewhere in Sydney. They strolled away from the party next door and started kicking the lockers. Two days later we were supporting them in some packed pub. I think it was the Mosman. We ended up playing many supports to this great Australian band. And we got on really well with them. Jeremy Oxley was into jamming. I caught up with him one day and he promised he'd join us on stage that night at the Jump Club to play You Really Got Me. Half an hour after we had finished, lights were on and the audience had gone home Jeremy is in the dressing room (the kitchen) trying to pull the band on stage to jam. There was nothing up there by now. No amps. No guitars. Just Jeremy's enthusiasm to play. "let's put the stage back together!"
I loved the sound of the Sunny Boys.It reminded me of those sixties punk bands on the Nuggets double album. They were a guitar band in the midst of synthesisers and hair bands. These guys looked like their Mum cut their hair. They cared about music. Jeremy's guitar was one of the dirtiest I'd ever seen and the strings were way past their use by date but what a sound he coaxed out of it. Great band, great song.
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