In 1976 I was at a Youth Camp up in Beaufort Victoria staying in tents. My friend Alan had just been to Thailand and he brought back all of these cassette tapes that he got for like 20 cents each. He had a panel van in which he had actually built a cassette rack above the windscreen. After the Goldrush was one of the tapes he brought along and for three days it was all we played. Released six years earlier and being a cool record to sit at the front of your stereo it was it's availability on cassette that took it out of the bedroom and out to the country. The album was full of great songs that we would sit round the bonfire and listen to. We were used to Harvest but this was so much better.
It was this song that did it for me though. Maybe it was Neil just going I need a break from the folk singer bit lets strap on an electric guitar and rock a little while. And rock he did. It also kind of gave me permission to put the word “dance “ in my songs without being trivial, A few years later I was introduced to him at the Jump Club in Collingwood. He was wearing platform thongs. A true individual.
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