High School in the sixties and guys were forming bands left right and centre. When I hear this song the first thing I think about is all those bands playing Jumping Jack flash. every band played it. It was the sound of rock and roll. I used to listen to these bands with envy. I desperately wanted to be in a band but I didn't play guitar and neither did any of my friends. Eventually I went down to a music shop near the railway line in Box hill and bought a cheap electric guitar and a coronet amp. The most I think I did with it is pose in front of the mirror or get my mum to take photos of me posing. Eventually I started to learn to play guitar but I was really crap at playing other peoples songs so I would write my own. And when I got a band together it was a group called Feathers with me writing the songs and playing guitar while my girlfriend and a mate Ian Knee sang. But it was all a bit folky. We did win a talent show with one of my songs thogh. "Helpless Sparrow" The winners got to play at a shopping centre but we piked out. And I started looking for a drummer. Eventually I found Vic and we started Subway.
The coronet lasted for ages. In Little Murders I would connect it an old Yamaha amp and make a stack. then one night I threw my guitar at it in a Pete Townshend moment and that was the end of it. also snapped a machine head of the guitar.
The song also reminds me of Ronny W and Rubber Soul. Ronny dancing was a force of nature. And he loved the Stones. He'd get really excited. He'd put on the song then almost vault over the DJ box to start dancing. leaving me to find the next record.
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