I was rifling through my singles box the other day when I came across this single. The picture sleeve is just there, tattered and torn. The box smells of pubs but that's neither here nor there. This was one of the biggies. I first started playing this song at a club called Barbarellas in Smith Street Fotzroy. Acrooss the road from the Jump Club. Actually between sets I would go for a drink at the Jump Club. Check out the bands for half a hour.. Or go upstairs for a drink.
Barbarellas was the next venture for Ronny and Michael after the runaway success of Rubber Soul. This time I was heavily involved in the setting up including naming the place (after a club in Birmingham UK) designing the poster and outlining the set list. Basically it was play anything that works. A policy I used when it came to setting up my own venue. Actually before we opened Barbarellas at Ashleys we tried a Wednesday club called Glam which lasted 4 weeks.
Barbarellas went through the roof. There were queues around the corner before we opened. It was just amazing. But it only lasted a year.
My fellow DJs were Jason and Adam. Jason played this song one night and it sounded like a jet plane taking off. It had just some pure drive booming out the speakers. The crowd went nuts. So I quickly adopted it into my set. after that it was the first to play it. But the timing had to be right or it would lose it's effect. You can't play a song just cos it's good . It's also about timing. The Cult had a few other big singles. Some people say their later stuff ripped off AC/DC. I've played a lot more Cult than Ac/Dc in my time.
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