In the sixties when I first heard songs like these I was far too young to appreciate how good they were. My pop mind wasn't opened until The Monkees. It took until the last days of Ziggy Stardust and the end of Glam Rock for me to to really get into the sixties. And each new track just knocked me out out. So it was with Keep On Running which just pounded along. However it would be another long wait before we started opening clubs where we could play this stuff.
In 77/78 when punk was taking off in Melbourne there were a lot more parties than gigs on the weekend. Most punk bands played week nights. Parties seldom were great although they did have their moments. Half the time it was scavenging for alcohol. Or fighting over who got to put the music on. I was already in the habit of making up mixtapes of sixties singles. Pop singles like the Who and Small Faces and the Beatles. I would come across followers of the Doors or The Stooges or Kraftwerk. Many of the punks weren't into sixties pop. I wasn't into the Doors. And I certainly didn't want to hear a whole album of Stooges at a party. Despite the rocking "No Fun" et al we had to listen to the dirge too. I didn't win out. My tapes were ejected. I had to make a move before I got ejected too.
Me and my friends had to and find a place where we could hear the Small Faces and the Stones. Eventually we created our own scene. The Melbourne Mod revival starts here.
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