1968. First year of High School. Out go watching cartoons at 6:30am in the morning. The only time you could see those weird Marvel ones where the characters didn't actually move. Straight out of the comic strip. In came GTK and pop shows on Channel 2 on a Saturday afternoon.
This is one of the first videos I can remember watching. Well maybe not the first but I'm not going to count the Beatles because they were kind of omnipresent. I used to love watching this video. It was like all the weird films they would show at school under the name of art. Girls running through grave yards. Over exposed images. Mad men. My first taste of psychedelic Australian rock. A fantastic band that should of been massive overseas. Like the Easybeats should of.
Actually I used to think it was the cemetery in the video was the one next to my school. Box Hill cemetery. Our art teacher used to send us over there to draw angels and take photos. Later we used to take girls there so we could dare them if they would kiss you while sitting on a grave. We'd carefully place our transistor radio on the headstone. We thought we were cool but it was the only place to hang out where no one bothered you. Otherwise we found the sheds a cool place to smoke. There never seemed to be anyone around. Even fights between rival schools were arranged at the cemetery. then they started building shopping malls and everything changed.
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