The second gig Hunters and Collectors played after their triumphant debut at the Ballroom a week previously was on a bill with Little Murders at the Jump Club on a Wednesday night. It was a benefit gig for RRR and was part of their Radiothon. The Hunters were the middle band and we were on last. We were quite popular in those days. The place was packed when I got there so I thought it was going to be a great night. On a Wednesday! The Hunters played and I couldn't beleive how good they sounded. Just amazing. A real modern sound which made me feel I was playing stuff from the stone age. They had a gas cylinder on stage. They had these mighty rhythms banging away.
They finished their set to rapterous applause and left the stage. Unfortunately this was also the time the majority of the audience left the building. So we were playing to a small crowd on a Wednesday night. Where minutes before there were a few hundred. It felt rubbish. After the gig John Archer, the Hunters bass player was packing away the PA and apoligising for the audience leaving. We had worked with John many times as we were always hiring his PA. He made some excuses for the crowd but I knew when I saw them it would be impossible to follow the Hunters.
A month later we were supporting them at RMIT Storey hall.
I didn't think they captured that live sound on their early records and I was still into guitar pop not Teutonic Rhythms so it was a surprise a year or so down the line when I heard this record. This is the first of many versions they released. To me it sounded like a Byrds song. Just a great melody. Great lyrics. I remember playing it to Mick Barclay who loved it and who ended up getting on stage a few months later with the Hunters and doing backing vocals on this song.
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