Box Hill Train Station 1971. Somebody is sitting on the bench waiting for a train into the city. Which is why I'm there too. He's got a transistor radio but it's a little bigger than the one I have at home and it makes a louder sound. And the song I'm hearing is "My Baby's Gone" by Axiom. It's not the first time I've heard it but in fact, it's the first time I hear it! like it just twigs something in my brain and sticks in there. Cos that's what a song can do. Just one day it hits you and it becomes a part of your history. And when I hear it I'm at Box Hill Station waiting for a train in 1971.
Of course, I never had a baby that was gone. I'm 15, in Form 4, and have yet to have anything close to a girlfriend. There is a good chance I'd never been kissed. I went to a boy's high school. I spent a lot of time listening to records. And working out how to buy more working a Chemist delivery round in Blackburn South. $3.60 a week.
My Baby's Gone is an absolute cracker of a record. It sounds amazing and always mystified me why a record as good as this wasn't massive all over the world. Glenn Shorrock is a great singer. As he was in the Twilights. I'm not going to mention Glenn's next band LRB but I probably should since their lead guitarist David Briggs recorded Captain Cocoa when I was managing them and also mastered a few Little Murders albums. And he was very good. He likes to go into the red on the desk.
Oh yeah. I guess I should mention that I saw one of LRBs first gigs. Billed as Mississippi (their previous band name, kind of) they played the Burwood Teachers College Ball at the St. Kilda Town Hall (supporting a Beach Boys cover band) The bass guitarist from the Zoot, Beeb Birtles played guitar. Can't remember much about them but the Beach Boys band had everyone up and dancing.
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