It’s not been a kind season for Aussie rockers. First went Billy Thorpe. I first heard him driving over Mount Hood listening to the Alice Cooper radio show. Alice played the Aztecs’ cover of “Poison Ivy”, which was pretty cool. Here he is in the middle of his transition from clean-cut masher to full on hairy rocker. The ironic thing, of course, is that for fairly obvious reasons there are not a lot of Mexicans in Australia. One doesn’t really consider that one way or another until looking for a burrito, which, it turns out, is not so much of a thing here. I can only imagine in the 60’s being an Aztec in Australia might as well have been a Martian.
But then comes Lobby Lloyd, former Aztec who moved on to punk rock . Here he is in his psychedelic phase, pre-skinhead.
If I was Angus Young, I might take up jogging or summat, wouldn’t I?
