The old man would take off from time to time with his band to do the country festivals. Sometimes he would take me with him.


By the age of 15 I was playing rhythm guitar in the band, touring Western Queensland. Covering a lot of sheep sheering and mining towns. Often touring with small carnivals and rodeos I remem- ber travelling with Brody’s boxing tent where we would drive for miles and miles with nothing either side of the road but red dust till we came to the mining town. Up went the tent and out came the boxing ring where they had aboriginal boxers who fought the local miners about town.


There was a mechanical bull and a traveling whorehouse on a road train and lots of booze on tap with us in the corner playing all night and into the early morning. Then pack up and on to the next town. I was 16 when I found a record in a milk crate outside a milk bar. The picture on the front cover intrigued me. It was Lightning Hopkins and I had never heard of this deep blues before and bought it on impulse. That record never left the player for a very long time. I would sit with my guitar slowing down the records of Elmore James and learning to play along. This is where I guess I started my collection and search for my own sound. My next musical journey was moving down south where I played in various bands with electric guitar and also sang lead and backing.


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