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01 - The Allman Brothers Band - Hot ‘Lanta 02 - Rare Amber - Solution 03 - Coloured Balls - That’s What Mama Said 04 - John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - The Super-Natural 05 - Ancient Grease - Prelude To A Blind Man 06 - Mungo Jerry - I Just Wanna Make Love To You 07 - Kin Ping Meh - Sometime 08 - Eric Burdon & The Animals - Monterey 09 - Rhinoceros - When You Say You’re Sorry 10 - Illinois Speed Press - Morning Blues 11 - Love Sculpture - Blues Helping 12 - Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper - Green Onions

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Aztecs: Live! At Sunbury (1972)

1972’s Sunbury Festival was Australia’s Woodstock, so it’s rather fitting that Billy Thorpe and his Aztecs’ (keyboardist Bruce Howard, bassist Paul Wheeler and drummer Gil Matthews) double-document of their blistering headline set would arguably prove to be their career’s crowning achievement.

The English-born Thorpe was already a veteran of ‘60s pop, mod and beat groups with several hits under his belt; but it was in front of Sunbury's 35,000-strong hippie congregation that his reinvention as scruffy, electrified, blues-rock shaman left mouths agape, eyes bulging, and ears bleeding.

This, ladies and gentlemen, sounds like a truly LIVE album!

Though it was only after they’d “softened up” the crowd with an urgent “C.C. Rider” and a swinging “Be Bop a Lula” (‘50s rock & roll covers that reflected the same nostalgic fad that would soon inspired AC/DC) that Thorpie and his merry men really let ‘em have it, via the self-penned “Momma.”

A grimacing, twelve-minute tour de force, this wild-eyed boogie showed off Billy’s powerhouse voice and sizzling fretwork (I bet Angus Young was taking notes in the crowd), and led into an only slightly less emphatic take on B.B. King’s blues “Rock Me Baby” (on which Howard's piano work really shone).

Next up was the band's then hit single, “Most People I Know (Think I’m Crazy),” with its infectious folk-rock chorus punctuated by additional solo guitar bursts, followed by the closest the Aztecs ever came to hippie-dippie sentimentality in the slow grinding “Time to Live.”

Live at Sunbury wrapped up with two protracted jams on Rufus Thomas’ “Jump Back” (with Thorpe blowing a mean harmonica) and Etta James’ “Ooh Poo Pa Doo,” which was transformed into a spirited call-and-response singalong between band and audience.

All in all, Live! At Sunbury (which would peak at number eight on the Australian charts) is a testament to the power of its simplicity and the magic that could be achieved with classic rock & roll, a stack of overdriven Marshall amps, and a bad-ass attitude.

That’s why the Aztecs deserve a ton of credit for encouraging the ‘70s’ hard rock scenes in Australia, via future heavyweights like Buffalo, The Coloured Balls, Buster Brown, Rose Tattoo and, of course, AC/DC.

p.s. -- Portions of this blog appeared in my All-Music Guide review of the Aztecs’ Live! At Sunbury.

More ‘70s Rock from Oceania: AC/DC’s T.N.T., Buffalo’s Volcanic Rock, Buster Brown’s Something to Say, Fanny Adams’ Fanny Adams, Kahvas Jute’s Wide Open, Rose Tattoo’s Rose Tattoo, Space Farm’s Space Farm.