A HUGE thank you to Sue, who suggested this week and, of course, led us through the festival - Thank you, Sue. An equally massive thank you to Chris, the Curator, for helping shape up this week. It was an absolutely fantastic week for G and me, living through these tracks and listening to Sue's memories Thank you to everyone who contributed and left comments. Be well and more soon!

RIP Lobby and his guitar George….buried together as is fitting

In the 70 we girls went natural not covered up in makeup , I don’t remember anyone being overweight, knew no one with allergies or stress. Great music ,great time to have grown up in. ❤

This while the rest of the world was looking the other way.

Thanks for Lobby Loyde. He started in Brisbane with a bluesy outfit The Purples Hearts - around 1965. He went to Melbourne and joined the Wild Cherries - the best band on the club scene in Melbourne at the time, but unknown elsewhere because they were not a top 40 band with hit records on radio. I saw Lobby first with the Wild Cherries in 1967 - my first year out of high school and away from home, and immediately became a big fan. I saw them quite a few more times in 1967-68. Lobby had a sticker on his guitar (which was an orange Fender Jaguar, if I recall) saying “BB is King”. As a teenager and totally new to live music, I kept thinking to myself, who is this BB King; and surely an old black guy couldn’t possibly be as good as Eric Clapton (my guitar hero at the time). Anyway, a few years later Lobby popped up with the reincarnated Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs. In my view this was the best version of The Aztecs with Billy Thorpe at his peak, and Lobby Loyde at his peak - and I wish Lobby had stayed with Thorpie a lot longer longer. The Aztecs had a better sound with with 2 guitars - lead (Lobby) and rhythm (Billy), and Billy was a better singer than Lobby was in his own band later on. Meanwhile back in Brisbane a couple of Lobby’s former Purple Hearts band mates formed a new group - The Coloured Balls (Lobby was not in this band). I saw them a few times on the local Brisbane scene in 1971, but their success and recognition was pretty much limited to Brisbane - they were probably tied down with day jobs. Anyway, after Lobby left the Aztecs he formed his own new group in Melbourne and “stole” (I’m speculating here) the Coloured Balls moniker from his Brisbane mates to form a totally different band - Lobby Loyde’s Coloured Balls. As you can hear, Lobby’s guitar was raw and rough compared to guitarists these days. But they were making up as they went, because there was no one else around doing this sort of music to inspire and learn from. The sound was not sophisticated, but they were loud and exciting. Those were the days.

The Godfather of Australian Pub rock and a master Producer to boot. A great track. A larger than life character.

You asked why was Aussie Rock scene so good and how did they get so good. This is what we grew up with in the 70’s and 80’s

An epic finish to a great week. Sue, you're an evergreen rockin' legend! I never made it to any of the festivals. My brother refused to let me go with him and Mum wouldn't let me go alone. I've never forgiven that dark hearted brother.

Lobby was a bloke. In the Aztecs then his own couple of bands and later did a stint on bass in Rose Tattoo. A legend of Aussie hard rock. BTW I think I remember that GOD was an acronym for Guitar Over Drive. Just a faint memory but I think that is right

And the rest of the world was nowhere to be seen. So good to have been there in person. Glad you guys visited our world for a moment in time. I don't think you could ever get a festival that raw again. Too many rules and regulations (and idiots) these days.

50 years later i actually live in sunbury i used to watch Lobby Loyd and the coloured balls in Melbourne many times great times

That last track by Lobby was freaking brilliant! What an absolute cracker to finish the.week off with.

God has to be one of the most atmospheric tracks ever written ❤🇬🇧💪💪💪🔥🔥🔥🔥

OMFG, my parents partied hard as shit! What an awesome piece of Aussie music history. Great week, well done and thanks to all involved... XY GT casually cruising in 🥵

wow! imagine listening to that live while off your face. you would have thought youd left the planet. thanks guys. thanks sue. i drive through diggers rest on way to airport- can still see musical notes floating in the air

lobby was just fantastic you could just about say he was the australian version of jimi hendrix

I reckon the footage for the Johnny B Goode track was actual Sunbury footage, obviously not from that song. Note the haircuts - Lobby & The Coloured Balls were a "Sharpies" band. The Sharpies were a youth movement, bit like the Hippies, but with a lot more menace, grog, and apart from the hair, wore skin tight cardigans. Melbourne's Sharpies were pretty wild. BTW - "G.O.D." stood for "Guitar Over Drive."

Brilliant. Just brilliant.. it could be mistaken that Tony Iommi was out there.

Had a feeling at the start of the week that Lobby would be here. He was the duck's guts.

Woohoo!!... Brought back memories of seeing Lobby at Berties sweat pit in the late 60's / early 70's. 🎸 Nothing but sweat and ear wax stuck to the walls when Lobby played 😵‍💫

A "GOD" like piece of music.

That is the Real Wall of Sound. Quite a trip listening through headphones. Thanks fellas and Sue.

I heard Billy Thorpe say this was 4.30 am, but it doesn't matter what time. Lobby was saying, ok girls and boys, wakey wakey, you've had enough sleep 😅😳.

Amazing end to your Sunbury tribute in Oz! So many memories. 😊

Holy cow -- that was awesome! If it was 3 a.m., though, probably only a few dozen folks were awake and able to appreciate the performance, lol. Probably hundreds to thousands more folks were passed out amidst beer, cigarettes, weed and pills, but they can still claim to have been there! Many thanks to the Thamesmen and also thank you, Sue!

We had/have so much musical talent to be so proud of. 👏👏👏🇦🇺

Lobby Loyde was way, way ahead of his time. It's a shame he didn't ever make it big as the notes mentioned.

I think I saw Gerry Humphrys (in the straw hat) being interviewed. I think he hosted the first Sunbury. Check out his band The Loved Ones. The had some great hits in the mid/late '60s. The Loved One, Sad Dark Eyes, Blueberry Hill

Great tribute to the wonderful Lobby RIP mate, on a side note the guy talking to so many in the video GOD was our Music GURU Molly Meldrum, who for so many years on The ABC here had Countdown which was a music show that gave so many Aussie bands their big break and overseas acts where shown to the Australian public, TY so much Sue for the memories this brought back too me the days of love peace and dreams of what was ahead isn't it a shame we can't slip back to those days just for a little while and relive them. Keep Safe Keep Strong 🦘🦘🦘🦘🎶🎶🎶🎶💖💖💖💖

What an awesome way to finish a cracking week. I haven't heard GOD in a number of years. Cheers for having this music on the channel.

It's actually Lobby Loyde & The Coloured Balls - GOD On 29 August 2006, legendary Aussie rocker Billy Thorpe held a benefit Concert for his long time friend, former fellow Aztec & pioneering guitar hero Lobby Loyde, who had been diagnosed with lung cancer, to help his family with medical expences etc. Thorpe assembled a who's who of 60's & 70's rock, some bands reforming for the first time in in decades, to honour the now ailing musician, now in the final stages of the disease, who was not expected to be well enough to peform himself. However to the joy of the 1,000's who packed The Palace, Loyde played with 3 of his reformed bands that night. 2 months later Thorpie died as well.

Tsunami of Sound!!!!!!!!!!

Lobby Loyde and the coloured balls!! Then it was Lobby Loyde and the coloured girls!!

Lobby Loyde was a badass. The true godfather of heavy rock in our country, so much of the music that comes from here is heavily influenced by his playing. I met him a few years before he passed and he was a really friendly guy too.

You guys crack me up. It's Lobby Loyde AND THE Coloured Balls 😂 Holy crap, that second song was a tour de force 👏 And the vox pop footage is classic! Pretty sure legendary music journalist Molly Meldrum was interviewing a couple of ppl. The festival audience might have been the only ones doing more drugs than him 😂

Sue, you bloody legend, and Chris also obviously. What a great week, things I knew, things I didn't, as always, a journey through time and music. Lobby Loyde, I definitely heard, but what was it I heard? None of this stuff, which was awesome, but what was their biggest hit? I can't think of it. Anyway, thank you Thamesmen, as always, you make my day. ❤

OMG, I have been waiting for Lobby Loyde. Sue, you are a God to me. Lobby Loyde is the architect of Australian Pub Rock guitar, even before it was a thing. Typing this as I am watching, I sure hope the bonus track has some Sharpie Dancing. Bonus Track: Wow, I have never heard this recording before. Check Mate, game over, any other cliche, this is the stuff. This is the heartbeat of Australian music back in the day. Damn, still no Sharpie Dancing. It's hard to feel disappointed after that, but I would have loved some Sharpies in the footage. I know that from that era, you take what you can get though. This was a really fun week, thanks Sue and team for putting it on.

Great! So glad you enjoyed this & shared it! I was too young to be there, but I've listing to this music since I was sixteen, The last song was GOD, I would get really stoned & listen to it with my headphones on! It is on the Live at Sunbury album! Ball Power is defiantly worth a listen! Thanks again from a fellow countryman raised in Australia!

Met Lobby in 2006 when we reformed the Purple Hearts In Brisbane to support the relaunch on VASE amps. A legend. Had the chance to spend time backstage with him. Her showed me a few rock/blues guitar shapes on his borrowed Goldtop.

Turned up to Level 11...🤩

That was frisking awesome, thanks

That was pretty amazing. Of all the things I heard that would emerge after this, I think I heard where Midnight Oil’s sound and energy was drawn from. They guys must have seen and/or been influenced by Lobby and his Balls. The video was a super nostalgic showreel of the time. Eskies, Premiers, Mokes, Melbourne Bitter, a bunch of people arriving on Red Rattlers drawn by the old blue and yellow V-Line diesel, it was just a parade of Melbourne culture. I almost expected to see some Sandmans with surfboards on the pack racks but then I realised it was a couple of years too early for that. Great choices, Sue! Thanks for the mix of old favourites and new stuff I hadn’t heard before.

And here I was thinking the festival lasted 5 days, and on day 6 up round cos the legendary Lobby Loyde with a stellar track to take us out and send us home! Thanks guys, and see ecial thanks to Sue for putting this together! The early 70s were seminal in the cultural awakening of Australia in so many ways - music, film, art, politics and cultural and social awareness and change. And Sunbury was a key component of that. Great footage of the festival as well. I suspect the neatly attired chap in the hat early on in the footage was George Duncan, on who’s farm the festival was held. But I’m happy to be corrected to f in wrong. I even had a moment of nostalgia seeing the red rattler pulling into the train station - I spent many trips back and forth between Melbourne and Geelong in the 70s on those. Stunning end to a wonderful week of music! Thanks again.

Lobby Loyde (John/Barry Lyde) (1941-2007) ex Impacts, Purple Hearts, Wild Cherries, Aztecs, Coloured Balls.

Loyde turned his attention to more production work, including albums for X, The Sunnyboys, Machinations and Painters and Dockers.[4]

Lobby! Yeah baby

2 Bands i haven't seen you review are " Healing Force " doing Golden Miles and Pirahna doing " Here it comes again ". Both 70's tracks. While you're at it, check out Doug Parkinson and the Southern Star Band ( featuring Tommy Emmanual as an up and coming player ). You just mentioned a guy near and dear to me, " Leo DeCastro ". Get onto him. Great voice.

I am born and raised in Sunbury, when I was younger we had many bands playing around Melbourne and I was a drummer in one and rhe Sunbury roxk festivals were very prominent on what we got told as kids. Wish I was there but it was the parents years. I have a fish down there occasionally as it is a nice spot

Haven’t heard that in 20 years. What a rush

I would have saved my last trip for this one

Wow, I remember a mates big brother that had album’s by Lobby & Coloured Balls…. Which we used to play when the coast was clear. 🤣 happ days

Back in the late 60’s right through to the early 80’s Australia was a tiny pocket of music on the other side of the world and pretty well cut off from Europe and American music other than the claptrap the record companies were pushing. As a result it was like we were inbred. We had lots and lots of good musos playing in pubs and clubs three and four times a night seven days a week. No point in most of them going overseas so they stayed and developed a unique Aussie pub band sound. I watch a lot of reactions and chuckle at reactors like you guys being blown out of your chairs by something we grew up with. And these musos don’t stop until they fall off the perch. We can still go to a nearby pub / club and listen to fabulous music being played raw, by guys in their 70’s and they still have it.

Great second track i had not heard that one before i love the deep dive a lot of great bands to go yet keep up the great work.

Some how I think half way through that song Lobby just thought F*ck it I'm just going to improvise and the other guy's just followed him I just can't imagine him writing all that with all the changes and feedback in the end it was just a great jam He also played at Korumburra Music Festival in 75 back stage I did ask him how many coloured ball he had he told me 4 I just said man your a freak as I walked off, he just laughed.

Bloody Epic!!!!!

We must give credit to the Rhythm section on Bass and Drums, they are driving the momentum of the music.

Lobby Loyde and the band members came up with ‘The Coloured Balls’ name after having viewed the snooker program ‘Pot Black’ on television - it was a reference to the coloured balls on a snooker table. Nothing as tawdry as what you guys were thinking……hahaha. Anyway another great pub rock band from my early years. They had a huge following among the skinheads and sharpies into the early and mid 70s. Thanks for playing this, brings back great memories. Cheers, Rod and Kaz 🎸🎸🎸 ( P.S. did you notice at 16:37 the guy in the straw hat looked remarkably like Charlie Sheen with long hair)

Nice way to finish the Sunbury Festival week guys. So much talent in Oz hey?

At 25.22 you'll see a guy with massive side burns, that guy is the future host of the music show COUNTDOWN from 1974 - 1987 on ABC T.V. His name is MOLLY MELDRUM. At the time of this footage MOLLY would've still been a music journalist for GO-SET magazine.

Now what kinda names do you expect for a country with the weirdest critters in the world 🤣, but definitely all real. Lobby Lloyd was the king of trippy guitar, I mean literally! He always takes me on a journey. Maybe next time you do a concert tour, you could try Narrara 83'. I was just reminded of it a few days ago and thought the timing was just magical, because everywhere I've gone in the last week, it's been Aussie 60's, 70's and early 80's themes, in music, TV and even in shopping centres.

Great week🎉

Difficult to conceive that almost everyone in that audience if they are still alive will be a pensioner. One with great stories to tell though I’m sure. Edit note except Sue it seems

What a way to finish an amazing week. Sadly not there as still in nz. Hey but I went to the Great Ngaruawahia music festival in 73 headlined by Sabbath, with many great kiwi and Oz acts, first Dragon gig anyone.

G.O.D. Guitar Over Drive!!!

Janis ‘John’ Miglans was the bass player for the band. The reason for the bass taking awhile to come into the mix, the band starting up woke him and he had to run down to the stage to plug up. They once toured with T.Rex.

Now listening to track 2 reminds of a gig they did at the Horden Pavilion. Band hit the stage with a hired backline by the promoter. In his wisdom he hires " Savage " amps ( wtf are they ? ). Outcome......the shortest concert i've seen. The backling totally fucked within 30 minutes haha.

What a great week!

Guitar Over Drive ... Does what is says on the tin.

Australian band Madder Lake ...12lb toothbrush Also Carson, Company Caine, Band of Light, La Di Da's, Buffalo

Queue shock horror I love Australian music and it’s so good and why hasn’t anyone else ever heard of it before. I think the same way ol c’ckdoodles. Australia’s been underrepresented for so long and there’s so many bands that need to be put out there to the world. Thank you for doing that old beans

I hear Glenn Branca and Sonic Youth and the whole NYC sound.

It’s been said Lobby taught Billy Thorpe how to play guitar. In fact they had known each other as teenagers in Brisbane in the early 1960’s. Lobby had cut his teeth in bands like the Purple Hearts. While Thorpe had become a star in Sydney playing at the legendary surf city. In 1970 they joined forces to record the Aztecs the hoax is over. But lobby left soon after deciding the record was not as intense as he would have liked. Lol

Was that Bon Scott from AC/DC at 14:55 on camera getting off the train…sure looks like him?

Gday guys. Great channel. Lobby Loydes last performance 29th August 2006. 6 months before he passed. He wasn't well. Billy Thorpe put on a Benefit concert for him. You'll see Lobby at his best even though he wasn't well. Enjoy.

excellent well done

Great footage! 👍🇦🇺

Holy crap what a way to go out hope you boys enjoyed your trip i know i did thanks to Sue,Chirs and yourselves for a top week looking forward to the next one. Oh and mum says hi LMAO 🤣

Wow oh my “GOD “ is right 😮 Lobby Loyde and the Coloured Balls , Sunbury version of this song is brilliant and the film clip tells the Sunbury theme, Sadly no vision of the band live 😢, Aussie pub rock culture was born out out all these bands , Finally u guys get that and why our bands are a bit different 😊 We we’re deffo spoiled , How the rest of the world missed out staggers me but I guess the Aussie pub rock culture music is unique, !!! Unfortunately I was a tad young to go at the time ( why didn’t my old man make me go 🤔😂 ) Surely there’s a Sunbury 2 in the wind 🤘🏼 great reaction guys 😊 Made my week 10+

Again, I got there Friday night before the festival started, and i was there for the jam session that ensued.Not quite sure if that was played then, for understandable reasons. Though I never took acid until 12/4 74.

That footage was so nostalgic it distracted me from the music. So I had to listen to it again with my back to the screen. Wow, Imagine that recorded with the high quality equipment of today. Absolutely epic just the same. Thank you.

Monday Monday, California dreaming forgot the titles

Nice week guys. A few of these were before my time. Although i had heard of the names and seen the odd clip, we were hearing some of this for the first time together

My children hate this! They always say where's the singing. I haven't told them this but with a good toke or six you don't need words. This is epic! Thanks Men

Should do the Devils Disciple by lobby loyde

Hi Guys , Aussie Chris here, love your reactions.Theres an Aussie band called The Little River Band one of their best songs is It A Long Way There, Please do the long version ,It'll blow you away 🤯

Fun, indeed! Alex, some of that smoke went on your lens... You looked like Lobby Loyd’s ghost, every time you moved. Some slighly beige mist. 😅

Coloured Balls' Ball Power LP is easily the equal of The Stooges' Raw Power. Perhaps better, because it's actually mixed. The CD reissue has this version of GOD as a bonus track too. Somewhere on YT is the Balls' FINAL EVER version, as Lobby was undergoing chemotherapy for the lung cancer which was soon to claim him (you can see the bandage on his arm). Surprisingly moving for a feedback-laden guitar monster. It would be fun if the lads did a similar curated list for next year's Australia Day, maybe bands known for playing the Big Day Out?

Saw fellow Queenslander Lobby thrashing George Guitar in 2002 with my cousin Goon (who recommended your channel). Lobby went hell for leather then too. Glad we got to see/hear him and a load of other Aussie legends before they carced it. Look forward to Monteray if you choose to go there - worth a look at Big Sur too...

Hi guys never heard that track before heard some coloured balls but if I had I wouldn't have bought In a Gada Da Vita, as one of my trip out songs your curators are amazing great journey dont remember the 70s very clearly Cheers Alex if you don't like Lou Reed much how about Long John Baldry

Thanks for that, great week guys thoroughly loved it, I thought of a great Week idea, Originals Vs Covers ???

Lobby just tore black sabbath a new ass..

14:53 bon scott - pre tattoos

When Rose Tattoo released Asualt & battery they used the name buster hymen & the penatrators

Guitar Over dose = G.O.D, Will happily OD to that.

As an aside, you should try and seek out a book by Murray Engleheart called "Blood, Sweat & Beers" about Oz rock from the Aztecs to Rose Tattoo. Published by Harper Collins it was originally released in 2010. It's a really interesting book on Australian pub rock.

did you see Don Scott (acdc) waiting at the bus stop

Lobby Loyde...

You guys should do Kings Of The Sun, Drop The Gun or Vampire….excellent Aussie rock, the best drummer in the world & I really mean that. You guys will like them guaranteed

Did you notice that the Aussies were rocking the mullet hair do in the early 70's when the yanks claim it as a 80;s trend.

Ahhhh the night lobby killed the goldfish. If there was ever 11 on the volume knob, lobby used 12. Damn that band was loud, about 115db at the wedge line, bleeding ears.