The debut studio album by the Coloured Balls. By the time Lobby Loyde formed the Coloured Balls in March 1972, he was already a 12-year veteran of the local music scene. Working his way through R&B legends The Purple Hearts, psychedelic heroes The Wild Cherries and onto the bluesy Aztecs, Loyde had well and truly established his reputation as Australia’s pre-eminent guitar master. By the beginning of 1973, the band’s standing was such that they put in an astonishing performance at the second annual Sunbury Festival. However, the band acquired an ill-deserved and self-reinforcing reputation for violence at their shows, leading to their dissolution under all the pressure in 1975. Comparisons have been made with the MC5, Hawkwind, the 1970s UK punk scene, AC/DC, Rose Tattoo and The Angels - but nothing fits convincingly. Phil Rudd was briefly a member, after leaving Buster Brown and before joining AC/DC, and Bon Scott sang with them on several occasions when they went through Adelaide. The fashion sensibility of the time was "sharpie" - a sort of skinhead look with long hair at the back and garish early 1970s clothes (expensive Italian cardigans, flairs): very ugly! The LP is now quite rare, and usually goes for around $200, but has been reissued on CD, and a year or two ago, on LP. The music is very much intense guitar-based rock, but it's also very different... blues, inventive guitar soloing, raw venomous guitar work, deceptively simple-sounding catchy tunes - bits of all