House Of Nimrod

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Who, oh who are the House of Nimrod? That’s what the media and public were asking on late ‘67 as the mysterious outfit’s debut single, “Slightly Delic”, rose up the Christmas charts in New Zealand and Melbourne. Truth be told, they weren’t too sure themselves. Over on Auckland’s North Shore in Birkenhead a 33-year-old children’s song writer with a reputation for drugged debauchery (among those in the know), a wandering Aussie guitarist and the remnants of several Auckland R&B groups were experimenting with the sound of summer - harmony layered psychedelic pop. Bryce Petersen, the children’s singer, now 65, remembers the beginning, a chance meeting in September 1967 with an Aussie guitarist Johnny Breslin who he’d picked up hitchhiking, taken back to his North Shore home for a jam and clicked with. Breslin had been trying to get a band together and knew a drummer, Billy Lawton (20) from South Auckland, late of the Plague (with Corben Simpson) - Manurewa version and the Crutchley Phipps Blues Band. He knew a blues playing guitarist and philosophy student, Tony Pilcher (21) and a young Maori bassist, Larry Latimer (20).An unlikely alliance on paper, but in the context of the times it made perfect musical sense. Who better than a folkie children’s songwriter who dug classical, jazz, folk and pop of the time, who better to back him than four survivors of rock’n’roll’s frenetic beat years. And I don’t doubt the relevance of a Bob Dylan fan like Petersen linking up with an electric

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House of Nimrod EP (1967-68)

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Incredible Sound Show Stories #4: a Trip on the Magic Flying Machine

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Ugly Things #4

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A Day In My Mind's Mind

House Of Nimrod

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Ugly Things Vol. 4

Slightly-Delic

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Number 8 Wire - 16 Trippy New Zealand Nuggets 1967-69 - Remastered

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House of Nimrod EP

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Psychothartic

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House Of Nimrod - Ep (1967-68)

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A Trip On The Magic Flying Machine

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