‘When it comes to a decision ... I would be failing in my duty if I did not accept the criticism and do what I believed to be right’, Margaret Hayward, Diary of the Kirk Years: Cape Catley/Reed, 1981.
EPILOGUE
Robert Nesbitt, interviewed by the author, 2014.
Rick Bryant, interviewed by the author, 2014.
‘Richard Holden was promoted ... thanking everyone for coming’, details from Catherine Woulfe, ‘Funeral for a Colourful Character’: Sunday Star-Times, August 31, 2008.
‘Entertainer Tony Bee will do anything for a laugh ... and the people friendly’, based on press releases from Lion Breweries’ archives.
Janet Clouston, interviewed by the author, 2015.
Photographs and images
Portrait of the author as a young hippie, age 11: photograph by Ben Hanly 10
Nick Bollinger (centre, profile) at NZBC television studios, Waring Taylor Street, Wellington, 1970. Bruno Lawrence is on the right, facing the camera: photographer unknown 13
Peter and Marei Dronke, Hay Street, Wellington, c. 1940: photograph by John Dronke 19
Conrad Bollinger speaking at a Vietnam rally, Civic Square, Wellington, 1965: photograph by Tom Shanahan 24
The Resistance Book Shop at 154 Willis Street, c. 1971: photograph by Keith Stewart
Tamburlaine’s Simon Morris, c. 1973: AudioCulture 41
Rick Bryant singing with Mammal, c. 1972: photographer unknown 43
Tapebox from Mammal’s NZBC recording, January 11, 1973: Rick Bryant 46
Graeme Nesbitt in an advertisement for the New Zealand Student Arts Festival: Salient, May 27, 1970 68
The last day of 6 o’clock closing, Porirua Tavern, October 9, 1967: Evening Post, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, PADL-000185 79
The new Lion Tavern, Thorndon, Wellington, January 31, 1972: Dominion, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, EP/1972/0529/29a-F 80
Prime Minister Keith Holyoake and his daughter Keitha at the opening of the Lion Tavern in Molesworth Street, Wellington, February 4, 1972: Dominion, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, EP/1972/0601/3-F 80
Alastair Riddell of Space Waltz, December 3, 1974: Dominion, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, EP/1974/7448/09-F 91
Dragon, 1974. From left: Ray Goodwin, Ivan Thompson, Marc Hunter, Neil Storey and Todd Hunter: AudioCulture 95
Graeme Nesbitt carrying the bag for Dragon in Fiji, 1974: photograph by Rachel Stace 97
The old Duke of Edinburgh Hotel soon after its closure in 1975, corner of Manners and Willis Streets, Wellington: Dominion, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, EP/1975/2775/36a 110
Bill Lake, jam session in Rick Bryant’s backyard in Thorndon, 1975: Rick Bryant 113
Poster for Dragon and Red Hot Peppers concert, Wellington Town Hall, November 14, 1976: Chris Grosz 120
Johnny Devlin at the Jive Centre, Auckland, c. 1958:
AudioCulture 129
Red Mole’s Neville Purvis (Arthur Baysting), 1978:
Arthur Baysting 139
Richard Holden in Florence, 1975: Joe Holden 144
Malcolm Hayman in The Quincy Conserve, c. 1972:
AudioCulture 146
The Distillery dressed as gangsters at a photo shoot, March, 1974. From left: Richard Holden, Paula Ryan, Richard Adcock, Steve McDonald, an unknown friend of the band and Peter Caulton; Paul Davies is sitting in the car: Joe Holden 154
The Rough Justice bus, c.1977: photograph by Janet Clouston
Rick Bryant, Martin Highland and Nick Bollinger, the Island of Real Café, Auckland, 1978: photograph by Murray Cammick 161
Janet Clouston with Rick’s hand-decorated jacket, 1978: photograph by Matthew McKee 164
The Rough Justice poster, designed by Peter Kennedy, posted on a number of occasions in different parts of the country, 1977—78: Nick Bollinger 168
Peter Kennedy and Nick Bollinger playing at the Union Hall, Wellington, 1978: photograph by Matthew McKee 179
Rockinghorse holding their award for RATA group of the year: Dominion, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, EP/1975/4757/32-F 182
Rough Justice on stage at the Last Resort, Wellington, 1978. From left: Stephen Jessup, Mike Gubb, Peter Boyd, Rick Bryant, Nick Bollinger and Peter Kennedy: photograph by Matthew McKee 184
The Island of Real Café sign, painted by Simon Clark, Auckland, 1976: Simon Clark 189
The Dominion street poster the morning after The Scavengers and Suburban Reptiles show at the Union Hall, August 25, 1977: AudioCulture 194
The Wide Mouthed Frogs, 1979. From left: Andrea Gilkison, Tina Matthews (kneeling), Katie Brockie, Sally Zwartz and Jenny Morris: Photograph by Matthew McKee 207
Chris Knox and Jane Walker at the Island of Real Café, Auckland, 1979: AudioCulture 211
Prime Minister Robert Muldoon with Mi-Sex after their concert at the Wellington Town Hall, June 17, 1980: Dominion, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, PAColl-9090-04-49 217
Steps leading up to Tinakori Hill in Wellington, unchanged since the 1980s: photograph by Nick Bollinger, 2016 222
The Red Squad and anti-Springbok tour protesters face each other at Macalister Park, Wellington, during the second rugby test between New Zealand and South Africa, August 29, 1981: photograph by Mark Hantler, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, PAColl-3191-01 227
Bruno Lawrence playing with Blerta, c. 1974: photograph by Robin White 246
Index
Page numbers in italic refer to illustrations.
10cc 135
1953 Memorial Society Rock ‘n’ Roll Band 39, 123, 215
‘Leader of the Pack’ 123
AC/DC 91
acid (LSD) 30, 63, 88, 100, 116, 143, 160, 163, 244, 267
The Action 85
Adcock, Richard 154
Aladdin Sane 90
alcohol 62, 74-75, 138, 148, 166, 182, 191-92, 218
see also pubs and taverns
Alex Lindsay String Quartet 261
All Blacks 16-17, 22
The Ambitious Vegetables 195, 196
American Graffiti (film) 128
The Animals 85
apartheid 16, 22-23, 64, 227, 251
Aranui Hotel, Christchurch 185
Arch Hill Recordings 258
Arhoolie label 111
Arkestra 39
Asia Minor 39
Aubrey’s nightclub, Christchurch 66
Auckland University, Student Union Hall 66-67
Average White Band 124
Baby 39, 215
Bachman-Turner Overdrive 90
Backhouse, Tony 42, 51, 152, 203, 205, 244, 261, 266
Ball, Rick 65, 265
The Band 112
Bandit King record label 258
barmaids 81
baroque ‘n’ roll 261
Barrett, Aston 231
Barris, George 73, 260
The Basket Cases 210
Bassett, Michael 66
Bastion Point 231
Bathgate, Alec 210
Baxter, James K. 21, 64, 66, 116, 215, 267-68
Bayley, Kevin 184
‘Danny’s Blues’ 184
‘Julia’ 184
Baysting, Arthur (Neville Purvis) 138-39, 141, 203, 209, 257
Beat Rhythm Fashion 220
The Beatles 9-11, 28, 48, 51, 59, 79, 121, 132, 165, 203
‘Day Tripper’ 33, 52
‘Happiness is a Warm Gun’ 53, 266
A Hard Day’s Night 10-11
‘Help’ 50, 265
‘I am the Walrus’ 11
‘Revolution’ 11
‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ 11
Bee Gees 124, 147
Bee, Tony 242
Begg’s Music Store, Wellington 30
Bell Block Tavern, New Plymouth 166
Berry, Chuck 33, 37, 170
Berry, John 150
Billy the Club 264
Birch, Dan and Nino 220
Black Power gang 117-18
Blam Blam Blam 233
‘Blue Belmonts’ 256
The Complete Blam Blam Blam 256
‘Don’t Fight It Marsha, It’s Bigger Than Both of Us’ 256
‘Got to Be Guilty’ 256
Luxury Length 256
Maids to Order 255, 256
‘There Is No Depression in New Zealand’ 229-30, 255, 256
Bland, Bobby (‘Blue’) 8
Bleakley, Patrick 7
Blerta 34-36, 39, 116, 140, 160, 178, 203, 213, 218, 248-49, 250
‘Aunty Ada’ 256-57
‘Dance All Around the World’ 256
‘Freedom St Marys’ 247-49, 251, 256
The Return Trip 256, 257
‘This Is the Life’ 256, 257
Wild Man 257
Blood, Sweat & Tears 147
Blue Brick 39
blues 33, 37, 61, 63, 65, 67, 85, 90, 121, 235, 241, 257
blues rock 65-66, 73, 85, 264, 265
delta blues 111-12
folk blues 85
National Blues Convention, Auckland 64, 87-88
‘revival’ 33—34, 65
rhythm and blues 133, 135, 140, 143, 173, 186, 195, 200, 238
Victoria University Rock and Blues Society 65, 75
white blues 33, 52, 61, 85-89, 112
Blues is News radio programme 114
The Bluesbreakers 86
Bob Marley and the Wailers 230
Bolan, Marc 90
Bollinger, Alun 9
Bollinger, Conrad 10, 12, 21-25, 24, 32, 105-08, 227-28, 233
Bollinger, Marei (née Dronke) 12, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 105, 106, 107, 108, 215, 233
Bollinger, Max 32
Bollinger, Nick: photographs 10, 13, 161, 179, 184
Bollinger, Sue 9
Bollinger, Thomasin 105, 107, 108, 175, 176
Bollinger, Tim 9, 11, 12, 14, 105, 108, 109, 221
Booker, James 237
Bowie, David 89, 90, 165, 263
Boyd, Peter 173, 175, 178-79, 184, 198, 200, 205, 209, 225, 244
Brazier, Graham 87, 165, 166, 201
‘Blue Lady’ 256
Brel, Jacques 89, 90
Brockie, Katie 207
Broderick Inn, Wellington 157
Brown, Arthur 172
Brown, Clinton 181, 183, 184, 191-92, 193, 195
Brown, James 8, 171-72, 214
‘Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag’ 133
Browning, Michael 91
Bruce, Jack 86
Brunton, Alan 66-67, 140
Bryant, Rick 6-8, 61-64, 65, 103, 116, 152, 161, 184, 250
see also Rick and the Rockets; Rough Justice (first band); Rough Justice (second band)
drug use 6, 62-63, 94-95, 135-36, 251
Graeme Nesbitt 62-64, 240-41
imprisonment 114, 123, 134
The Jive Bombers 238, 239, 257
Mammal 42-43, 43, 44, 52, 54, 94-95
National Blues Convention 87, 88
The Neighbours 238
Top Scientists 238
Windy City Strugglers 69, 112, 238-39
Bryant, Rick: songs
‘Can’t Get Back’ 257
‘If I Was Thirsty’ 257
‘Loving You Is Not an Easy Game’ 257
‘Snow on the Desert Road’ 257
‘Time’ 257
‘Whisper’ 261
‘Whitby Success’ 263
‘Wild About You’ 257
Bryant, Rod 123, 126
Buffalo Springfield 52, 266
Bulldogs Allstar Goodtime Band 268
Burgess, Anthony 116
buses, house trucks and motorhomes 159—60
Butler 39
The Byrds 115
Byrne, David 240
The Cabana, Napier 141—42
Calder, Malcolm 67, 69
Calvert, Eddie 50-51, 53, 152, 153
‘Amazing Race’ 51
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament 22
cannabis see marijuana
Captain Beefheart 220
Carlton, Wellington 30
Carmen 31, 138, 140
Carmen’s Balcony, Wellington 138-39
Carson, Edna 242
Casablanca café, Wellington 148
Caulton, Peter 153, 154
CBS Records 258, 259
The Challenge 66
The Changing Ways 61
Chaos 231
Charles, Ray 173
Charles, Sonny, ‘Alright in the City’ 147
Chez Eelco café, Nelson 64
Chez Paree café, Wellington 60, 193
Chicago 147
Chinese Circus 239
Chum 39
Citizen Band 201
Clapton, Eric 33, 86, 90, 112, 215
‘I Shot the Sheriff’ 230
Clark, Greg 89
Clark, Terry 126
Clarke, John 250
The Clash 239
The Clean 234
Anthology 258
Boodle Boodle Boodle 258
Great Sounds Great2585
‘Tally Ho’/’Platypus’ 258
Clouston, Alison 175
Clouston, Janet 6, 7, 135, 160, 164, 164, 165, 173, 174, 175, 200, 202, 244-45
Coltrane, John 31, 32
Committee on Vietnam 22
communes 179-80, 250
Communist Party 22
compulsory military training 16
The Constellations 151, 186
Contemporary Arts Group 72
Cooper, Graham 108, 109
Corless, Mike 156-57, 185, 186
Costello, Elvis 238
counterculture 64-65, 74, 87, 88, 202, 213, 215-16, 217-18, 251, 261
Country Calendar 115
Country Deal 63—64
Max, Colin & Graeme with Andrew 64
The Country Flyers 39, 114-15, 117, 134, 138, 140, 153, 201
country music 48-49, 60, 63, 98, 114-15, 214, 235, 236-37
country rock 123, 183, 261-63
Craccum 67, 69
Cream 86
Creation 36
The Crocodiles 203, 205, 250
Crowther, Paul 89, 91
Cuddihy, Peter 89
Cultural Liberation Front 66—67
Dale, Dick 51, 266
Davco Promotions, Auckland 156—57
Davies, Paul 152, 155
Davis, Bobby 156
Day, Dave 74
The Dedikation 60
Delahunty, Andrew 63, 87, 113-14, 221, 238-39
The Devils 269
Devlin, Johnny 127-28, 129, 132
How Would Ya Be 127-28, 258
‘I Got a Rocket in My Pocket’ 258
‘Lawdy Miss Clawdy’ 127-28, 258, 269
DIC, Wellington 29
The Distillery 151-55, 154
Dix, John 150
Dixon, Willie 33
Dobbyn, Dave 191
Dominion Breweries 79, 82, 142, 161, 190
Donaldson, Roger 249
The Doors 28
‘People are Strange’ 212
Down Under record label 265
Downtown Club, Wellington 148-49
Downtown Disco Club, Wellington 149
Dragon 39, 93-100, 95, 120, 121-26, 130, 165, 176, 244
‘April Sun in Cuba’ 96, 258, 259
‘Education’ 98, 258, 259
Fiji tour 96-98
‘I’m Still in Love with You’ 258, 259
Scented Gardens for the Blind 259
Sunshine 125, 128-32, 258, 259
Universal Radio 95, 259
‘White Light/White Heat’ 125
The Drongos 237-38
Dronke, Adolf (John) 20-21
Dronke, Marei see Bollinger, Marei (née Dronke) Dronke, Maria 18, 20, 21
Dronke, Peter 19, 20
drugs 52, 62-63, 64, 94, 97-98, 100, 109, 116, 118-19, 122, 125, 126, 134, 163, 166, 251
see also LSD (acid); marijuana The Ducks 221
Duke of Edinburgh hotel, Wellington 30, 110, 116
Dwyer, Bill (Ubique) 12, 251, 264
Dylan, Bob 65, 111, 170-71
‘All Along the Watchtower’ 265
Blonde on Blonde 104
Blood on the Tracks 104
Bob Dylan at Budokan 171
‘Desolation Row’ 50, 265—66
Highway 61
Revisited 104, 265-66
‘Positively 4th Street’ 212
‘Tangled Up in Blue’ 104
The Eagles, Hotel California 133
Eaglin, Blind Snooks 28
Eccles, Brent 89
electric guitars 111, 113, 119
Electric Picnic see National Blues Convention, Auckland
Elektra Records 265
EMI 90-91, 182, 183, 255, 256, 262, 263
The Enemy 210
Evensen, Carl 183, 184
Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comics 64
Farmyard 39
Father Time 143
Feehan, Dave and Wayne 147
Felix, Julie 60
Ferguson, Tommy 150
Finch, Wayne 36
Finn, Neil 264
Finn, Tim 264
Flaws, Fane 203
Fleetwood Mac 86
Rumours 133
Fleetwood, Mick 86
The Flying Burrito Brothers 115
Flying Nun Records 233-34, 258
folk music 34, 40, 50, 53, 60, 62, 63-65, 67, 72, 103, 112, 193
acoustic folk 152
folk blues 85
folk rock 258
University Folk Club, Victoria University 60, 65
Folkways label 111
Fomison, Tony 220
Fonoti, Toni 257
‘Dragons and Demons’ 260
Ford, Sam 238
Foster, Brian 183
The Four Fours 260
The Fourmyula 14, 60
Fragments of Time 142—43
Frampton, Peter 185
France, Ross, ‘Azania (Soon Come)’ 231
Franklin, Aretha 8
Fraser, Andy 86
Frater, Peter 71-72, 74-75, 82, 202, 213
Free 86
Fresh Air 73, 88
funk music 237, 259, 260
funk rock 261
psychedelic funk 261
The Galaxie dance club, Auckland 85
Galbraith, Alan 183
garage music 85
garage pop 255
Garden, Steve 184, 209
Gaye, Marvin 44, 162
Geiringer, Erich 28, 64
George, Lowell 121
Geyer, Renee 257
Gilbert, Jarrod 117, 118
Gilkinson, Andrea 206, 207
Gilpin, Steve 143, 149
Glover, Denis 21, 264
Gluepot, Ponsonby, Auckland 179, 190, 238
Golden Disc Awards 36, 148, 181, 257
Golden Dragon nightclub, Suva 97, 98