Rob Hurst

And he knew I loved the Beatles and everything.

And he said, have you heard this song, this new song?

And I said, no, which one's that?

You know, because I was a bit cut off from everything in there.

He said, it's a song called Revolution, and it's the wildest guitar sound you'll ever hear.

And he put it on, and I just thought, this is the future of rock and roll.

It sounded so wild and tough.

And I realised later it was the Beatles' answer to being, because, you know, they were constantly being called too soft, too pretty, you know, and so they fought back in a big way afterwards.

So in high school, I wasn't playing.

I was playing in the cadet corps to get out of cadets because cadets was compulsory for two years at grammar.

And so the only way I could figure out actually not dissembling Bren guns and playing soldiers in the bush up at Singleton was to join the band.

And so, of course, it was the Vietnam period, and so there was all sorts of schoolboy conscientious objectors that joined the band.

None of them had any musical talent whatsoever.

So it was kind of like Dad's army shuffling along with, you know, their long hair tucked up underneath their felt hats because, you know, you weren't supposed to have – the army was supposed to have, you know, short back and sides.

So it was an hysterical band.

We still had to go to Singleton but we didn't have to –

play with guns, it was actually quite good.

We learnt quite a lot of military drumming, which I still use to this day.

I use a lot of buzz rolls and paradiddles and things that I learnt up there.

So it was useful, at least.