Rob Hurst

It was kind of the precursor to Ready, Steady, Go.

So from the very late 50s through the early 60s,

they had beat bands from London and Liverpool.

Mersey Beat had just hit.

So they had bands like Freddie and the Dreamers and the Mersey Beats and Dave Clark Fire, but they also had Beatles, The Stones, The Kinks, and then later on The Who.

And I just fell in love with this program, just thought, yeah, this is what I want to do.

So I remember seeing Rolling Stones, they had a couple of other hits before, but the one that I saw and remembered most was the Stones version.

I mean, in that, back then I thought they wrote this song called Little Red Rooster.

But of course, it was only years later that, you know, it's a Willie Dixon song and...

Howling Wolf made the most popular version.

But for this little white kid, you know, cut off and just looking through this, you know, faulty black and white TV, you know, it was the stones.

And of course we had chooks.

You know, Dad had roosters and took great pleasure in cutting off their heads and they'd run around with blood spurting out.

And, you know, I thought, oh, it's about a little red rooster, you know.

Didn't understand the other implications of this song.

Yeah, yeah.

And I remember the groove of it and the harmonica.

Oh, yeah.

Was that what was getting you?

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.