Aztecs LP x 2 Live At Sunbury 1972 Prog Rock MONSTER Signed BILLY THORPE Mint

	A$		820
	$		543

NOTE : All LP’s have been cleaned and played (except where Mint) to determine an accurate grading as possible ; if anything they have been under-graded to be on the safe side as collectors will always have slightly different interpretations on quality however I definitely feel you can bid with confidence here.
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Item : 2x 12” albums – fully autographed

Artist : Aztecs

Title : Live! At Sunbury

Year : 1972

Issue : Australian pressing – Havoc label # HST4003/04

Songs :
RECORD 1:
1. CC Rider
2. Be Bop A Lula
3. Mumma
4. Rock Me Baby
5. Most People I Know Think That I'm Crazy.

RECORD 2:
1. Time To Live
2. Jump Back
3. Ooh Pah Pah Doo

The Aztecs performance at the 1st Sunbury Festival elevated Billy Thorpe to legend status as they literally blew everyone away .... this particular set later became regarded as one of the definitive musical statements in Australian rock & roll (often referred to as Australia's Woodstock). This ensuing double album of their blistering headline set is also arguably the crowning achievement of their career. In front of Sunbury's 35,000-strong congregation Thorpie’s reinvention as a scruffy, electrified, blues-rock shaman was crystallized, leaving a younger generation of listeners with mouths agape, eyes bulging, and ears bleeding. In no uncertain terms, this was a take-no-prisoners assault upon the stage, and after "softening" them up with an urgent "C.C. Rider" and a swinging "Be Bop a Lula," Thorpie and his merry men really let `em have it with his self-penned wild man rave-up, "Momma," a grimacing showcase not only for his powerhouse voice but also his sizzling fretwork. Next up was a slightly more subdued romp through the B.B. King blues standard, "Rock Me Baby" (where Bruce Howard's piano work really shone through), followed by the band's current hit single, "Most People I Know (Think I'm Crazy)," with its infectious folk-rock chorus punctuated by additional solo guitar bursts, and then the closest the Aztecs ever came to hippie dippie sentimentality in the slow grinding "Time to Live." Live at Sunbury wrapped up with two protracted jams on Rufus Thomas' "Jump Back" (with Thorpe blowing a mean harmonica) and Jessie Hill's "Ooh Poo Pa Doo," which was transformed into a spirited call-and-response singalong of massive proportions between band and audience, which, as good as it sounds on record, must have felt totally transcendent in the moment. All in all, the enduring impact of Thorpe and co.'s performance that night lies in the stunning power of its simplicity, since both the group's covers and originals (not to mention their Everyman, right-off-the-street wardrobe) showed what magic could be achieved with classic rock & roll, a stack of overdriven Marshall amps, and a confidently bad-ass attitude.

This is why, perhaps more than any other artist/album combination, Thorpe and Live at Sunbury (which would peak at number eight on the Oz national charts) deserve the most credit for kick-starting the `70s' pub and hard rock scenes in Australia, spawning future heavyweights like the Coloured Balls, Buffalo, Buster Brown, Rose Tattoo, and most notably AC/DC.

A just about perfect copy of this monster prog-blues-hard rock double-album… it doesn’t get too much better than this.

CONDITION : - see 6 photos above
Vinyl : Both records here are Mint. They have never been played and both display full shine throughout.
Labels : Clean. No spindle mark traces whatsoever.
Sleeve :

Fantastic condition. No writing, splits or ring-wear. No edge-wear and the spine is as new. No creasing of any concern and just a hint of ring-wear from years of storage. Easily as good as I’ve ever seen for this one. The band has signed the back cover here as per photos above and, for reasons I don't know, Thorpie's autograph doesn't turn up on his vinyl anywhere near as much as one might expect.

POSTAGE COSTS (albums are professionally packed and shipped with an outer protector plastic sleeve) :
To anywhere in Australia is $15.00.
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