JOHN ROBINSON - PITY FOR THE VICTIM. SCARCE OZ CLASSIC

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JOHN ROBINSON - PITY FOR THE VICTIM

Sydney-based John 'Robbo' Robinson has been one of Australia's most renowned guitarists for more than thirty years, and he is also an accomplished composer-arranger and a highly respected guitar teacher.

John first came to prominence when he joined Sydney band The Dave Miller Set in 1967. The group was formed in early 1967 by Christchurch-born singer-songwriter Dave Miller. John joined a few months later and over the next three years he emerged as one of Australia's original 'guitar heroes', with the DMS becoming one of the first local bands to explore the heavy-rock style pioneered by acts like Cream, Hendrix and Free.

John's work with the DMS inluded countless gigs up and down the east coast of Australia and tours to New Zealand and Fiji, Pacific cruises -- DMS were one of the first Australian pop bands to do this -- and even a pioneering tour to Indonesia in 1969. John featured on the five DMS Singles, "Why, Why Why", "Hope", "Get Together", the psychedelic classic "Mr Guy Fawkes", and their final single, a cover of Chicago's "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?".

After the failure of the last single, which flopped because of the infamous 1970 Radio Ban, the Dave Miller Set split. John soon put together a new group, the acclaimed Blackfeather, and secured a deal with Festival's new progressive subsidiary Infinity. In April 1971 they released the classic Australian hard rock album At The Mountains Of Madness, which was a Top Ten hit, and they had great success with the hit single lifted from it, the perennial favourite "Seasons Of Change", which was also successfully covered by Fraternity.

Throughout this period John worked on tracks for a solo album project which was finally released in 1974 by Festival under the title Pity For The Victim. It featured an all-star lineup including some of the best singers of the period -- Bobbi Marchini, Alison MacCallum, Barry Leef, Jeff St. John and Janice Slater -- with Patrick Bleakley, Benny Kaika and Teddy Toi (bass), Julie Pearson and Bobby Gebert (keyboards), Steve Webb and Bruno Lawrence (drums) and Larry Duryea (percussion). It is now a sought-after collectors' item -- only about 1000 copies were pressed according to John and it remains one of the great 'lost treasures' of Seventies Oz music. Vinyl is VG Cover is VG
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