Missing Links Digging Through Bins Numbered/coloured LP

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Missing Links Digging Through The Bins Numbered/coloured LP

Pressed on stunning-looking black and white vinyl, this copy is hand numbered #224 of 1,000 and comes complete with ep-sized 6-page booklet.

In 2002 Corduroy records reissued the original The Missing Links LP on 12 inch vinyl - all the CD extras from The Missing Links Driving You Insane (Half a Cow) were put on a separate 12 inch called Digging Through The Bins.

Sydney’s Missing Links were without doubt one of the most extraordinary Australian groups of their time, or any other. In barely three years of existence, the legendary Links managed to survive one complete line-up change; make headlines with their outrageously long hair (which actually was long, not just a bit of shaggy fringe); incorporate feedback and onstage destruction while many bands were still politely trotting out Beatles and Shadows covers in shiny suits — and finally got to release the most startlingly experimental and uncommercial Australian album of the 1960s before swiftly self-destructing in a haze of overindulgence, paranoia and general Rock & Roll craziness.  Yes, the Missing Links were punk pioneers.  Too loud, too outrageous, too unstable, too provocative, too young, too dirty, too destructive, too scary — too much.

The Missing Links began in early 1964, when a 19-year-old rhythm guitarist/vocalist/fibro-clerk named Peter Anson placed a musician’s advertisement in the Sydney Morning Herald.  Anson, along with drummer Danny Cox, had been playing in a little ad hoc musical outfit for a while with no real success; but the emergence of the Rolling Stones inspired the pair to have a proper crack at getting an electric R&B band together.  A couple of guys from a surf group called the Mystics — both lead guitarist Dave Boyne and bass player/ harmonicist Ronnie Peel — answered the ad, and an audition was duly held at the flat that Peter Anson shared with a couple of wild university-dropout brothers named John and Norm Stannard.  The two ex-Mystics fit in perfectly with Cox and Anson, so rehearsals quickly began in earnest. 

      Unbeknown to the band members themselves, there was still one link missing (so-to-speak) in the group — in the form of a curly-headed workmate of Dave Boyne named Bob Brady.  Brady had become a regular at band rehearsals, occasionally taking over the vocal mike or else bashing his tambourine or shaking his maracas in an attempt to get noticed.  The ruse worked, and even though Peter Anson had been more-than-willing to handle lead vocals; the idea of a percussive frontman (a la Mick Jagger, Paul Jones) was not altogether disagreeable.  The aforementioned Stannard brothers assumed the role of management, and the group were ready to rock.  The name ‘Missing Links’ was apparently chosen after a venue owner had commented that the group looked like “a cross between man and ape”.       

      In mid-1964, the Links began to gig around Sydney.  Peter Anson’s brother Cliff was working as a roadie for Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs at the time, and through him they managed to link up with John Harrigan — promoter extraordinaire.  Harrigan had an entire network of live venues under his  control; old surfie haunts such as the “Beach House”, “Surf City”, “Stomp City” and the “Pacific”, which — along with the gigs that Norm Stannard was finding — ensured that the Missing Links would have more than enough live work for the rest of the year.  Some of the more bizarre shows that the Missing Links played in 1964, were at a formal high society 21st birthday bash... a 1920s-style Speakeasy club (owned by genuine members of the Kings Cross underworld!)... a lunchtime store appearance in Newcastle hosted by a “Zany masked DJ from the USA” (which was promptly stopped by police).. and a benefit concert for Richard Neville, Martin Sharp and Richard Walsh’s groundbreaking Oz magazine, which had been recently prosecuted for obscenity (not for the last time as things would turn out!).

      The Missing Links soon became headline material.  Their physical appearance alone (read, hair) guaranteed plenty of cheap and vacuous publicity, typical of the era.  Peter Markmann remarks in his excellent liner notes to the Driving You Insane CD that, “Peter Anson had the longest hair of any male in Sydney” — and certainly, photographs from the period tend to confirm this statement.  The Oz connection also saw the ‘Links appear on the long-running ABC magazine-style programme ‘People’. ( © By Ian D Marks )

Side A:
1. Don't Give Me No Fiction
2. Wooly Bully
3. We 2 Should Live
4. Untrue
5. All I Want (fast version)
6. Shakin' All Over
7. Something Else
8. One More Time

Side B:
1. I'll Go Crazy
2. Come My Way
3. Go Back
4. So Far Away
5. Don't Deceive
6. Naughty Girl
The Running Jumping Standing Still:
7. Diddy Wah Diddy (from "Go!!" TV Show)
The Showmen:
8. Kansas City

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