Australian singles charts:
Liberate Rock entered the Kent charts on 6 November 1972 and peaked at #39.
Songwriter:
Lobby Loyde
Record label of Australian release:
Havoc
BONUS CLIPS BELOW:
G.O.D. on GTK
G.O.D. at Sunbury Pop Festival 1973
Liberate Rock at a 3XY concert at Festival Hall
Wikipedia:
Lobby Loyde joined Melbourne band Wild Cherries in 1967, then Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs in 1968.
Lobby Loyde formed the psychedelic/hard/blues rock group Coloured Balls in 1972 with Andrew Fordham on guitar and vocals, Janis Miglans on bass guitar and Trevor Young on drums.
Their first single, Liberate Rock, was recorded by Loyde with Aztecs’ members Gil Mathews, Warren Morgan and Paul Wheeler.
In 1973 they supported Marc Bolan & T Rex on their Australian tour.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobby_Loyde
Nostalgia Central:
In January 1973, Coloured Balls teamed with guest vocalists Billy Thorpe and Leo de Castro at the Sunbury Pop Festival, with their performance released in November as the Help Me/Rock Me Baby track on the live album, Summer Jam. The album also included Coloured Balls’ searing 16-minute version of G.O.D. (Guitar Overdose).
Read more: nostalgiacentral.com/music/artists-a-to-k/artists-c/coloured-balls/
‘Liberate Rock’ is also on our Spotify playlist Bang a Gong – the 70s
BONUS CLIPS
GOD
On ABC TV music show GTK
I Like Your Old Stuff:
One of the Coloured Balls most legendary tracks is GOD (which apparently stood for ‘Guitar Over Drive’ or ‘Guitar Over Dose’), which only ever appeared on the collection Summer Jam, recorded live at Sunbury ‘73. A massive 15+ minute (that version anyway) instrumental piece that builds on waves of high powered electric guitar and a thundering rhythm section, it’s one of the cornerstones of the Coloured Balls’ status internationally, and very much the kind of track that myths are made of. Indeed the myth about GOD was that a studio version was recorded – people even sighted the tapes some years back apparently – but shelved and then lost.
Well, it’s not just a myth after all. Here’s proof that it exists, or at least existed: an ABC TV GTK interview with Lobby from back in the day, recorded at Armstrong’s Studio in South Melbourne. The interview is basically all about the track, and Lobby says they recorded it a couple of weeks previous, possibly for their new album, and then, WE GET TO HEAR IT. Well about 5 and half minutes of it at least (we hear it start and end but there’s at least one edit at about 4:55 on the clip).
Read more: www.ilikeyouroldstuff.com/news/god-by-coloured-balls-proof-the-studio-recording-existed
GOD
At the Sunbury Pop Festival in 1973
LIBERATE ROCK
At a 3XY concert at Festival Hall in 1972
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