Tracks

Draft-dodging behind the lens

As the first issue of Tracks was hitting the streets in October 1970, I was winding up my last year at school in Adelaide. That summer, I saved as much as I could doing a range of shitty jobs before heading up the east coast for my first real taste of freedom. Settling in at Angourie for a few months would prove to be a major turning point in my short life to that date. Baddy Trealor, Brad Mayes, Chris Brock, the Keyes brothers, Tommy Taylor, mushrooms, and White Lightning all drifted into that long-ago dream, along with visits from photographers

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