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Go Premium. Improve your Yalp experience. Toggle Dropdown Speed. Download PDF. Please login or create account to unlock these features. Register Login. Ad blocker detected. Merritt remembers "we were evicted after complaints about noise and kids hanging around outside….

It was a bit like Footloose - all the elders and church folk were agin us! Despite the opposition, the club flourished - at its peak, it boasted members and by the end of it was attracting weekly crowds of jiving teenagers.

Max Merritt became a local legend and a reluctant spokesperson for the rock and roll generation. Sadly, the band's own Viking releases were poor sellers by comparison. Sloggett provided the whiskey and Mikey Leyton, the English singer who worked at the drinks counter, provided the amphetamines.

Man, by 2am we were bouncing off the walls! Photo: Courtesy AudioCulture. Looking back, Merritt says, "We didn't make a cent out of Viking. I don't even recall receiving a fee for the recording sessions behind Dinah and Tommy and them, and we certainly never received a royalty cheque.

Max was convinced that it was a deliberate attempt to sabotage the band. I've always believed that Thorpie and John Harrigan Thorpe's manager were concerned about our growing popularity. Hill didn't last long, departing on the eve of a national tour supporting The Rolling Stones after a punch up with Merritt. Bill Fleming was hurriedly pulled in and at the end of the tour Bruno Lawrence was recruited. Back in Sydney, it was a hard graft. Graham Dent wanted the band to move onto the lucrative cabaret circuit, resisted by Merritt, and in the new year he secured the band a Pacific cruise.

Billy Kristian, a teetotaller, had grown tired of it, and Peter Williams, his role diminishing, had his own plans. Both handed in their notice on the eve of the cruise. A quintet took to the high seas and, well, it was one alcohol-fuelled party.

During the Auckland stopover Bruno took the partying ashore and didn't make it back. Max played drums on the final leg to Sydney, where Kristian and Williams formally departed. Dent, in frustration, resigned as manager. A new line-up based themselves in Melbourne but just weeks after the shift south, on June 24, , the band was involved in a head-on collision.

All but Yuk received serious injuries - Max lost his right eye, Bertles and drummer Stewie Speer both received badly broken legs, among other injuries. It would be before Max Merritt and The Meteors returned to the stage. But when they did, their fortunes changed. After their medical ordeals, it was perhaps little wonder that the group earned a reputation as a bunch of outlaws. They took to wearing leather, denim and T-shirts, swizzled alcohol on-stage and didn't mind their language.

And they looked Merritt kept his hair close-cropped at a time when long hair was a mission statement; Speer, a giant of a man, prematurely grey, looking even older than his 40 years; Bertles looked and sounded like what he was - a jazz hipster; and Yuk Harrison looked just like what he was - trouble.