A chance meeting between Bryce Petersen, a North Shore based children’s folk singer/songwriter, and Australian guitarist Johnny Breslin, produced enough creative sparks for a band and two singles. Breslin had been trying to get a group together and knew a 20 year-old drummer from South Auckland, Billy Lawton, late of The Plague (with Corben Simpson). Lawton knew a blues playing guitarist and philosophy student Tony Pilcher (21) and young Māori bass guitarist Larry Latimer (20).
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Bryce Petersen - vocals
Johnny Breslin - guitar
Larry Latimer - bass
John Pilcher - guitar
Bill Lawton - drums
Larry Latimer was the son of (Sir) Graham Latimer, a leading Māori politician.
Bryce Petersen’s son Carey fronted Auckland Walk in the mid-1980s.
Bryce Petersen would also write Lew Pryme's provocative ‘Gracious Lady (Alice Dee)’ in 1968 and Robert Gennari's single 'I Really Don't Care' in the same year.