Aussie 60s band photos - newly unearthed

[morloch]

there's a Facebook page, that has a LOT of tedious content, and idiotic contributors, but occasionally something worthy is published.
It's a Public group callled - Australian rock bands 1960s and 1970s

Lately a guy, Phillip Hammon of the Blue Mountains Historical Society, has been posting some very cool photos for people to identify. A lot of the answers are nonsensical but often someone that personally knew the band pipes up.
Some of the bands didn't ever record, but the photos are cool!
They are all live shots taken at the Trocadero in Katoomba, just west of Sydney.
I hope these links work!

The Flies. - comment from Mick Hamilton of The Moods
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Fnw8caJBK/?mibextid=oFDknk

Chris Hall and the Torquays
https://www.facebook.com/groups/176062052466424/permalink/29255600220752554/

The Pleazers
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1A6Pbb2iLK/?mibextid=oFDknk

Ken Lewis Group
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FgCfcrJDx/?mibextid=oFDknk

The Wolves (??)
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16S3m4XLG9/?mibextid=oFDknk

Rick and the Bad Boys
https://www.facebook.com/groups/176062052466424/permalink/29059379873707924/
this link is in the comments. A great story!

1965/66 – RICK & THE BAD BOYS

JUST ANOTHER BRICK IN A VERY HUGE WALL RICK & THE BAD BOYS was just one of hundreds, if not thousands of 60's Sydney suburban Beat Groups, crewed by teenagers with overblown ambition and limited experience than

kimhumphreys.com

The Stingrays (??)
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18kRXJ1skX/?mibextid=oFDknk
And
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BELhcshNS/?mibextid=oFDknk

The Citizens
Great comment from Rick Pointon of The Second Thoughts
https://www.facebook.com/groups/176062052466424/permalink/28998948629751049/

Vibratones
https://www.facebook.com/groups/176062052466424/permalink/28673809992264916/

Robby Gold and the Royals (someone says it's the D-Men)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/176062052466424/permalink/28550993181213265/

 

[Rythmn Boy]

Great stuff!

 

[bosshoss]

Some great shots! Thanks Mr. Morloch.

 

[morloch]

Phil Hammon also posted a few photos to a Katoomba memories type Facebook group. It's a private group probably not worth joining so I'll share some here.
First was easily identified - Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, but the second required some deeper knowledge, which happily I could provide!
Mick Liber is holding the Rickenbacker and the group is Unit 4. Very shortly after this Liber joined the newly formed Python Lee Jackson, and a few years later was in London with Ashton, Gardner & Dyke. The singer is Frank Kennington who was very briefly in the Missing Links. There's a great page on garagehangover that ties it all together. The comments are REALLY worth reading.

https://garagehangover.com/unit-4/#comments

It seems that these all came from the archive of a photo studio that took souvenir photos, so there are hundreds of photos of people out on the town, and these gems amongst them

 

[morloch]

found a few more band photos from the Souvenir Snapshots collection.
Donnie Sutherland and the Titans, and a local Katoomba group that did not record H.P. Noise and Son

 

[Rythmn Boy]

HP. Hire Purchase? The way they bought their equipment?

 

[morloch]

HP. Hire Purchase? The way they bought their equipment?

correct! according to one of the band members their gear was on hire purchase, they made a lot of noise and they were all sons