Living with the Master

None could come near his presence without being spiritually elevated. The enthusiasm to follow the Master increased many folds in his presence. He was very free and generous with visitors untiringly sharing his reminiscences. This book will serve as a constant reminder and inspiration to follow the Master's path, Abstract concepts of spirituality are made intelligible by his simple narrative. Kindle Edition , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Living with the Master , please sign up.

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Wheatley was dragged offstage by the audience and had his pants and coat literally torn to shreds, with the result that one of the police on hand threatened to arrest him for indecent exposure if they did not finish playing immediately. Wheatley realised that the promoters had pocketed the lion's share of the takings.

As a result, the group decided to manage and book themselves and over the closing months of Wheatley became more involved in choosing venues, booking shows and promoting the group with care to avoid over-exposure, cutting down on appearances and increasing their fee. They closed the year with the bluesy single "Think About Tomorrow Today", which provided another Top 20 hit nationally and went to No. About this time the band switched to wearing leather stage outfits.

This fitted their 'bad-boy' image and had a more practical outcome—it was routine for the band to have their clothes and hair literally torn off by frantic fans, and the cost of buying expensive stage clothes which were being shredded nightly was sending them broke. But the leather gear—which resisted even the most ardent fans—provided them with their longest-wearing outfits in years, and Keays maintains it saved them thousands of dollars. Early in , the band officially parted with Sambell and set up their own booking agency, Drum.

Although something of a hodgepodge—as Keays freely admits—it showed the band developing a much broader range. By then they were coming to grips with the album format and emulated the current fad for concept albums by linking the songs with a short guitar-and-string arrangement, crossfaded between tracks. The title track, a live recording, provides a vivid aural snapshot of their live show during , complete with the deafening screams of fans. The album also includes their own version of "St John's Wood", a track Ford and Keays wrote [32] for Brisbane band The Sect, who had released it as a single on Columbia during the year.

It was recorded at a late-night session and Keays later recounted that he was so drunk when he recorded his vocals that he had to be held up to the microphone. It was released just before the start of the radio ban —a major dispute between commercial radio stations and record companies—which resulted in the banning of many major-label releases. Despite little commercial radio airplay, the song raced up the charts and peaked at No.

They worked to save money for the effort with a national farewell tour in April—May. Wyllie , Johnny Young and Ronnie Burns. The six-week ocean voyage provided a break after years of constant gigging. Without the pressure and distraction of touring, they wrote and rehearsed new material. They had a stopover in Panama , where they were 'ripped off' while they bought some local marijuana.

Arriving at the height of an English summer in July, the band entered a productive period. They moved into a hotel in Bayswater , but it was too expensive, so they moved to a house in North Harrow , London, where they continued to write and rehearse, and made contact with other Aussie expatriates. Freed from constant performing, they immersed themselves in the cultural life of London, going on shopping sprees for clothes in Kings Road , Chelsea , ploughing through scores of new records and doing the rounds of clubs and concerts, seeing the best music on offer.

Wheatley continued work on a manuscript he had begun on the ocean voyage, "Who the Hell is Judy in Sydney? His memoirs were too hot for publishers at the time and were not printed until decades later when they became the basis for his autobiography Paper Paradise. A major problem was that they did not play live, lacking adequate equipment and a solid set of new material. She liked the Australian band and got Jarratt interested, he agreed to produce them. Just before the start of recording, Keays made a trip to mainland Europe, and was in Copenhagen when he heard of the death of Jimi Hendrix , one of his idols.

The band entered the studio in September to record Choice Cuts. The staff and facilities were superior to those in Australia, which allowed a greater range of expression. The songs they brought to the sessions—many written during the voyage—were original and distinctive, distilling their recent musical influences.

They brought in outside musicians to augment some tracks, and made use of Paul McCartney 's white grand piano on a few cuts, including "Because I Love You". During sessions they bumped into a Who's Who of UK music: Towards the end of recording, they found themselves one song short of the optimum LP length, so at Jarratt's suggestion they wrote a new song, built up from a Latin-flavoured instrumental shuffle that Ford had been playing with. Keays wrote lyrics for the piece overnight, they cut it the next day and it became the album's opening track "Rio de Camero".

The entire LP was recorded, mixed and mastered within a month, and the band were thrilled with the results. The choice of the first single was, "Because I Love You", a song of love, separation and independence, and became a popular and enduring recording. The simple but effective clip was filmed on a chilly autumn morning on Hampstead Heath.

Black-and-white prints were shown many times on Australian TV, where colour was not introduced until , but it was shot in colour, as were several other clips for tracks from the LP, most were not screened.

The album's cover depicts an elegant, overstuffed chair in a panelled room, with a mysterious disembodied hand holding a cigarette floating above it. It was from the English design group Hipgnosis , who were responsible for covers by Pink Floyd, 10cc and Led Zeppelin. Despite the prospects for their new LP, the band were caught by surprise after its completion when Wheatley revealed they were almost broke.

They were determined to stay in London but desperately needed funds. A phone call to EMI Australia for financial assistance proved futile, so they planned an Australian tour. Wheatley headed home to organise it and secured a local soft drink company as a sponsor. It was their fourth consecutive Top 20 hit, reaching No. The Masters Apprentices began their national tour in Perth and Howard Gable joined them with portable four-track equipment and recorded their first show at the Nickelodeon Theatre.

The band was tired and under-rehearsed, and were not satisfied with the results, these recordings became the live LP Nickelodeon , believed to be the second live rock album recorded in Australia.

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In their absence the band had been voted top group in the Go-Set Pop Poll, and both their singles had been hits. Nevertheless, the band and the music scene had changed by , at first they struggled to regain their previous popularity. A breakthrough gig at Chequers in Sydney allowed the tour to gain momentum, helped by a lengthy profile in the magazine POL , written by freelance journalist Howard Lindley.

When Choice Cuts was released in the UK it was well received by critics, but the band were still in Australia and short of money, they could do little to exploit their opportunities. As the tour dragged on, they began to falter, and endured ripoffs by unscrupulous promoters. They had reached another low ebb, with the chances of returning to UK now reduced, the band reluctantly decided to split up. He told them it was selling well in UK and starting to make an impression in Europe—the track "I'm Your Satisfier" had been released in France and had gone into the Top 10 there.

Halsall urged them to return to London as soon as possible and that they would be able to record a new album there, so they hastily organised their return. They decided to take the boat rather than fly to save money so Wheatley again approached the Sitmar Line. Unfortunately, by the time they arrived in the UK, almost three months had passed since Halsall's phone call and interest was waning.

Resigning themselves to the inevitable, they contacted EMI and set up the promised new recording, for three months ahead. They employed an outside PR agent, Jim Haswell, who managed to get some small reviews for them, but Wheatley was unable to find an agency that would book them, and although Ford insisted on keeping up the regime of regular rehearsals, they had no live work. At this point a new UK label Bronze —who had just signed Slade and Uriah Heep —made an approach to the band to become their third act.

Although the group was hesitant, being still signed to EMI, they decided to use the offer as leverage in hopes of getting a better deal out of EMI. Fearing legal repercussions, the band ruefully declined Bronze's offer, Keays' later opined that the best course of action would have been to "sign with Bronze and let the lawyers work it all out later. Keays might possibly be confusing this with his trip to Abbey Road the previous year. John Lennon's "Imagine" album was being recorded in According to Wheatley, one of The Masters Apprentices' tracks, "Games We Play", was recorded at George Martin 's Air Studios , with Martin himself conducting the children's choir which features on the second part of the track.

The LP was lauded as one of the best Australian progressive releases, [1] but it was largely ignored at the time. Sales were hindered by the lurid cover, which even Keays later admitted was not an ideal choice, being as garish as Choice Cuts was tasteful. Designed and painted by Keays, it was evidently a dig at the UK, and featured a grotesque psychedelic caricature of a bulldog's head wearing a Union Jack eye patch, its ears are skewered by an arrow from which dangles a tag, emblazoned with the album's title.

The band played sporadic shows to support the album, which was well-reviewed in UK, but EMI Australia did little to assist them. Without such backing, it was clear by the end of that they were not going to achieve the success they had dreamt of. Although Keays' recollections are more positive, Wheatley's own account of the album sessions is that they were an unhappy experience for him. According to Keays, Wheatley had been working part-time at a management agency over the previous few months and had insufficient time to rehearse because of his day job.

Without adequate support, both LP and single sank without trace in Australia, in spite of their high quality. The classic line-up's last recording was the album's delicate and poignant closing track, "Thyme To Rhyme". Wheatley tried to convince the rest of the band that they should break up but they disagreed, so he announced he was leaving to work full-time for the management agency.

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Soon after, Keays announced his own departure and intention to return to Australia immediately. Ford and Burgess decided to keep going and they sent for Burgess' brother Denny, who took over on bass guitar. The final trio line-up soldiered on for a few months, and made one recording, "Freedom Seekers"—appearing on Jam It Up! Returning to Australia, Keays undertook some final promotional duties for the "Love Is" single, including a TV appearance in which he performed alone, playing string guitar.