#lobby loyde

Lobby loyde is my favourite guitarist tbh, even though the newspapers and magazines etc. basically held him (and the band he was in the coloured balls) accountable for the problems the sharpies were causing (petty crimes and fights especially at concerts and whatnot). Honestly, he was in a few blues/jazz bands (also R&B and psychedelic etc and just starting to be a hard rock band) when the sharpies were just starting to become a thing and a problem, sharpies notoriously didn’t really listen to blues and jazz bands, that’s what the mods listened to. Sharpies hated the mods and sharpies listened to hard rock and stuff like that. The sharpies would’ve made fun of lobby loyde and the bands he was in (purple hearts and wild cherries) at that time. The sharpies would’ve made fun of the bands he was in at that time because of two reasons: he had longish hair and the music they played wasn’t up to sharpie standards. I feel that the media was wrong, even though there was fights at concerts that the coloured balls were at, it was usually because sharpies hated other sharpies unless they were helping each other fight mods and skegs (surfies/ surfers for non- Australians) ,or average people who were neither (especially on trains and trams). The media thought that the coloured balls were making the sharpies violent, no that’s wrong, the sharpies were always violent. The sharpies were angry at the world or bored (most likely both). Also the thing is lots of people who weren’t sharpies or aware of how the sharpies actually were actually believed the media. I’m not sure about what non-sharpies who were fans of the coloured balls thought of what the media was saying, Ik my grandad was sort of indifferent but idk much about non-sharpie fans of the coloured balls/lobby loyde. Anyway the media got too much and accused the coloured balls of being the cause that sharpies are fighting at concerts and shit like that, which caused the coloured balls to break up. Then not long after (about mid eighties) the sharpies died out, they went on to be either criminals (younger sharpies), punks, rude boys/rude girls, rocksteady fans or reggae fans.