273:. The band then returned to Melbourne and started picking up local gigs, including an appearance at the Catcher on 4 March with The Clefs, The Mind Excursions and The Chelsea Set and playing a two-nighter at Sebastian's on 8–9 March. The Wild Cherries returned to Sydney in April for an extended engagement at Here Disco and attracted rave reviews from the local press. While there, they laid down tracks for a debut single, including the Loyde penned "Krome Plated Yabby" and a cover of
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Cherries' crowning achievement on a creative level, it was another chart failure and the group underwent a mass exodus with founding member Les Gilbert first to leave in September 1968. Soon afterwards, Barber, Phillips and Robinson departed and Loyde retained the band's name. Rock historian,
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on vocals and harmonica from The Bay City Union and three musicians from another
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Kevin Murphy, after leaving the band, travelled to the UK where he played with the Graham Bond
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Robinson reunited The Wild Cherries for Australia Day 2002, together with bass player Gavin Carroll and keyboard player John O'Brien, they performed The Wild Cherries' four Festival singles at the Corner Hotel in Richmond, Victoria. It was the first time that all of the band's
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The band's third single, released in April 1968, was "Gotta Stop Lying", which also failed to chart. For the group's final
Festival single, Robinson and Loyde collaborated on the sublime "I Don't Care", which took the "wall of sound" approach, complete with echo effects, orchestration and female
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Festival as "exciting, revolutionary excursions into a musical void with no concessions to commercial demands all remain classic examples of hard guitar psychedelia."
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