Chapter: 5
Barefoot Revolution
- Revolution is not a Dinner Party
- The Tao of George
- Getting Slippery with Bob McTavish
- Bismarck with a Tan
- Plastic Machine
- Enlightenment at Honolua Bay
- Panic on the Showroom Floor
- Style Takes a Dive
- Everybody Must Get Stoned
- Surfer Goes Electrical Bananas
- No Contest
- There Will be Slaps
- Kook Straps, Cadillacs, and Sex Wax
- Blame it on the Boogie
- Country Soul
- Higher and Brighter with Alby Falzon
- Fresh Blood on the Newsstand
- Long Road to Bells Beach
- Speed Freaks
- Gods of Thunder
- The Impossible Wave
- Into the Vortex
- Gerry Lopez, Pipeline Firewalker
- The Rubberman Cometh
Fresh Blood on the Newsstand
![Detail from Tracks cover, 1970](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/653df1aa57d9501d2459fd04d42805826792bdf1-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Detail from Tracks cover, 1970
![Witzig (left) and Falzon, Tracks office, early '70s](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/e87004d7bff057285702cb7859de0db460ef6600-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Witzig (left) and Falzon, Tracks office, early '70s
![Tracks cover, 1974](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/0fc7dfa43bf63f48f6b539b90041f27022b1f196-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Tracks cover, 1974
Tracks had lots of surf shots, but just as many photos of smiling hippie kids, bare-breasted girlfriends, senior citizens, and sundry farm animals.
Tracks magazine, an oversized Sydney-made newsprint monthly, made its debut in 1970, and was very much of a piece with Morning of the Earth. Before Tracks, Aussie surf publishing had been a cheaper, traced-over version of Surfer. Everybody knew what a surf magazine was supposed to look like: an interview, a travel piece, a contest feature, a how-to column, and lots of action photography. Even the ...
Subscribe or Login
Plans start at $5, cancel anytimeTrouble logging-in? Contact us.