On the way home, they’d head back inland to places like Albury, Dubbo and Orange.
They’d drive the M1 down the coast from Queensland to Port Pirie, occasionally stop to unload the truck, set up the PA, make some mischief and leave before anybody noticed. He’d been touring the support circuit with his band, Limousine. Up to that point David, like most sound engineers, had been a reasonably successful musician. Neither of them had any idea it was the start of something big in Aussie music. With it, David and Andrew bought the first SSL console shipped to Australia - an SSL 4000 series - and set it up at their newly minted Rhinoceros studio in Sydney. He guaranteed the loan that, at the time, was enough money to pick up a handful of Sydney properties. “I learnt that getting $250,000 from somebody was no different from getting $2000, you’ve just gotta be talking to the right guy.” Luckily Andrew Scott, David’s business partner, had a father who was the financial controller for Yates Seeds. “There was a lot of venture capital going around in the early ’80s,” remembered David. It was the ’80s, the only time in musical history when even a broke guitarist from Surry Hills with a bad case of GAS* could convince someone that investing in a studio was a good idea. O vernight, David Nicholas went from being a musician on the dole to owing a quarter of a million dollars.
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