Along the way McCauley performed his earliest shows with two men destined to go on to fame with Ray Columbus and The Invaders, started his own promotions company with fellow musicians, toured alongside Howard Morrison, Paul Walden, John Hore and Maria Dallas and appeared on the NZBC television show The Country Touch.
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Max McCauley has never parted with the guitar he used on his debut Viking release Yodelling Out West in the early 1960s despite the finish being burned off the then new instrument when it was left too close to the heaters in the implement shed the EP was recorded in.