They have been on the radio since 1975, their oldest member is 61 and by their own account they now sound better than they look, but the Little River Band still manages to get an old fashioned mosh pit formed in front of the stage - 40 rows long.
The Australian rockers, now based in the US, arrived in Queenstown on Tuesday for their last New Zealand show of the tour today at Gibbston Valley Station, perhaps their last-ever New Zealand show.
It's been nearly 10 years since the band last played in Queenstown, at Millbrook, and vocalist Wayne Nelson and guitarist Greg Hind both have fond memories of the resort.
Nelson (61) has been taken away by the change Queenstown has gone through in the past decade, saying it had grown up to five times in size.
"It was nothing like this. I'm dating myself, because things change, but it has exploded in the last 10 years.""Beauty doesn't get old. I love Queenstown. It's stunning."
He remembers a walk around the resort took only 10 minutes in 2003, but Queenstown's growth had not spoiled its tranquil feel, he said.
"Unless they start building condos on that mountainside - don't let them - it is never going to lose its appeal."
Hind has kept a photograph from that Millbrook concert on his wall at home ever since and said he hopes for the same crowd of 15,000 enthusiastic southerners.
"If you ever get up there and take for granted what you have in front of you for one second, then stop doing it."
The pair agree New Zealanders knew how to embrace their music.
"They know all the lyrics.
"Quite frankly, we don't usually have what you call a mosh pit in front of us, but the past few shows we have had one 30 to 40 rows deep where they are just moshing. So, yes, they are into it. Yes, they are dancing. Yes, they are loud," Nelson said.
The band got as much out of that excitement as the fans did.
"If you sit with your arms folded then we hope for the best, but if you embrace the event, everyone will get more out of it. It's just a fact of life. They get back what they put in."
The physicality and age of their fan base has changed as they have changed, but Nelson doesn't feel old.
"Sixty is the new 40."
"What we used to do when we were 25 years old, there are now limitations based on age.""If I get to the point where I can't do it, or I'm so compromised where it's not working, then that's the time where someone needs to pull the leash and tell me to go home."
His band-mates, namely Hind, have called him the grandpa of the group for more than 10 years.
"The oldest guy in some bands is king. I'm just the oldest guy in the band in the bus.
"There are no titles except grandpa."
"There's arthritis, there's carpal tunnel, there's all sorts of things. We all try to keep fit."
With all five members married and with families either at home or on tour with them, life offstage has become tame.
"I can tell you what we don't do on a regular basis that we used to. Every night, day on day off, it didn't matter, you'd gather at the bar. It'd either escalate or it wouldn't, but every evening was a get-together, you either partied or we hung, but not any more. I can't.
"It dries you out, there's not quite as much moisture in here as there used to be."
But on stage Nelson said they are as good as they ever were and keeping things fresh.
"Once people come to that show, new blood in the band, new technology and a new attitude keeps the show from sounding like 1979 revisited. I'm not passing judgement on 1979, because I was there, but it has to be different because your ears are used to a different sound, technology and energy.
"We are doing it so that when they come they don't just see a bunch of old farts standing doing what they've done before."
