Book: Rock Reader: Underneath the Riffs (Young & Jenkins, 2008).

Rock Reader: Underneath the Riffs

Young, M., & Jenkins, J. (2008). Rock reader: Underneath the riffs. Melbourne: Wilkinson Publishing.
ISBN 9781921332432

Review
This book brings back a lot of memories. It is about the Rock 'n' Roll scene in Melbourne, Australia, from around the late 1960's until the early 2000's. A lot changed over that 40 year period, especially our tastes in music.
Many of the 32 contributors are roughly the same age as me: late Baby-Boomers to Gen-X. For eight years from around 1978 I would attend live music venues around Melbourne, mainly in the south and east, on a weekly basis. Often it was out of habit; sometimes I would be chasing down an artist or band I really enjoyed.
However, I love Country and Blues more than Big Hair and Pop, so I often attended those events outside my region without a social circle from my local age group. Maybe I should have kept a diary...
The Rock Reader is personal accounts of a life lived and shared, often through the free street press that I began to read earnestly and regularly from about 1995 on; until my Masters Degree studies diverted my attention from 2006.
The local street press included Beat magazine and InPress - both titles are no longer available.
When the Rock Reader was published (2008) both magazines were widely available; and the contributors of the 32 stories that make up the Rock Reader also contributed to many local media outlets. I really enjoyed this book, as I have spent a couple of weeks in a new role that has required a lot of reading of Standard Operational Procedure manuals. I've enjoyed the break from instruction manuals and have reminisced through the shared the memories that made us. If you see a copy: pick it up. I found mine at a thrift store and I got a bargain!
What follows is a summarized table of contents. You'll note I've added a kind of shorthand
to denote 'Story#/Page', i.e. 06/27 is Christie Eliezer's contribution: Story #06 beginning
on Page 27... So here it is (I haven't seen a ToC published elsewhere).

EDITORS
MIRANDA YOUNG
JEFF JENKINS
01/01 FROZEN CHOOK...
Paul Stewart
02/07 A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Ed Nimmervoll
03/12 GIG MISSILES & OTHER ROCK SPORTS
Fee Bamford-Bracher
04/17 SO THERE WE WERE?
Wally Meanie
05/23 BILLY GOULD'S BIRTHDAY
Sarah Morgan
06/27 VOODOO GURUS: "IN FACT IT'S A GAS"
Christie Eliezer
07/35 THE GRAND DAME AND HER RATTY STAGES
Jonathan Alley
08/43 THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
Ian "Molly" Meldrum
09/47 WELL I THOUGHT WE WOULD TALK ABOUT MADONNA
Michael Gudinski
10/54 AVRIL
Julian Schiller
11/61 EXACT DETAILS
Eleanor McKay
12/65 AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN
Tony Biggs
13/69 ROCK AND ROLL ABANDON
Brian Nankervis
14/73 38 HOURS FOR ONE NOTE
Fifa Riccobono
15/75 A STORY? FUCK...
Tim Rogers
16/79 THE HARD-ONS AT THE CLUB
Ned McDonald
17/85 LATE FOR JOHNNY AND SPRUNG BY JUNE
Mark Jenkins
00/94 PICTURE SECTION
[A selection of contributors' photos and memorabilia.]
18/101 I WANT THE WORLD. I WANT THE WHOLE WORLD!
Denise D'Sylva
19/105 THE ROCKEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE
Dylan Lewis
20/110 A PSYCHEDELIC GIG WITH THE LA DE DAS
Paul Elliott
21/113 MELBOURNE'S STRAWBERRY FIELDS
Francis Leach
22/119 TATTOOED BY ROCK 'N' ROLL IN THE SUBURBS
Honest Mick Dooley
23/123 MY NIGHT OF TERROR WITH THE COMMODORES
Debbie Nettleingham: The Artist Formerly Known As Debbie Dinosaur
24/127 DOWN YESTER-ROCK LANE
Old Unca Leaping Larry L
25/136 SUPPORT
PB Birman
26/143 NIRVANA, RAIN, AT THE PALACE
Stratos Pavlis
27/147 THE NIGHT MY EARS BLED (WELL, NEARLY)
Tom Elliott
28/157 EIGHT MEMORIES FROM THE FIRST 1000 ISSUES OF BEAT...
Rob Furst
29/162 THE HITMEN. WAR AGAINST THE JIBE
Steve Tauschke
30/167 THE NIGHT I MET THE KINGS
Jeff Jenkins
31/173 "WAR, IT'S JUST A SHOT AWAY...LOVE, IT'S JUST A KISS AWAY"
(Jagger/Richards Gimme Shelter 1969)
James Young
32/179 AC/DC LANE
Patrick Donovan

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Reference List / In-Text Citation Styles in APA 6th
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Young, M., & Jenkins, J. (2008). Rock reader: Underneath the riffs . Melbourne: Wilkinson Publishing..

20220313
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