Company Caine

In the early 1970s David Porter was a contributing photographer for some of the most influential Australian Rock music and underground publications (Go-Set, Daily/Planet, Rolling Stone (Australian Edition), The Digger. Porter was based in Melbourne, his subject the zeitgeist of its Rock/Pop music, underground theatre, and Counterculture scenes, sometimes working as ‘David Porter’, sometimes ‘Jacques L’Affrique’, sometimes ‘Jack Africa’. In 1973 he left Melbourne, stopped working in commercial photography, and pursued a teaching career.

COMPANY CAINE (1970-72)
Psychedelic-blues jazz band. Ray Arnott (drums), Cliff Edwards (bass), Jeremy Noone (saxophone, keyboards), Gulliver Smith (vocals), Russell Smith (guitar, vocals) plus Eric Cairns, John McInerny, Tim Partridge, Arthur Eizenberg, Ian Mawson, Mal Capewell, Geoff Burstin, John Power, Shirley Smith.

This photograph was originally published in:
Company Caine It’s All New. Go-Set, 18 March 1972 (p.2)