Rippin’ Strings (Festival Hall, Melbourne)

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.

LOBBY LOYDE (b. 1941 d. 2007)
Revered guitarist. Purple Hearts (1965-67), Wild Cherries (1967-68), Billy Thorpe and The Aztecs (1968-71), Coloured Balls (1972-74), Rose Tattoo (1979-80). Inducted ARIA Hall of Fame (2006).

Published: Rippin’ Strings. Planet, 26 April 1972 (p.15)