| Author | Message | ||
     Keith Sharp Member Username: Keith_sharp Post Number: 6 Registered: 08-2005 |
From Planet Sound on Teletext: "Former Go-Betweens singer Robert Forster is writing his autobiography, PS can reveal. Forster has yet to finalise a publishing deal, but is some way into writing his memoirs. His first book, Collected Music Writings, is published in November. It consists of his columns for Australian arts magazine The Monthly, plus other works of his music criticism." | ||
| Matsrep Member Username: Matsrep Post Number: 82 Registered: 10-2005 |
That's good news! (Twice!) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2686 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes, definitely. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1423 Registered: 01-2005 |
Great news!! I'll order one as soon as it's available. | ||
| Matsrep Member Username: Matsrep Post Number: 83 Registered: 10-2005 |
I would have loved to publish Robert's Collected Music Writings if no one else was interested. (I have collected his articles in The Monthly in a word document. A great read.) - Now I'll buy the book instead. | ||
| william rodgers Member Username: Willyorkpa Post Number: 37 Registered: 02-2005 |
brilliant. i'm sure he has A LOT to say! maybe a Lindy smackdown or 2. perhaps a vitriolic response to the record labels who hijacked his (and Grant's) work. looking forward to his honest and succinct words. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1448 Registered: 01-2005 |
I won't buy it if it's a Lindy and Amanda smackdown. Those three really need to heal the old wounds and make some music together again. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1964 Registered: 03-2005 |
Who would expect Robert to write a "smackdown" of anybody? That's so not Robert. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 280 Registered: 10-2006 |
I expect poetry, irony, wit. Perhaps an evocation of Brisbane childhood followed by the wild comedy of messy rock n roll living. I hope he manages to take us part of the way into the creative engine room as Dylan does in Chronicles. Supposing that he doesn't just call it "A memoir", I wonder what the title will be... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1452 Registered: 01-2005 |
It's sure not a stretch to say that Robert grew up in better surroundings in Brisbane than Zimmerman did (next to the vast iron ore pit mines outside of freezing Hibbing, Minnesota). I fondly remember watching (from our 18 foot family boat) the majestic 700 foot great lakes freighters that hauled the iron ore/taconite pellets downbound from Duluth, Minnesota headed for the steel mills in Detroit and Cleveland. http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/t humb/Algocen1ah.jpg The modern 1000 foot freighters are graish in comparison. http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/t humb/James-R.-Barker_1.jpg | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1369 Registered: 08-2006 |
Whoa. I used to see those things, usually from a distance, fishing with my dad on Lake Michigan. Even from far away and set against the vastness of the lake, they look huuuuuge. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1461 Registered: 01-2005 |
Rob, It's really cool watching them going through the locks in Sault Ste. Marie if you ever get to the Upper Penninsula. http://www.saultstemarie.com/ The northwest drive to Wawa, Canada along the Lake Superior shoreline is spectacular. |