Stuart Coop

We hate something.

We're not exactly sure what it is, but we're rebelling.

You know, what does Marlon Brando say?

What are you rebelling against?

What have you got?

And I think it was a world that was existing in America not long after the much mythologised Woodstock.

And so within the space of like less than 24 months, we've gone from Can I Take You Higher and, you know, Sly Stone and everything that was happening at Woodstock to these, you know, bomb makers.

Yes.

Yes, I really liked it.

I mean, I liked Andrew Stafford's previous book, which came out some years ago called Pig City, which was a terrific history of music in Brisbane.

And so I was curious to read this.

I thought, oh, this feels a bit like High Fidelity, Nick Hornby, the Lost in Music book by Giles, whose surname escapes me at the moment.

And I started it.

I read it very, very quickly.

And I thought he does what these sort of books should always do.

He had me going and pulling out records that I hadn't listened to for a very long time and putting them on and going, oh, were they that good or whatever?

So, no, I think he's done a very nice job with this book.

Yes, I'm going to go and buy one the moment we finish chatting.

I'm a big fan of Paul Williams, who, as he mentioned, was the founder of Crawdaddy magazine, and I thought that I owned and had read everything that Paul Williams has ever written, but I now discover there is a book that Paul Williams has not only written, but I don't have.

And has eluded you.