Vin Maskell Newport Bowls Club, Melbourne; September 2015My mind went blank. No recent song titles came to mind. Hardly any album titles either. I found myself grasping at thin air.
What is a 14 year old boy to make of Just Like A Woman? What does he know of fog, amphetamines and pearls? What does he know of standing inside the rain, of dying there of thirst, of a long-time curse?
Rick Kane Northcote, Australia July 2015 London July 2010Vicki and I scan the north side of the river, trying to imagine what window of what flat Ray Davies peered out to look at people swarming like flies down below. Is he looking at us now?
Vin Maskell Geelong 1979, Melbourne 1982We were talking and Van was singing. Tom, maybe you talked about your family, whom I’d never met. And maybe about your father, your distant, distant father.
The difference in our tastes in music would be the rock our relationship perished on.
Phil was divesting himself of all material possessions, man. Fortunately, I was on hand to help him cleanse himself of the most evil of these things, his LP records.
Sam Lawry A greasy diner in St Kilda, February 28 1996 The Mississippi, 1992The night darkened further and the last patrons stumbled out, smiling, into it. I felt I’d missed something, a wisp or hint of faith.
Jack Gramski Western suburbs, Melbourne, circa 2005Everyone I'd grown up with was changing: getting jobs, having kids, moving away, finding new friends etc.
Vin MaskellOutside Newport library, Victoria, Australia. Saturday 7 July, 2012. Midday.The busker had an audience of one, as I stood there off to the side, trying not to look too conspicuous.
Vin Maskell Bedroom, Williamstown, 11.30pm, 2007To listen to Feelings Of Grief is to swim out beyond the buoys, where the water is too deep and the shore too distant.