Australian Rock Of Ages: Number 11 - Glyn Mason

The Life and Time Stories of Australian Musicians, Performance Artists and those who commenced their their contributed to the Australian Music industry from the 1950’s through to the 1970’s.

Australian Rock of Ages is a series of interviews conducted with artists, entrepreneurs, managers. Those who promoted and contributed to the Australian Music Industry. All were born in Australia or settled in Australia during the halcyon years of the late 1950’s through to the late 1970’s.

We present a different story each month.

This program features the story of Glyn Mason.

Glyn is a Baby Boomer and is indeed now becoming part of the older generation. Like almost all Baby Boomers his story is, however, significantly different to those of the previous generations.

He was born into the Post WWII economic boom. With social, political and massive technological changes the Baby Boomer generation shaped the world in a way never before seen.

australian rock of ages: number 11 - glyn mason — A very young Glyn with his parents – [CLICK to enlarge]

Glyn arrived in Australia post WWII with his family from Britain. This was part of the large migrant influx known as the Ten-Pound Poms. His story eventually takes us into the world of the professional musician.

Music is Glyn’s calling and it’s a profession that he has worked in for most of his life.

We learn why the family ended up moving from Australia to New Zealand.

His story also covers his early years and includes stories of why music was a critical part of his development.

We also learn why, years later, he returned to Australia with a top NZ band and stayed!

In Part 2 we learn that although he had a good education, the world of the typical professions held no interest for Glyn.

You will learn how his High School experiences led to his joining a band. Learn how he left school in the mid 1960’s when the “popular music” explosion was happening world-wide.

With New Zealand not being insulated from these new music phenomena, he decided he needed to follow his dream. That dream was to be a musician and, he had the talent to support that dream.

In unravelling his life we are educated and entertained. There are stories of how his personal music journey was developing in an explosion of change.

Glyn arrives in Australia with NZ group – Larry’s Rebels, soon to be renamed The Rebels

This starts an amazing career with him playing with some of the best. These include, Chain

and Ariel

as well as Copperwine, Sherbet and Stockley, See and Mason to name but a few.

This is his journey and it’s a story that is engrossing and is well told.

Part 3 is the final part of the Life & Times story of this talented singer and musician.

His story is engrossing because he weaves personal observations of life with the enormous changes society was going through.

So it is we have a story that most listeners will identify with.

There are many twists and turns in Glyn’s story.

Learn why it was he was forced to take a break from music and how he undertook an apprenticeship in landscaping. Yet he eventually returns to the career he was most passionate about – music. Music, along with his family life is the main feature of his journey!

Glyn is still very much an active musician today. He is in the popular duo – The Pardoners, with long-time friend Sam See.

He is also a member of the amazing Field, See & Mason, where the talented Lindsay Field joins Sam and Glyn.

You will enjoy this story and will be thoroughly entertained by this Baby Boomer musician. Glyn Mason is a man who is able to clearly articulate the thoughts and desires and beliefs. Not only of himself but also of his generation.