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Listen To Older Voices: Rob Greaves – Part 3

Rob Greaves
Rob Greaves
I have been with the Toorak Times since April 2012. I worked as Senior Editor of the Toorak Times until 2023, when I retired. I now work as a special features contributor for both the Toorak Times and Tagg. I've been in the Australian music scene as a musician since 1964, and have worked in radio and TV and newspapers (when they were actually printed on paper) as well as working in the film industry, as the Film Unit manager on Homicide for several years. I also have extensive experience in audio production and editing.
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listen to older voices: rob greaves – part 3
Circa 1990 working at the ACTU – [CLICK to enlarge]

 

  I’m Rob Greaves and it has been my pleasure to host LTOV for an 18-year period, and now as the program comes to an end, I thought I’d share some of my story.

 

 

There is some of my “dark years” in this program as I talk about how my friend David introduced me to a friend of his, Charles, who on learning I had been an industrial chemist took an interest in me for the possibility of some quite illegal activities.

I share the story of being a taxi driver and then on buying a van, how I became a taxi-truck driver. This leads me into a story of how this led to heading up north to the small Qld town of Cooroy, where I lived in a house in the middle of a state forest with no power or running water.

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Circa 1983: Cooroy Qld – [CLICK to enlarge

 

My story then moves to how my friends and myself were set up by a notorious local Queensland detective, who some would claim was corrupt, and how we fronted a kangaroo court and ended up being run out of the state. But the story doesn’t end there when I was visited in Melbourne by some detectives – you see someone set a bomb in a cupboard for that detective to find, but sadly it ended up killing a child.

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Newspaper clip referring to the bombing. – [CLICK to enlarge]

 

Music plays a large part of my life and in this part of my story and I share many stories of the ‘Lectric Loo recording studio my music partner, David,  set up in Sydney. I talk about our first vinyl Lp release and how one of the tracks on it won a prize in an International Electronic music competition. 

listen to older voices: rob greaves – part 3
Part of my musical equipment in the ‘Lectric Loo studio: 1978 – [CLICK to enlarge]

 

Then I speak of meeting and joining forces with the late and great Aussie magician – Geoff Crozier and of the show we formed together in the early 1980’s.

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On stage at the Billboard venue in Melbourne: 1980 – [CLICK to enlarge]

Click to hear: Rob Greaves – Part 3Previous Listen To Older Voices Programs can be found in our archive, by clicking on one link or the other

2012 to 2016   

 –  2016 onward supermarkets put junk food on special twice as often as healthy food, and that’s a problem

 

[Listen To Older Voices receives funding from the Commonwealth Government 
through the Commonwealth Home Support Program Program]

Rob Greaves

I have been with the Toorak Times since April 2012. I worked as Senior Editor of the Toorak Times until 2023, when I retired. I now work as a special features contributor for both the Toorak Times and Tagg. I've been in the Australian music scene as a musician since 1964, and have worked in radio and TV and newspapers (when they were actually printed on paper) as well as working in the film industry, as the Film Unit manager on Homicide for several years. I also have extensive experience in audio production and editing.

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