Page 1 5/2/2014 Page 2 5/2/2014 - The Violent Years – Part One Good Company – Good Day To Die! Part Two Australia’s Era of Violent History Part Three Sex and Thugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll Part Four The Ethnic Invasion Part Five Controlling Australia’s Nightlife! Page 3 5/2/2014 PART ONE: Good Company … Good Day To Die 1. PRE – Concert (Public Relations Exercise) 9 2. B.J.C. – Training Sessions 17 3. 3XY Free Festival – Frankston Football Oval 24 4. Twelve Twenty – First visit from the Boss 30 5. One Thirty Five – Second visit from the Boss 41 6. Two Forty Five – Lull Before The Storm 50 7. Three Forty Five – The Hornet’s Nest 58 8. Lightning Strikes Twice…………………………………76 Page 4 5/2/2014 PART TWO: AN ERA OF VIOLENT HISTORY 1. Up In The Morning and Off to School 84 2. Ring, Ring Goes the Bell 88 3. And the Teacher is Teaching the Golden Rule 90 4. Investing in Fitzroy 94 5. Newtown, Fitzroy – The Violent Years………………..100 6. Bob Jones, Fitzroy – The School Years 109 Page 5 5/2/2014 PART THREE: SEX AND THUGS AND ROCK ‘N’ ROLL 1. The Phantom Twins 2. The Olympic Games – Melbourne 3. The Northside Gangs 4. Got To Get Out 5. Back In The Deep End Page 6 5/2/2014 PART FOUR: THE ETHNIC INVASION 1. Wog’s, Dago’s & Spic’s………………………………….162 2. Marriage – Tracey-Lee Jones 162 3. Sly Grog 4. Dance Promotions 5. Trouble Shooters 6. 6pm, Ten, twelve, three & 6am closing - recovery 7. The Southern Cross Page 7 5/2/2014 PART FIVE: CONTROLLING AUSTRALIAS NIGHT LIFE 1. Berties, Sebastians 163 2. The Waiter’s Club 3. And The Catcher 4. R. V. Jones Twentieth Century Connection…………..428 5. In Search of Transcendence……………………………486 Page 8 5/2/2014 PART ONE: Good Company … Good Day To Die • Boxing Day... the day after Christmas has for almost as long as I can remember, always been a day of significance to me. Having spent my entire life either fighting and/or teaching others how to fight aka; martial arts (self-defense). In turn, using these skills to protect a large part of the global community via my Security Industry. And for a third and the major reason, is the name itself, Boxing Day… i.e. the day of the box, one version of the original meaning for this ‘Christmas Box’ in Britain was a name for a type of Christmas present. • The day after Christmas, Boxing Day was a day off for servants (As acknowledgement for working so hard and for such long hours on this holiest of holy days) it was this day after when they received a present of a ‘Christmas Box’ from the master. The servants would in turn go home to give ‘Christmas Boxes’ to their families. • Many, many years from now I will learn the true meaning and relevance to Christmas Day & Boxing Day with their earliest ‘Connection’ to Astro-theology and the infinite ‘Parallel Universe’. This information is already available in my third book titled: • “CELTS” – “Connecting Europe’s LOST Tribal Societies” Page 9 5/2/2014 • Always seemed to me this special day should have been put aside for one of history’s more famous warriors. 'Boxing Day', December 26, 1972 fell on a Tuesday that year. An event took place on this day, that would create a turning point in the life of Bob Jones, he and a group of his closest friends having to fight with the best of their well-trained technical skills, simply to stay alive... notoriety and fame, or perhaps notorious fame, I'm not sure - but I do know that on the 26 December 1972, 'Boxing Day & Bob Jones' would become that day the ‘media-created’ public national opprobrium. Continuing through Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday (New Year’s Eve), and Monday (New Year's Day) January 1 st 1973, that whole week national media would devote radio debates, national and state newspapers would give it front page. Television would highlight news broadcasts and make it a feature of the current affairs type shows until it became an absolute phenomena. All of Australia’s media scandalized this event sharing a commonality that was being decisively more punitive than putative. Victoria's chief secretary of the time, Mr. Meagher must have felt the whole affair was prodigious enough for him to gain some political clout and stick his bloody prodigious political nose into my business. Demanding his government had an inquiry into this Bob Jones and his 'Private Army'. The then, Melbourne Herald the next day quoted him as saying he was "not enthusiastic about strong-arm men controlling large crowds". This featured Page 10 5/2/2014 an aggressive photo of me on the front-page carrying the heading in bold print… 'MEAGHER TO LOOK AT POP GUARDS' If you have sensed a mood of animosity at this point in the story, I make no attempt at an apology. I would like to take you back about three weeks prior to this particular Christmas. As a part of Bob Jones - Violent Years and for the first time in approximately 40 years tell someone my version in my own words. This way at least, I will be happy with your opinion of my level of guilt or innocent aspersion, whatever it may be... About the first week into December my office had been asked to organize a meeting with Trevor Smith, an upcoming entrepreneur in the radio industry, and the marketing team at Melbourne’s 3XY, the then top rating radio station (Who ten years earlier had employed Stan ‘The Man’ Rofe whom I had employed within my dance circuit during the early sixties. Stan would become a good friend, five years my senior I had a lot to learn from this man see the full story: “LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL”). I went along to this meeting and at first was excited and felt complimented. My security organization had been recommended to do Melbourne’s 'first-ever radio station promotion, of an open air all day FREE ROCK CONCERT. I say "at first", because after all the back slapping and hype about how they knew no one else could do it as good as me etc… They hit me with, "Do you think you could handle this with yourself and about a dozen of your best guys". I was thinking more along the lines of starting at fifty. Then explaining why I thought they might want to play it safe, and employ a few more; perhaps as many as Page 11 5/2/2014 a hundred to treat this negotiation with the proper respect deserving. This meeting continued ignoring my well-intended advice. To make matters worse, they began to format for me the bands and their pecking order of playing on the day, with approximate time schedules etc. While they rolled out the who’s-who in the zoo capable of attracting an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 punters - I was thinking three guys on the main gates to screen the crowd. Three guys to protect administration and vendors and six around the stage to protect the acts - certainly did not leave any back up besides me in case things got ugly. Billy Thorpe with his Aztecs, Lobby Lloyd and the Coloured Balls, Daryl Braithwaite & Sherbet, Broderick Smith with Carson and the list goes on... again I'm thinking, Billy’s been doing some big shows and does attract a lot of the 'rockers', a heavy drinking crowd. Lobby has a reputation of attracting Melbourne’s 'new second wave' generation of 'skinheads' and ‘sharpies’ not that they are big drinkers, but the two together? I was about to think out loud about my concerns for the welfare of their station’s fans, adverse publicity for 3XY - let alone the physical welfare of me and my guys! “Look Bob, we know you can see things our way - this is a free concert, the cost of the bands, setting up the stage, the rigging, advertising, administration, your security costs etc. 'No revenue... You Know', this show is going to cost - so we’re sure you can help out". Trevor had his patter down pat, about now I knew any argument out of me and I'd be informed, about 'those other security groups not quite as professional as mine’ that they still had to talk to. Page 12 5/2/2014 "Okay Trevor I’m in, and thank you gentlemen I look forward to seeing you all on Boxing Day at the gig". Trevor Smith took me from the boardroom and into his adjoining office and gave me 13 security passes - 'ACCESS ALL AREAS' and a backstage list of band members, VIPs and friends who would have access to the backstage area... "The rest will already have passes tell your guys no one will be allowed backstage access without the correct 3XY Concert-Passes NO ONE.” That was fine of course but from past experience I knew it would only be them that would bend and break their own lax rules all day, but at least he was being professional and making the effort. Possibly Trevor read my mind and sensed my trepidation of the events potential of ‘turning tumult’ - and as if to ease the pain he offered, "Bob I know what you're thinking but we have spoken to the Mornington Peninsula Council and they like this 'promotion concept’. They believe it will be a good thing for the thriving local community, we’ve sent a letter to the local Frankston cops.