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The origins of Boys Brigade began in Toronto in 1981, when singer/keyboardist Malcolm Burn hooked up with Tony Lester, who’d left the punk band Arson a year earlier after one single and a couple of years of struggling to make it. New wave was all the rage at the time, and deciding to go in …
Growing up in Calgary, Barney Bentall didn’t choose music as a career until relatively late in life. Though he’d played in a variety of groups as a teen and his early 20’s, developing a song-writing partnership with childhood chum Gary Fraser, who he’d met while spending summers on BC’s Keat Island. With Fraser now also …
Just prior to the recording of the SHARE THE LAND album in 1970, Randy Bachman chose to leave what would arguably become known as Canada’s greatest group ever The Guess Who. After his first solo effort AXE later that year, he decided to return to the confines of a group setting. Hooking up with brother …
Breaker morphed out of Calgary garage bands that centered around English native Rik Anthony, ‘Shaky’ Brian Johnston and Kevin Bradley on guitars, bassist Warren McWilliams, and drummer Doug Jones in late 1980. They refined their heavy hair metal act on the local ‘b’ circuit for a year or so, then worked their way into central …
Born in Hawkesbury, ON on Oct. 1, 1951, Brian Greenway’s first real band was a Toronto foursome called Cheeque, with Steve Lang, releasing one single, “Good Old Country Air” b/w “Something More” – when Pierre Senecal invited him to join Mashmakhan in ’73. “I was in the touring version of the band after their second …
Born in Halifax on June 25, 1952, Brian Oliver MacLeod began playing in garage bands as a teen as a drummer, but was also an early guitar protege. After joining Pepper Tree as guitarist (tho not on any of their recordings), he branched out to the rest of the Maritimes for the next couple of …
Born in Tisdale, Saskatchewan in 1954, Brian Plummer was already playing guitar by the time his family moved to North Battleford in time for him to attend High School. After graduation, he tried to find local work in the business in Saskatoon, but by the time he was 20 he was living in Ottawa, and …
The driving force behind Helix, Brian Vollmer was born in Kingston, Ontario and is generally regarded as one of Canada’s Godfathers of Heavy Metal. WHEN PIGS FLY (1999)I’m A Live Frankenstein Life Of The Party King Of The Hill Stumblin’ Blind Pissed Off X-Ray Eyes F.u.g.l.y. When Pigs Fly Good Times Don’t Get Better Than …
At the front of Toronto leading Canada’s entry in the hair metal parade, many of the riders were from outside the perimeter. Scottish native singer/songwriter Gerry McGhee moved to Niagara as a teen, and was in a number of groups through school and afterwards. By the spring of 1984 he’d come back from an ill-fated …
You don’t need to have a PhD or hire a PI to figure out the Invasion that inspired The British Modbeats. A native of the UK, Fraser Loveman now living in St Catharines, Ontario, he first got exposure into the arts as a dancer. But by ’63 he’d turned to music, and started up the …