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A native of Vernon, BC, Darby Mills began her rise to the top of Canadian rock’s most recognizeable voices in the mid 70’s, doing mostly what she termed ‘BG’s (background vocals), and then joined Vancouver’s Steelback for a short period prior to their sole album in 1981. After signing on with The Headpins as Denise …
Segragated from the mainstream machine in Toronto, Edmonton during the early 1980s was a breeding ground for some of the country’s most innovative music, including the new wave movement sweeping the nation. Frontman Jim Gray and guitarist Alan Marks had previously left the bands they were in and formed Darkroom. With the additions of Wolf …
Guilty As Charged –> Darkstar was formed by Toronto’s Timothy Chipman on guitars and keyboards with brothers James Paul and Peter Cassar on bass and drums. They played the local bar scene for a couple of years while honing their hard rock act and writing some material. In 1977 while playing in New York a …
var mydate=new Date() var month=mydate.getMonth() var day=mydate.getDate() if (month==0 && day==28) document.write(‘(‘Jan 281948: Corky Laing, drummer with Mountain, is born in Montreal. 2005: Ryan Vikedal, Nickelback drummer since 1996, leaves the band. 2006: Holly Woods & Toronto play to a packed house in Cold Lake. But it’s actully Holly with the majority of Sweeney Todd …
Born David Thomsett in 1941, the native of Surrey, England moved to Toronto at the age of six. A colorful adolescence saw him spend time at both Millbrook Reformatory and the Burwash Industrial Farm. But it was during this period that he discovered a new outlet for his energies, reportedly walking out with a guitar …
Born in 1949, the Montreal native picked up his first guitar at age 6 with dreams of making it big like his idol Elvis. He graduated from playing in a number of highschool bands to replacing Amos Garrett in The Great Speckled Bird with Ian & Sylvia Tyson on his 21st birthday. Gaining a lot …
Denny Doherty memorial Born in Halifax, in 1940, Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty grew up with music in the household, and formed his first band, The Hepsters before he was 16. The quartet played loose renditions of folk standards, and for nearly two years packed the local clubs. His next musical venture was The Colonials, where …
Kenny MacLean memorial Originally known as The Suspects, the band was made up of Kenny MacLean on guitars and synthesizers, drummer Donald George Mercer, and British born bassist Chris Gibb (ex of Wanka and Lovesin), trying to stand out from the crowd in a bustling punk scene emerging out of the Toronto area, where manager …
After Orphan ran its course in the mid 1980s, following a transformation from The Pumps, Winnipeg native Chris Burke-Gaffney tried a couple of other projects to end the decade, then hooked up with former Pumps drummer Terry Norman Taylor to form Dead Beat Honeymooners. While writing some material, they auditioned some players and rounded out …
From the dusty trails of southern Saskatchewan come one of the sleekest machines you’ll have heard in awhile – full-throttle but ready to shift gears on the drop of a cowboy hat. With driving, infectious hillbilly jive catching on first around their hometown of Regina, before long in the early ’00s The Dead South was …