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Burlington, Ontario’s Finger Eleven formed in 1989 around brothers Scott and Sean Anderson on vocals and bass, along with highschool friends James Black on bass and drummer Rob Gommerman. Before long they doubled their guitar attack by adding Rick Jackett. Calling themselves Rainbow Butt Monkeys, they played throughout the region after graduation and in ’94 …
John Chenier memorial Unquestionably the heaviest export from Ottawa at that time, Ron Chenier’s first band was Those Naughty Boys, a bunch of local kids who released a pair of sappy tunes in ’65 called “Somebody Told My Girl” and “Tell Me Why.” But within a year of its release the band had run its …
The band’s roots stem from the demise of The Staccatos. Guitarist/singer Les Emmerson began his musical partnership with Rick Belanger in the early 60’s while in the group and after signing with Capitol Records, were heralded as Canada’s ‘other’ supergroup – The Guess Who being the other. But after failing at 2 cracks at breaking …
One of the hottest alternative rock groups to come from BC’s interior in the new millennium has been The Flu, formed in Kelowna in 2009, within a year the lineup was filled out by Felix Roberts on vocals and guitars, Jonny Karroll on guitars, bassist Alex Nuyten, and drummer Oz Frie. Drawing from the likes …
Brian Pilling memorial After toiling away in various local bands in the Toronto area, brothers Brian and Ed Pilling packed their bags and headed to England where they formed Wages Of Sin in 1969. Less than a year later they’d caught the eye of Cat Stevens who took them under his paw, renaming them Zeus …
In 1976 Jeff Plewman and Cameron Hawkins were both spinning their wheels and going nowhere while jamming with a Toronto band called Clear. They decided to form their own group, incorporating Hawkins’ keyboards and bass guitar and Plewman’s electric mandolin and violin into an avant-garde progressive rock sound – and FM was born. With Plewman …
Rick Lamb memorial Paul Naumann memorial In 1971 Paul Naumann left his band Leather and got together with fellow Torontonian Alex Machin, forming the group Island. Around the same time the remnants of another progressive rock group Lords Of London, in bassist Hughie Leggat, drummer Danny Taylor and Bob Horne on organ were looking for …
Formed in Edmonton in early 1979, Footloose consisted of U of A student Tim Feehan on vocals, guitarist Terry Medd (ex of Missouri), and Curt Smith, a dentist by trade, on keyboards. They quickly added bassist George Goodall and drummer Dwayne Feland and began rehearsals, toying with some music Feehan had been working on instead …
Fosterchild’s roots stem back to the early 1970s, when Vern Wills and Jim Foster (originally from Victoria, then Edmonton) grew up in Calgary, playing in a number of bands, sometimes together, and honing their chops on the circuit. But when Wills headed to New York in ’74 to join The Walkers, Foster continued playing in …
Buy Frank Soda Here Born in Mangone, Calabria, Italy, Francesco Soda emigrated with his family to Canada in 1957 before he was old enough to go to school. Growing up in Kitimat, BC, he started playing guitar in the early ’60s as a way to express himself. Like the rest of the country, the West …