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Originally known as The Spats, they were formed in Toronto in 1964 when drummer Skip Prokop left Riverside Three and got together with former Last Words guitarist/vocalist Bill Misener (Bill Marion), a fellow Hamiltonian. Scarborough natives Chuck Beal on guitars and bassist Denny Gerrard rounded out the original group. Within a short time they’d become …
Paul Hyde emigrated from Britain to Victoria, BC in the mid 70's, bringing with him the punk that was the main music in the UK at the time. He began playing in local clubs where he met Bob Rock in 1979. Together they performed as a duo and exchanged musical ideas before drummer Terry Nelson …
Brian MacLeod memorial The Pepper Tree was the culmination of a handful of bar bands in Nova Scotia, formed when drummer Tim Garagan left his band Friends of The Family and got together with guitarist Ritchie Richmond and Lenny Brennan on bass when those two left their previous group Lost Children in ’67. They soon …
Kenny MacLean memorial “Are you sitting comfortably? …. Then we’ll begin … “The intro that sparked the epitome of the Canadian new wave-punk scene of the1980’s … Before forming Platinum Blonde in 1980, Mark Holmes’ start was in a Police tribute band two years earlier. It was during this time that the interior-design/ art student, …
After Lennex had achieved nominal success and finally landed a record deal with Attic in ’82, the band fell apart, leaving Rick Rose to pick up the pieces and put together a new group. On the label execs’ suggestion he changed their name to Perfect Affair while assembling the new ranks. Brian Brackstone, the producer …
One of the hottest punk groups in Winnipeg during the early 1980s was Personality Crisis. Bassist Mitch Funk had moved from Calgary and in ’79, with Doug Bauer on vocals, guitarists Walter Kot and Tommy Wharton, and drummer Ed Asselin, Le Kille was born – and raised havoc on the local scene, gaining a reputation …
Taking their name from the Stratford, Ontario region of the same name, Perty County Conspiracy was centred around British immigrant Cedric Smith and American draft dodger Richard Keelan (ex of Spikedrivers). They gigged up and down the Toronto strip in the late ’60s and released their debut album, MUSHROOM MUSIC on the independent label, Rumour …
Born in 1947, Peter Pringle was the lead soprano in the children’s choir of the Canadian Opera Company by the time he was six, but began exploring life on the piano when nature changed him from a soprano to a baritone. After moving from Halifax after graduation, he studied music at the University of Toronto, …
Formed in 1992 in Toronto, The Philosopher Kings were centred around friends and music school students, the Levine Brothers – Jason on bass and Jon on piano, and vocalist Gerald Eaton, soon adding James McCollum and Brian West on guitars, and drummmer Craig Hunt. Before long they’d become regulars up and down Queen Street, when …
School friends Andy Forgie (vocals), Mark Rashotte (guitars), and John Paul Murphy (drums) first began playing together in the eighth grade for other students in Belleville, Ontario. Going by the name The Fog, they eventually morphed into Tombstone Shade by 1970, and then Creed. By the summer of ’75 the lineup had been solidified with …