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Brian Allen and Ron Glatley formed the basis of the band in the early 70’s in Barrie, ON. They went through a variety of incarnations of ‘the flavour of the day’ images before settling on Rose, a hard-nosed sound heavy on guitars with a powering backbeat. A chance meeting with Ronnie Hawkins during a Toronto …
As the core of one of Canada’s most innovative, avant garde groups, Carole Pope and Kevan Staples were a constant fixture of the Yorkville coffeehouses during the late ’60’s. The duo’s aggressive sound was trademark long before the advent of an actual ‘punk’ or ‘new wave’ sound. They combined raw pop with political overtones & …
John Rutsey memorial Beyond a shadow of any doubt one of the greatest bands to ever walk our green planet, the origins of Rush trace back to the mid 60’s when Gary Lee Weinrib & Alex Zivojinovich formed a garage band and jammed to the sounds of Hendrix, Cream & Led Zeppelin. They interchanged bands …
Slightly better than casual recognition in their own country, but superstar status in Europe is the story of Saga. Formed from the core of Fludd, bassist Jim Chricton, Peter Rachon on keyboards and drummer Steve Negus, they recruited Chricton’s younger brother Ian on guitars. Pockets was born. The group toured the local Toronto area doing …
The demise of Sword by the end of the 1980s came after two albums, leaving singer Rick Hughes looking to start a new project. Wanting to stick to his metal roots but with more mainstream accessibility than with his previous outing, he and guitarist Stephane Dufour began writing material for the still un-named new project. …
Born Richard Boudreau in Cape Breton Island, Sam Moon began entertaining audiences in the mid 1960s, and by ’67 his band New Broom was one of the hottest tickets in the Maritimes. Throughout the ’70s he fronted a number of different groups to varying degrees of success, including The Universal Power (with Matt Minglewood) and …
BAmanda Meta Marshall (born August 29, 1972) is a Canadian pop-rock singer. She has released three studio albums, the first was certified Diamond in Canada, with the latter two certified 3x Platinum and Platinum respectively.[1] She is best known for her 1996 single, “Birmingham”, which reached number 3 in Canada and was her only song …
Brothers Rick and Mark Santers grew up with music in the house, both playing a number of different roles in a variety of groups through school. They decided in 1980 to form their own band. While Rick had by this time already gained a reputation as one of Toronto’s hottest young guitarists, Mark was enjoying …
Scissors was the brainchild of Vancouver’s Bill Barker, who’d bounced around in a few groups until hooking up with bassist Ray Fulber, ex of Poisoned. He’d also played with Barker prior to that in the short lived Nytro a couple years earlier. The band was rounded out by organist Jan Henriksen and drummer Bruce Faulkner, …
Scott Merritt Artist profileBy Coral Andrews Scott Merritt is one of Canada’s most intriguing music minds to come along in decades. In addition to his now-rare debut release DESPERATE COSMETICS, Merritt had four other strong albums on his highly eclectic music roster: SERIOUS INTERFERENCE, produced by a young Dan Lanois [Peter Gabriel, U2], GRAVITY IS …