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Born in Salo, Italy, about an hour south of Rome in 1953, Alfie Zappacosta’s family moved to Toronto when he was only 6 months old. He first picked up the guitar at age 9 and began playing in different groups while only a teen. Performing at Italian weddings opened the youngster up to diverse musical …
Hailing from Toronto, Zero-One was formed by singer/guitarist Frank Zirone in 1979, along with guitarist Keith Ross, bassist Gary Lalonde (ex of Rose), Jim MacDonald on keyboards, and drummer Gord Paton. They travelled up and down the local strip for a year or so while climbing the bar scene ladder, when they were noticed by …
Zon was formed in Toronto in the mid ’70s by singer Denton Young (who’d previously played with Act Three), Gary Poplawski on guitar, bassist Rod Chappell and Patrick McGuire on drums. Before long though, Louis Mucilli replaced Poplawski on guitars, Jim Sampson became the new bass player and Kim Hunt (ex of Island and Bond) …
Former d in mid ’76 Chris Haight (guitar) John Hamilton (drums; switched to bass) Bent Rasmussen (drums) Zoom was formed in the Fall of 1976 and debuted at Toronto Queen Street bar The Beverly Tavern on New Year’s Eve of that year. It was there that the band would meet up with future scene makers …
A conglomerate of several Sarnia garage bands in the mid ’60s, Zooom was centered around singers/guitarists Kim Mitchell and Jim Chevalier. Mitchell and drummer Brian McLellan had left The Quotations, and Chevalier, along with bassist Dave Myles and Phil Goodwin on keyboards and sax had just dissolved their own band, The Unit Four. The new …
After seven arduous years that saw the band release a string of singles but only one album, Brutus called it quits in late ’76. This left Toronto native and frontman Zwol (real name Walter Zwolinski) regrouping and going solo. A year later after assembling a back up band which partially consisted of ex-Brutus mate Dennis …
!DOCTYPE html> T he basis of Zylan was formed when Dave Miller and Helene Bolduc went island hopping, moving from Newcastle, NB to Halifax in 1971. With Bolduc handling vocals and Miller on trumpet, they wanted to create an orchestrated sound, different from everything else on the East Coast at the time. They soon added …