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Jim Clench memorial Calgary in the mid ’70s was home to a number of hard rock acts playing the local area’s bars, all were looking to stand out and make their mark. Shades of Blonde morphed into 49th Parallel, which managed one record in ’69, which evolved into Painter‘s one album reign. By the time …
The roots of The Beau-Marks started in the mid ’50s, when Ray Hutchinson and Michel Robitaille met at the Shriners Hospital in Montreal. Hutchinson had suffered from tuberculosis of the hip since he was four and had several operations growing up. Robitaille was there being treated for polio, which he’d had since age three. They …
Despite being born into a farming and cowboy life, George Fox’s ability to resonate with country audiences was anything but natural. Born in 1960, his family moved from Calgary to a cattle ranch outside Cochrane while he was still young, but he didn’t pick up the country music vibe until the age of 20, when …
Hammersmith was the direct descendent of Painter, a Calgary-based hard rock band that had relocated to Seattle and produced one album in ’74. Once Painter had played its last note in ’74, Doran Beattie on lead vocals, guitarist Dan Lowe, Royden Morice on bass and keyboards and drummer Herb Ego moved back to Calgary and …
Throughout the 1970s, Dan Lowe had established himself as one of the Canada’s most well travelled musicians, having served as guitarist and main inspiration for one single with The Shades of Blonde and one album and a string of singles with 49th Parallel during the ’60s. He formed Painter, which produced one album, and then …