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After The Lounge CD review: LIGHTS GO OUT By: Dan Brisebois After The Lounge has been quietly honing their craft since its inception in 2001. The brainchild of frontman G. S. Bollert and guitarist Bryan Parsons, the lineup’s rounded out with Jefferson Shephard on bass and Carlos Ta Torre on drums. The London, Ont based …
Born and raised in Edmonton, Barry Allen Rasmussen grew up in a musical family, and learned guitar and took singing lessons while young. While attending Victoria High School, he was a member of the curling club, and had aspirations of becoming a chartered accountant. But by the time he’d graduated, he was looking at a …
by Nick Warburton For a brief moment in 1966 Bobby Kris & The Imperials were arguably the most popular group in Toronto and one of the best paid on the southern Ontario circuit. Their tasteful rendition of the Dionne Warwick classic, “Walk on By” was one of the most professionally produced singles to be recorded …
It’s good fortune for country music fans that Colter Wall didn’t follow in his father’s footsteps and get into politics. Although it might too have one day led him to the Premier’s chair, instead the Swift Current, Saskatchewan native picked up a guitar when he was just a toddler and followed a musical path, and …
Dewey Martin memorial Courtesy of Nick Warburton Born Walter Milton Dwayne Midkiff in Chesterville, Ontario on Sept 30, 1940, Dewey Martin’s post-Buffalo Springfield career has never received the attention bestowed to his fellow cohorts Steven Stills, Neil Young and Richie Furay. Like his erstwhile colleague, bass player Bruce Palmer, Martin struggled to maintain a profile …
courtesy of Nick Warburton Influence were one of the most fascinating bands to emerge from Canada during the ’60s. The group’s rich diversity of styles was a result of the group members’ wide range of musical backgrounds and geographical origins. The band’s driving force was lead guitarist Louis McKelvey (b. October 31, 1943, Killorglin, County …
Jerry Edmonton memorial Bruce Palmer memorial courtesy of Nick Warburton Steppenwolf’s biker anthem “Born To Be Wild” remains a rock classic and an epitome of the late ’60s west coast rock scene. With its images of freedom, liberty and sexual awakening, few could have known that the roots of the band lay in a Mersey-inspired …
Originally from Barrie, Ontario, Jason Dwight Campsall moved with his family to Camrose, Alberta when he was only 5, but moved back to Ontario, settling in Anten Mills before he was a teenager. He picked up the guitar for the first time while living in Alberta, and although he grew up with a wide array …
by Nick Warburton The Doors and Elektra Records’ producer Paul Rothchild is reported to have once lamented that Toronto R&B outfit, Luke & The Apostles were the “greatest album I never got to make”. Indeed, the group’s lone single for Elektra, released in early 1967, a year after it was recorded, hardly does justice to …
courtesy of Nick Warburton One of the less known Canadian groups to work on the 1960s US West Coast scene was the short-lived Merryweather, a talented bunch of Ontario musicians, fronted by former Mynah Birds member, bass player Neil Lillie (today better known as Neil Merryweather). Slightly reminiscent of the early Steve Miller Band, Merryweather …