Side Aye
1. FM: Aldeberan: 1978 *
2. Melissa Payne: Take Me Away – 2012 *
3. Silver Apples: Program – 1968
4. Uriah Heep: Love Machine – 1971
5. Rare Air: Beam Me Up – 1987 *
6. Syrinx: Melina’s Torch – 1970 *
7. Mock Duck: Ground Hog – 1968 *
8. Scott Merritt: Sweet Accident – 1989 *
9. Triumph: Rocky Mountain Way – 1977 *
10. John Mills-Cockell: The Vendetta – 1973 *
11. Paul Edward Royes: Child Of The Sun – 2019 *
12. Tulpa: Solitude – 1988 *
13. Jane Siberry: The Strange Well – 1981 *
14. Rare Air: Onward Blindly Onward – 1987 *
Side Bee
1. The Sadies: Lucifer Sam – 2006 *
2. King Crimson: Sailor’s Tale – 1972
3. Iansanity: Interstellar Overdrive – 2008 *
4. Plaid: Dilatone – 2016
5. Manfred Mann’s Earth Band: Lies – 1980
6. Iron Butterfly: The Mirage – 1968
7. Golden Earring: The Switch – 1975
8. Pied Pear: Mushroom Madrigal – 1980 *
9. Don Hardy w Jani Lauzon: Don’t Tell Me – 1981 *
10. Alan Parsons Project: The Voice – 1978
11. Wendy Carlos: Brandenburg Concerto, 3rd Movement – 1968
12. Jimi Hendrix Experience: Third Stone From The Sun – 1967
CanCon* = 62%
And Now for The Particulars:
Side Aye
1. FM: Aldereran
(Martin Deller / Nash The Slash / Cameron Hawkins)
Black Noise: CBC / Passport Records 9167-9831
Toronto
Nash The Slash, electric violins, mandolin, glockenspeil, effects
Cameron Hawkins: Synths, bass, piano
Martin Deller, drums, percussion, synths
Produced by Keith Whiting, 1978
Recorded by Mike Jones and Ed Stone at Sounds Interchange, Toronto
Nash The Slash b. James Jeffrey Plewman March 26, 1948 Toronto / d. May 10, 2014 (66) Toronto.
Started performing in the Toronto band Breathless in 1969 and eventually went on to form FM before leaving to go solo. FM basically existed from 1976 to 1996 and at one time featuring violinist Ben Mink. After appearing on the CBC TV variety show Who's New, FM were approached by the CBC to make an album, ultimately titled Black Noise, which the group presumed would be distributed in stores like a normal release. But the CBC chose to sell it by mail order, and only announced its availability during several radio shows. A mere 500 copies were pressed
2. Melissa Payne: Take Me Away
(M Payne)
45 rpm single: Seventh Fire Records - SFR004
Ennismore, ON
Melissa Payne: vocal, guitar
Unkown other musicians
Produced by James McKenty & Tom Street, 2012
Learned to play fiddle from Doug Leahy of The Leahy Family. When she learned to play guitar in High School, she began to write songs.
Her biggest celebrity crush?
Dolly Parton
Her dream duet partner?
Dolly Parton
If she could only listen to one album for the rest of her life, what would it be?
Neil Young’s Harvest Moon.
3. Silver Apples: Program
(Dan Taylor / Simeon Coxe)
Silver Apples: Kapp Records KS 3562
New York City
Danny Taylor: drums, vocals
Simeon: the thing (the simeon), vocals
Produced by Barry Bryant, 1968
Recorded by Don Van Gorden, New York City
Drummer Danny Taylor and electronics gadget wizard Simeon were in a NYC band called The Overland Stage Electric Band and by 1967 quit to form Silver Apples.
Taylor was a drummer whose previous experience included playing with Jimi Hendrix before he flew to London. Their first gig as Silver Apples was before 30,000 fans in NY's Central Park Taylors drumset included thirteen drums, five cymbals and other percussion instruments. Simeon played a contraption named after him comprised of many oscillators, limiters, capacitors and other strange circuitry that was always on the verge of blowing up. But they were amazing together. They released two albums on the Kapp Label who also had Louis Armstrong. Danny Taylor died on March 10, 2005 Kingston, NY of heart attack. Simeon keeps doing Silver Apples gigs playing his machines to the original recorded drum tracks of Taylor.
4. Uriah Heep: Love Machine
(Ken Henley / David Byron / Mick Box)
Look At Yourself: Mercury Records SRM 1 614
London UK
Ken Hensley: keys, guitars, vocals
Mick Box: lead guitar
David Byron: vocals
Paul Newton: bass
Iain Clark: drums
Produced by Gerry Bron, 1971
Recorded at Lansdown Studios, London
Mastered by Gilbert Kong
And noooooo! I didn’t turn the record off and let it slow down to a halt – it wasn’t me! That’s the way the record was produced. I will show off my technique sometime later in this show.
I remember a Timmins Ontario band called Maxkeeba (sp) who were a Uriah Heap freaks with acne. I saw them play in the Hollinger Park baseball stadium in Timmins in the summer of 1970. The lead singer climbed the baseball cage and hung upside down with his mic, still singing. This was memorable, especially for Timmins. As for the rest of the band: Maxkeeba were loud, tuneless and greatly disliked by the crowd bad so I immediately disliked Uriah Heap as a result.
Years later I got into Uriah Heap albums and their great to I changed my mind but not about Maxkeeba.
5. Rare Air: Beam Me Up
(Grier Coppins, Richard Murai, Patrick O'Gorman, Trevor Ferrier)
Hard To Beat: Green Linnet SIF 1073
Toronto ON
Trevor Ferrier, percussion
Dick Murai, bass
Grier Coppins, pipes
Pat OGorman, pipes, flutes
Truck Croteau, bouzouki
Produced by Awesome Dave & Rare Air, 1987
Recorded & Mixed by Dave Hillier at Comfort Sound, Toronto
From Toronto, another one of these Celtic fusion bands who were quite popular in the 1980s. They started of as Na Caberfeidh and called their album Rare Air (coz it featured a piper and a piper/flutist) but everyone who bought it thought the other way around, so they became Rare Air. I’ve got five of their Albums. The second one was by Rare Air and called Na Caberfeidh!
6. Syrinx: Melina’s Torch
(John Mills-Cockell)
Syrinx: True North Records TN2
Toronto ON
John Mills-Cockell, moog synthesizer, piano, organ
Doug Pringle, sax
Alan Wells, hand drums, percussion
Produced by John Mills-Cockell, 1970
Recorded by Rollin Newton & Frank Bertin at Baroka Studios, Vancouver & Bay Recording, Toronto
Mixed at RCA Toronto by George Simkew
Along with Silver Apples, one of the inventive innovators of synthesized sound was Toronto’s John Mills-Cockell who brought the first Moog into Canada. He joined legendary folk-rock band Kensington Market and appeared on their second album. When that band folded, he formed an electronic jazz band he called Syrinx who released two albums of amazing music with Bernie Finkelstein’s True North Records label, becoming label mates with Bruce Cockburn and Murray McLauchlan.
7. Mock Duck: Ground Hog
(Mock Duck)
45 Single b/w Hurt On Me: Baroka Q 7457M
Vancouver BC
Ross Barret: Saxophone, Keyboards
Rick Enns: Bass
Glen Hendrickson: Drums
Joe Mock: Guitar
Lee Stephens: Bass
Produced by Mock Duck, 1968
1967 – 71 – Their first recording was a Test Record that was actually an acetate. To the best of everyone's knowledge, only 14 copies were ever pressed, making it perhaps one of the rarest records in Canadian music history. A CD of the songs on ‘Test Pressing’ is now available. They opened for groups such as Fleetwood Mac, B.B. King, Country Joe & The Fish, and Steve Miller. Joe Mock later played with Pied Pumkin and Pied Pair and is currently living in France
8. Scott Merritt: Sweet Accident
(Scott Merritt)
Violet and Black: Duke St. Records DSR 31057
Brantford ON
Scott Merritt: Guitars, banjos, sitar, vocals
Bob DiSalle: drums
David Woodhead: bass
Doug Wilde: keys
Matt Zimbel: percussion
Willie P Bennett: harmonica
Robert Arthur Williams: percussion
Arthur Barrow: keys, bass, percussion
Greg Roberts: keys
Doug Baynham: bg vocals
Rob Gusevs: hammond, Heys
Brian Leonard: percussion
Mike Sloski: percussion
Produced by Arthur Barrow, 1989
Recorded at Manta Sound Toronto by Ron Searles with Brad Haebnel and Trax Recording, Hollywood & Santa Monica CA by Eric Westfail
Mastered at Precision Lacquer by Stephen Marcussen
Scott put out four vinyl albums that were highly acclaimed but sold meagerly. He loves the use of sonics he learned from hanging around Grant Avenue Studios in Hamilton and learning the production arts from Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. He set up own studio in Brantford where he’s done work with Garnet Rogers, Fearing & White, Kevin Breit, Tannis Slimmon, Ian Tamblyn and Fred Eaglesmith, The Grievous Angels, to name just a few.
9. Triumph: Rocky Mountain Way
(Joe Walsh / Joe Vitale / Kenny Passarelli / Rocke Grace)
Rock & Roll Machine: Attic Records LATX 1036
Mississauga ON
Rik Emmett – guitars, vocals
Gil Moore – drums, lead vocals
Michael Levine – bass, keyboards
Laurie Delgrande – keyboards
Mike Danna – keyboards
Produced by Mike Levine and Doug Hill, 1977
Recorded by Mike Jones
Recorded at Phase One Studios, Toronto by George Semkiw
Mastered by Jack Adelman at RCA Studios, Toronto
Mixed by George Semkiw
I’ve always loved Joe Walsh’s songs. He gets a lot of credit for his guitar work and singing but his songs are really top notch as we witnessed when he played with James Gang. Hearing a band from Mississauga play it and do it really well was a complete surprise when I first heard it.
10. John Mills-Cockell: The Vendetta
(John Mills-Cockell)
Heartbeat: True North Records – TN12
Toronto ON
John Mills-Cockell, synths, keys, vocals
Malcolm Tomlinson, vocals, percussion
Alan Wells, percussion
Doug Pringle, sax
Wayne Smith, percussion
Irv Copesteak, percussion
Tony Mendez, percussion
Sandy McDonald, percussion
J.M.C. percussion
Produced by John Mills-Cockell, 1973
Recorded by Dave Stock, Chris Skene, Irv Copesteak, Larry Morey, Chris Tait, Nick Gurr, Phil Ross, Ron Gregory, Cliff Phelps, Gary Hill & Ken Fraser
Recorded at Eastern Sound, CBC 4-s,
Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Creative Electronics Lab
Mastered at RCA Victor, Toronto
John Mills-Cockell’s solo album was less about sounds and more about songs as well. It was released by True North the year after the demise of Syrinx with an entire arc of recording engineers. Pretty amazing stuff recorded out of the Toronto Metropolitan University, formerly known as Ryerson and at new facilities at Eastern Sound in Leslieville, Toronto.
11. Paul Edward Royes: Child Of The Sun
(PE Royes)
Child Of The Sun: Message To Love PER001
Toronto ON
Paul Edward Royes: guitars, bass
Phil Naro: vocals
Jim Neilson: bass
Alexander Tukatsch: drums
Produced by Paul Edward Royes, 2019
Recorded at Message To Love Studios, Toronto
Mixed by Clifton David Broadbridge at El Mocambo Productions
Mastered by Joao Carvalho at Joao Carvalho Mastering, Toronto
A survivor of the Toronto music scene for many years, this was the first time Royes recorded or appeared on an album.
12. Tülpa: In Solitude
(John Bottomly / Tülpa)
Demo Tape
Toronto
John Bottomly: guitar, keys, vocals
Chris Bottomly: bass, keys, vocals
Sev Micron: drums, keys, vocals
Produced by Paul Irvine and Tülpa, 1988
Became a performing unit in 1984 as Private Lives but found out that an American band were also using that name: Became Tülpa as a result: Played in Toronto venues like Larry’s Hideaway, The Rivoli, Cabana Room of the Spadina Hotel, The Beverly Tavern and Lee’s Palace: After recording Mosaic Fish, they opened for acts like The Payolas and Tragically Hip: They also released a live record called “Off The Board: Live at CBGBs” in New York before breaking up in 1990. John Bottomley passed away April 6, 2011
13. Jane Siberry: The Strange Well
(Jane Siberry)
Jane Siberry: Street Records: SR 002
Guelph ON
Jane Siberry: vocals, guitar, piano
Carl Keesee: bass
David Bradstreet: electric & 12 string guitar
Trevor Ferrier: congas
Produced by David Bradstreet, Carl Keesee & Jane Siberry: 1981
Recorded & Mixed by David Bradstreet & Carl Keesee, Toronto
Mastered by George Graves at The Lacquer Channel, Toronto
Mentors for aspiring young women in the singer/songwriter field have been hard to come by. Joni Mitchell changed the way many women tried to express themselves. Not all mentors are well known to the public; Jane Siberry is one such artist who has shown women new ways of expressing passion in song. Whether it’s a portrait of being a waitress or a whimsical look at winter hockey her songs are always quirky, never going where you think they’re gonna go and still making sense. It set the stage for a host of Canadian singer/songwriters who felt more liberated in the way they could use their own voice as an instrument.
14. Rare Air: Onward Blindly Onward
(Grier Coppins, Richard Murai, Patrick O'Gorman, Trevor Ferrier)
Hard To Beat: Green Linnet SIF 1073
Toronto ON
Trevor Ferrier: percussion
Dick Murai: bass, drum program
Grier Coppins: synths
Pat OGorman: pipes
Produced by Awesome Dave & Rare Air, 1987
Recorded & Mixed by Dave Hillier at Comfort Sound, Toronto
That was my Q-ing up the record sound. Here’s a song that’s hard to beat.
Side Bee
1. The Sadies: Lucifer Sam
(Syd Barrett)
In Concert: Outside - 23339-9015-2
Richmond Hill, ON
Dallas Good: guitar, vocals
Travis Good: guitar, vocals
Mike Belitsky: drums
Sean Dean: bass
Mike Burlington: drums, shakers
Gary Louris: vocals, guitar
Produced by The Sadies, 2006
Mastered by Peter E Moore at the E Room, Toronto
This comes from a CD but I don’t care coz it’s a great cover version of a Syd song by a band that I really like a lot. Recorded live in Lee’s Palace. I’ve heard them do other early Floyd songs at their live shows.
2. King Crimson: Sailor’s Tale
(Robert Fripp)
Islands: Atlantic Recording Corp SD 7212
Winbourn Minster - Bournemouth , Dorset UK
Robert Fripp: guitar, mellotron, Peter’s Pedal, harmonium
Mel Collins: flute, sax
Boz: bass
Ian Wallace: drums
Pete Sinfield: sounds
Keith Tippett: piano
Robin Miller: oboe
Mark Charig: cornet
Produced by King Crimson for EG Records, 1972
Recorded by Andy Hendrikson at Command Studios, London
From the fourth album by King Crimson in four years, with an always unstable line-up of players, the album Islands. Great use of mellotron and guitar.
3. Iansanity: Interstellar Overdrive
(S Barrett / D Mason / R Wright / R Waters)
Iansanity II: unreleased
Toronto
Ian MacIntyre, electric guitar
Mat Labraico, bass
Jon McCann, drums
Produced by Steve Fruitman, 2008
Recorded at CIUT Studio 3, by Ian Wilkinson, May 20, 2008
I delivered mail for Canada Post and Ian MacIntyre lived on my route. We got to talking about music and I turned him onto Syd Barrett. He flipped out for it and learned nearly every song Syd recorded. We recorded him and his band Iansanity in the basement studios of CIUT when were were on St. George, the year before we moved into Hart House. No overdubs, live off the floor, three guys just doing it! I think they did it justice.
4. Plaid: Dilatone
(Plaid)
The Digging Remedy: Warp Records - LP277B
London UK
Andy Turner and Ed Handley: electronics
Benet Walsh: flute, guitar
Produced by Plaid 2016
Mastered by Noel Summerville
More electronic sounds from this great English duo with guitarist Benet Walsh. Minimal and yet, like Silver Apples, just full of sound.
5. Manfred Mann’s Earth Band: Lies (Through The ‘80s)
(D Newman)
Chance: Warner Brothers Records XBS 3498
London UK
Manfred Mann: keys
Pat King: bass
John Lingwood: drums
Barbara Thompson: sax
Chris Thompson: bg vocal
Trevor Rabin, Mick Rogers, Steve Weller, Geoff Whithorn, Robbie McIntosh: guitars
Produced by Manfred Mann and Trevor Rabin 1980
Recorded by Rik Walton at The Workhouse Studios, London and/or Casa Das Flores, Albufeira, Portugal
Manfred Sepse Lubowitz, 21 October 1940 in Johannesburg, Transvaal, Union of South Africa
Strongly opposed to the apartheid system in his native South Africa,[1] Lubowitz moved to the United Kingdom in 1961 and began to write for "Jazz News" under the pseudonym Manfred Manne (after jazz drummer Shelly Manne). There he formed his first band with drummer Mike Hugg called Mann-Hugg Blues Brothers which evolved to Manfred Mann. That band lasted as long as the singles kept coming; hits like Doo Wah Diddy, Pink Flamingo and The Mighty Queen. Mann formed The Earth Band in 1971 and despite a short hiatus in the late 1980s/early 1990s, they continue to perform and tour.
6. Iron Butterfly: The Mirage
(Doug Ingle)
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida: Atco Records SD 33-250
San Diego CA
Erik Brann: guitar
Ron Bushy: drums
Lee Dorman: bass
Doug Ingle: keys, vocal
Produced by Jim Hilton, 1968
Recorded by Don Casale at Gold Star Studios, Hollywood, CA
Ron Bushy b. December 23, 1941 Washington, D.C. / d. August 29, 2021 (79) Santa Monica, CA
Ron Bushy replaced the band’s original drummer before they recorded their first album, ‘Heavy’, in 1966 and is the only member of the band to be featured on all six of their official albums.
The band’s biggest hit was In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Bushy claimed: “I came home late one night and Doug [Ingle] had been drinking a whole gallon of Red Mountain wine. I listened to him playing a slow ballad on his Vox keyboard. It was hard to understand him because he was so drunk … so I wrote it down on a napkin exactly how it sounded phonetically: ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.’ It was supposed to be ‘In the Garden of Eden.'”
Bushy’s drumming would go on to influence many of his peers. “Ringo [Starr] and Paul [McCartney] came to see us at Royal Albert Hall,” Bushy told a Rolling Stone reporter last year. “Ringo took me out to dinner and drinks and said to me, ‘I hope you don’t mind I stole a part of your drum solo’ in ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida’ for the Abbey Road track “The End.” I told him not at all. ‘I take it as a compliment.'”
7. Golden Earring: The Switch
(G Kooymans / B Hay)
Switch: Track Records / MCA MCA 2139
The Hague, Netherlands
George Kooymans: guitar, vocals
Rinus Gerritsen: bass, keyboards
Barry Hay: flute, vocals
Cesar Zuiderwijk: drums
Robert Jan Stips: keyboard
Bertus Borgers: saxophone
Eelco Gelling: guitar
Produced by Golden Earring, 1975
Recorded by Andy Knight, John Kriek, Jan Schuurman
Mixing: Andy Knight, John Kriek
8. Pied Pear: Mushroom Madrigal
(Richard Scott)
Pied Pear: Squash Records SQ1-965-A
Vancouver BC
Richard Scott: vocals, dulcimer
Joseph Mock: guitars, piano, vocals
Shari Ulrich: vocals, violin
Claire Lawrence: sax
Robbie King: organ
Rene Worst: bass
Geoff Eyre: drums
Produced by The Pied Pear 1980
Recorded by Mark McNair and Paul MacDonald at Pinewood Recording Studios, Vancouver
A mushroom romp through celtic colours. Again, Joe Mock of Mock Duck, this time with Pied Pear based out of Vancouver in 1980 with special guest, Shari Ulrich on violin. When with her, Pied Pear becomes Pied Pumkin (without the P).
9. Don Hardy & The 11:00 Blues Band: Don’t Tell Me
(Jani Lauzon / David Thrasher)
The 11:00 O’Clock Blues: 11:O’Clock Records EOR 00128
Vancouver BC
Jani Lauzon: vocals
David Thrasher: vocals
Finn Manniche: guitar
Bohdan Hluszko (Michelle Joseph): drums
Danny Greenspoon: lead guitar
Randy Kempf: bass
Bill Runge: sax
Produced by David Thrasher, Jani Lauzon and Jack Velker, 1981
Recorded by Al Remple at Bullfrog Recorders, Vancouver
David Thrasher and Jani Lauzon are well known on the Toronto blues scene but were somehow connected with the Vancouver scene. This album is quite rare – probably only a few hundred ever made – and not listed on Discogs.
10. Alan Parsons Project: The Voice
(Alan Parsons / Eric Woolfson)
I Robot: Arista Records AL 7002
London, UK
David Paton, bass
Stuart Tosh, drums
Ian Bairnson, guitars
David Paton, acoustic guitar
Alan Parsons, acoustic guitar, keyboards
Eric Woolfson, keyboards
Duncan MacKay, keyboards
BJ Cole, steel guitar
Produced by Alan Parsons, 1977
Recorded by Alan Parsons with Pat Stapley & Chris Blair at Abby Road Studios, London
Mastered by Chris Blair
11. Wendy Carlos: Brandenburg Concerto, 3rd Movement
(JS Bach)
Switched-On Bach: Columbia Records – MS 7194
Pawtucket RI
Wendy (Walter) Carlos: Moog Synthesizer
Benjamin Folkman: programmer
Robert Moog: technical advisor
Produced by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind for Trans-electronic Music Productions, Inc, 1968
Recorded in New York City
Wendy Carlos b. November 14, 1939 Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Switched-On Bach peaked on the Billboard chart at number 10 and topped its Classical Albums chart from 1969 to 1972. The album sold over one million copies by June 1974 and in 1986 became the second classical album in history to be certified Platinum by the RIAA. The album was recorded using a custom-built 8-track recording machine constructed by Carlos from components built by Ampex. At the time of release, the album was met with massive negative response from classical music purists, but appealed to the younger ‘hip’ audience. Canadian pianist Glenn Gould spoke highly of Switched-On Bach, saying: "The whole record, in fact, is one of the most startling achievements of the recording industry in this generation and certainly one of the great feats in the history of 'keyboard' performance".
In 1970, the album won three Grammy Awards: Best Classical Album, Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (With or Without Orchestra), and Best Engineered Classical Recording.
12. Jimi Hendrix Experience: Third Stone From The Sun
(Jimi Hendrix)
Are You Experienced: Reprise Records 6261
Seattle WA / London UK
Jimi Hendrix: guitar, effects, vocals
Mitch Mitchell: drums
Noel Redding: bass
Chas Chandler: talking part
Produced by Chas Chandler, 1967
Recorded October 23, 1966 till April 4, 1967, at De Lane Lea, CBS, and Olympic Studios in London
In the summer of 1966, Hendrix relocated to New York City's Greenwich Village. There he explored rock music outside of the confines of the Harlem rhythm and blues scene. While performing with his group ‘Jimmy James and the Blue Flames’ at the Cafe Wha?, Hendrix played elements of early versions of "Third Stone from the Sun". He continued to develop it with (ex-Animal and now manager) Chas Chandler after moving to England. The two shared an interest in science fiction writing.
Said Chandler: ‘I had dozens of science fiction books at home ... The first one Jimi read was “Earth Abides”. That where 'Third Stone from the Sun' came from.’
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