WASCANA – Aiming for a Higher Plane on the Regina Plain
In the first half of the 1970s, a red hot jazz-rock fusion ensemble emerged in the western Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It may be an understatement to call...
Brock Silversides
The Pride Of Regina – The Andantes
All cities on the Canadian prairies boasted numerous teenage rock bands throughout the 1960s. They ran the gamut from primitive to almost sophisticated. But most tended to have...
The Rise and Fall of Willie & The Walkers
The seven years from 1965 to 1972 was a magic period in the history of Canadian popular music. Nowhere was that more true than in Edmonton. Alberta’s capital...
“A Coffee House for the Sponge People” The Rise and Fall of The Crypt
For a brief but glorious five month period in 1970 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Canada) was home to a venue devoted to new and original music…namely the Crypt Coffee House....
Painter Turns to Hammersmith
Just before Christmas of 1973, an album by the Canadian band Painter hit the North American market like a ton of TNT. To call it “heavy” was an...