Its a story, but you asked, and I'm in the mood to share my idiocy.
Not too long ago I would not have talked about any of this. Let alone to strangers.
I started playing in bars when I was 16-17. Shitholes mostly, although the band did play The Cave, in Vancouver. Most nights of the week I played in nightclubs and went to high school in the day.
I left that band, in the last month of grade 12, to go on a school exchange trip across the country for a month.
When I got back I went looking. The first ad I called was for a band called Payola$.
Within two weeks of that audition, with the Payola$, I played a sold out show at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver.
Yadda Yadda Yadda, a couple of years and a couple of albums later(Eyes of a Stanger), after a tour, I got called in.
In a sentence they told me I was gone. Bob Rock, the guitar dude, said Red Rider (Tom Cochrane) had expressed an interest in me, but Bob told them I was planning on leaving the business (something I had never said since I had never talked about anything like that).
Point of this post is I was stupid enough to believe them, and stubborn enough not to let it go.
I stopped playing for 34 years. That Avatar is me on stage for the first time in 34 years. The older photo is me onstage, in 1982, at the Savoy, for a television show.
Couple of YouTube videos. Look for Mick Ronson playing keyboards in one of them.
He produced the second album.
Regardless of what or who it is; let it go.
Not too long ago I would not have talked about any of this. Let alone to strangers.
I started playing in bars when I was 16-17. Shitholes mostly, although the band did play The Cave, in Vancouver. Most nights of the week I played in nightclubs and went to high school in the day.
I left that band, in the last month of grade 12, to go on a school exchange trip across the country for a month.
When I got back I went looking. The first ad I called was for a band called Payola$.
Within two weeks of that audition, with the Payola$, I played a sold out show at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver.
Yadda Yadda Yadda, a couple of years and a couple of albums later(Eyes of a Stanger), after a tour, I got called in.
In a sentence they told me I was gone. Bob Rock, the guitar dude, said Red Rider (Tom Cochrane) had expressed an interest in me, but Bob told them I was planning on leaving the business (something I had never said since I had never talked about anything like that).
Point of this post is I was stupid enough to believe them, and stubborn enough not to let it go.
I stopped playing for 34 years. That Avatar is me on stage for the first time in 34 years. The older photo is me onstage, in 1982, at the Savoy, for a television show.
Couple of YouTube videos. Look for Mick Ronson playing keyboards in one of them.
He produced the second album.
Regardless of what or who it is; let it go.
