It Came From Thunder Bay
Back in June I posted a couple of songs by a group named Lovers From The Moon, from a compilation entitled It Came From Thunder Bay. Those tracks were quiet, acoustic numbers, but the rest of the album is mostly straight-up harcore punk rock, some examples of which I'm posting today. Virtually everything I found on these bands came via BandWiki, a truly awe-inspiring collection of information about groups from The T-Bay, as my wife (who grew up there) calls it.
The one actual article I could find about The Dinks described them thusly; "Picture a bassist in nothing but a g-string baby, a singer who crawls around the stage in white jeans and stares you down until he is literally face-to-face with the audience and some rock solid drumming and wailing guitar solos. Add enough sexual overtones to make Bowie blush and you’ll see The Dinks are a live band through and through." Okay, then.
Headcramp were Meathead Records' original raison d'être, as the label was conceived in order to distribute a 7" single by the band in 1992. This zine from '94 describes them as "Thunder Bay's best-known band," and a comment on this blog claims that "Some would say that Headcramp was the best band to ever come out of Thunder Bay." At any rate, Headcramp were Brent Digiuseppe on bass and vocals, Gary Dougherty on drums, Moose, Lee Arnone and Spider Violence on guitars, and, later, Johnny Nasty on drums.
G.I. Jill were Dawn McMurray on bass, guitar and vocals, Lisa Bostrom on guitar, Mary-Jane Fogarty on bass, Miranda Gullons on drums and Shelly Legros on bass and vocals (I'm guessing the three bassists weren't all in the band at the same time). Apparently they put out one tape and opened for The Monoxides on March 26th, 1996 at former Thunder Bay live music institution Crocks 'n' Rolls.
Withstand were an early version of the group Strychnine, which consisted, in various incarnations, of Randy Young on vocals, Mike Dohan on bass and vocals, Dave Sisko on guitar, Jesse Thom on drums, Dan Scaffeo on vocals, Jay Cano on guitar and Kirk Lemon on vocals. As Strychnine, they put out a couple of tapes and a CD and broke up in 2000.
Love In Venice, who were more of a grunge outfit than the other bands here, were vocalist Mahlon Ward, guitarist Mike Ball, drummer Arek Wojciechowski and bassist Rob Hole, who was replaced by Kevin McParland. They released a few recordings, toured western Canada, and broke up in 1996 when Mike Ball moved to Ottawa. Here's a brief review of their album Fraid.
Note: These songs have been archived at It Came From Canada.
posted by Yves Perret @ 12:14 PM
6 comments
links to this post
6 Comments:
.....to add a "guy who was there" perspective, the Dinks were much more of a Ramones Xerox when they had their first couple of drummers, and then went into some sort of strange neo-glam territory afterwards.
GI Jill would trade off instruments from time to time, but no more than 2 members played bass at any given time, and Shelly was Mary Jane's predecessor.
T-Bay is pretty common, as well as T-Bag, Tundra Bay, etc etc etc
This momentousdecree warcraft leveling came as a great beacon light wow lvl of hope to millions of negroslaves wow power level who had been seared power leveling in the flames of power leveling withering wrath of the lich king power leveling injustice.wrath of the lich king power leveling it came as a WOTLK Power Leveling joyous daybreak to end the long WOTLK Power Leveling night ofcaptivity.WOTLK Power Leveling but one hundred years wlk power leveling later, we must face aoc gold the tragic fact thatthe age of conan power leveling negro is still not free. aoc power leveling one hundred years later,age of conan power leveling the lifeof the negro ffxi gil is still sadly crippled by the final fantasy xi gil manacles ofsegregation guild wars gold and the chains of discrimination. one hundred yearslater, maplestory mesos the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in themidst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.dog clothes one hundred yearslater
These articles are fantastic; the information you show us is interesting for everybody and is really good written. It’s just great!! Do you want to know something more? Read it...: Great investment opportunity in Costa Rica
I always visit this blog dude, I'm a Canadian too. but I live in Argentina and always remember the country in this blog. So, thanks for post this kind of information my friend.
Viagra Online Cheap Viagra
Hello.. Firstly I would like to send greetings to all readers. After this, I recognize the content so interesting about this article. For me personally I liked all the information. I would like to know of cases like this more often. In my personal experience I might mention a book called Green Parks Costa Rica in this book that I mentioned have very interesting topics, and also you have much to do with the main theme of this article.
This is such a great CD!
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home