Carolyn in September of 1999 with her little dog, Puggy. I have to preface this little true story by saying that I am not a ‘believer’ of anything supernatural. I can always figure out a logical reason for something happening that seems to be ‘unexplainable’… except for what I’m about to share with you. My […]
Author Archives: Mick Dalla-Vee
The Infamous “SHAMA $50.00 Bill” It was an ingenious marketing strategy dreamed up by Shama’s ‘manager of the moment’, Dallas Goodmanson, who operated the Regina, Saskatchewan office of the Canadian prairie’s leading music agency, “Nellis Booking Agency” The idea was to literally ‘spread’ these fake fifties everywhere. On the front, when folded in half (note […]
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The Ballad of Mick & Kelly (Picture taken at Tal Bachman’s costume party in Victoria Saturday, February 23, 2019) The following video is of great significance. In it, Kelly is with her friend Julie Demelo (who took the video) on a girl’s getaway weekend on Saltspring Island and in the video, they had happened to […]
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“Place Called Home” – A New Single and Video from Cease & Desist After many years of being a band Cease & Desist have finally released their first single, ‘Place Called Home’. On the week of Feb 20-25, 1989, Mick Dalla-Vee, Marc LaFrance, and Brent Knudsen had their first public performance. Who would have thought […]
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From Thursday, August 31, 2006 Shooby Taylor – The Music Speaks for Itself… I discovered Shooby a few years ago. It was only now that I ‘rediscovered’ him… Please grab a listen… I’ve included the lyrics (if that’s what they are…) for you to enjoy and sing along with if you will…these have […]
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Randy Bachman Does His Jazz Thing Too, At Massey Hall (With Special Guest Guitarists Jeff Healey and Duke Robillard)
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Randy Bachman Does His Jazz Thing Too, At Massey Hall (With Special Guest Guitarists Jeff Healey and Duke Robillard) [from jazzreview.com] Concert Review by: Joe Curtis Venue: Massey Hall (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) Friday April 13, 2007 – It was certainly a truly historic musical celebration of the blues, jazz, folk and some Middle Eastern musical […]
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The Ron Tabak Band In 1979 – 1980 there was an experimental band put together called The H.U.N.N. (which stood for John HALL, Doni UNDERHILL, Rocket NORTON and Jeff NEILL). They toured around the local bar scene whenever schedules would allow. Eventually they went into Mushroom Studios during those days and self-produced about 5 […]
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Dana and Danny are old friends from Winnipeg. During COVID they decided to try recording remotely as Danny now lives in Vancouver and Dana has relocated to Kamloops. Their goal was to recreate songs they loved from their childhood with as much authenticity as possible. I got involved in a small way to make their […]
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One day, Brent Knudsen and I were driving back from a rehearsal for something (can’t remember what now) and I saw a CD sitting on his console. I asked him what it was and he replied that he didn’t know; that it had simply found it’s way into his car and he didn’t know where […]
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This actually became the impetus to forming ‘The Shoes’ for EXPO ’86 3 years later. ‘The Shoes’ ended up becoming ‘Revolver – The World’s Best Beatles Band’ Rocket Norton (drums), and John Hall (keyboards *both from the band Prism*) along with Skip Prest (guitar and vocals from the band Sweeney Todd) landed a gig as […]
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Garnett/Edwards Interesting project I was able to work with briefly with the incredible Doug Edwards… wow – what can I say. The guy wrote WILDFLOWER!!! I saw Doug play at The Sawmill Lounge at The Water Tower Inn with The Hans Staymer Band in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario when I was 17. What a band…!!! […]