Vancouver bar band Trama rose from the ashes of Shama to make good music, that’s all ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON MARCH 18, 1983 By Steve Newton “We’re not trying to shake up the music world,” says Trama bassist-vocalist Michael Sicoly “We’re just trying to make good music, that’s all.” They may not be shaking up the […]
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Joe Johnson’s Beatle Brunch with Guest Host Mick Dalla-Vee (Aired April 21, 2024)
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I was very honoured to be asked by Joe to be a guest host for his show. I was allowed to pick whatever topic I liked so I decided to have my first show be about anomalies and alternate mixes of some Beatles songs. These certainly aren’t all that I have but there’s only […]
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The First Time that Cease & Desist Played with Randy Bachman This interesting piece of paper was recently found. It’s a schedule that shows the first time that Cease and Desist played on the same stage with Randy Bachman. This was back on May 6, 1993. Almost 30 years ago at the time of this […]
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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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Loneliness for Love by Vertigo – 1988 MuchMusic This is an interview with Terry David Mulligan on the release of the ‘Loneliness For Love’ video. The band was called ‘Vertigo’ and their debut album was produced by the world renowned, Jack Richardson. Jack was the producer of The Guess Who, of whom I was […]
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A Day of Terror – A True Story The day was Monday, June 14th, 1999. I’ll remember that day very well for the rest of my life. It started out early for me. Being a professional entertainer, I had performed the previous night and had finally made it to bed at approximately 3:30 a.m., […]
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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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Revolver – The World’s Best Beatles Band – Commercial This is a commercial featuring Revolver – The World’s Best Beatles Band from Vancouver, BC Canada. Click Here: Voiceovers are courtesy Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Legend Red Robinson with some commentary from the band itself… Enjoy! Early in REVOLVER’S career, Rick Neilson and Robin […]
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My Wonderful Sister Lydia This was my eulogy I read when we lost my wonderful sister Lydia Howell Dalla-Vicenza suddenly in a car accident. Lydia – Memorial Service July 31st, 2019 At the risk of repeating many of my sister’s wonderful attributes that have been shared today, I will try to offer a […]
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By Erin Gabriel, CNN Experts say emotional intelligence — the ability to read, understand and respond to emotions in ourselves and others — is crucial in predicting our health, happiness and success. It’s our emotional intelligence that gives us the ability to read our instinctive feelings and those of others. It also allows us to […]
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Zen Buddhism I am one of the least ‘religious’ people you will ever meet. I am acutely skeptical of most things and I’m not easily convinced of someone else’s ‘truth’. My belief system stems from agnostic to total atheist however I struggle with the word atheist. (Quote: “The Agnostic is an Atheist. The Atheist is […]