Author Dave Hill first discovered Loverboy, seen here in Kitchener, Ontario, April 29, 1982, as a young boy living in a suburb in the United States.I’m originally from Cleveland, Ohio, but I’ve spent the past couple years exploring Canada while researching my new book,But long before I managed to con my publisher into giving me a travel budget, much of what I’d already learned about Canada was through its rock music.
Somewhere around this time, my dad agreed to get cable TV in the house and we suddenly had MTV, which gave me the opportunity to see not one, but two Canadian progressive rock trios what felt like every five minutes in the form of Rush and Triumph. With both bands, I marvelled that just three dudes could deliver that amount of thunder.
Bachman musings aside, however, my knowledge and exposure to Canadian music really exploded when I spent two years travelling the country and, in the process, went beyond personal Canadian favourites like Voivod, the Sadies, Cauldron, David Myles and Sloan. For example, I learned that comedian Scott Thompson was also the singer of one of the best-named bands of all-time, Mouth Congress.
GlobeArts LOL, whats frenette doin' playin' bass?