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Overshare Detour: My 2009 Interview with drummer Bill Bruford. (opens the original)
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In a recent Overshare, I made a reference to my Prog summer, a brief window in my young life before Punk and so-called New Wave rewired the way I approached music - as a listener, player, and songwriter. The Overshare was entitled The Summer I Turned Prog. In that mostly nostalgic piece, I made a passing reference to an interview I had done later in 2009 with Yes and King Crimson drummer Bill Bruford, which was published at Crawdaddy magazine’s online site. Well,
Birds Of A Feather (opens the original)
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I’ve been thinking of the Overshare as a kind of defacto music memoir, so this post feels like an appropriate sidebar. News of Tim Curry’s passing last week sent me down a decidedly bohemian rabbit hole to a time when my suburban mind was regularly being exposed to such transgressive culture as The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Eraserhead and other mind-expanding films that were shown at some of the many Toronto art house cinemas which I’ve previously written of here.It was a time of peering beyond
The Spaces We Invaded (opens the original)
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As I’ve written of previously, perhaps the greatest byproduct of my brother Peter insisting that I join up with his school friend Dave to play guitar in the teenage garage band Nighthawk was that it was there, in the backroom of the Advent Lutheran Church, that I first met a clever drummer named Michael Phillip Wojewoda. And meeting Michael, with whom I hit it off musically, lead to the formation of my the first band I ever played a professional gig with, Space Invaders.<a class="image-link imag
The Summer I Turned Prog (opens the original)
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