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oh and here is a Toronto one as well... Toronto Star

Peterborough Tommy Ramone interview I am sure being misqouted has been discussed here in the past but, I got a call the other day and said yes I had heard of Tommy Ramone and the Ramones of course, but for some reason in print things seem so different. They make it seem like I KNOW the guy. Any way, there was a few things here even I didn't know.

This saturday, Tommy Ramone (from the original punk rock band The Ramones!) will be bringing his alt-country,old timey dou Uncle Monk to the Under dog (below the red dog tavern), in Peterborough. The capacity down there is 95 so it is reccomended if you are going grab tickets at Clancys pub. April 26th, $10, starts at 10pm with local Tarantula. Check out unlce monk tunes at: Uncle Monk Country was the original Punk! Also of note coming up is: Tom Fun Orchestra with the swiftys, Julie Doiron (next monday), Sun Parlour Players, check SOON forum for dates.

I remembered having seen this topic awhile back, and I am looking into a fuzz/Octave pedal. I guess these things are famously unreliable at "trackng" the notess you play. The Chicago Iron company is looking good, but a bit pricey. Has anybody tried one of these Build your own clone versions? or heard about them? I figure if it is so hard for a "pro" to make a decent fuzz/Octave pedal maybe I shouldn't try it myself.

I remembered having seen this topic awhile back, and I am looking into a fuzz/Octave pedal. I guess these things are famously unreliable at "trackng" the notess you play. The Chicago Iron company is looking good, but a bit pricey. Has anybody tried one of these Build your own clone versions? or heard about them? I figure if it is so hard for a "pro" to make a decent fuzz/Octave pedal maybe I shouldn't try it myself.

wow, hold on, I went to wikipedia and saw a picture, and in fact I have had a nanaimo bar, just forgot what they were. And they originate from ...

Never been to Nanaimo, and never played, and .. no never eaten a nanaimo bar.

No word on Ottawa at all, new dates are still being added though. I guess if it was to happen it would have to be between Fredricton and Peterborough. Just got word on North bay and Nanaimo. I love that we are playing Nanaimo. I thought about telling everyone in the band I couldn't do the tour as it was April fools, but then thought again.

Hey guys and Gals, thanks so much for your encouragement.

Just wanted to drop a quick note here to share our excitment with a few people we have met due to this site, we will be playing Massey Hall as part of our cross Canada tour with Matthew Good on May 29th. This is really one of those instances where you can see something come together that you always dreamed. I have never been in Massey hall, I used to joke that I wouldn't go there until I was playing it! (still sad I missed Neil though). Peace The Spades Ooops, I just saw that Ryan2 added a posta about this, though his is more the overall tour so check that out for the other dates.

Ok this is who ended up taking the show, and did a bang 'er up job and was a super good guy. Rock thorugh the ages On the hunt I happened upon some tribute band sites. It has always blown my mind what these people do. Here are some of the sites I visited when on the hunt: Tribute Is it just me or does alice cooper really look like Alice Cooper? Tribute 2

This all worked out, in a top forty way. I learned a lot about cover bands and strange animals of different breeds, oh and tribute bands.

Hey there everyone. I need to find a band that can do a lot of covers (top 40 old or new) and I don't know much in this area. It is for the red dog tavern, and also for TOMORROW NIGHT! Does anyone have some suggestions as to who could do it so last minute? The place is generally packed saturday nights as there has always been a house band that does covers, so the band would play to a good crowd.

The Spades are playing the Oshawa show with these guys on Sat March 29th, just $5 at the door.

I never met a person more "meant" to do what they do. He was musical inside,out, all the way through. We party'd until there was no party left one night, around 8 am he gave me a baritone guitar and amp, cranked it to full volume, and opened the windows to george street. I played one note and it went into feedback, the sound was out of this world, we both sat grinning in the defining sound like there was nothing better in the world. He was the real thing. He got inside the sound and when he looked at you from in there, you knew he was home. If there is an after life I like to think there are overtones there that Wilie never heard here and right now the sounds he is hearing we can only dream of. RIP Willie

You are correct Hula, its been changed on my post. Thanks.

sorry Jaydawg, like I said,not all shows are mine there, only a few a month, but I did know of this, it is gonna be a good one. Long live Bob! oh also I booked Justin Rutledge in Perth Feb 1st at the myriad centre for the arts and I'm gonna do a solo opener. Tickets at Shadowfax. Great theatre,might start putting more shows there.

I and The Spades will no longer be at The Moho (I was booking shows there). I loved the place, but alas, they put Yuk yuks comedy on saturdays and only wanted bands one, maybe two nights a week, so... I moved my bookings to The Red Dog Tavern. It has three venues in one building and a lot of history as a music venue. I feel quite good about what I have been able to line up in my first two weeks, check it out: Feb 15th Tom Wilson w/The Stables and County Boys Feb 16th The Spades w/Pascale Picard band (Good rev you in? ha) Feb 21st Matthew Barber w/Pat Robitaille and Sarah Loucks Feb 27th The Gruff Feb 29th Jason Collett w/Peter Elkas and Evening Hymnes March 1st The Superfantastics Mar 5th United Steel workers of Montreal w/Burning Hell Mar 9th Immaculate Machine w/Weird Weather Mar 10th I see Rowboats Mar 11th Andrew Cash w/Wil Mar 13th Wassabi Collective Mar 14th Two Minute Miracles Mar 19th C'Mon Mar 20th Two Hours Traffic Mar 27th Luke Doucet ...and, I have to throw this in: April 26th Uncle Monk (BLuegrass band featuring Tommy Ramone of .. The Ramones!!!) I'll try to update more as line ups firm up. Working hard to get the dog some good shows. Also as a side note, please be advised, I am not booking all the shows at The Red Dog, just taking care of a few a month so not all bookings are through me. my stuff is listed at Pirate Radio Records Cheers, James

All the upcoming dates Rev has there are headlining, including The Shoe! By then we should have some of these tunes whipped up into pretty good shape I'd say. Marh 1st, be there!

It's like a real time conversation here. All Good Rev, seems Sun Sun is the real institution, last time we played Guelph I tried eating it while driving the 401, next morning I found that red suace and some spare chicken balls under seats, we bailed on the idea this time, and went 2 gryo for $6, one for 1 am and one for around 3:30 am rolling down the 115.

Deeps, thanks for coming to the show! Guelph has never been a great town for us crowd wise, spread the word if you can and hopefully next time it won't fall on a wednesday. James

Came on to list some shows I booked in Peterborough, saw this, thanks Good Rev, was a blast!! but hey, no more "institution" crap, we are recording our best stuff right now, and when people us the term instituion it always seems to mean the band has been around for a long time, shit we're just getting started. oh and thanks for the compliment. Hope everyone sees a little Good Rev with The Spades in the not so distant future. And I think we'll go back to advertising our shows, that always seems like a good idea. Saturday March 1st at The Horseshoe (with guests)!

I had met Wally high through mutual friends, he had come out to our shows in Kingston. One time when I was passing through a studio near kingston and stopped in to talk to the engineer, Wally was working on a song and out of the blue says "hey will you play guitar right now on this?" not wanting to miss the spontaneity of it all I did it and he sang live right beside me. 5 minutes later it was done. I found out later he had Willie P Bennett add some stuff to it (whom I love willie as well), and a few months after that I heard a mix. That was the kind of guy Wally was, he'd bring people together. He also had us play a few of his Joe Shows and was extremely dedicated to those events as well as the music lending library in dedication to Joe Chithalen. I had met Joe Chithalen only once a few days before he died but Wally talked to me as if I had known Joe and himself all my life. He will be missed. Wally, I'm sorry I didn't make it to the cd release a few weeks ago, if I'd only known it would all happen so quick.RIP Here is an example of Wally's efforts: JoeShow

I realize you asked about Toronto, but as a point of interest they are playing The MoHo in Peterborough on Jan 30th with Hey Ocean, may be a small cover or pay what you can.