Yesterdays Papers

April 21, 2006

We had a little birthday show in Kingston Ontario for our fearless leader R. Baker. It wasn't well publicized because we all know what happened to the Who in Cincinnati. Wouldn't want that to happen as throngs rushed madly into the tiny Elixir Bar. Yes...yes...facetious. It happened on Easter Monday. There were a few posters up and someone ran a little ad in the local paper (the old fashioned way). The band were all there including Steve Hilliam on sax and Terry Townson on trumpet. Gord Sinclair played bass WITH Doug on a couple of numbers and it was fantastic. Very James Brown. We played the whole album and Tom Wilson also got up to do a hit song he wrote with Colin James called “Freedom”. We closed the whole night out with Tom leading us in Stompin’ Tom Connors “the Hockey Song”.
Myself and the Strippers Union members, without Rob, have been the house band on a CBC television show that has been taping in Kingston (“Hockeyville”). The evening was shot with two video cameras so undoubtedly pieces of it will surface sometime in the future.