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In that last article, we got started on the concept of timelines for music groups. It was only with my education that I understood how much information is embedded in the timelines of music. Sometimes you find coincidences within these timelines. In some cases, these coincidences lead to a synchronicity. It becomes a connect the dots of albums, musicians, producers, …

If I hadn’t taken a job at my local call center I would have never heard the song we are going to talk about. I was fortunate to share workspace with a fellow musician who shared great music with me. I remember my music comrade asking me: hey do you wanna party like it’s 1997? I say: what are you …

During the hype period of Much Music, a lot of great music hit Canadian airwaves. For me, this was the mid-’90s right up until the mid-2000s. Right at the turn of the century, a band called Fuel skyrocketed to the top of the charts with the song Hemorrhage (In My Hands). This was from the album Something Like Human released in the year 2000. I thought …

It was 1999, Napster was about to crack open the world music, Loud was on Friday nights on Much Music, and Machine Head appeared on TV and crushed me. By this time I was already experienced with Metal. I was playing electric bass now, and I had a handful of metal albums to work with. There was something about Machine …

I didn’t hear real cursing in music until Limp Bizkit’s Three Dollar Bill, Y’all$ in 1997. That was when music changed for me. I was already exposed to the band Korn, but hearing Limp Bizkit was a whole other level for me. It seemed like a lot of bands with the parental advisory sticker were coming out nowhere in the …

When I found that Amanda Marshall CD I also found something else along with it. The Shoe Box EP by Barenaked Ladies. I found it in a shoe box. Would you believe that? If you were a kid in the mid-’90s you may have heard your parents laughing to a particular song. If you got curious they may have played …

The last three songs were from an interesting period of time for me. I was in university studying jazz and classical music. I was in a full-time band called The Day He Quit and we were trying to make it to the top. During that time I was transitioning my education path to pure music composition. My music antenna was …

As I go through the music I never got a chance to share I am feeling lots of emotion. These feelings are mixed with excitement and melancholy. Not all the bands I go back to are still active. The next band we are going to talk about it Letlive, and they have since broken up. Their Wikipedia page and other …

This song is a special one for me. I heard it during the Christmas season in 2011. They ended up on Reddit tagged as a holiday style tune. My first impression of them was of a jazzy holiday band. Then I looked at their discography and found The Moments in Between from their first album Rhythm, Chord & Melody. My …

When I look back to my life as a musician my biggest regret is that I didn’t share enough music. I never used social media when I was a performer, and whenever I shared music it was in the company of others. I shared music privately and never to a wide-open space like the internet. This regret serves as the …