12 Step Program, part two, chapter twenty-five
12 Step Program, part two, chapter twenty-five Whatever Happened To: The Search Before embarking on a two week road trip to Seattle and Los Angeles, I wanted to quell a few rumours. The first was suicide and easy to dispel. Not only was there no suicide note, which...12 Step Program, part two, chapter twenty-four
12 Step Program, part two, chapter 24 Whatever Happened To: Me I wasn’t really a punk Wasn’t desperate enough, didn’t have a belligerent attitude. At the time of The Ramones’s first album, I was listening to David Bowie. Through him, I was learning about Mott The...12 Step Program, part two, chapter twenty-three
Part two, chapter 23 Whatever happened to: The Punk I should introduce myself. My name is Matt Brady. What I’ve been able to tell you so far is all I’ve learned about Bob Jansen. This hasn’t been easy. Personal accounts tend to be brief as no one seems to have known...12 Step Program, chapter twenty-two
On the way to Seattle, Bob Jenson figured it was time to take stock. Again. He still liked to sing. He still liked to be in front of an audience. There was that. It was sustaining him but he realized he didn’t need it as long as he felt he was doing the right thing,...12 Step Program, chapter twenty-one
The horse now was chipped, its wood worn. It was still going around in circles, still going no place, but Bob needed to ride it while he looked for a way off the carousel. Al suggested another change of name, so the band became The Steps. Jansen hoped the alteration...12 Step Program, chapter twenty
The new drummer was Ralph Burnside. Not much is known about him. He seems to have come out of nowhere. Presumably he’d played in other bands previously and there is no indication The Steppers held an audition. He did nothing of note after The Steppers. Bob liked him,...12 Step Program, chapter nineteen
Al Berk had a fire he had to put out first before he could find another label for Bob Jansen. The Grantchesters were blowing it and Al once again was in the position of trying to save The Grantchesters from itself. More specifically, Ray Bedouin from being Ray...12 Step Program, chapter eighteen
For the first time in his short writing career, Bob Jansen tried to craft a hit record. He’d never done it before. All his songs just were ideas that became lyrics, a feel that became a riff. If he liked the result and other people liked it, that was the important...12 Step Program, chapter seventeen
Al had set up a club tour that criss-crossed the country and ventured into Canada. The band drew well at the clubs, audiences still clamoring for 12 Step Program. Nobody missed Michael Rosetti and the band adapted to his absence easily. The third album even began to...WANT TO KNOW ABOUT VANCOUVER ROCK’S HISTORY?
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