by Tom Harrison | Nov 6, 2020
I had a little trouble positioning myself as I read Andrea Fehsenfeld’s A Rainbow Like You. One one hand it tells the tale of a rock musician but, on the other, how media willfully can misrepresent somebody, often for their own ambitions.I’ve been both, a...
by Tom Harrison | Oct 10, 2020
The book isn’t so much lost as it is stalled.While still working for The Province, I was asked to write a book about the history of Vancouver rock and roll. Asked might not be appropriate. When The Province asks you to do something, it really means you are being...
by Tom Harrison | Sep 18, 2020
If it’s true that cats have nine lives, that cat David Crosby should be on eight or nine.He is the leonine figure of Crosby, Stills And Nash from 1968 and was the cat among the canaries, sorry, with The Byrds from 1964. He’s 79 this year and lived through...
by Tom Harrison | Aug 29, 2020
Barry Greenfield is a Beatles afficionado so he’ll understand when I say that Paul McCartney needed John Lennon and Lennon needed McCartney. They completed each other just by one another’s character imposing itself. So, it seems, with the Wizard Brothers, ...
by Tom Harrison | May 18, 2020
After a glitch of some kind, the EP arrived in the mail and I finally got to hear The Good the Bad and the Banjo’s official EP. We’ll say the two month delay was because of the tumult at the post office created by covid- 19 and let that be the excuse....
by Tom Harrison | May 2, 2020
As I listened to all my Vancouver rock albums up until CDs took over, it was inevitable that I heard all of of the Chilliwak albums up to Look In Look Out and the three Collectors albums before it. A live CD of a reconstituted Chilliwack came much later. I...