  Formed in Ottawa in the early 60s by a bunch of high school friends, the band was fronted by Wayne McQuaid, Bobby Gauthier on organ, guitarists Ron Chenier, Jack Ranger, and Jim Bildoeau, Ted Saucier on bass, and drummer Brian Ferguson. They played the school parties and whatever other work they could find, while mimicking the British sounds popular on the airwaves at the time. They scraped enough money together to release an independent single "Somebody Told My Girl" with "Tell Me Why" as the b-side, both songs written by Ranger, in '65 to lukewarm fanfare. They even got some airplay on the local airwaves, but within a year of its release they drifted apart as everyone went on to do other things. Chenier gained the most notoriety, forming Fist in the mid 70s and recording hits like "Thunder In Rock," "Double Or Nothing" and "Hot Spikes." McQuaid formed The Eyes of Dawn, and Gauthier joined Eastern Passage - but then drifted out of music all together before the 70s, as did Ranger, Bilodeau, Saucier, and Ferguson. |
