Bands

We prefer their original name Bad Brad Roberts and the St. James Rhythm Pigs but they came under the sway of a medical student friend who suggested Crash Test Dummies instead.

“Which Way You Goin’ Billy?” was the musical question posed in 1969 by this Vancouver psychedelic pop group. Headed by Terry and Susan Jacks and backed up by two unrelated musicians, the oh-so-sixties name...

This Halifax band got its name because of a friend’s problems at work. Jason Larsen’s French speaking boss referred to him as “Slow One,” but it sounded like “Sloan” to his coworkers, and became...

The band’s leader, Frank Marino, thought up this name during an acid trip that put him in the hospital. He was trying to explain the nature of his LSD exhilaration the “rush” and figured...

The Staccatos were a moderate success in the Ontario area in he early 1960s, but as the hippie era bloomed, that name proved to be out of touch. Bands like Big Brother and the...

American draft dodger Mike Fisher formed this band with a group of his Seattle friends (including his brother Roger, and sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson) who had trickled up to Vancouver. First signed to...

This 1960s rock band from Winnipeg was named Chad allan & the Reflections when they recorded their first single. Trying to add some mystique (and maybe fool customers into thinking it was a more...

When the 1960s made-for-TV Monkees split up, member Micheal Nesmith embarked on his own projects, trying to reclaim his sense of artistic integrity. In 1981 he made a movie called Elephant Parts that included...