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 I started playing the guitar a long time ago: at age
12 in 1961. That was the year I heard Hank Marvin playing the tune
'Apache' (thanks, Hank) and I've been hooked ever since. I've been
earning my living with my guitars since 1968, about the time I started
playing slide, which is what I'm best known for in Australia.
I lived in London during the early seventies where I recorded an album with fellow Montrealer Dwight Druick. We formed a band with a young American guy called Seymour Duncan on lead. I remember he was always dissatisfied with his sound. In 1975, I moved to Sydney Australia and began playing on various recording sessions there... album tracks, movie soundtracks and more TV and radio commercials than I could count (discography below). I formed a band called Sleeping Dogs with Doug Ashdown and Wayne Findlay which opened for Supertramp around the country on their World Tour. I also toured and recorded with one of Australia's great songwriters, Richard Clapton, contributing to his albums 'Goodbye Tiger' (which went top 5), 'Mainstreet Jive' and the 'Highway One' soundtrack. I also met Tommy Emmanuel shortly after I arrived in Australia. We have shared the stage on many occasions and worked in the studio together often. In 1984, I recorded and produced a solo album of my own songs called 'No Apostrophe' (see below) which received great reviews and went top 15 in Perth and Adelaide. During that period I also recorded and toured with the late Marc Hunter who had left his band Dragon to pursue a solo career. Glenn Shorrock, ex Little River Band also hired me for his band and more recently, Glenn hooked up with his old cohort Brian Cadd to form Blazing Salads, a wonderful band which toured Australia several times. During the late eighties, Kevin Bennett and I formed a four piece band 'Chasin The Train' which enjoyed legendary status in Sydney. We play some of our own material and covered a bunch of Little Feat, Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, Jesse Winchester and the like — Country with a boogie beat. The Train supported John Mayall and The Band (a cut down version, minus Robbie and Levon) on their Australian tours. Another band I formed, The Six Amigos, had the pleasure of opening for The Highwaymen (Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash) during their Australia tour in '92. Other international acts I've opened for as a solo act include Leo Kottke, John Martyn, Bert Jantsh, Mose Allison and John Hammond. I have always given lessons on a casual basis, but about fifteen years ago I started staging workshops where I passed on my 'trick'. I wrote a 6 page booklet for those workshops, and that booklet grew into PlaneTalk a couple of years later. I flew to Montréal where my tasteful brother Gerry designed and edited it on his big Mac. Thanks, Gerry. I moved to Tamborine Mountain (near Brisbane) in 1998 to be closer to my three kids Danny, Rohan and Astrid who lived in Byron Bay. I formed a three piece band there called MumboGumbo, I played in three or four other line-ups, worked solo, marketed PlaneTalk, staged workshops, wrote songs, designed web sites etc. In May 2004 I returned to Canada and stayed for a year in British Columbia. I'm now back at Tamborine Mountain, dad again to little Georgia Lorange.
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In 1984 I met a very talented engineer / producer by the name of Michael Stavrou who had moved to Australia from the US via England. Together we put together an album of my songs for WEA Records. It was my only foray into the corporate world. The album became one of those underground classics according to some but was deleted from the record company's catalog years ago.