Ivan was one of the cool McGill College kids with a Zine he called Surfin Bird. These were homemade, photocopied DIY efforts with a treasure trove of undiscovered bands. Surfin Bird ZineĪnother way to discover music was through the underground Zines. You might even listen to the radio and stay quiet as you recorded songs from a Shoebox Cassette Tape Recorder. The only algorithms feeding you new music were your older family members, or friends. Colin was listening on his turntable trying to figure out the Mick Ronson guitar parts. He heard the song, fell in love with it, but again, didn’t know who it was that sang it.Īs he came home from school one day, he heard Space Oddity coming out of his brother’s bedroom. “I kept hearing it in the middle of the night on CKGM-FM, as it was called back then.” “In those days, they would play hours of music and not tell you who it was.”Īnother song that resonated with Ivan was David Bowie Space Oddity. More than just the music, was the mystery of who this band was. One night, Ivan was listening to CHOM-FM and they played a full side of Autobahn from Kraftwerk. I always said that New Wave, for me, was Progressive Rock Music, keyboard music plus Disco.”īack in those days, finding new music was a quest of epic proportions. “Bands like Genesis, Peter Gabriel are some of my biggest influences. Ivan grew up in a house that listened to both Classical & Country music.Īs a child of the 70s in Montreal, he was very influenced by Progressive Rock.
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