Artist:Demo Kid Release:Home Demo Recordings Volume 5 Year:2012 Home:Chatham Ontario Demo Kid is: Shawn B. (Home recording enthusiast) Discography: photo of all releases.
Note:All music performed, written, recorded by Shawn B. except where noted. See above inlay for complete credits. Recorded @ home using an Imac & Logic Pro.
Notes: Lesser Known was heading into the direction of Metal with strong hints of rap induced play. All bands could learn a thing or two about presentation from them. They were probably the best run indie band in Canada. Do It Yourself motto in full swing with great posters, band fanzines, website and studio blogs, posters, merch, media, great production, you name it. They had all that perfected 10 years before anyone else could spell check their own bio.
Back in the day, Spaz was a leading force with his emotional stage presence, sucking you in to the secret circle that was the Lesser Known Zone. He had mastered this with his previous band D.N.A. which also included some members from the current band.
Tracks: 01. Prestus Recordus 02. Weak Like You 03. Wa Zup 04. My Time 05. Come… In With The Dead 06. Sweat On Command 07. Freestyle Dis 08. Shattered Fantasy 09. Looking In My Brain 10. Getting Into It 11. Bring An Open Mind
Group: Jubilation Release: Second Chance At Love Year: 1998 Genre: Gospel, Christian Rock. Home: Chatham-Kent (Dresden)
Members: Judy Paling Richard Arssenault
This CD includes four original songs and features Amber Ladd (Oshawa) on vocals. Paling’s three daughters can also be heard on the release.
Note: This is their second recording. The first CD was entitled “My Wings For His Glory“.
Tracks: 01. Sink 02. Faster’s Better 03. Basic Earl 04. Sleep In 05. So Hard to Believe 06. Comical Release 07. Mush 08. All Over Again 09. Hide 10. Orange Plug
Band: Shattered Existence Demo Release: Brainstorm Year: 1992 Genre: Rock Home: Tilbury
Members: E.J Chapados- Vocals Chris Hammerton – Lead Guitars Pat O’Donnel – Bass Rodney Beaudry – Drums Ryan Odette – Guitar
The band also played on the Windsor Compilation CD. That line up included: E.J Chapados – Vocals Rodney Beaudry – Drums Mark Thompson – Bass Ryan Odette – Guitars
Band: Gates of Rage Release: The Opening Year: 1995 Home: Tilbury (Chatham-Kent) Genre: Metal
Members Darren Marchand – Vocals Rodney Beaudry – Drums and Backing Vocals, Rich Dupuis – Guitars Ryan Odette – Guitars & Backing Vocals Dave Boulion (R.I.P) – Bass
Tracks: Blindman Deadman
Blind Misery
Broken Soul
No Sympathy
Out of the Gates
The Sound of Thunder
Take the Fall
The Opening/ All These Dreams
Unknown Life
Band: The Golden Eagles Release: The Gold Album Year: 2009 Formed: Early 2008 Home: Windsor/ Chatham-Kent
Members:
Jamie Reaume – Vocals and guitar.
Neil Tupling – Bass (ex-Lost Souls Division)
Geoff Yunker – drums.
Notes: Some of you may know singer songwriter Jamie Reaume from his previous band Foreign Film Star, or saw him play a solo acoustic show in Chatham or Windsor. He used to often play at the Elephant’s Nest and other venues while growing up in Chatham.
Jamie is currently living in the Windsor area and his new band involves musicians from there as well.
This is a great indie CD worth checking out. Their first single “Cell Phone” is a great indication of jamie improving consistently with his song writing and song structures. This track alone shows signs of a band who gets it and has worked hard to drop tracks that simply rock without trying to over play, be too artsy, or too safe.
Track Listing 01 Cell Phone 02 See You Coming 03 Bird Of Prey 04 Go 05 Surfing At The Circus 06 Don’t Wanna Know 07 Twenty Something 08 Dr Shark’s Leather Couch 09 The Duke
The Gold Album was recorded from November 2008 to March 2009 at Sharktank Studios in Windsor, Ontario and was engineered, mixed and mastered by Mark Plancke. The album features guest appearances from Sara Hines as Sally, Mark Plancke as Dr. Shark and Jose Ramirez as El Diablo.
Band: Mike Gorman Release: Twilight Harvest Year: 2006 Genre: Folk and Blues Home: Southern Ontario
Music & Lyrics by Mike Gorman
Musicians:
Mike Gorman – Vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica
Janalynne Rogers, Jennifer Thorpe, Mike Williams – Harmony Vox. Larry Smith – Guitar, banjo, Bass, harmony Vox
Willie P. Bennet – Harmonica, Harmony Vox.
Jerry Fletcher – Pedal Steel, Guitar
Dean Harrison – Piano, Organ, Accordian John Allen – Fiddle, Mandolin, Violin
Claire Ishoy – Cello
Peter Hysen & Joel Gehman – Bass
Jonathon Davis – Drums
Artist: Margaret Wysman Debut Release: Turns of the Century Year: 2000 Born: Chatham Ontario
Songs: 01 Turns Of The Century 02 I Want To Be With You 03 Betrayal
04 I Am On My Way 05 Guardian Angel 06 Modern-Day Woman 07 The Feel Good Song 08 Shades Of Red, Hues Of Blue 09 Wondrous Light: A Wayward Girl Reclaimed 10 Blue Skies And Fields Of Green 11 Meeting
Bio
Margaret Wysman was born and raised in Chatham, Ontario, and she is the youngest of nine siblings.
From 1985 to 1991 Margaret attended The University of Western Ontario, worked in molecular genetics research at UWO for a couple of years, taught laboratory courses, and in 1991, did a short stint as a field ecologist for the Ministry of Natural Resources in Wingham, Ontario. Although she was a science major in Western’s Ecology and Evolution program, Margaret loved variety, and consequently, she enrolled in English Literature and psychology courses and taught herself to play the guitar.From 1987 until 1993 she belonged to a Christian folk group, The 53RD Musicians. Margaret played some key musical roles in this group. In addition to creating many new harmonies and arrangements for the songs in their repertoire, she sang, played guitar, recorder, penny whistle, mandolin, and often provided comic relief.
From August of 1997 to March of 1999 some 25 songs were penned and performed by Margaret at a variety of venues in Bruce, Grey and Kent Counties. She has performed for several events at the CAW Family Education Centre in Port Elgin, including anniversaries of the Montreal Massacre, The Women’s International Dinners, political rallies for Ontario Teachers’ Federations, and CAW Cultural Nights. She has been a regular performer at The Songbird Cafe in Durham, at The Storybook Cafe in Southampton and for the Candlelight Music Series in Southampton. Also, she has opened for Keating-Jones at the annual Sing Out Cafe at Glencolton Farms and has played for the students at Saugeen District Secondary several times.
Track List 1. Another Stupid Love Song 2. I Give It All 3. Be In Love 4. Our Little Secret 5. Will You Forgive Me In The End 6. Last Day Of Summer 7. With Every Broken Promise 8. Never Let You Go
Produced, Engineered & Mixed by Shawn . Mastered by Bob H. at Eyrespace Studio
Mike S. mastered the video version of ‘Be In Love’.
Shawn B. – Drums, percussion, vocals, programming, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, keyboards, harmonica and piano, except where noted by a special guest. Jesse V. – Lead Vocal on # 3,4,5,7.
Special Guests Andy T. – Electric Jazz Guitar #3 Sarah H. – B. Vocal #5. Larry . – Jazz Organ #5.
This is the follow up to the 24-song debut Home Demo CD in 2007. This collection of home recordings includes influences from dance, pop, metal and rock.
Shawn and Jesse have also been writing country songs lately, expanding their hobby and interest in many styles of music. These songs are not intended to be polished releases, they are simply home recordings to share with friends.
Shawns Discography: 2011 – Demo Kid – Home Demos Vol. 4 (Beige) (Link) 2010 – Demo Kid – Home Demos Vol. 3 (White) (Link) 2009 – Demo Kid – Home Demos Vol. 2 (Purple) 2009 – Compilation – Basement Champions Vol. 1 (Link) 2007 – Demo Kid – Home Demos Vol. 1(Blue) (Link) 2005 – Dead Girls Union – E.P. (Link) 2004 – Compilation – From The Underground (USA Release) 2004 – Compilation – Winter Rose (Canada Release) 2003 – Janet Theory – Sacriluscious (Link) 2001 – Janet Theory – Elastic Friend (Link) 1999 – Janet Theory – Shoot Me Down (Link) 1997 – Janet Theory – Studio Out Takes (Link) 1995 – Foster Child – Self Titled CD (Link) 1991 – Foster Child – Demo Cass. (Link)
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Demo Kid – 80′s Radio . A home demo song/video co-written with Rivers Cuomo of Weezer. The song did make it onto Weezer’s 2010 album ‘Death To False Metal. Below is the demo version Demo Kid did & below that is the final album version.
Demo Kid released a 24-song demo in 2007 and hasn’t slowed down a bit. 2008 saw as many as 30 new original songs posted online. Above are a few fun songs/videos from this year.
Artist: The MATADORS Release: Matadors (Demo) Style: Rockabilly Date: 1999
Chatham Connection: Singer Chris Hart is from Chatham.During his high school years he fronted the punk rock band L.O.T.D. (Lice Of The Dead). After moving to London, he joined Jivaro Fracus, and later the Matadors. In 2000, Chris began a venture into solo records.
At the time, the band did a mix of covers and original music.
The Matadors are:
Joel Parkins – Guitar
Steve Crew – Drums Linda McCartney – Organ
Jefry Sheppard – Dog House Bass
Chris Hart – Vocals
Tracks:
Ride, Other Man, Hangin’ Round, London Dungeon
These songs were recorded at dB studios in London, Ontario in 1998-ish.
I was lucky enough to catch Chris perform in local punk & rockabilly bands before he moved on to London. Chris’s voice is amazing. He may not like that I think he has an early Danzig/Misfits sound, but he does, and he turned it into his own. Go listen.
Note from chrwradio : Chris Hart went on to record his own record entitled Lonesome Blood. Linda McCartney sadly died that year of cancer related illnesses. Jef and Joel, however, transformed the Matadors into what the original intention of the band was….a youth oriented Satanic outreach and musical revue. The new Matadors also put out a record, aptly named ‘Heartless’, in 2002.
The new Matadors’ post-Chris sound had a less “erectile dysfuntion” feel to it and a more raw and evil tone.
Tracks: Ride, Other Man, Hangin’ Round, London Dungeon
Additional Musicians – Matt Drew – Percussion, Jay Moskaluk – Guitar on ‘Inspire Me’.
The Scoop: This is the bands 2nd demo. Just like the first one, Shawn & Jesse spit the vocal duties, but by the next release, they recall Mat Drew to the front.
The song “She Said” caught the attention of the local radio station “The Rock” who put it into regular rotation, from there it spun off to other stations.
The Mellow track ‘Deny Me’ was accepted well in the California area.
Recording credits Produced by Steve Eyres & The Janet Theory. Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by Steve Eyres. Recorded at Eyres Space Studio. Chatham Ontario (Franks Music Center) Jan-July ’98.
1. Waving Good-Bye 2. She Said 3. Everything & Anything 4. Deny Me 5. Waiting 6. Suffer Well 7. Wishful Thinking 8. Battle Of Head & Heart 9. One White Dove 10. Shoot Me Down 11. Losing The Angle 12. Inspire Me
Sarah Hiltz:
listen @ Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/sarahhiltz Sarah was kind enough to come over & record backing vocals on “Will You Forgive Me In The end”, a new song I wrote with Jesse V. We did this in April. She did backing vocals on ‘Just’ by FL3P (First line Third Planet) that stood out and made me take notice.
FL3P was a short lived band, (around 2004) but a great band. The drummer (Chuck Young) has been a good friend & long time band mate beginning with me in ‘Foster Child’ in 1991 to The Janet Theory & Dead Girls Union.
The track Sarah Hiltz sings on with FL3P is called ‘Just’ and can be heard here.
FL3P Music : http://www.myspace.com/fl3p
FL3P Band
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Julie Ross You know her from the Nest every Tuesday. Everyone loves her. She sang at my wedding. That made my wife extremely happy.
Her Music: http://www.myspace.com/julesross
Julie Ross performing at our wedding.
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Ruthless C*nt Killers Music: http://www.myspace.com/ruthlesscuntkillers Yep, they called it a day. I went to show Bob & Keegan some love by attending their last show as the R.C.K. at the KBD Hall in Chatham a month ago.
It was good to catch more good local underground bands on the bill, like Davis Block & 100 Proof.
