The List

I have everything back except the films in red.

The Band - Documentary
The Black Crowes - Cabin Fever
The Last Waltz
Festival Express
Woodstock Diaries
Neil Young - Heart of Gold

Allman Brothers Band - More Peaches bootleg

Rolling Stones - Rock and Roll Circus
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
Rolling Stones - 4 Flicks
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
Led Zeppelin - DVD box set
Monterery Pop Festival
Guy Clark - Austin City Limits
Doug Sahm - Austin City Limits
Lucinda Williams - Austin City Limits
Drive-By Truckers - Live at the 40 Watt
Tom T Hall
Gillian Welch - The Revelator
Earl Scruggs - with Bob Dylan and Joan Baez
Johnny Cash - Documentary
Elvis: That's the Way it Is
Chuck Berry - Hail, Hail Rock and Roll
Bob Dylan - Renaldo and Clara bootleg/rarity
Bob Dylan - No Direction Home
Bob Dylan - Live at Newport
Roger Waters - The Wall Live '91
Townes Van Zandt - Be Here to Love Me
New Grass Revival
Bob Dylan - Masked and Anonymous

Charlie Daniels Band - Volunteer Jam

Tom Petty - Pack Up the Plantation

An Ode to Christopher Graham – The Ballad of Robbery!

Arriving home to a break-in really bites the big one!  Especially when you find out that ALL OF YOUR music DVD’s have been stolen!  All of the music DVD’s that you were going to use to create a buzz in this town.  All of the bootleg concerts, rarities, international films, hard-to-find’s.

When I arrived in the lounge to discover that everything had been taken, I was absolutely devastated.  It felt like someone had taken my child.

Anger, sadness, confusion, helplessness all set in as I stared out of the window to wait for the police to arrive.  How on EARTH am I going to recover these?  I don’t have a couple grand to replace them, I don’t have the time to find them.  This person had no idea what he had taken.  It wasn’t just a bunch of DVD’s that you could replace, these were different!

My mother called me to suggest I call the used CD’s shops in town.  The second one I called started naming off my films.  I can’t even explain to you what I felt as he named them off one by one.  It was like a massive piece of joy and happiness were coming back into my body with an overwhelming feeling.  I also felt a whole lot of revenge when the gentleman from Disc Depot on George Street told me that an idiot by the name of Chris Graham from 23 Kenver Street, Omemee was the one who sold my children to him.  Disc Depot will refuse any items if the person can’t provide ID.

I zoomed to the police station and was reunited with the ones I had thought were gone forever.  All but 12! 

The asshole even took my Levon Helm tote bag made back in 2004 that isn’t being made anymore.  The guy had no idea what he had taken from me.

I will comment later with The List of my collection and the 12 that are missing.

A Little Snippet About Me

It all started in my mother’s belly.  I could hear the tunes muttered through her belly wall.  Just as the day I started breathing was the day it was all about the tunes.

My parents always had awesome records playing on the old Marantz turntable until it started collecting dust as compact discs became the new thing.  I dusted that little ditty off and started my own collection (bulk of it was mom and dad’s at that point!).

Time flew on and it was around the middle of 2002 when I watched ‘The Last Waltz’ for the first time.  Man oh man did that film ever change my life.  Every single frame of that film became my life!  I was on a mission to discover music.  Where it came from, how it all began. 

During my research, I found myself driving down to New Jersey, New Hampshire and Woodstock to see the only bits of Levon Helm that were available at the time.  The Levon Helm Blues Band.  The first night that I had ever seen him down in Teaneck, New Jersey was one of the best days of my life.  Backstage mingling with the man himself and the band.

Soon after that I was down in Woodstock every month to volunteer at his brand new Midnight Rambles, crashing in his studio, listening to playbacks of the night’s performance with Levon and his sound engineers.  Life was fucking amazing!  I had seen Levon sing for the very first time after he was diagnosed with throat cancer.

I met all kinds of amazing musician’s, blues legends, ramblers, gamblers, and locals.

After a few months of this I upped and left to the UK for a couple of years.  It was time to move on.

Life in London, in the UK was pretty amazing.  I discovered that the best rock and roll bands came from the UK.  Free tickets to Rolling Stones gigs, running into John Paul Jones, making friends with Corb Lund’s parents, partying at Blue Rodeo’s hotel and meeting all kinds of great folks.  I saw some of the best music in my life over there.

Things were so great over there rock and roll wise that when I had to come back to Canada, to Peterborough, I realized that we were missing it all.  This history, the classics, the stories.

Here I am bringing back the history, the classics and the stories and the just plan love for the best music of all time.

Me and Levon Helm (September 2004) at his property.

Rock and Roll Film Nights

This town needs some rock and roll!

Starting on November 17th at the Sapphire Room, I will be hosting a rock and roll film night featuring 'FESTIVAL EXPRESS'.

It's a great documentary about a train tour that went from East to West in 1970.  The Band, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Buddy Guy, Ian and Sylvia, Bonnie & Delaney and a whole lot of Canadian Club whiskey.  Music, whiskey, festivals, Canadian landscapes, trains.. what's not to love?

The film nights are to happen monthly.  Next film comin' down the pipeline is the forever famous 'THE LAST WALTZ', the best rock and roll film ever.  That should be a good night.


I hope y'all come and join me on the 17th, or just check back often.  There's a lot of great tunes out there and I plan on bloggin' them.

Happy listening!