And really cool

wow, November 1994…..

This was my life way back then……I think this was just a random visit to Vancouver, but with a purpose….I’m not sure…..

It was a day of two interviews…began with a meet with a singer names Alan Frew at a restaurant in Vancouver’s Coal Harbour…the restaurant was called the ARC….Frew was at the time going solo, was best known as a member of the west coast band, Glass Tiger..

It was an interesting chat……I never knew what questions I was going to ask, and a lot of time it wasn’t what the subject was always expecting….over coffee and I guess an early lunch we talked about music and the joy of singing..among other things….he had a solo album that was about to be released so yes, I remember that coming up…..but it was so cool….just me, doing this….I never took that for granted…

I was just some shmuck that got the golden key to do this….yes, I had an editor, but I always picked my subject matter…..and I was from this small British Columbia interior city writing for a small newspaper, and a few other magazines….but I just did what I did…..

This was a day to remember though……after that meet I headed over to meet up with Annette Ducharme, at her house just off of Vancouver’s Commercial Drive, and had coffee with her in her dining room…..her hubby was around as well…producer John Webster….who I think I’d crossed paths with before….he produced a lot of other musicians I’d know…..but Annette was so cool…and yeah we talked, again, I always thought of interviews as just as conversation that I’d share…..

I always looked at my goal was that of part cheerleader for some, and then to introduce those that read or watched what I did, to something, someone they may had never heard before, or heard of….

Sometimes it worked…..and yes, I guess it was a little vanity on my part thinking that I could do that….

I always also wanted to share all things Canadian….yes, we have kind of conquered some of the world now, Drake etc……but back in the 90s, things were amazing…so much, well, music….DIYs, the punks the new wavers, way so much Ska……so many great bands that I still listen too…..and it seemed like everything fit…..

At the time Ducharme’s album, sanctuary was out, and I thought she’d end up rulling the world, maybe….Sarah McLachlan had Fumbling Towards Ecstacy out at the time, 5440 were everythere…the Grape of Wrath, Lava Hay…..Bif Naked was everywhere….I thought everything from the west coast was going to rule the world….it was the age of cool…….

And Annette I thought was going to be a huge part of that…..

I was lucky enough to be there too……that time, about 1981 to the early 2000s, I was really lucky to be a part of that……so many memories