. On stage they attacked their numbers with a professional air. Very early on the respective talents of the groups founders became evident. The engineer said that he played road bass for the Buckinghams of Chicago, one of our favourite groups. They promoted an anti-establishment lifestyle, an alternative or counter culture which wanted fewer government institutions and more populist food co-ops, underground newspapers and free clinics. We sold a few hundred copies, and got some local airplay [CKCK] so I guess it was worth the experience. Gene was an interesting man. Later, when we were old enough to get inside (and had actually started playing there ourselves), we saw bands like the Fireballs, the Ventures, the String-a-longs, and the Champs. Montague: Todays Fool, which had the better melody and title, went A side. Then we drove him back. Phew, we had that taken care of. Joni Mitchell was a popular act there appearing in 1964, in October and December 1965, and in July 1966. They assembled for rehearsals in Edmonton in November and December of 1967, played a number of engagements at Zorbas and Sylvan Lake, and then took off for Quebec. Show @ Regina 1950/11/13 @ Trianon Ballroom in Regina, Saskatchewan Paul Lortie defeated Stan Dusek [2 out of 3 Falls Match] 9: Show @ Edmonton 1950/11/14 @ Sales Pavilion in Edmonton, Alberta Al Korman defeated Stan Dusek: 10: Show @ Regina 1950/11/27 @ Trianon Ballroom in Regina, Saskatchewan Funny thing, it never occurred to us to do a known cover tune, like today; maybe because there was a world of great songs, melodies, arrangements coming out one after the other? Arriving back in Regina at the beginning of September, they set about turning their two recordings into a 45 rpm. Don Gutheil had truly come into his front man status by this time, both for his voice, and for the way he projected himself. Of lesser grandeur, but more in keeping with the times, was the Fourth Dimension Coffeehouse at 2710 Montague Street in the River Heights Shopping Centre. There was hesitation. The recording session on August 16th passed quickly no more than four hours, even though there were numerous overdubs. It was like having an additional musician, and the band members liked it so much that Gutheils guitar-playing days came to a quick end. Along with the loud music came all the other related conduct. It All Depends On You (B. Deutscher) Deutscher recalls: We had been doing some schmaltzy, middle of the road stuffbut we wanted to get more adventurous, progressive. This was unbelievable for young guys like us. From the first Oh baby, come back to me cant you see Im in misery, and from the second: Ive got a secret and I wanna tell you The band broke out into vocal music after that. Rush at Trianon Ballroom on Regina, Canada on tour Fly by Night . We used to refer to it as a 20-minute drum solo, but looking back on it now I cant imagine it was that long even for a young drumming-fit guy like me. Deutscher had been watching the Andantes for several years, jamming with them, and as previously mentioned had subbed a number of times for Gerry Schlegel. Recorded: 1969, University of Saskatchewan Regina Campus, Regina The tapes, now in possession of Deutscher, contain a total of twenty eight tracks (some done 2 or 3 times) including covers like Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young), Daybreak (Rick Derringer), Tomorrow (E. King), Gotta Find a Way (R. Cobb/E. The son of a banjo, violin, piano, guitar and harmonica player and sister of a CKCK radio singer, his first public performance was singing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer on CKCK at the age of five. He remembers: I had heard so much about them, but actually hadnt heard them. Recorded: 1969, Studio 3 Productions, Vancouver Nobody really had much studio experience in those days so we were all just kids wingin it with whatever resources were at hand at the station. The back-up groups are the most professional in Saskatchewan. This was Confederation, a then five-piece ensemble led by Herb Paddy Padwick. The Leader-Post mentioned their short, but sweet set (repeated several times over several performances) on Page 1: Singer Bobby Goldsboro, a grandstand entertainer until the end of the week made his first Regina appearance and was a big hit. On his own, Grainger started a prolific writing period, originally influenced by the British Invasion bands notably the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Procol Harum and the Zombies. Side B Lady (G. Schlegel) The Rats, now famous all over the Northwest started out as a malt shop, which it still is, if you count malt beverages. We were still little known in the city. Your email address will not be published. There was little other traffic, and alongside appeared a small sedan with two comely chicks inside. One of the reasons the Andantes became so successful was that the band would leave space in their tunes for Garys drum solos. It would appear there was never a quiet moment: A feature of the Rats used to be the noise made when blowing one keg and tapping a new one. The Rats was built on the reviews of our customer base. My grandmother who was the head of the family ran the business and never advertised. There were a lot of instrumentals: Wabash Cannonball, San Antonio Rose, Wildwood Flower, as well as many waltzes and polkas whose titles that I just cant recall. Hyped by its co-owner, hotelier John Savage, as the largest dancehall west of Chicago when it opened on May 20, 1927, the Trianon Ballroom had an outsized impact on Seattle during its three decades of musical activity. They were a self-proclaimed umbrella group for anyone opposed to the Vietnam War, and regularly engaged in civil disobedience. Read more about Regina Agridome; Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts. Donny was down in the basement with an electric bass guitar and amp his father Floyd had bought secondhand only the day before. A very entertaining, if somewhat rambling read. HistoryLink Tours Trianon Ballroom In the morning when I went to pay the bill, all the poor shaking guy behind the counter could say over and over was: I dont care what you do, just get out of here. We made it up to Vancouver after some NW US dates and Shelly took us to record a demo in a small studio owned by Tom Northcott.. Yuditsky, Amon and Griffin are students at Campbell collegiate, Jesse and Fraser work and Padwick, as mentioned, attends university. Its called Two by Two and we think itll sell, said Padwick. However we had something else they were so clean cut, polite and polished whereas we were down and dirty more rhythmic. Regina hipsters were in heaven. Title proper. A moment and she said Joe was in his office, we said wed be right over His wife was short and pretty with a black bob cut, no accent, and there was the presence of a baby in the house. The Andantes are undoubtedly the finest group in Regina. Dinni was the guy I knew besthe and I spent a lot of time together. Their major influence was the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. He was thoroughly grogged-out We called a taxi, gathered him up the stairs and out to the curb, gave the driver the address and paid the fare. And the first white group? Excellent article and great to have those memories brought light. Vancouvers Thin Red Line played there often. As well, they were quick off the mark in appreciating Ray Davies and the Kinks Well Respected Man and You Really Got Me became crowd pleasers. The groups first recording experience occurred in the late summer of 1966. Personnel: Don Gutheil, Ken Leonard, Gary Montague, Gerry Schlegel, Daryl Gutheil Tour Date Search is maintained by Ed Stenger/tourdatesearch For promotional & private use only. Before we left Regina, some of the guys said we need to get some keyboards happening anybody play keyboard? I said Well, we have a piano at home, but I dont really know how to play. They said, Do you want to try it? Sure, but I cant take it with us. Well, well rent this little organ from Arcade Music for the summer and see if you can learn it. So I said, Okay, Im willing to give it a try. I knew music, I knew chords on the guitar it was just a matter of translating the notes. Brenda Leier of the Leader-Post was there to do an interview and bring her readers up to date on their favorite band: An almost capacity crowd swarmed the new campus cafeteria Wednesday night to hear the Andantes, a popular local heavy rock group, and the Thin Red Line, a group from Cranbrook B.C.One of the highlights of the evening came when the bands combined their talents. Then we were off to Sylvan Lake in the morning, prize money in hand.. We were too young to get in, but at least we could saturate ourselves with the music if not the atmosphere. Especially notable among his many classic recording sessions were Chuck Berrys Johnny B. Good and Maybelline, and Howling Wolfs Killing Floor. Chisholm would later go on to teach sound engineering at Chicagos Columbia College, and be a regular contributor to Mix Magazine. How the Andantes were hired there [so much] is beyond me. This is borne out by their exceptional repertoire. They excelled at marches, demonstrations and loud, theatrical, authority-provoking mischief. Young immediately found a job drumming with singer/comedian Nestor Pistor (a.k.a. No bands were hired, and the entertainment consisted of Ken Jefferson on piano and Ray Hunker on accordion. The waiting period was causing some unrest for The Andantes. I worked out of my parents house where I was living at the time while I was studying art and playing in bands. Sams Go Go Club operated with a different philosophy an ongoing string of one-nighters, and mostly local bands. I knew, and still know, a number of the characters in the story, and had the pleasure of hearing the band many times. The Andantes have been tripped up several times. The four-piece Andante worked together for just over two years, much of the time on the road. Montague remembers: that night all of us were in DEs 98 Olds driving along the curving lakeside vista of bright Chicago lights on the big four-lane highway that fronts it all, going back to our big downtown hotel. Ken was one of 120 musicians chosen from Canada and the United States to tour Europe a year ago. Recalls Montague: We opened with Donnie on trumpet, fingering the bass guitar notes in his left hand, Kenny on trumpet in the middle, and Daryl on trumpet playing keyboards on his left hand: the fanfare to the Beatles Love, Love, Love [All You Need Is Love] then slipping into all the harmonies thereof, with Donnie singing lead.. Sponsorship meant free on-air promotion, regular bookings, the occasional use of a studio for practicing, access to the record library and, depending on the gig, use of the CKCK P.A. All of us could sing lead and harmonies. Daryl probably popped the next one in Donnys ear because I think he said it just before I did, Andante. It was an upbeat mannered kind of cool. The Andantes played there on a regular basis. [1] Designed by renowned theater architects Rapp & Rapp, it was owned . An important concert for the Andantes took place on April 23, 1966, when they played the windup dance at Reginas Hi-Y Day in the YMCA auditorium. There was smoke everywhere, and NOT cigarette smoke!. I liked his voice. He seemed genuinely impressed when we played our reel-to-reel to him. As idyllic as it appeared, there was one uncomfortable development. One of the venerable cultural institutions in the history of Regina was the Trianon Ballroom at 1850 Smith Street. When they heard about the Gala Night auditions, the group felt they had a good chance of winning. They started taking trumpet lessons at ages 8 and 6 respectively. Our guitarist Gerry Schlegel had a song called Lady which we wanted to record, but we werent really actively writing songs. Their first motel was treated to a polite Canadian style of rock and roll destruction (only the public plastic pool furniture was moved out of place, not the more expensive furniture in their rooms): I have this image of Dinni at night wrapping a soaked towel around his naked body mid-section while bouncing lightly at the end of the diving board all the patio furniture tables, chairs, umbrellas submerged in the pool of the small Holiday Inn we pulled into outside of Chicago. The recording of the second number, however, required a little bit more thought. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. I think at one point he had become either Program Director or Music Director at the station and was producing transcriptions with local artists to play on the air maybe to meet Cancon requirements? Mark Stein played church-like music on the organ, and Appici [sic.] The audition did not go welland so I started to concentrate on my graphic work instead., Montague has a slightly different memory: Donny told me he got a call and Dinni and Ray had quit. We took two takes; the video was played back; Donnie (a natural showman) looked like he was really performing; we pulled it off. They dressed in matching gold jackets, and covered songs by the Butterfield Blues Band, various Stax artists, Marvin Gaye (Dock of the Bay), Jimi Hendrix, and Cream (by then Clapton was my hero). However, just in case they decided to release any recordings, they did shorten it to the singular Andante. During what turned out to be an abortive attempt to recapture some of its glory days, the just reopened Trianon Ballroom booked a very good Horace Henderson & His Orchestra into the once highly popular, ornate dance palace. Personnel: Don Gutheil, Don Young, Bob Deutscher, Daryl Gutheil I agreed that if he got us a gig, wed give it a try. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Click here and subscibe to our newsletter! As of July 1967 following the first live global television linked program Our World they found a new opening to their show one that not too many bands could pull off. Get the Duke Ellington and His Orchestra Setlist of the concert at Trianon Ballroom, Regina, SK, Canada on June 29, 1954 and other Duke Ellington and His Orchestra Setlists for free on setlist.fm! Theyve got short hair and thats about as rare as a Canadian band making it in the spinny world of wax.. We kinda liked each others playing and occasionally wed get together at his place and jam. It started its advance into the jazz-rock field in February 1968. Musician remembers a time Trianon Ballroom swung - Oklahoman.com Grundy/S. It had seen them progress from precociously talented teenagers to mature recording, touring musicians. While these groups are certainly very talented, the local musicians are not being given the chances that the out of town groups are. They were immediately booked into the lounge of the Rock Cliff Hotel, a somewhat seedy club six miles from the Vermont border. We set up on the floor or a very low rise in a larger area of the studio, with a flat-painted back plywood wall and two high-up, not very loud, small, out of sight monitor speaker playing the 45 rpm. We explained who we were and what we were here for. Lady though a fine song in its own right was relegated to the B-side. She had signed a contract with Barry Records and released two 45 rpms entitled Lonely One (written by Dorsey Burnette), and I Want to Stand Up On the Mountain which made it on to the CKCK charts. The first two sort-of rock and roll bands (they also played rockabilly and polkas) in Regina both started in 1957. We provide the entertainment on the CBCs Through the Eyes of Tomorrow this Sundayits sort of a teen-aged W5, said Padwick Their recording, which will be heard on the Sunday TV program, was composed by Fraser and Yuditsky. Regina | rocktourdatabase.com She summed up: From the Flood and the Andantes to the Vanilla Fudge: three groups with three personalities; all with good sounds., Although they blended well, the Andantes found themselves slowly evolving into two musical camps. I became known as the drummer and leader I assumed the logistics, policies, booking (the home phone going off my fathers business during the day, the Andantes business during the evening), handling of all monies, renting vehicles and trailers, etc. Chic-A-Go C-001 (TM-2970) 2:58 Within a year he realized that though he loved photography, the job itself was not very rewarding. I think Don E. had just arranged for us to record these two songs and then the studio had some company press 500 copies and deliver them to us to do with them what we wish. The first and most prominent Trianon opened December 6, 1922 in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, and was marketed as "The World's Most Beautiful Ballroom". Born 1948 the youngest son of Albert and Wilhelmina Deutscher, he sported a lengthy and impressive musical history. We called ourselves Hedge Graphics. As Daryl explains: We talked our dad into buying us guitars my brother got a bass and I got a guitar. Their timing left much to be desired though. In the summer of that fateful year with the country wide enthusiasm for rock music whipped up by the Beatles movie A Hard Days Night Montague, Don Gutheil and Bettinson co-opted several other friends and a beat group finally gelled. 1 Mama. Debbie Medland, a senior at Central Collegiate, wrote in the column Dateline Regina beside individual head shots: Rated tops among some thirty rock-n-roll bands, The Andantes have never lost a band battle [perhaps she was not aware of their placings in the 1965 and 1966 Regina band battles], toot two trumpets for a Tijuana flavor, try not to let the band interfere with homework (four are in high school, one works). Patience (B. Deutscher) Popular music venues in the Queen City in the early 1960s seem to have been rare and short-lived. What drummer have you heard play a solo act? The personnel at this time included Ken Folk on bass and vocals, Norm Burgess on saxophone, Ken Brabant on drums, Deutscher on lead guitar, and Chan Romero on rhythm guitar and vocals. He was born in 1949, the son of Nolan Edward Monty Montague and his wife Lavona. (Any full band adaption usually came from others with a better feel for how that might work.) The influences changed he now started to be inspired by Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Bruce Cockburn, Joni Mitchell and James Taylor. Thats everything I know he replied. As this was the first time they had played in a bar they found they had to alter their repertoire from teenybopper music to more blues and rhythm and blues. I vaguely remember the clubusing part of the basement floor (the other part was left in the dark), the new smell of renovation with freshly laid black and white tiles, the ceiling sprayed black, support beams and some tables and chairs colour co-ordinated black and white, a low (good) plywood stage which seemed to be a weaker white (maybe they were running out of paint), a feeling of starkand unfinished, and acoustics a bit too bright which could have been remedied by bodies sucking up the sound. I just kept hanging around them and my dad kept bugging them. A founding member of The Andantes We didnt even have time to grieve, we had to scramble. It had a nude woman in an art nouveau style, kind of like Aubrey Beardsley which was very popular at the time. They stressed their ties to their hometown: The Confederation do not plan to vacate Regina if their record sells well. Up to this point I was playing guitar and some horns, but we wanted to expand the sound. He changed drumsticks as he moved from rhythm to rhythm, dropping to a light cymbal roll, then increasing volume, never letting the audience get away. He had a fondness for that venue: It was a hippie scene going on tabs of acid flying around the room! One of the DJs from CKCK, Howard Green, asked them if they had any original material, as he could arrange some recording time. A man who talked so fast literally I could barely understand a word he said, except that he came from Chicago and his first name may be Don. Composed of fellow students from Balfour Technical Collegiate Bill Hershe, Brian Szysky, Marty Daborn, Bill Rothecker, and Max Yuditsky, they called themselves the Ro-dans. If that was today, the Andantes would be very famous. (They played a larger gig there several months later Queen of the Shrine Bowl dance with The Downbeats). They added to our success and were wonderful advertisement via word of mouth. The Gutheils started accumulating a record collection and immediately became interested in learning to play the new cool instruments. Daryl Gutheil memories are slightly different: From 1965 to 1969 The Andantes played fairly regularly at Temple Gardens, the traditional ballroom/dance hall in Moose Jaw. Not easy for an eighteen year old who by that time had played a lot of music with the guy, liked his guitar stylings, and presence on stage. In late September 1968 the axe came down: Finally and unfortunately, I had to fire Gerry. I made sure Fred was credited on the label as the writer (who knows, what if something actually came of all of this?) American Soul musician Jackie Wilson performs onstage at the Trianon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, 1964. We didnt want it to look phony, and I think we may have tried too hard to look natural.. The purpose of the concert is to show the people of Regina that there is an abundance of talent among the local musicians. The standout Yardbirds 45s A Certain Girl and I Wish You Would were the highlights of their early sets, and a live tape exists of the band covering the John Mayall-penned Telephone Blues in June 1966. After the second overnight session my parents lost their enthusiasm for my hobby! The above three songs and four others by Grainger were incorporated into the Andantes repertoire during 1968 and 1969 Hello Stranger, Holy Woman, I Need a Rest From the Music and Jonah Give Up Your Mind. As convenience had it we were tacked on an extra night, with the proviso that we didnt tell anybody we were from out of town (a ringer) which would compromise Rons good word as the music promoter and booker of bands about town. And I made $4 for that gig!. A natural. Archival descriptions; Authority records; Subjects . Montague recalled one of these special performances by his compadres: I had just been skipped over C Band. I cant remember the date or where we did it, but it must have been in the local television studio, no doubt CBC.
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