Mee-Shka :
-received first snare drum from parents at
age 10, they were sometimes sorry several years later after they bought me a
full kit at age 12 and let me and my friends jam in garage or basement
-lipsynched KISS show in 6th
grade elementary school to rave reviews
-teenage years spent jamming mostly hard
rock stuff until moved out of parents house into live-in jamspace when I was
eighteen
-there was a time when the heavier, faster,
and noisier the music was, the more I was into it. Founded, played in, and
rocked the world with speed/trash metal band Reactor for several years in mid
to late 80’s. Left in early 90’s
Montréal's Legendary Thrash Metal band
REACTOR
REACTOR at Foufounes
Électriques, 1989
REACTOR
at
Foufounes Électriques, '89
(Playing "Robocop"!)
-formed a Nirvana tribute band and had a
lot of fun playing local gigs
-grooved exquisitely with a hard funkrock
group and even went to Europe (squatted in Amsterdam) with them...
over there we dropped the singer, in
favour of hooking up with killer sax player and a stupidfresh young rapper –
which naturally changed the musical flavour of the project: hip-hop anyone?
-everyone came back from Europe at their
own pace because good things only last so long, (among other reasons) and I
looked around,,, ended up playing with friends again for a couple years and
ended the millenium not doing anything particularly steady musically, just
havin’ fun
-joined B9 (Benign) - punky alternative band: female
vocalist, heavy guitars - and rocked four or five years with them through
various personnel changes
-I met up with Todd again after first
encountering him playing with a group of my friends several years previous. He
voiced his desire to start up something musical again, and I must have been
drunk because I said yes
and
AGENDA The Rock
Band
was
formed...
mike_wattie@hotmail.com
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