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A Nice "Alternative".....
It started with two friends and a mutual taste for something DIFFERENT than "mainstream".... high school buddies Neil Osborne and Brad Merritt used to spend their afternoons jamming in the garage, dreaming of life, and music, outside those four walls.
After graduation Osbourne went South to attend the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston only to be coaxed back to the left coast after a few semesters by Merritt and the lure of the growing underground punk scene in Vancouver. Together they hooked up with Osbournes brother David and a few other local musicians to form the LOUD RANGERS; unfortunately gigs were few and far between and after the band was tagged to play at the Osbourne family business, an aluminum recycling plant where all 12 people in attendance were either family, friends or employees, they disbanded.
It was after a visit to England to see their Punk Idols, Gang of Four and Joy Division that the stage called them again but this time it would be different... new members Ian Franey on bass and Darryl Neudorf on drums, new name and not a recycling plant in sight!
Gigs came and went but it was a New Years Eve set in 1980 that would finally push them thru; taking a late night set that nobody wanted at the place where West Coast Canadian Punk got its start, the Smilin' Buddha Cabaret, the foursome caught the eye of Allen Moy, a vocalist from the Vancouver band POPULAR FRONT. POPULAR FRONT was not only POPULAR they were productive..... several years earlier they had formed a nonprofit record label and musician's collective called Mo=Da=Mu. Ideas flowed after the session and in 1982 this band recorded SELECTION, a six-song EP on the label and followed that up with 1983s SET THE FIRE, a full length album produced by Moy himself.
While these two discs didnt threaten to set ANYTHING on fire they played well on College radios from Vancouver to San Francisco; major touring of small venues... [ Continued ]
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