After spending a few years in bands bouncing between Toronto and Los Angeles, in 1981 David Quinton released a solo album of punk-inflected power pop. He then spent a few decades raising a family and practising law. And then, in 2018 and 2019, he found himself playing his songs for appreciative audiences... in Japan. As if that weren't peculiar enough, in 2021 he's playing drums on new music released by iconic Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson. We chat about strange trips, looking back on the art you created in your twenties, and talking drums with Neil Peart.