I was born in the 70’s, grew up in the 80’s, and cut my teeth as a musician in the 90’s.

I experienced the Grunge/Alt-Rock movement first hand, and it CHANGED me.

It was a paradigm shift, a sea change, and it shaped the writer/player that I am today.

I am forever grateful.

Seattle was the hotbed, but my heroes lived elsewhere, like Chicago (The Smashing Pumpkins) , U.K. (too many to mention), and here at home, in Canada.

If you were around for it, you’d agree that the 90’s was GOOD to Canadian music. And Canadian music was good to the world (Celine/Alanis/Shania).

Every province had bands worth talking about, and most major cities had a buzzy music scene worth exploring.

On our turf (Hamilton), we had Junkhouse and The Killjoys. Arguably, the two most obvious outfits making a good noise at that time; helping crank the nations neck toward our little patch of land.

The Killjoys. I liked them.

They had hooks for days, and a lo-fi, power pop thing that I really dug.

Recently, I had the honour of chatting with frontman Mike Trebilcock in front of a live audience. He told his story, sang some songs, and made a room full of strangers laugh and listen.

He in fact, made some new fans….

It was special and surreal, because it wasn’t Much Music making The Killjoys come to life. It was Mike, in the flesh, singing the songs from our youth.

I won’t forget it.

This was recorded live in Hamilton, on November 8th at the @blindbellwether during our second @x.times.x gathering.

A thousand thank you’s to @mike_trebilcock for saying yes and bringing the 90’s to our little room.

Enjoy.

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