[mplpost] The first indie CD? Another tale from the trenches...

[Mike Regenstreif]

At 01:57 PM 11/1/01, Richard Flohil wrote:
>The other Richard claims that the Stringband Canadian Sunset album was the
>one of the first indie albums made in Canada, pre-dating Doug McArthur's
>Letters from the Coast. I'm proud to age myself (and congratulate myself!)
>on still having both records in my collection...
>
>However, I must put in an earlier claim - I've long said that one of the
>first indie recordings in Canada was the Downchild Blu's Band's album
>Bootleg, recorded and released, if my memory serves, in early 1992. The
>band, which I co-managed at the time, cut the album late in '71 in a
>miniscule studio on the second floor of the underground parking lot at


         Montreal singer-songwriter Chris Rawlings did a self-released LP 
called "Pearl River Turnaround" that came out in 1971 or '72.  I do 
remember it being out at the time that I booked Chris for a concert at 
Dawson College in '72.  As I recall, Chris did a pressing of 1000 copies.

         However, even earlier than that, another Montreal performer, Marc 
Nerenberg, now a criminal lawyer, put out an LP with a pressing of only 100 
copies.


	Mike Regenstreif

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