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

[Tom Coxworth]

Hey folks, this is interesting. I own all of these recording - also had the
fortune to buy the first Downchild from them when the where performing
in Kensington Market  for Levi Jeans ( things are actually a little hazy around
that
time ! ). As for Stringband..yup I have them all....But ! My understanding
is that the Two Tones .. at the Village Corner was an indie album ?

I managed to catch two copies of this album. They are on the Chateau
Label. Richard..enlighten me about the label ? Was this an indie ?

Don't tell Lightfoot as he has some of the world worst jokes on it
although it got them the Mariposa gig. I also understand that he
was trying to capture these for his dust bin.

Tom

Tom Coxworth
Producer/Folk Routes
The CKUA Radio Network
http://www.ckua.com

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
> Rochdale College (and called Sound Horn after the instruction painted at
> the first curve of the entrance ramp to the garage.  We did it on a
> two-track Revox, with no ability to do overdubs - over three nights the
> band played every song they knew twice, and then we picked the best tracks;
> the ones with the fewest mistakes, feedback noises, grunts and farts, etc.
>
> We put it out ourselves, sold 500 copies to friends and fans in the next
> month, and then RCA Victor (Barry Keane, now Gordon Lightfoot's drummer,
> was the a&r man) gave us $2,000 to acquire the rights and release it -
> which they did, in Canada and in Japan.  We all thought we had hit the big
> time!
>
> The record still holds up well today, and it's amazing how the band - with
> more than 80 musicians going through the ranks - still sounds like
> Downchild, 32 years later.
>
> One more point:  If you don't think Downchild is a folk band, that's your
> loss! <g>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
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