[mplpost] "Live at the Bunkhouse"

[rtwright@grassrootsgroup.com]

Bunkhouse Nostalgia? 

The fellow who ran the music hall in Victoria was, I believe, Gipp
[not Skip} Forester who wrote some wonderful stuff back in the
60s. I edited some of his work for him and found him a few gigs.
He had a LP out, can't remember the name.  He later ran the
Mustard Seed in Victoria.

Les Stork ran the bunkhouse and I remember David Wiffin recording
there. Blake Emmons also got a start there. Somewhere I have a
photo of a young Tevor Veitch with my brother at the Bunkhouse.
And I bought my Martin guitar from Les.  It was standing behind
the office door.  I paid $25. Lots of random memories....

But Gipp was more associated with the Sequel coffeehouse, just up
Granville from the Bunkhouse, which was on Davie.

The Sequel was managed by Al Pilgrim and owned by the Bartlett
brothers who also had a Pizza chain. The Irish Rovers played there
early on.

Then there was the Inquisition on Seymour, with bigger names,  run
by Howie Bateman.  And there was ... but enough already.

Just trying for a western balance here...


Richard Wright

> yes, it was the Bunkhouse in Vancouver.  by way of moving nostalgia
> westwards...I also met Joe Mok there in 1965 where he used to introduce
> himself with jokes about being Chinese-Hungarian.  He's now a Pied
> Pumkin,
> no?  I also remember playing Jon York's Music Hall in the basement of
the
> Century Inn in Victoria.  By then, it was run by Skip...last name
> temporarily lost in a seniors' moment, who is now a street preacher &
> sells
> inspirational radio stories around Christmas - I heard them over Parry
> Sound
> radio last year.  Valdy developed an excellent orchestra called "The
> Foundry
> Brass" which played terrific dance music at a place called "The Old
> Forge"
> also in Victoria.  Charlie & I opened a club called "The Chrystal Eye"
in
> the Chrystal Garden across from the Empress Hotel.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Vic Bell <vicbell@telusplanet.net>
> To: <maplepost@icomm.ca>
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 12:36 AM
> Subject: [mplpost] "Live at the Bunkhouse"
>
>
>> Beverlie wrote:
>> >I also have an ancient album of Dave Whiffen "Live at the Bunkhouse"
>> >released in the 60's...
>>
>> Would this be the Bunkhouse Coffeehouse in Vancouver?   Just trying
>> to move some of this nostalgia westwards.
>>
>> cheers,  Vic
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