| Weasel Alley 1 was the next logical step after Erasmus-- We were becoming much better musicians and were getting quite serious about our musical aspirations. Eric, Terry and I decided we needed a "front man" - and Terry recommended Andy Gregorovic--someone he had played with years before in Mansfield--a Peterboro band that used to play at the Celeste Coffee House with us sometimes in Lindsay. Andy was a good guy and lots of fun with a "John Kay" type of growly voice. We started the band in April 1973 and did our usual "two months in the basement routine to get our act together. We had planned to all move into a cottage together for the summer to hone our chops and then hit the gigs in the fall. Well...good intentions are always just that...by June 1973 we had broken up (I don't remember what the hell happened--I think Eric had decided to go to University in the fall), and Andy left. Eric and I carried on through the summer with a number of gigs with Mike McCarty and Terry Beauclerc as a three piece. This is when I started to really focus on the Mongoose projects a lot more with Mike, Rob Broom and others. Weasel Alley (the sequel) came later in the year--October 1973…. |
| Me, Terry and Eric in May 1973--my basement held a lot of noise over the years |
| Me and Mike in October 1973 |
| Weasel Alley 2--In September 1973 I was approached by Peter Huron (then Student Council President) to do a gig at the High School (LCVI) for the fall launch of events. Within a week, I had gathered Mike McCarty, Jim Patterson & Kim Freeborn together and revived the Weasel Alley name (I've never been one to waste a good name) and we did a few gigs throughout the fall of 1974. It was a lot of experiemental rock mixed with some oldies--great fun….Kim decided he wasn't going to be guitar player anymore (he was learning violin) and left the band. I focused on the Mongoose projects and Nodd for the next few months. |
| Jim Patterson |
| Ki,m Freeborn |
| Me, Andy & Eric in May 1973 |
| Terry Beauclerc |