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Songs from Uncle Nasty I.

Song: eight

Artist: Quadrant

Album: The Kingsway ‘74

From the site Chatham Music Archive:

Band: Quadrant

Year: 1975

Style: Rock

Home: Chatham Ontario

Members

Steve Fowler (Uncle Nasty) – Guitar

Mark Tremblay – Keyboards

Bob Wilson – Bass

Rick Chrysler – Drums

  Quadrant was probably the most popular local band at this time and all that without any vocals. The band was a cast of brilliant musicians in an era where prog rock was coming to be championed.

 The cool story about this band is that they were being scoped out by the same management company as RUSH, who were on the verge of international success, but before anyone knew that Rush would ever achieve it. This music style was still new and the buzz around Quadrant was huge. The only problem with signing the band would be the fact that there is no vocalist. This creates a marketing block for the record labels who don’t know how to sell this creative music.

It is also worth noting that some of the bands original material sounds similar to what Rush would put out on their next record. It is true that Rush could have easily had Quadrant’s demo (passed to them by management) and took some thoughts from it.  It is best to leave that tidbit as a mystery, but the fact is Quadrant was an innovative and talented band from here.

S. Beaulieu.

NOTE: Growing up around music like this may be tentatively linked to a several year long acid binge I may have participated in during the early 1990s. Maybe.

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Lyrics

on the morning of the first evictionthey carried out the wishes of the landlord and his sonfurniture’s out on the sidewalk next to the family that little piggie went to market,so they’re kicking out everyonetalking about process and desmissal forced removal of the peopleon the corner shelter and locationeverybody wants somewherethe elected are such willing partnerslook who’s buying all their tickets to the gamedevelopment wants, development getsit’s officialdevelopment wants this neighbourhoodgone so the city just wants the same talking about process and dismissalforced removal of the people on the corner shelter and locationeverybody wants somewhere everybody wants somewhere

Fugazi’s Cashout from the album The Argument.

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