Helix The Band

This morning I received the sad news that our old lightman Dale Wright had passed away from cancer. This was almost one month after the death of his daughter Jessica, also from cancer.

Dale was with us for many years-from about 1976 until 1983. Throughout that whole time we've remained friends. Many times he, his wife Lynn, and Jessica would come to our parties at Planet Helix or I'd see them all at one of our shows. I'm sure both Jessica and Dale were at our last show at the Aolian Hall and might even have been at our Backyard Barbecue bash.

Dale was known as "Dale the Pale" because on his very first date with us, which was right after my first marriage, he drank so much he got alcohol poisoning and passed out in the shrubbery outside the bar we were playing at. That was actually the last time I ever saw him take a drink...lol.

Here is a little clip that shows Ken Heague (road manager/soundman), Dale (lights) and Dave Doyle (guitar roadie) at The Landmark Inn. It's a Saturday night and they've just loaded the truck for the trip the next day to Winnipeg. They were a great crew, now minus one. See you on the other side bro.
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One of our favorite places to play over the years has been Thunder Bay. We first started playing the home of the "Sleeping Giant" in the late 70's on our first tour to western Canada at the Wayside, a rough bar if there ever was one. Nearly got in a big fight on the Saturday night at a house party we went to. We were chased down the street by red necks carrying 2X4's. Never drove so fast backwards down a street in my life...Angry guys! From then on we played The Landmark, where George Ward was the owner. It was a fantastic bar and George always treated us very well. We also played Rock the Fort, The Rock House, and this gig-at the Polish hall I believe (La Provista?).

This was from 2007 with the Rickford line-up. At the end are scenes featuring Jim Lawson, who played guitar for the band from about 2000 to 2008. Lastly, there's Chuck Sanford, who's been a tireless advocate for the band for years. Although I'm frequently criticizing the Musician's Union, Chuck is an example of the way the local Musician's Union guys REALLY help. It's the national organization I have problems with-especially on U.S. immigration.

It's been awhile since we've been back at The Lakehead. It's about time for a return I think.

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The other day I was going through my numerous external hard drives and I came across a bunch of my Ulead mini disc videos. From 1975 until about 1990 I shot in Super 8. Then, about that time, video cameras became the rage, so I switched to whatever camera was handy. Eventually I bought a Sony camera that operated with CD mini-discs. Over time, I accumulated around 180 of these-each about 20 minutes long! That's about 60 straight hours of film. Now, a lot of it is shit, so I'm going to have to sift through every film and extract the "good stuff." Here's an example of one I picked randomly from the pile: It's me & Fritz at the side of the road puffing on a doobie. From the audio you can hear we're on our way to our gig in Grand Prairie.

Everytime I see Fritz in these films I realize how much I miss the guy. It's going to be quite the job going through these.

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A Message Howzat on our up comming Shows with them and special guests Chicago Legends Enuff Z'Nuff
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