Are you listening yet?

Wammee’s sound and what their influences were.

"Blues has been a big influence on my music and Richard’s (Carstens) as well although he’s more influenced by David Bowie and some even more obscure english rock stars like the Spiders and David Harley. In the late seventies and early eighties it was punk and hardcore that was the big influence. My old band, The Hoodoos, we were doing old blues and R&B staff with a hardcore edge; it was like an eighties interpretation of the fifties and sixties.

November 19, 1990 Top 15 Canadian Albums

1. The Northern Pikes

2. Haywire

3. Colin James

4. Barney Bentall & the Legendary Hearts

5. The Jitters

6. The Pursuit of Happiness

7. Gowan

8. MCJ & Cool G

9. Alias

HDV

Dream Warriors

The Leslie Spit Tree-o

Bootsauce

Jr. Gone Wild

Bob's Your Uncle

L5 Internatonal Albums

AC/DC

Vanilla Ice

The Soup Dragons The Cure

Mojo Nixon

Steve Earle & the Dukes Deee-Lite

Was (Not Was) Slaughter

Ratt

Inxs

Inspiral Carpets An Emotional Fish The Human League 15. Andy Prieboy

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With the addition of a fourth member to the band, who brings in the keyboard and sax sounds, I asked Michael how this will affect the Wammee’s musical direction.

"Well, with the new project, we have done a lot more funky dance oriented stuff. The sax and keyboards add a different dimension that was never there before, and really enables us to be more musically creative, that we were with just guitars and drums. With samplers and keyboards it really fills the songs out and adds a different character to the music which is really exciting to us."

Snow in June (Virgin) Nuthouse (Attic) Sudden Stop (Virgin)

Lonely Avenue (Epic)

Louder Than Words (Capitol) One-Sided Story (Chrysalis) Lost Brotherhood (Anthem)

So Listen (Capitol)

Alias (Capitol)

Sex, Drugs, & Violence (Isba) Wabh Your Face in My Sink (Island) Don't Cry Too Hard (Capitol) The Brown Album (Vertigo)

Too Dumb to Quit (Stony Plain) Tale of 2 Legs (Dr. Dream)

The Razor's Edge (Atco)

To the Extreme (SBK) Lovegod (Polydor)

Mixed Up (Elektra)

Otis (Enigma)

The Hard Way (MCA)

World Clique (Elektra)

Are You Okay? (Fontana) Stick It to ya (Chrysalis) Detonator (Atlantic)

x (Atlantize)

Life (Elektra)

An Emotional Fish (EastWest)

- Romantic? (Virgin)

Upon My Wicked Son (Dr. Dream)

The UPEI X-Press

November 22, 1990

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