5the first year of its~

Through heavy

Subway originated

3being at Confedera- ition Center then 3transferred to Kirk

lof St.

James. After

1a year at the Kirk, git ceased to be for ;a year.

After a year it

5has taken wing again 3under a new committee 3headed by a member of

:Dan Lavigne. :taken wing as one can -see of crowds of 400

the original Subway,‘ It has.

5are indicative of

Ethis. -town they are:

In Charlotte— In—

ISide there was a lot 3of tension as some 3things were leoked {after.

After a few

7tables were removed 2to make room for 3some of the people 3who lined the walls iand blocked the

fstairways,

the cur—

'tains were opened :and the stage gaVe ibirth to a slender 3young girl who was {to be M.C. '

The girl, a

:little nervous, Imade it through Iher welcoming re- Imarks and intro- 3duced Patch.

Patch is a young

Igroup of musicians

3from P.E.I.

who

3made a very good 3first showing in ZCharlottetown after 3a relatively short

3time together.

All

Iof the musicians in 3the group are 5strong with an :exceptionally strong Isax player who sur- iprised me most for Ia person of his

iyears.

You will be

5 hearing more of this . group in the near

future. After Patch, the young lady doing the honors came back

- a little less shaken

and announced the

E second slice of the - show in the form of

lBonnie LeClair,

a little girl with one hell of a big voice. Bonnie, a girl with

-a really bright fu-

1ture, came on and ‘did five of her own -numbers.

I 3rains a crowd of over' I400 people made their 1way to.a hall in ITrinity United Church 5for the reopening of ione of Charlottetowds 5first coffee houses' E"Subway".

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> . Bonnie sang her way through her numbers, accom- panying herself beautifully, and set the—pace for the rest of the first half of the show.

Bonnie was followed by Tom Sea another performer no stranger to the crowds here after having done a stint with Storm and after that performing by himself at the Kirk when it was the base for the Coffee House.

Tom came on, made a few comments in that soft drawl of his and did one of the finest accoustic sets I've heard in a long time here, or anywhere else. Tom did a few of his ewn numbers which he documented with some of the finest, meaty, tasty licks I ever heard. One of the biggest treats of the evening for me was beautiful bottleneck job of "Crossroads" which had me wondering why some turkeys in the business who couldn't pick for shit nor

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sing their way up the.

street are making money. Tom was followed by another ex-member of Storm Lucian LeRoux. Lucian, another fine performer took the stage and after an

introduction to his first number came on with a really' beautiful job oi old Beatle number "Blackbird".. Blackbird was followed by a couple of his originals, the most pleasing to me being a song called "David Take Your Woman to the Country." Lucky is

an

I

also a fine guitarist!

in his own right, playing no second to anybody. Lucky (a name given to Lucian by_his friends years ago) has a soft voice which can do some really nice things when he gets into it. Lucky often reminds me of a cross between Bert Jansch and Paul Simon 0 -

Lucky ended the first half of the show and everybody got a chance to have a look around. I saw a lot of people here I hadn't seen

i

I

for a long long time.l

The races weren't all young either. few people over 18 made the grade such as our former mayor Hrs. Cerrigan who has often gone to places where young xpeople go that most people would sooner avoid because of~ "that weird loud music and those flashing lights.." If only a few more of those people with so—called power took interest in young people in a form other than critical analysis' there would be a lot less tension. So much for my social commentary. The second half of the show began by

a short set by Patch and then the act which had brought a lot of familiar faces out of seclusion. Storm. Storm took the stage and a good feeling ran through me to see them to— gether after a year and a half. Storm had been a lot of things to a lot of people and brothers to everybody. I had been looking forward to this reunion for a long time and by the look of some of the faces in the crowd, so had a lot of others. Storm began with a number that has always been a favorite

of mine since the first time George Antoniak, their guitarist,.had played it for me, "Love's Children." George Antoniak, Pat Riley and Maurice Nadeau swept the hall with tight good feeling music. into an arrangement

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of “Born on the BayouW

that was so gutsy that if C.C.R. ever

. heard it they should

fall off the stage and turn into a pile of shit. Storm put out one of the / tightest pieces of work I have

seen any three piece group put out in ages. To look at them and then look

at a group like Edward Bear, a

three piece group that have actually had the audacity

to charge money

for a performance makes me wonder if the people who run the business are

not tone deaf. After Born on the Bayou, Storn cut into Little

. wing by Hendrix and did it up very taste-;

fully. .From the quite almost sensi- tive treatment of Little Wing the group cut into Cold Sweat. The epitome of funk. Maurice, Pat, and George worked tightu er on this number

than on any other number. This is wher I think they're at really as a group and I say it's too bad they aren't together full-time to give music the shot it sorely needs as far as this area of the

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country is concerned.2

Cold Sweat was fol-

' lowed in turn by a

real R & B number in the shape of "Get

Out of My Life Woman":

The end of the show was brought with the number_which was always their closing number. "In The

Presence of the Lord.”

At the end I hoped that this would not be the end of the finest bunch of musicians to strike up in the of years. ended its here with of a lot of good things to come.

Subway

If

i you're sitting back

They cut thenl

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on your ass on Sun- day evening because there's no place to go and you don't want to go to the movies, go to the Subway on Richmond Street.

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