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". 
     
    
   
   
    
     l 
     
    
   
   
    
     l 
     
    
   
   
    
     > . 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 
     
    
   
   
    
     ~~~ ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     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 
     
    
   
   
    
     A 
     
    
   
   
    
     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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     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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