Terry Donahue on Lead Guitar/Keys & Vocals Les worked with Red Cedar in and around the Ottawa Valley for 18 months. This was a nice tight 4 piece act playing the club circuit, private functions, Fairs etc.. Terry was out of Smiths Falls, Ont. Tom was out of Perth, Ont., Dave and Les were out of Carleton Place , Ont. Dave left the band after 4 months or so to focus on his family and studio. Les spent a lot of time hitch hiking to gigs with this group as he was without wheels for a spell. Red Cedar played a mix of country and rock n roll. Les left the band in Oct 1982 looking to work with an original band wanting to play punk/ska/reggae influenced music. If you'd like to share some pics/stories about any of the good or bad times with Red Cedar, send your pics/stories to info@leslepage.com and we'll gladly Though Les loves playing and singing country music, he really enjoys taking old country songs and playing the crap out of them. One of Les’ major influences in music is Jason And The Scorchers, which is where the cow-punk label seems to have started. Les continues to play the crap out of these great old country tunes whenever he gets the chance. He also love’s to play these old standards as they were recorded based on the show he's playing.
Les Lepage on Drums/Vocals and Harmonies The Creditz recorded a live 8-track tape, which consisted of 7 tracks. These sessions were recorded and Produed by Kevin Killpatrick who is a good friend of Tracy's and made it all happen. We can't Thank Kevin enough for all his time and effort on the sessions. The sessions went early into the morning and were very productive, the odd snag here and there. Everyone got along and it was a pretty exciting time. Les found a copy of a copy of a copy of this recording on cassette and will add some of these mp3’s to the music page every now and again for your listening pleasure. Tracy Clark introduced Les to quite a few punk/new wave/ ska/reggae bands which was just the shot Les needed to start writing new material for the band. Tracy and Les worked a lot together figuring out melodies, chord changes and the like. Les wanted to learn to play more rhythm guitar and Tracy was there to help in any way possible. The band was renting reheasal space in Ottawa's south end and were practicing 20 hours per week for 8 months and played places like The Roxy and The Saucy Noodle in Ottawa. The band broke-up in the fall of 1983. If you'd like to share some pics/stories about any of the good or bad times with The Creditz, send your pics/stories to info@leslepage.com and we'll gladly post them for you.
Les Lepage on Drums/Vocals and Harmonies They experimented with different sounds, continuing with the hard driving punk influences they’d been introduced to through CKCU FM radio at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ont. Many thanks to Steve Neil who was the Associate Producer, in other words, he gave us the money for the recording sessions. We can't thank you enough. Success Without College went into the studio in 1985 at Altair Seven Studios in Lanark, Ont and recorded two originals. Mark Webber produced the 2 tracks (Mark also produced a couple of tracks for us at Trebas Studios, earlier in 1985.) Ken Fraser was at the controls. The two original songs (Over The Edge & City Of Sand) were released to College radio in Canada, where it got a lot of support. CKCU as usual were very supportive of Success Without College. They continued to record new original material in there own studio in the west end of Ottawa and released a 10-song cassette of original material. This again was released to College radio in Canada and did very well. The band disbanded in 1986 when Les had a serious injury, which did not allow him to drum anymore. If you'd like to share some pics/stories about any of the good or bad times with Success Without College, send your pics/stories to info@leslepage.com and we'll gladly The Travelling Troubadours The Travelling Troubadours were formed when Les was injured and Tracy would come by and they’d jam away to old country tunes from Johnny, Hank, Buck, and Waylon etc… This lead to Les coming full circle to the music he started out playing and listening to when he was a kid living at home. Les’ Mom and Dad were big country and rock and roll fans. Les’ dad played Johnny Cash records while his Mom played Elvis, Jerry Lee, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline & Kitty Wells records. Les was a sponge and soaked up all these wonderful sounds. Les and Tracy spent many hours writing, rehearsing and recording a bunch of new songs, which will be featured on www.leslepage.com and www.RestlesstWriter.ca from time to time. There were some really good vibes over these next few months. A lot of time spent writing & recording. W e learned alot more about using less and getting more, it was amzing to me. I love the way you lay down a vocal and guitar track live and then start layering it with more guitars, harps, slide, lead, percussions and this thing starts to grow, it just hit's you where you really feel it. It's hard to explain but to this day when I write something that does something to me, I start recording it, it starts to grow, Wow! There's no other feeling on earth other than hearing it on the radio for the first time. Les Lepage on Percussions/Rhythm Guitar/Vocals and Harmonies |
 |
|
 |
 |
Keep Rockin'
