On Oct 3, 2009, at 4:26 AM, marabus wrote:
Rick,
Did you really gig with M.R.?
What's Frank Marino like?
I love their first 4 lps.
Pete
Yeah. When I started up Devotion, it was in Montreal where I'd just graduated from McGill. (We used to practise in the Electronic Music Studio -- summer -- because I could use the huge modular Moog and Hugh LeCaine's Sackbut, a very cool instrument.)
We started to get bookings around Quebec with the same agency that handled Mahogany Rush, who had their first album out. Since we did the Prog thing and they did their sort-of-Hendrix thing, it was a good fit. We did this one outdoor gig with them at McGill for Homecoming Week that was very cool, about 8,000 people showed up.
Frank was okay. He really liked our guitarist, Peter Follett, who is one-of-a-kind, but he kept to himself pretty much. We knew Jimmy Ayoub a lot better since our woodwind player had gigged a bit with him and also with his dad, Nick, a great jazz saxophonist.
Frank's a hell of a guitarist, though. They opened for King Crimson, Mk II (Boz and the gang) in 1972 at one of the CEGEPs (Quebec junior colleges) and that was a really great gig for them -- and KC.
So there you have it.
Rick