Jerry Mercer – As the Years Go By; Part One

Jerry Mercer heard Ray Charles’ song ‘What I’d Say’ on the radio. His life was never the same … Starting with Trevor Payne and the Triangle, Mashmakhan and eventually April Wine – Mercer’s career has taken him on trips with Janis Joplin, Roy Buchanan, The Band and many, many others … At the young age of seventy-four, four years following his ‘retirement’ – Jerry continues … Continue reading Jerry Mercer – As the Years Go By; Part One

The Bay City Rollers – Not Your Sister’s Saturday Night

What can you say about a band that arrived in Montreal amid little fanfare and left with little fanfare? The Bay City Rollers may have been the best kept secret among forty – something year old women. A secret because it appeared that the majority of these women did not let on to anyone that the mid – seventies boy band was in Montreal. Can … Continue reading The Bay City Rollers – Not Your Sister’s Saturday Night