On 06-22-97 DOUG MCHARG wrote to KENNETH NEWMAN... 
 
 DM> Ken, Quebec is not a country. 
 
        Neither is Scotland or Britanny or Catalonia but I think 
        of them in those terms, certainly culturally. From a 
        progrock point of view, there was/is a Quebec scene and 
        was/is a Canadian scene and there is very little overlap. 
 
        Last month Univers Zero played in Quebec but I get no 
        feeling that they played in Canada. Do you? 
 
 DM> The progressive scene is still strong here. 
 
        Out in BC you mean? Well, you still have Mind Gallery. Do 
        they gig much? Any other bands? 
 
        Btw, re Canadian prog bands, I recently found a copy of 
        the album by True Myth, which was one of the first 
        digital LP's released in Canada. It's pretty good, 
        certainly people who like the proggy side of Rush would 
        like it. More than anything else the band sounds to me 
        like Echolyn, but they were doing this a decade before 
        Echolyn came along. 
 
 DM> There are still a few fusion bands 
 DM> around, and the band called Rush is still active. 
 
        I'm encouraged that Rush has turned back towards its 
        proggier roots, maybe not in and of itself, but it'll be 
        bound to have great influence. 
 
 DM> I'm writing from Victoria, BC, Canada and I play in a rock band. 
 
        What sort of stuff? 
 
 DM> Canada Day, 
 DM> July 1st is coming up, and our band will be playing in front of over 
 DM> 5,000 people, then fireworks. 
 
        Reminds me of when I lived in Inuvik, up in the arctic. 
        The federal government gives every town and city 
        fireworks for its Canada Day celebrations. Unfortunately, 
        Inuvik at that time of year is experiencing a period when 
        the sun doesn't go down for four months and fireworks 
        consequently look as exciting as watching a fart. But 
        they wouldn't let us defer the pyrotechnics til Sept or 
        Oct, nope, regulations said they were only to be used on 
        Canada Day. So we'd get good and drunk and go out to 
        watch a pointless waste of many many thousands of dollars 
        of perfectly good fireworks. 
 
        Good luck with the gig! 
 
                                Cheers, 
                                Kenneth 
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