Ray Condo

Rockabilly revivalist Ray Condominium was created and raised in Hull, Quebec, picking right up your guitar at age 12 with 16, making his recorded debut using the Uk Invasion-influenced teenager combo the Peasants. After a stay at artwork college, he spent many years kicking around the united states and didn’t go back to music before middle-’70s, settling in Vancouver and signing up for a punk music group, the trick V’s. Condo once again drifted from executing, however, in support of after relocating to Montreal in 1984 do he type the Hardrock Goners, a cult-favorite quintet observed for its full of energy mixture of rockabilly, Chicago-style blues, traditional nation, and Western golf swing. The group released their debut LP, Crazy Time, over the Pipeline label in 1986, accompanied by albums including 1993’s Hillbilly Vacation and 1994’s SERIOUSLY!. Homesick for Vancouver, nevertheless, Condominium dissolved the Hardrock Goners immediately after, developing the Ricochets in past due 1994. The band’s debut, Golf swing Brother Swing!, made an appearance a year later on and was reissued for the Western Part label in 1996. Following outings consist of 1997’s Door to Door Maniac, 1998’s Condominium Nation, and 2000’s Large & Wild. Condominium had taken period faraway from music after Large & Wild, doing work for the Canadian Country wide Rail for a while until deciding to come back to music 3 years later on. He was along the way of building a fresh music group when he experienced a fatal coronary attack and passed on in Vancouver in Apr of 2004.