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Dusty The Mayor of me City of Water dents and other barnratser affiliâ€" 1 (”custom"). play a few holes at Hill on bass and Frank Beard on drums â€" looked and sound loo is opposed to LRT. The three “68er . . h . b . the Waterloo Golf Academy with ed like no other With their giant beards. cowboy hats. sun- tmships that will face no negative h is now wn out merit. ut it Skip. On one occassion. after I glasses and furry guitars. I remember listening to their music financial or environmental costs s ould not be presented as a excitely scored a birdie on a par-3 â€" from hard rockin tracks like Got Me Under Pressure to , _ regional transportation solution. hole l litel reminded him more bluesy tunes like Waiting for the Bus and Jesus lust Left were allowed to you. thereby . . . . . waspo V by . . . . . . . . . . espectally when it Will result in traf- h ld'dth thi . Chicagoâ€" for endless hoursm myrec room. inflicting a higher financial burden l‘ h . . h _ fW l t at ‘ tee ngswrong. . . . on Waterloo for something the City 'c c .803 In t e core 0 ater 0° ’ I tapped my ball ““0 the CUP Thaw Why I was thnlled to heUZZTOP '5 back With anew (1mm want and Kitchener. before the away putters had a album, La Futura. and touring North America this fall mth a This r j w chance to utt: stop at London's Budweiser Gardens on Nov. 4. So I recently pumosffifggfisagoggffifiel:fi Minx/1m!” . 1 fangd to remove the flag caught up with HTop frontman Billy Gibbons, hoping to gain sets a dangerous precedent for aterloo heforxiflrgzfi h th fth :52; Effigflégxhjlgkenzetmtalbum and working wnh revered in re s as in ‘ ~ ' acrosst e a o e - mg“ :hhii‘lguld Mfisgzigvem Rave News for other putters before they had a :‘l'vne enjoyed a mystical social alliance with'Rick for quite 3 Further. the regional chair and The Fifth Quarter chance to putt. while. Gibbons wrote me in anflemailfrom his tour bus. just several other regional councillors . . There are penalities {0" all Of the before a show In l0ulsvllle. KY‘ RICk "PM“ that 20 per cent didn't mm on this vital issue yet A 53" aVld 5P0n> fan and newspa» above but Skip. being a nice guy, more, which makes foraquantum leap into the unknown. . .» . _ . . ' . er reader. I have greatly allowed he birdi _ A n occa» “His remarkable sense of intuitiveness for ‘the feel' makes - tountil oppOsed a region Wide . , . . . met e 5 a .. . . referendum. CHIC) 9d Brian Tm?“ 5 musmgs sional golfer. | forgot or didn't know {075' J“! “Sm arrangement. , “m surely represents regional threw lain few years in the Waterloo the rules and I am grateful t0 him RIGkS. a realtaskmaster and is all \ l \l '\l l \l l Boyernmem at its worst and could ‘ lol'olgkeforward to what he may for the lesson. Tim" szlildkplayingl â€".~bm then again, ‘ be challenged . . . _ .1 A new venture for the old dog I '5 b3“ 1 es top a). _ \H I \ At ”w very was“? the mayor and write next and hope that he writes a may be teaching etiquette to golfers Some of my favourite 27. Top councillors ofWati-rloo should have {0‘th you. - , .. » . d , . ‘l young and Old [would attend. albums are‘from the 705 ‘ he? “HM” some legitimacy and been . c is an ”1(th sting an LXLL » Hombres. Rio Grande Mud and Z1. 4‘ given significant input on how lent writer. Pe Chill] k WflulmASmlth TOPS First Album â€" With their unique . (5 . rapid transit affects their city, "7 c Waterloo 59"“ heavtly influenced by‘every- l" ' I - Waterloo thing from Texas blues. rockabilly and . i . 44â€"~ ~** ,._,___ -â€"- British rock to Elvis Presley. Howlin' 1 1.. i t o . . Wolfavn'd Johnny (Lash. _ i l Remembering a bright light ' . . that have helped us forge this sound.“ . s l ‘ Gibbons told me. "And [a Futura is a ‘ 1 In lllllrllillhlll school. we were taught the Five W's And | ask Why? Some 35 years ago, when my par- study of getting back to basics_ while MARSHALL . _ “no. what. When, whcri- and why. ems died oi cancer. I also asked why?I Someone told at the same time following with acute ‘. WARD l I The last one is always the most troublesome. me it was God's will. that “He“ had a plan for them. attention to that loudness thang. i both in journalism and in life. Sometimes Th3“ was never solace for "19‘ I had a “ln no small way, it's a reflection onZTop's origins. filtered ‘ ‘ we haw a hard timi- finding the answer to P18". ‘00- through a few decades of experichc and almost a half-centu- ' ‘ “in [l] I ( l ( )I N 5m“? pomi. though “ and P9" ry's worth of technological advancements. Of course, when 1 . “1m" hnng‘ "W l“ ”W “or! (if K331“ , hill“ everyone does "“5 â€" I began m You get right down to it. it's still about tone. taste and tenaci- Blair Blair passed away last week. in her I“ )l J R k I. think in a different way. No longer try- W." " list your. after a three-year battle with ., "‘8 to figure ON the WhY- but focusing ' Playing to packed arenas full of “beer drinkers and hell “inf”. . 0" Wh?‘ had been made Of those “V93 raisers,” 7.2 Top’s cunent live set touches on all aspects of their - I first met her a maple of years ago i‘ Blair’s life was too shon. but it was career. from early radio hits like La Grange. 1 Thank You when \llt‘ wanted lit he |ll\'0l\'t‘(l With the ; ‘ " . well lived. She had a spark " the kind and Tush. to rockin‘ crowd pleasers like Heard it on the . animal Poster Bo\ ( ampaign for the { H or spark we all have as teenagers or Xand Tube Snake Boogie. 1 (irand RIYt’f (Lauri-i (A'nlre, Blair was gl‘lr , f: a f , young adults. Many of us allow that Then there's the ‘805 MTV staples from Eliminator that ‘ ting treatment lhl'fl' and in 'loroiito. since the ' spark to be diminished. but that didn‘t come fast and furious to close the show. . h or cancer was on cvdingly rari- llcr ? at happen ‘0 Blair. Maybe she didn't have i told Gibbons that I used to stare for hours at the Elimina- l mother and father. Wade and ( \'nthia. time. or more likely. she was one Of tor album cover. bearing their unmistakable trademark hot i W"? “Rh! ”WW “'“h h” liking Wllh he! & ”‘0‘“ rare people in whom lhe spark rod car with those big. bright headlights. t brother Aaron. and they have since ‘ "CV" R095 away. "The cover art remains the creation ofTom Hunnicutt. the i become very good friends of mine BRIAN I can't answer why Blair had ‘0 guy with a fantastic history in hot rod art/drag cartoons." said Th“ 3'3"“ WW" 3' "My “Us Pa" 0' W" BOURKE leave. The people who love her will Gibbons. “And the sweeping 22 graphics were a stroke of campaign even as Blair continued to face come to terms with that on their own. genius by Kenny Youngblood _ one of the hot rod guys. All challenges. knocking each one back as it Bl" I can W“ W" What she 19“ behind. that was needed was a '33 Ford three-window coupe and came along. She also took pan in the annual Relay She brought hope that even in a world that too Let's roll.” for Life and spoke to students around the region often wallows in hatred and Cmeliy- the"? I"? People Looking back on so many memorable albums and tours. I about her experience. Who have an endless supply ofcaring “Nd 8°0dWill- told Gibbons how great it is to see 21 Top still going strong For those of you who think kids today are selfish Over the past 20 years I've learned that lesson after all these years. and uncaring let me simply point to Blair and {mm a number of People like Blair. Many 0‘ lhem "You can‘t lose when you choose the blues.” he said. “That's remind you not to paint with such a broad brush. won their battles- some did "(“- what was and what is. Been there since the beginning â€" and Less than six months ago. Kayla joined us during But from all those stories l know there's a lot before." our morning radio show. She was hale and hearty, more good than had in this world. There's a lot more full of life and making plans to head off to work bright lights that shine in people like Blair. - while continuing to teach at the dance school that ”‘ Marshall Ward 1'50 visual artist and "Ill-“C writer had been such a huge part of her life. Brian Bourke. a member ofthe [(15.3 KOOL FM hr Rock Cellar Magazine. Email is welcome at Then the cancer came back. and this time it momingauu.mnbermchaibye-mallar MLWOMMLDOM- ‘ meant business. bbourkeoboolfincom