Vancouver guitar great Shaun Verreault raves about his fave local musicians and bands

Interviewing Vancouver guitarist Shaun Verreault, getting the scoop on what he's been up to and how he's been dealing with the pandemic.

Vancouver’s Clumsy Lovers are signed to Nettwerk, but they aren’t sipping martinis with Mr. McBride

Local Celtic- and bluegrass-tinged pop-rockers the Clumsy Lovers recently issued their second CD on the hugely successful Nettwerk Records.

Back in 1998 I interviewed Vancouver producer Bruce Fairbairn, who at the time was one of the most in-demand knob-twiddlers in the business.

Today I found yet another reason to be thankful that I saved the roughly 220 audio cassettes I used to record my interviews since 1982.

UFO released its seventh studio album, Obsession, in the summer of 1978, and you bet your ass I ran out and bought a copy ASAP.

"I try to find the rhythm in everything that I do and everything that I see, and I don't have a hard time doing that, it's everywhere."

"You know, people always ask me, 'Who is your favourite composer?', and I have to say I'm happy with whatever I'm playing at the time."

Victoria alt-country rocker Leeroy Stagger made a smart career move when he hooked up with Montreal pop genius Danny Michel last year.

"I think the Styx reference comes 'cause there's a lot of stacked harmonies there, so you get a pretty fat vocal sound."

"We really had so much fun--and we still do. We're such close friends, it's almost like the band is a sideline for friendship, in a way."

"I used to live in a house called 'The Snakepit' with Art Bergmann and a couple of members of the Actionauts."

The party-hearty audience roars its approval, and the six-string slinger responds with a boyish grin. No wonder. He's 10 years old.

When the time came to interview fiddle specialist Jocelyn Pettit, I started thinking back to my earliest memories of the instrument.