Ian Thomas.

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

other Canadian. who remembers him and the song Painted Ladies? the intro reminds me of billy Prestons instrumenatl Outta Space. Thomas must been inspired by it.

[closetcanadian]

Not terribly familiar with Ian Thomas' songs but I know he is the brother of Dave Thomas of SCTV fame. "Good day eh? And welcome to the Great White North!" Now I'll be a good hoser and take off!

[Sundreme]

Originally posted by closetcanadian:
Not terribly familiar with Ian Thomas' songs but I know he is the brother of Dave Thomas of SCTV fame. "Good day eh? And welcome to the Great White North!" Now I'll be a good hoser and take off!

This has been mentioned before, but Dave Thomas and his fellow McKenzie brother Rick Moranis, did a fantastic skit about Gord on SCTV. For those who haven't seen it, it was in the form of a commerical hawking the fictional record collection "Gordon Lightfoot sings every song ever written."
Dave was the voice of the excited announcer, and Moranis did a dead on impression of Gord singing everything from Happy Birthday, to 76 Trombones.
It was hysterical!
Erica

[DJ in MJ]

I remember that skit, and yes, it was hilarious!

[Gord H]

There is a Lightfoot connection to the song Painted Ladies albeit a distant one, can't remember the name of the LP offhand, but anyway low and behold guess who the drummer was on PL?

None other than Barry Keane... :D

I found that out when I was bored and looked Barry up and it came up that he played drums on that song.