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In the ’6. 0s, when animated billboards were the stuff of science fiction and the Eaton Centre was just a gleam in a department store magnate’s eye, the stretch of Yonge Street from Queen to Gerrard was lit by the dazzling neon signs of live music clubs. Imagine Ronnie Hawkins playing bluesy rock ’n’ roll among go- go dancers in golden cages where HMV now stands, cross- dressing soul phenom Jackie Shane crooning on the site of a Thai Express, Bob Dylan rehearsing with The Band upstairs at the Hard Rock Caf. Apart from a plaque inside The Hard Rock (formerly Friar’s Tavern), this part of the city’s history has been all but swept aside, existing only in the memories of musicians and fans, as well as some rare archival footage. In his three- part documentary Yonge Street — Toronto Rock & Roll Stories, director Bruce Mc. Donald (Hard Core Logo, This Movie Is Broken) uncovers an era when, as executive producer Jan Haust puts it, “The truth . Haust, a larger- than- life character like the musicians whose work he celebrates, has a huge archive of rock memorabilia that, as he told Mc. Donald when pitching him the project, is a “goldmine” of Canadian history. Mc. Donald isn’t old enough to remember the strip’s musical heyday — when he and his suburban friends would go to Yonge Street in the mid- ’7. David Bowie poster and buy a cool hash pipe and feel like you were really happening.” But when he filmed the Robbie Robertson documentary Road Songs in 2. Mc. Donald would come to see as “the coolest scene. The style, the clothes, the clubs — it’s very inspiring.”Yonge Street traces the history of the strip from the ’5. African- American musicians, fed up with segregation, would find welcoming audiences at R& B clubs such as the Edison Hotel, to 1. For Olliver, a natural showman who fronted The Five Rogues and Mandala before going solo in 1. The magic that happened in the ’6. Says Young, whose big- production R& B album Travel Stained garnered her a Juno award in 1. There was nothing before us like that. Young peers past a fence at a vacant lot where jazz and blues club The Colonial Tavern once stood, and avidly recounts how she sneaked in as a 2. Willie Dixon; she’d covered his song Spoonful on her debut album, and he invited her onstage. But they turn into the eagles that soar out your mouth. So many of the hit artists who used to work at the Maple Leaf Gardens came here after hours — people like Stevie Wonder, The Righteous Brothers.” In those days, he says, “It was all mohair suits and flash and silk. And the girls used to dress up with gowns onstage. It was a different way of performing back then.”It was also the birthplace of the Toronto Sound, which fused R& B with rock, although the city was slow to celebrate its own sons’ and daughters’ accomplishments. In 1. 96. 5, folk fans mercilessly booed Bob Dylan at Massey Hall, and a Toronto Star reviewer dismissed his local backing band, The Hawks (later The Band), as “a third- rate Yonge Street rock ’n’ roll band.” Olliver recalls that when Mandala recorded their 1. Opportunity, radio wouldn’t play it “because we were a Canadian band, even though we had an American deal.” The band’s manager had to round up 5. CHUM- FM; the single ended up at No. Despite its musical influence, the Yonge Street scene wasn’t as heavily documented as others in San Francisco or London — another reason why it has disappeared from the city’s popular consciousness. It wasn’t a self- sustaining “promotional factory” like Motown, Haust says, but the result of “natural evolution. It was the genuine article, and it . That’s something to respect.”Part of the impetus to make Yonge Street, he explains, was to inspire young filmmakers and storytellers to celebrate the city’s, and country’s, musical past and chronicle the future. Says Mc. Donald: “Just going down to Nashville recently, I was amazed at how amazing the Americans are at telling their own stories. We’re part of a growing crowd that’s getting to be pretty good at it ourselves.”AND THEN THERE WAS ROBBIE. Their regular gig was at Le Coq d’Or (at 3. Yonge Street, where HMV now stands). Robertson tells the Post about his experience of Yonge Street’s rock . Ronnie was really good at that diplomacy with whoever could have gotten me in trouble. We would be playing at Le Coq d’Or, and next door at the Edison, Bo Diddley or Carl Perkins could be playing. The doormen would say, “Let me see your ID,” and I’d say, . I’d go down to the Brown Derby and there’d be somebody funny playing there, and further down the street at the Colonial, there’d be some amazing jazz artist playing: Cannonball Adderley and his band, Joe Williams – on and on and on. It was never somebody not good. Then somebody like Ray Charles would be playing at Massey Hall, and you’d go in and hear a few minutes of that. And then there was all kinds of after- hours places up the street, and it was just fantastic. I thought that that’s the way things are and would be. I didn’t think that that would melt away.“There should be more of an effort to preserve the centre. Yonge Street was this Mecca of talent, and it isn’t just about the music – it’s about the whole community, and the characters. It was the centre of Toronto’s nightlife and entertainment, so I feel somewhat nostalgic about it, because it probably meant more to me than it would have done to a lot of people today. Yonge Street shouldn’t become a discarded part of the history of the city.”Yonge Street — Toronto Rock & Roll Stories runs from Monday to Wednesday on Bravo! Glad Day Bookshop - The Big Move!
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