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performing in public on piano, though, I love playing at home. I hope to re-integrate the
keyboards back into the show, but, for now guitar and harp keep me fully engaged, and because
I’m a tone junky, always working toward upgrading my sound on stage. My one year of musical

schooling, Humber Jazz Program, the only deviation from self-learning, but so grateful as a Voice
Major, to get a wakeup call on becoming a better singer, which led me to private voice study
with Mark Rosenbauer. I still engage in regular voice training at home, and warm ups before
performances. If you don’t use it, (wisely), you lose it.
Did you study or pick music up by ear?

RH: A little from column A, a lot from column B. I’m an avid reader of roots music
biographies/auto bio’s and collect LP records….is that study?

LL: You played for some time with a Canadian Blues and R&B band called the Meteors
(not to be confused with the London, England based band called The Meteors!) Would
you tell us about that experience please?

RH: Hindsight has left me with a measure of pride, sandwiched between Texas Toast slabs of
regret with The Meteors…..not the UK version. Primarily, we started out with the purest of

intentions, to rock the blues, emulating our heroes (circa 1979-80), play Chicago Blues, Motown,
Memphis Soul, Classic Rock, we, totally were groove’n on Dave Edmunds/Nick Lowe’s ‘Rockpile’!
Hit the road hard, big country, northern Quebec, from Winnipeg to Halifax in all weather. A lot
of miles & music a wild ride that educated, informed and eventually tore me down.

By the 1990’s we had evolved into a band that could perform just about anything being played

on radio. We morphed into a dance band, employing a Mac sequencer to mimic Nick Kershaw,
Howard Jones, Level 42. We made good money, in demand, and I was miserable.