![]() ![]() In that era and time there were a lot of TV shows that were very simple and had great easy theme songs. We didn’t have very much money, but mom really wanted me to learn an instrument, so she bought me a very inexpensive 4 string ukulele. ![]() That was the end of my accordion lessons. The accordion I found was fairly simple to play but instead of reading the musical notes on paper I would memorize the song when it was played by the teacher, and she caught me one time playing the piece she had instructed us to learn without moving my eyes over the page of notes. My mother could play piano very well, although once we moved, she didn’t have a place to put one and I think she may have suffered a bit from that, however she saw that I was interested in music and decided to get me accordion lessons. It was basically a farming community very rural. We ended up in a small rural community called Lucknow. We landed in Montreal and moved from there very quickly to various small towns in Ontario. ![]() Ian Steeksma: I came over from England with my parents in 1949. Where and when did you grow up? Was music a big part of your family life? Did the local music scene influence you or inspire you to play music? “You can imagine being up close and personal to a ghoulish entity” A newspaper article dated January 18, 1973, mentions “the ear-splitting Twitch” playing regularly to capacity audiences, Bartender Dave Le Roux saw the group’s potential and began managing them. By winter 1972, Rick had replaced Dan on bass and the trio became a house band at the Golden Ears Lounge in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, playing three sets nightly.ĭespite the backdrop of a bustling local scene, Ian didn’t identify with local bands and resented psych – opting to create a hard rock trio unlike any other. Dan and Ian co-wrote the group’s earliest originals, playing local coffee houses with Rick Laing joining as backup singer/tambourine player shortly after. In late 1971, Ian Steeksma formed Twitch with Dan Reiland (bass) and Bernie Mulatz (drums). Twitch was the brainchild of Ian Steeksma, a talented musician whose family moved to the Vancouver-area town of Burnaby, British Columbia from Ontario in the early 1960s. Twitch | Interview | “Corpse-paint wearing hard rock band from the 70s” These crazy corpse-paint-wearing Canadians played the dirtiest kind of proto-punk/doom and could chronologically challenge KISS with their theatrical performances. ![]()
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