The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #115302   Message #2467391
Posted By: bankley
16-Oct-08 - 12:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Montreal 60's Counterculture Question
Subject: RE: BS: Montreal 60's Counterculture Question
yeah, all of the above for sure.... there was also a jazz coffee house on Mountain St. called Le Baril or the Barrel, just up the hill from Rockhead's Paradise... a dark, downstairs joint, cost a couple of bucks to get in... I played there a lot.. they'd have a prog. rock blues band start at 8 pm until midnite, then they'd feature the heavy cats... free-jazz, black NY players... who would often go until 6 am. Friggin wild stuff... Frank Wright, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman.... monsters all.... I also met and heard Walter Rossi there for the first time after he just got off a 2 yr. stint with Wilson Pickett... hooked up with a band called 'The Influence'.. just scorchin'.. Hendrix was set to produce them (Buddy Miles and Walter were good buddies) but Jimi died before that happened.... anyhow, just to say there was a lot of exciting music happening all over town and I was lucky enough to be a part of some of it...