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Podcast: Toronto Legends
Episode: Bazil Donovan, Blue Rodeo
Description: Blue Rodeo bassist Bazil Donovan talks about learning the ‘guitar boogie shuffle,’ growing up in the Junction, Tiny’s beeper leading to his first gig for $30, listening to/learning from/eventually opening for John Fogerty, cutting his teeth on the baptism/confirmation circuit, answering the famous ‘bassist wanted’ ad in NOW magazine, the bandname origin story transitioning from the The Hi-Fi's, playing 1st out of town gig in Kingston and meeting the boys from some band called The Tragically Hip, Gord Downie’s last time on stage sitting in with Blue Rodeo, the perception that all new Canadians receive a pair of hoc...