Birthday

Today is the birthday of Murray Foster. The bass player for the now-defunct-if-not-merely-lying-in-wait Toronto-based band Moxy Früvous now plays for the Newfoundland-based buncha yahoos collectively known as Great Big Sea. Remarkably, MF gained a bit of a cult following in North America during the 1990s, starting out as a merry band of buskers on the streets of Toronto, and staying together for nearly a decade without personnel changes, or killing each other while on the road. Among the many "Fruheads" were me and my son Paul. The latter earned the nickname "Virtual Boy" after their appearance at the Birchmere.

More about the "Boy" another day. More about Canada in two days.