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Buffalo Springfield drummer dead at 68.


http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx ... &GT1=28102

T_Bone0806 wrote:Buffalo Springfield drummer dead at 68.


http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx ... &GT1=28102

Guess its now, "There's nothin happenin here"

RIP

The article which gives his birth place as Chesterfield Canada is erroneous he is actually from Chesterville a small town 45 miles south of Ottawa. I remember there was a dance club in Ottawa where local bands performed on the weekend and one Saturday in the late sixties the band said a drummer friend was visiting his family for the holidays and wanted to play a set. He was terrific and he was Walter Milton Dewayne Midkiff aka Dewey Martin. A tear of nostalgia as I read this posting.

Chesterville is indeed the little town, 2/3 of the way to Morrisburg IIRC.

Chesterfields are what Canadians sit on, even though Americans would call them sofas. The usage is diminishing, though.

etaoin22 wrote:Chesterfields are what Canadians sit on, even though Americans would call them sofas. The usage is diminishing, though.

Barenaked ladies are doing their part to keep up the usage! It's referenced in one of their most popular songs.

If I Had $1,000,000

If I Had $1,000,000 (If I Had $1,000,000)
I'd buy you a house (I would buy you a house)
If I Had $1,000,000 (If I Had $1,000,000)
I'd buy you furniture for your house
(Maybe a nice chesterfield or an ottoman)

etaoin22 wrote:Chesterville is indeed the little town, 2/3 of the way to Morrisburg IIRC.

Chesterfields are what Canadians sit on, even though Americans would call them sofas. The usage is diminishing, though.

I rather thought it was what Americans (and probably Canadians, too) smoked, at least in the past (One of my grandfathers preferred brands, probably because it was relatively cheap!). Not so common now although apparently still made and more popular overseas where it is still fashionable to smoke apparently. Or at least addictive...

I loved Buffalo Springfield. I did manage to see their final concert in Long Beach, CA when I was a senior in high school. One of the best concerts I've ever been to. They did an half hour plus version of Bluebird.

ulysses5019 wrote:I loved Buffalo Springfield. I did manage to see their final concert in Long Beach, CA when I was a senior in high school. One of the best concerts I've ever been to. They did an half hour plus version of Bluebird.

way cool.

manually quoting Tanstaafl, now


"I rather thought it was what Americans (and probably Canadians, too) smoked, at least in the past (One of my grandfathers preferred brands, probably because it was relatively cheap!). Not so common now although apparently still made and more popular overseas where it is still fashionable to smoke apparently. Or at least addictive..."



As far as the cigarettes, the Canadian companies and American companies were quite separate and did not use the same brand names, for the most part, although that changed in the sixties. When radio and TV ads were legal, the energy towards brand demarcation was phenomenal in both countries. At any rate, Chesterfield brand would not have done well in Canada due to the association with butts sitting, rather than butts smoked.

Brands which did not cross into Canada as of early-mid sixties: Winston, Salem, Old Gold, Chesterfield, Pall Mall, Camel, and IIRC Marlboro.

Brands which AFAIK were distinctively Canadian: Players, Export "A", Rothmans, Matinee, Cameo,

Brands which I think were marketed across border: Peter Jackson, Peter Stuyvesant, Mark Ten.

Cigarette manufacturing was a big industry in Montreal and up to 10 years ago the west side of the city below the tracks reeked from the Imperiai Tobacco plant on Ste-Antoine Street.