Michael Becker
RECORD REVIEW

ICHARD CHAPMAN

sells coffee beans and

does five filtered coffees
‘on tap each day at Saunders
& McLennan —- The Coffee
Merchants at Lonsdale Quay.

Yet caffeine is not the primary
fuel for the 31-year-old who grew
up in North Vancouver.

Music provides the real jolt.

A couple of years ago,
PolyGram
showed laudable
foresight in get-
ting behind a
project
Chapman, then
living in Toronto,
and his musical
circle of friends
cobbled together.
Moose Records
begot Moose:
The Compilation
and Moose
Lodge, two won-
dertul snapshots
of a stream of
alternative music
bubbling just
beneath the
mainstream sur-
face in Ontario.
Artists including
Grievous Angels,
Rheostatics, Lost
and Profound,
Positively Stompin’, Bob Snider
and The Bookmen received
national exposure.

Mass-cuitural homogeneity
had no place in the realm of the
Moose. The compilations
acknowledged and exposed a
new generation of musicians
unabashedly Canadian and
unafraid to give voice to unique

_ muses.

Chapman acted as executive
producer for the Moose projects.
At various points along the way
he managed Rheostatics and
Grievous Angels.

He continues to sharpen the
cutting edges of popular
Canadian music. His local incar-

is

nation, Nod Records, has linked
with PolyGram to bring to the
world Busted Flu$h, Pretty Green
and Positively Stompin’.

~, Music-Now recently spoke
with Chapman.

Music Now: How did Moose
come about?

Chapman: “! wanted to do the
music thing because there was so
much there and ! was friends with
the Grievous Angels. | was man-
aging them. :

“Grievous Angels had an inde-
pendent cassette out in 1989. So
then other bands within our circle
decided to do this thing as a col-
lective statement of our commu-
nity. The end result was the first
compilation which was going to
be like a calling card representing
our roster. PolyGram called us
right away really excited about it
and we got a deal for two Moose
releases.

NOD RECORDS’ Richard Chapman pours a cup of coffee at
Lonsdale Quay's Coffee Merchants. Fellow caffeine jockey
David Smith (background) fs a jazz guitarist, by the way.

Music Now: What breught you
back here?

“| was separated and my
daughter is out here.”

Music Now: Did you manage
Rheostatics before you linked up
with Grievous Angels?

Chapman: “! was managing
Grievous Angels first and then |
started working with the
Rheostatics. Initially they had
brought me on to help them shop
their record and we were doing
shows together with the Grievous
Angels. | managed them for a
while until-my life crisis.”

Music Now: So you got to
Vancouver and still had an itch
for music? ;

Chapman: “We completed the
contract for Moose and | tried to
fet them going on some new
things, seme of the albums | was
working on before | left (Toronto)
— Pretty Green, Busted Flu$h,
Positively Stomping.

“They kept on putting it on the
back burner and so we said OK
we can go independent, we can
do it and we'll just have to work
harder. Then PolyGram phoned
us out of the blue and said we
want to do it.

“We finally figured it all out.
At first Grievous Angels were
going to be part of it, because
they had this great album com-
pleted, but they've done it inde-
pendently.”

Music Now: So what do you see

Nod as? ;

Chapman:'“It's almost and
independent A&R thing. We're
trying to set itup so that we're

presenting
bands that
we like and
we're willing
to get behind
in a profes-
sional way.
Using
PolyGram or
any other
major label
for that mat-
ter is just a
far more effi-
cient way to
get to every-
body.

“You

don’t have to

have all of
this over-
head and
you're serv-
ing the most
important
thing, the
project, the band.”
Music Now: Where
based?

NEWS photo Neil Lucente

Chapman: "At home and at the

coffee shop, which is the North
Shore connection. The coffee
shop and has helped sponsor
some of these projects. Roger
Procopio (the owner) gave us
some money and was supportive
right away.”

Busted Flu$h — Between Time,

Nod/Vertigo/PolyGram 1994

Fabulously psychotic stuff from

a Torento band bent on bending
AM radio oldies grist. Groove
especially fiercely on the way-
wacky version of Terry Jack's
howler i'm Gonna Capture You.

earls chef Doug MacDonald

wears his top hat on Broadway

Chef Doug MacDonald

Broadway earls chef Dou MacDonald
makes a “mean” clan chowder. Thac's
not to say that he uses clams with
rattoos and bad attitudes. On the con-
trary, he starts with only the freshest:
ingredients, adds just the right touch
of herbs and spices, and gives the clam
chowder all his care and attention.

Doug complered the Chet Appren-
uceship Program, received his Red Sev
Certification and has turned this train-
ing into the finesse and kill he displays
everyday to the kitchen.

Doug takes a “hands-on” approach to
his work and gets involved in every
aspect of the Kitchen. Thats the way tt
works at eark with evervone working
asaeteant Doug's hands on expertence
Includes getting involved daly in
cheeking our the purchase ot the tresh
meredionts that eo inte carl delie tous

entrees. From the veuyies to the poultry,
seafood and meat, Doug ensures that
everything is usr what the “doctor, or
in this case the chef, ordered.

With his chef's training and hands-on
approach, carl has invited Doug ro werk
with him at head office as Assistant
Purchaser, There he will lendia skifled
Nand in selecuni and purciasing the
treshest ravredients tor all af earls restau.
mints. OF coune, earls biguest challenge
will be keeping Dousrat his desk and out
of the Kitchen.

Coneratulations Doug!

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h fab music

Canuck country queen Carol
‘Baker.

The key track here is Man In
Black. They may be Nashville
dreamin’ but they put out the
kind of honky tonk vibe that’s as
prickly as roll of rusty barbed
wire.

Founding members Ted
Triebner and Murray Heywood
were formerly with UIC, a band
Joey Ramone pegged as his
favorite from Canada.

Guitarist-singer George
Reinecke comes to Busted Flu$h
by way of a stint with Alex
Chilton and rockabilly cut-ups
Panther Burns.

Freak out!
see

Positively Stompin’? — junk
Drawer, Swamp Song Records/
PolyGram 1994

Cool country from Ontario.
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