Chapter XII

I spent the next year or so getting to know a lot of different people a lot better. The Gasworks was the greatest place in the world in the early 80's. Music in Toronto was at its peak. Four or five nights a week, I would be there.

Bands like Moxy, Goddo, Anvil, Saga, Rhinegold, and a host of others, made going to the Gasworks an event each and every time. Bands used to play a full week at a bar back then. On any given night, you would see up and comers such as Brian Adams, Alannah Myles, Holly Woods and Toronto.

The picture shown here is of Buzz (Doug) Shearman, who sang for Moxy for 3 albums, until throat troubles forced him to step down. Filling in for him for 1 album was a kid from the west by the name of Mike Rynowski. He later became Mike Reno and fronted the band Loverboy for years after. Buzz did try a comeback of sorts, first with his own band Buzzsaw, and then a reunion with Moxy for a couple years. Sadly, in 1983, while riding his motorcycle along Humber College Boulevard, Buzz lost his life after crashing into a transport truck. Toronto, and Canada lost possibly it's best singer/frontman ever.

Today Moxy is together for one-off shows every now and again. Alex Machin from A Foot In Coldwater fame is singing for them now.

Music today sure isn't what it used to be, that's for sure. There are some great ones now, but there just doesn't seem to be the consistency for good hard rock as there was back then.