St.Marc Street Band

St. Marc Street Band Live at the 3 Aces

2016-03-16T11:12:00.001-07:00

St. Marc Street Band at Concordia's Hall Building -fall of 1975

2016-03-12T18:13:00.000-08:00

In the group for this show is Jamie Stenhouse -lead guitar/vocals; Al Ridler -bass/vocals; Larry Cohen -rhythm guitar/vocals and Danny Niles on drums. This show was performed at the mez. level of the Hall building in the Autumn of 1975.

St. Marc Street Band at Lindsay Place HS in Pointe claire, 1975.

2016-01-12T14:47:00.002-08:00

Here are some of the pics from this high school gig.The 1st pic is of the MC of the show; a student from the school. The rest are of the band from 1975. Al Ridler on bass; Jamie Stenhouse on lead guitar; Larry Cohen on rythme guitar; Danny Niles on drums.

St. Marc Street Band at the Mustache Club - 1975 re-posted

2015-08-29T09:53:00.001-07:00

St. Marc Street Band at the Mustache Club in Montreal- 1975

2015-08-29T09:50:00.003-07:00

These photos are some of the last gigs by the band. By this time both Larry Schaffer and Robbie Rankin had left and were replaced by Jamie Stenhouse as lead guitar/vocals and Danny Nile on drums. In the 1960s Danny was the drummer for a group called The Four Frenchmen and they were one of the warm up acts at the Beatles concert at the Forum in Montreal. In this version of the band there is also the originator -Al Ridler on his magic bass and Larry Cohen on guitar and keyboards and as a guest performer Bobby Cohen (no relation) also on guitar.

St. Marc Street Band - Loyola Campus Centre, August, 1973.

2015-06-05T22:40:00.000-07:00

Bobby Cohen playing some blues with the St. Marc Street Band

2015-05-31T11:18:00.001-07:00

Here is Bobby C on the bus jammin' with the band at an out door gig in the West Island area of Montreal.

St. Marc Street Band on Bishop street June 16, 1973.

2015-05-13T07:45:00.001-07:00

This was a huge block party to preserve a very old apartment building. A fantastic day and night party.

St. Marc Street Band at the El Toreau club in 1973

2015-02-25T06:51:00.002-08:00

Again these photos were taken when the film advance was not working properly and it made deep scratches in the negatives. In these photos are Al Ridler on bass, Larry Schaffer on lead guitar, Robbie Rankin on drums and Al Mercier on percussion.

Soon more band pics

2014-08-26T23:14:00.002-07:00

I am finally having the time to start working on some more band pics for the blog and the FB page.

Free Wheelin' Franklin

2012-10-14T16:04:00.000-07:00

Does he look familiar to you.. I gave a copy of this poster to Al when he was living on St.Marc with Barbie.
He put it up in the hallway. He liked it but Barbie, not too much.

Sunday in the Park- August 1973

2012-08-27T09:36:00.001-07:00

I tried to remove the scratches from most of these photos but they were so deep into the negatives that no matter which photo editor I tried to use the photos were being ruined more by the touch ups so I had to leave them as is. Sorry guys.

The Riddler is still rockin'

2012-07-28T17:13:00.002-07:00

Al Ridler from the SMSB playing live music again. So good to hear you playing Al.
He is playing with Scott Parsons Band in a live show in Duncan, BC.
Thanks to http://www.karalynnsphotography.com/ for videographing the show.

Earl Gordon with Professor Longhair at 1976 New Orleans Jazz Festival

2012-04-24T00:16:00.000-07:00

Here is a photo of Earl Gordon playing drums for Professor Longhair at the 1976 New Orleans Jazz Festival.

Sunday in the Park, 1973

2012-03-08T09:59:00.000-08:00

I have mentioned how much touch up work is needed for the Sunday in the Park, 1973 show pics so here are 3 samples of before and after.
These scratches were made by a malfunction of the film advance function of the camera. I did not know that this problem was there until it was too late.This is why there is going to be a delay in getting this series of pics finished and ready for publishing on line.

Places of found pics

2012-03-06T22:43:00.000-08:00

The show pics that I found are of pics found of band at

assorted unknown band and places pics,

Fletcher's Field at night.

Mount Royal Park

Moustache Club

Jamie, Danny and Al at 2000+ ( I think this was a party at a record store where Jamie was working).

Lindsay Place High School in Pointe Claire.

3 Aces Brasserie on Aylmer

Pointe St. Charles Park.

Oromocto Army Base

Place d'Armes Square in old Montreal.

Lost photos found

2012-03-06T22:16:00.000-08:00

I have just found many b&W photo shoots at different clubs and out door parks, that I thought were lost, with different versions of the band. I will try to get these posted in the next several months. Unfortunately I still can not find any photos taken at the Friar's Pub.

St.Marc Street Band in Oromocto Army Base Arena 1975

2011-10-22T15:23:00.000-07:00

Here are several photos of a gig at the Oromocto Army Base in Oromocto, NB during an east coast tour.

Fans of the St. Marc Street Band

2011-10-18T19:16:00.000-07:00

Here are some photos of some of the band's fans in good and bad weather they came out to see Al and his band.

Earl Gordon live and well in LA

2011-09-17T10:33:00.000-07:00

Here is a video of Earl Gordon the original drummer from the St.Marc Street Band performing with a band at
Jam at Webers in L.A. They are doing an old blues tune Wang Dang Doodle. Good song. Good job.

Al with Montreal version of Counts Four

2011-04-20T22:44:00.000-07:00

Here is a jacket cover from the Montreal version of the Counts Four. Al Ridler the bass player is on top right of image. This record came out just before the 1st Beatles record was released in North America.
Here is a short bio of Al before he created the St. Marc Street Band.
The album was on London Records,album no. eb87,made in the RCA studio in
Montreal.
When the band let me go THEY IMMEDEATLY BECAME THE BELLS ! BEFORE THE
COUNTS 4 I was the bass player with Al Nichols and the Monterays, after
I was with the Count 4s I was with the Green Men for 9 months! Ya I had
green hair in 1965! In 66 I was in a folk rock group called the Six
Foot Sound of Marty Shannon , then a trio called Jim and Stan +One, I
was the one! This trio became The Faculty ,a lounge group, after that I
went underground and formed the St. Marc Street Band.

St.Marc Street Band last group of pics from studio 1974

2011-02-14T14:49:00.000-08:00

Here are the best of the rest of the b&w pics taken at the studio while the band was recording their demo tape. These songs are available from this blog in MP3 form or you can listen to 2 of them at the band's MySpace page.

Larry Schaffer-The Winnebago Song

2010-09-28T19:07:00.000-07:00

Here is a recent video song by Larry Schaffer ex of the St.Marc Street Band now performing with Ricky Stone under the name of Tabasco & Stone. It is very funny and enjoyable to watch and listen.

Al a few years before St.Marc Street Band

2010-08-31T11:12:00.000-07:00

After El Chromo.

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