The Bozo Brothers aka Bozo

My name is Don Hardy. Rob Deans and I formed a group in the early 70's called the Bozo Brothers. We both came from fairly influential groups on the Victoria scene - Maple Rock and Moxie. One night at a small club in Victoria called the Hand in the Hand we met almost by accident and jammed. A little history. Maple Rock originated from Courtenay, we had been playing concerts and dances in Victoria but based in Courtenay for over a year. When we graduated from high school the band migrated to Victoria, which became our base. As we played the usual venues in Victoria we noticed local musicians, whom we admired, standing in the back of the room, usually near the door as if they were ready to make their escape. These were people like Bill Sample, Lee Oliphant, Jerry Adolph, Norm McPherson, Dave Vidal, John Booth...the prominent group of musicians who formed the "scene", anyway when we would stop for a break, I would or one of the other guys would make their way back to introduce ourselves and they would be gone. We thought this was the weirdest thing and after a while we thought the local musicians didn't want to have anything to do with us. We had no idea what for but it did pry on u... more...