Bearfoot Molly 1973 Tillsonburg, ON Dwayne Ford (keyboards, flute, guitar, vocals) Hugh Brockie (lead and rhythm guitar, banjo) Terry Danko (bass; later switched to guitar) Jim Atkinson (vocals, guitar) Brian Hilton (drums) Mal Turner (drums; replaced Hilton) Malcolm Tomlinson (percussion, guitar, vocals) Whitey Glan (perscussion) Chris Vickery (bass; replaced Danko) Marty Coudrey (drums; replaced Mal Turner) Hugh Brockie (guitar) and Dwayne Ford (piano), from Edmonton, were originally part of Ronnie Hawkins' Rock And Roll Revival And Travelling Medicine Show. One night while playing the upstairs lounge of the Graham Bell Hotel in Brantford, Ontario Hawkins spotted two other hotshot musicians in the group Tin Pan Alley downstairs - Terry Danko (brother of The Band's Rick Danko) and Jim Atkinson - and a new band was born. Hawkins, like he had done with so many versions of The Hawks, who would become The Band and Crowbar before them, taught the guys the ropes about professional showmanship and playing abilities. And like The Hawks, this group of musicians decided that Hawkins' straight-ahead rock and roll was creatively stifling. Danko left first, then Atkinson and briefly became a duo before forming Atkinson, Danko, and Ford (with the addition of Brockie & Hilton). The act soon signed to Columbia Records and their 1972 debut LP spawned the single "Right On". Hilton would leave as drummer and they added Mal Turner but felt their moniker sounded more like a law firm than a ...
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