Renegade started in 1983 with
the lineup of Sue Medley (vocals) Jim Buckshon (bass/vocals) Rob
Pettigrew
(guitar/vocals) Mark Gajb keyboards and Keith Sharp on drums. The band
toured around BC for a year or so until singer Sue Medley left to have
her tonsils removed. The group subbed in singer Steve Foster, who was a
bartender in Victoria and impressed the band when he came up and sang
one
song. Renegade kept Foster, and changed Pettigrew to Ross Damude. That
lineup eventually stopped touring later that year. Sue Medley later
went
on to become signed to Polygram Records.
The band was resurrected as a
recording
act during Buckshon's tenure in Matrex, with songs being produced with
Foster on vocals, Buckshon on bass, vocals, keyboards, drum
programming,
Paul Minshall (Matrex) on keyboards, vocals;Terry Kellogg (Living
Proof)
on guitar and Kenny Geatros (Livewire/The Wires/Stiletto) also on
guitar.
After Buckshon quit Matrex, it soon broke up and Renegade as a touring
and recording act was formed in 1987, with Geraldo Dominelli taking
over
guitars and Marc Gladstone, then Paul Minshall on keyboards with Rick
Fedyk
on drums. Foster decided to return to his native Victoria and was
replaced
with Marti Sippola on vocals, and Pat Steward took over drums. John
Tompkins
alternated on keys with Minshall.
The band recorded a number of songs
that
eventually released the album On the Edge (2004) on the Renegade Sounds
label, distributed throughout the world. The lineup for that album was
Steve Foster – Vocals, Jim Buckshon –
Bass/Keyboards/Drum/Programming/Vocals,
Geraldo Dominelli – Guitar/Vocals, Kenny Geatros - Guitars, Robin Leboe
- guitar/ Paul Minshall – Keyboards, John Tompkins - keyboards.
The next lineup of Renegade recorded
the
BACK FROM THE DEAD album in 1988 (released in 2001) with Marti Sippola
– Vocals Jim Buckshon, Bass, Keyboards, Drums, Programming,
Vocals,
Geraldo Dominelli – Guitar/Vocals, Kenny Geatros – Guitar John Tompkins
– Keyboards David Steele – BG’s
Renegade is currently in
pre-production
for a new album with the Back From the Dead lineup.
Renegade Productions Inc.
www.renegadeproductions.net
604-685-0435
Some of the
other
Pacific Northwest music groups represented in members of this group
include: Matrex, Living
Proof, Live Wire, Stiletto, The
Wires, Headpins, Wannabees, Army, Doug
and The Slugs, and many other NW bands.
