Pat
Drew, Ron Parry, Emi Canyn, John Harrigan, Marv Miller
CANON
Tacoma,
Washington
1977
- 1980
Members
Emi
Canyn ~ Vocals
Pat
Drew ~ Guitar, Vocals
John
Harrigan ~ Keyboards, Vocals
John
Lucas ~ Guitar, Vocals
Marv
Miller ~ Bass, Vocals
Marc
Nelson ~ Drums
Ron
Parry ~ Drums, Vocals
Vladimir
Ringo ~ Guitar, Vocals
Mark
Robertson ~ Keyboards, Vocals
Steve
Stransky ~ Saxophone, Keys, Guitar, Vocals
Hugo
Taylor ~ Bass, Vocals
Evon
Rubenstein ~ Photography
In
Memory of
Steve
"Sarge" Stransky
b:
31 December 1950 - d: 9 February 2012
Emi Canyn
d: 25 February 2017
Emi's Obituary
Click
Here to Listen to Canon Performing "I Don't Care"
I met drummer Marc Nelson in
the
summer of 1979 at a recording session. We played very well together and
loved the same progressive music from the 70's. Marc was dating
Emi
Canyn and by late 1979 they asked me to join their new and last version
of Canon. We recruted Mark Robertson on keyboards and Scott
Lindenmuth on guitar.
The band needed to travel in order to
survive
but Scott was already a guitar teacher so he left the group.. We
auditioned
powerhouse Vladimir Ringo. He got the job and we landed ourselves
a fresh canvas with great players with huge ears. It seemed that the
only
people that really liked us were musicians and our moms.
We played songs by Yes , Dixie
Dreggs,
Blondie, Hendrix, ELP and a couple of sweet originals. We
performed
at Gatsby's in Bellevue, Eddie's Hayloft in Anchorage, and venues in
Portland,
OR and Seattle, WA. Canon 1980, the possibilities were enormous,
so were the egos.
Hugo Taylor, October 2011
I started this band in August 1976
because
I heard Emi sing at one my rehearsals while playing bass with Hot N’
Nasty,
the band I was in at the time. When HNN ended I formed the band
around
Emi, with my HNN drummer Ron Parry, his friend Pat Drew (guitar) and I
don’t remember how we found John Harrigan (keyboards). Emi could
sing anything and we could play anything from Heart to Barbra Streisand.
It was fun creating an orchestration
to
fit a four piece band. Steve (Sarge) Stransky and John Lucas were
later additions and by that time disco was in and we were sick of
it.
We didn’t call Steve “Sarge” and it was “The Main Street Station” in
Vancouver,
not the Red Caboose however he was correct with regards to the Yakima
weekend.
The original band (sans Pat Drew
replaced
by John Lucas and Steve) folded after that and so we played our last
gig
together at the “Old City Jail” in Tacoma, WA in the fall of 1978.
Marv Miller, November 2014
Hugo & Emi
