Just wanted to congratulate
you guys on having all this stuff on Vancouver of the 60’s. I grew
up there and was a “greaser” until around 66. I was in the merchant
marine, working on the CPR boats at that time, spending quite a lot of
time in the Main/Hastings area as that’s where the union hall was located.
I lived over on Commercial Ave near Broadway with Tiny Heinz. He worked
the tugboats, was a union patrolman for Hal Banks but also moonlighted
as a bouncer at the Buddha.
I remember Guitar Shorty
used to come up from Seattle. He reportedly was Jimi Hendrix's uncle,
and played the Buddha. I saw him there at least 2 times. It was a
rowdy place, as most of the clubs were then. Shorty stayed at Tinys’
house during those times. I saw many of the NW Vancouver bands around
then. Tom Northcott and the Playboys, Collectors, Nocturnals, Bobby Taylor
and the Vancouvers, Kentish Steele and the Chantelles, Mother Tuckers Yellow
Duck, Jefferson Airplane without Grace Slick. Great memories man. Peace.
Dave Draper, January 2007
