Forgotten Rebels

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Our friend Dave O'Hallaran (aka What Wave Dave on CHRW) has been sharing on Facebook, with our grateful permission, photos that we had taken of various bands back in the 1980's. Today Dave writes in The Cedar Lounge - Blue Boot group:

"Here's some more Reg Quinton pics. This time it's the Forgotten Rebels at the Cedar Lounge circa 1982.  

It's the This Ain't Hollywood lineup of the band; Mickey DeSadist on vocals, John Welton on bass, Mike Mirabella guitar and Robert Allan on drums. 

Anyone have any clue who the videographer is?"

Peter Lambert responds that it's Michael Grelecki.

Kate made friends with Rob's girlfriend at one of the Cedar Lounge gigs. The band was staying overnight upstairs in a pretty cruddy environment. We invited the band to come stay with us the next time they were in town and they did on a few occassions. I recall one time when they assured us that no, they wouldn't need to stay with us. That surely tonight they'd get lucky and have some warm bed and hot girl to stay with. Nevertheless, later that night, after we had gone to bed the guys sheepishly arrived looking for a place to stay.

These black and white photos are pretty dirty, someday I may go back to clean them up a bit. The film we would have developed in our basement darkroom in old south. The cameras we were using at the time were a Canon A1 and a Canon AE1. There seems to have been some flash involved, that would have been a Vivitar 285 flash on a handle mount and bounce card. I see fish eye distortion — that would have been a 16mm Sigma lens. Pretty much all of that gear is long gone.

And the pretty girl in the photo is my Baboo — Kate! In the background I think I see Dave's wife Rena.

See also

• Forgotten Rebels Cedar Lounge 1980
• Forgotten Rebels Brucefield Concert 1981
• Forgotten Rebels Cedar Lounge & Fryfogles 1982

Many thanks to Dave for his work organizing photos and figuring out the location and time for many of these.