Zellots, Fryfogles

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Our friend Dave O'Halloran (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 1980's Punk Rockers in London, Ontario:

"Here's some more Reg Quinton pics, this time it's the Zellots at Fryfogles circa 81/82. At the time, the band consisted of Catherine Destun, Jane Colligan, Chris DeVeber and Greg Moore. Lots of familiar faces in the crowd shots."

John Ondrasek commented, "I believe Shakin Jack opened that night. Jane let me use her bass. I have a picture, somewhere." No one, as yet, has been able to tell me who joined the band on harp.

These photos got a very good reaction from those in the groups (Dave also shares these posts in other Facebook Groups). In part it's because of the fond memories of dancing wildly like the young fools we were. The are quite a few audience pictures and people really like spotting their younger selves. I'm especially pleased to see that our friend Peter Tangredi has pulled out and enhanced some crowd pictures from this collection. I've added those to my album. His crib of Mark Deroux all sweaty and dancing is especially nice. Kevin Fox commented, "Great pic, and after the teeth knocked out incident in front of the Boot." There's got to be an interesting story there!

The B/W pictures are awfully grainy and filthy, terrible exposures, but they do capture the excitement of the moment. One from this session made it into Graphic Underground, a 2012 book by Brian Lambert celebrating the artists, posters and music of that period. Several of my photos appear in that book; it's no longer in print but might be found through rare book collectors. (Just checked Amazon Canada has a couple of copies but want over $1,000 each!!).

Dave posted all the photos of ours that he found, some were too awful but I'm happy to have them shared for others to enjoy. In the album above I've spent a little bit of time to clean things up, crop and enhance the exposures where I can. But I really need to go back to the slides and negatives ... they're somewhere in the basement waiting for me.

Many thanks to Dave for organizing the photos, figuring out the location, date and time. It's work that is very much appreciated — by those who were there and by Kate and me.