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Welcome to A Band Is A Beautiful Thing Wiki

 

The Burner Boys were a jug rock band who cut a swathe across the North Shore between 1970 and 1972. They were the first group to put the North Shore on the musical map and had no predecessors. Their wild stage presence drew huge crowds to hear original songs they could hear nowhere else. They caused riots, were threatened by shotgun wielding millionaires, had the loyalty of every gang that counted and were rumored to beat up bands they played with.

 

 

Dave Jenneson on stage at the Club 140 in the Olympic Hotel in North Vancouver

 

Help Write The Book

 

Now lead singer David Jenneson is writing the story of the Burner Boys in a new book - A Band is a Beautiful Thing. You are invited to collaborate. You can add comments, changes, additions, pictures and suggestions to any one of the five chapters. Better still you can add your own thoughts and memories of the Burner Boys, or of the era they played in.

 

Your input is important. A Band is a Beautiful Thing is not only the story of the Burner Boys, but of a time when the idealism of the 1960's collided with the hedonism and repression of the 1970's. It was the last gasp of the establishment. Drugs like LSD, MDA, methadrine, marijuana, peyote, and a hundred others were freely available yet possession of a gram of hash could get you two years in Federal prison. People were beaten by mounted riot police for smoking a joint in public. The homeless were arrested for vagrancy and thrown on an outbound Greyhound with a one way ticket. A reletively minor charge could literally get you sent into internal exile - banned from the province for a year. Feminism and the environmental movement were still a twinkle in God's eye.

 

Any thoughts, memories, experiences or photographs you have that you feel defined the times are sought after.

 

It is widely believed that the Burner Boys still secretly perform in a basement in Lynn Valley, perfecting new original songs for their return. Perhaps this is so. It is said that late at night when everything is closed, as busses and cabs hiss up and down Lonsdale in the rain, you can still hear the ghostly whine of the orange Burner Boy van. There have been sightings. Classics like Greaseball Heaven and I Deliver Chicken may capture the heart of another generation. Are the Burner Boys returning?

 

It's up to you.

 

Let People Know

 

There are many people who came in contact with the band during the period from late 1969 to 1972. If you know of anyone who might be able to contribute to this story please email them the location of this wiki.

 

 

 

 

 

How This Wiki Works

 

  • Anyone can add comments or change anything you want on any page. At the top of each chapter you'll find a simple explanation on how to do this. Dave can then easily view the changes and include them in his manuscript if he finds them valuable.

 

  • Anyone can add new pages to the wiki if they have a story they wish to tell or want to create their "own" page. Click on the "New Page" button to create a new page. Enter a page name (a name that relates to the page you are creating) and use "no template".

 

  • Anyone can also add pictures, music or other types of media by clicking on the "Files" button at the top of the page and follow the instructions. We will review them and add them to the site if they are appropriate.

 

  • You will also need a password to edit these pages. Please email me at ahovden@capcollege.bc.ca and let me know who you are if you are interested in adding to the wiki.

 

Chapters Dave Is Working On

 

Below are links to chapters Dave is working on. Click on a link below to read and comment on a chapter.

 

 

Links To Wiki Help Pages and more...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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