Dan Aykroyd

But I think my father really influenced me when he started to get into the Jack Hilton, Ray Noble, Freddie Gardner, English swing band music. That was really something because, you know, the value of horns was there. And then later, as I started to buy, of course, was the Beatles and the Stones and the Animals and then the Paul Butterfield record.

But my dad was into the swing band music, as many people were in Canada at that time.

But my dad was into the swing band music, as many people were in Canada at that time.

But my dad was into the swing band music, as many people were in Canada at that time.

And seeing guys on stage in my high school imitating Mick Jagger. imitating the animals.

And seeing guys on stage in my high school imitating Mick Jagger. imitating the animals.

And seeing guys on stage in my high school imitating Mick Jagger. imitating the animals.

I wanted to be Paul Butterfield and Charlie Musselwhite, and I used to

I wanted to be Paul Butterfield and Charlie Musselwhite, and I used to

I wanted to be Paul Butterfield and Charlie Musselwhite, and I used to

walk around in a long trench coat, a long brown trench coat with shades, and I'd slick my hair back, and I'd try to find any little band up in the bars up in the Gatineau and up in Ottawa and Hull and where I was living, and I would get on stage with them, and they'd be country bands, and I would turn to them and say, well, can you do it like this?

walk around in a long trench coat, a long brown trench coat with shades, and I'd slick my hair back, and I'd try to find any little band up in the bars up in the Gatineau and up in Ottawa and Hull and where I was living, and I would get on stage with them, and they'd be country bands, and I would turn to them and say, well, can you do it like this?

walk around in a long trench coat, a long brown trench coat with shades, and I'd slick my hair back, and I'd try to find any little band up in the bars up in the Gatineau and up in Ottawa and Hull and where I was living, and I would get on stage with them, and they'd be country bands, and I would turn to them and say, well, can you do it like this?

And I would kind of show them a basic, you know, 8, 10, 12-bar blues pattern, and then we'd just take off from there. And, of course, I was posing as Paul Butterfield. Yeah. Absolutely. And then my friend Gary O'Dwyer, who is now a school principal up in Coburg, Ontario, he was pretending to be Eric Burden. And I had, you know, the math whiz in class in grade 11 was pretending to be Mick Jagger.

And I would kind of show them a basic, you know, 8, 10, 12-bar blues pattern, and then we'd just take off from there. And, of course, I was posing as Paul Butterfield. Yeah. Absolutely. And then my friend Gary O'Dwyer, who is now a school principal up in Coburg, Ontario, he was pretending to be Eric Burden. And I had, you know, the math whiz in class in grade 11 was pretending to be Mick Jagger.

And I would kind of show them a basic, you know, 8, 10, 12-bar blues pattern, and then we'd just take off from there. And, of course, I was posing as Paul Butterfield. Yeah. Absolutely. And then my friend Gary O'Dwyer, who is now a school principal up in Coburg, Ontario, he was pretending to be Eric Burden. And I had, you know, the math whiz in class in grade 11 was pretending to be Mick Jagger.

So everybody was posing and it was all based on rock and roll and music and blues then, all of it.

So everybody was posing and it was all based on rock and roll and music and blues then, all of it.

So everybody was posing and it was all based on rock and roll and music and blues then, all of it.

I played harp mostly and sang. Yeah, the drumming was sporadic, but, you know, I filled in. for bands now and again when I was growing up.