Introducing new RTYD Member: Canadian guitarist, MrRocknRoll

Welcome new ROCK-TIL-YOU-DROP member, Calgary-based, Canadian guitarist, MrRocknRoll. MrRocknRoll is looking to network with musicians in the Calgary area, and connect with others worldwide. He’s especially keen to find a writing partner.

By day he works in IT Support, and he’s been a casual guitar player for a long time, but in the last few years he has become more serious about playing and improving his skills. He made his stage debut on 1st May 2011 at the Kings Head Pub in Calgary, Alberta, playing lead guitar with the Dastardly Dudes. It’s never to late to start rock ‘n’ rolling!

When you do finally 'drops’ - which won’t be for a very long time I hope - he wants Megadeth’s A Tout Le Monde played at his funeral! He also has a fan page on Facebook, so check that out, too.

Welcome New RTYD Member: Maurice Richard Libby AKA Whiteboy Slim from Saskatchewan, Canada

The true greats of blues music generated enormous excitement and awe in their audiences. They did so with flamboyant showmanship; with aloof, tough delivery; with elegance and charisma; with passionate virtuosity; with all sorts of styles, but always with original talent and awesome presence. Whiteboy Slim, (Maurice Richard Libby), carries the blues tradition. His raw, authoritative delivery is obviously born of his respect for the music. He bows to the sounds that have traditionally portrayed American troubles, laying them under today's influences to create genuinely modern music. Slim says it best himself: "I stay true to the spirit of the music, walking the tightrope between the spiritual and the profane. I play old tunes by Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf - all the greats - and unusual stuff like some Fats Waller. I do a lot of original tunes as well: twelve bar blues with lyrics that speak to contemporary experience. I'm sure not going to try to write like a sharecropper from Mississippi."

(text from Whiteboy Slim's Website)

New RTYD Member: Canada

ROCK-TIL-YOU-DROP welcomes Canadian musician Keith ('The Whiners') McDonald to the Musicians & Bands Network: http://bit.ly/sgBWKo canada

Dire Straits Banned!

Apparently, a DireStraits song has been banned from the radio in Canada! Ridiculous. Find out why: http://bit.ly/fJrshR