the GAS STATION ISLANDERS audio
A brief Gas Station Islander history.
The Gas Station Recording Studio began in 1990 when producers and musicians Dale Morningstar and Don Kerr pooled their resources, piled all their gear into one room in downtown Toronto and called it a studio. For most of the 90’s, the Gas Station Recording Studio gave life to, took part in, and became a cornerstone of the burgeoning Canadian independent music scene. In May of 2000, Don and Dale moved into an old school house on a sandbar out on the Toronto Islands, and the Gas Station Island Studio was born. The studio became the focus of their artisan, music industry community, and out of that creative hub the Gas Station Islanders hockey team skated into existence. A lot of people have passed through the studio and a good proportion of them passed through the team also. The Islanders have a big past and a large roster. You need a lot of players on a team like this because when they put their musician hats/helmets on they go on tour and gut your best line. Or your goalie disappears for a month and e-mails you from LA saying he can’t be there…..tonight. From one week to the next we could have two wholly different teams show up for a game. Every once in a while they all show up and we have like five lines and six sets of defense. So it wasn’t hard to get enough music for our inaugural GSI compilation. If we had of gotten hold of every musician who has been an Islander we’d have the proverbial ‘over the top’, gatefold double album.
According to GSI founding father, musician, producer and original goalie Dale Morningstar: “I recall being at a pre season Leaf game with Don Kerr at the ACC, where we ran into Tom Goodwin (founder of the Excaim Hockey Summit and the Good Times Hockey League of the Arts) and Ian Danzig (publisher Exclaim mag) which began the rumblings of a Gas Station team. That was the first time that Don and I got jazzed about starting up a team. Musta’ been fall 2000.”
After those first Sonic Unyon vs the Morningstars games there were a lot of friends that wanted to get back to their very Canadian hockey roots and be a part of this puckrock mashup. There were too many players to be absorbed by those two existing teams. So out of necessity and desire, teams like the Islanders were formed.
Consensus is:
1st match Morningstars vs Sonic Unyon 1999
Dale was playing net for the Sonic Unyon Pond Squad
2nd match 1st expansion 20004 teams Morningstars, Ottawa Songbird Millionaires, Wheatfield Souldiers, Sonic Unyon Pond Squad
3rd match 2nd expansion 2001 12 teams including The Gas Station Islanders Exclaim Summit debut Dale is in net and Don Kerr is a right winger for the virginal Gas Station Islanders.
The Gas Station Islanders have been responsible for a number of GTHLA firsts; they were the first team to include an entire band, the Chickens, they had the first woman in the league, Marcia MacDonald, who eventually married her defence partner, Jack Larmet, which of course was another first. They’ve had father and son, Mike and Myles Roberts playing together, and now they have a father and son-in-law as line-mates, George Collins and Dylan Hudecki. Last year the Islanders had a parade of African drumming at the Exclaim Tournament, and they just might be the first team to raise $1200 for a charity in an afternoon of outdoor shinny, music, and food.
The Gas Station Islanders hockey club played their first season in the winter of 2000/2001 at the Exclaim Hockey Summit, and every year since. They have been proud members of the Good Times Hockey League of the Arts since it’s inception and are ardent supporters of the Right2Play charity that supplies sports equipment and facilities to children around the world. In the last few years the GSI Team has evolved into a dynamic entity that feels like a growing family of diverse friends determined to be creative and charitable in as many facets of their lives as possible including sports.
GW Collins #11 GSI
Detailed track listing
1.Artist: GSI All-Star Band
Song: Go Gas Go! Exclusive GSI cd release 2008
Bandleader/drum maestro: Cam Collyer GSI #2 D
Producer: Don Kerr GSI #5 RW
2. Artist: Dale Morningstar
Song: Goaliesong Exclusive GSI cd release 2008
Written by dale morningstar copywrite Socan2008 DAM records
Details:bedtrack [vox and acoustic] recorded by Nick Purdon in the Gas Station Islanders’ dressing room sat/feb2/08 prior to a game. overdubs ecorded at the gas station recording studio, t.o.island.
GSI #35 Keeper of the net
Website: www.gasstation.ca
3. Artist: Cowlick
Song: Arena Mix Exclusive GSI cd release 2008
Producers: Jackson & Dylan Hudecki w/ Geo #11 on bongo’s, Tim Vesely
#8 on Guitar
Details: A 2 min abridged mix of a Rink Rock performance at the 2006
Exclaim Cup at De La Salle
GSI : #78 RW
Website: www.myspace.com/cowlicktheband
4. Artist: The Violet Archers
Song: Don’t Talk From the CD: Sunshine at night
Released in: Spring 2008
Written/produced by tim vesely GSI : #8 LW
Website: www.thevioletarchers.com
5. Artist: The Chickens
Song: Room on Fire From the CD: Bring it On!
Released: 2004
Produced/Composed:The Chickens
Details:at one time 4 Chickens played for GSI on “The Chicken Line”
that included Fred Robinson, Danny Prezscator, Ken Mikalauskas, and Murray “Hound dog” Heywood. #’s unknown.
Website: www.thechickens.com
6. Artist: Cowlick
Song: We Can Do 1979 From the CD: Eternia Hernia
Released in: Spring 2008
Producer: Dylan Hudecki Composers: Jackson & Dylan Hudecki
GSI: #78 RW
Website: www.myspace.com/cowlicktheband
7. Artist: Dave Bidini and The Five Holes
Song: The Five Hole Monologue From the play “The Five Hole Stories”
Produced & or Composer: Dave Bidini/Martin Tielli/Ford Pier/Selina Martin
GSI: #17 LD
8. Artist: The Kelele Brothers
Song: The Girl Can’t Help It From the CD: Escape From Bover County
Released: 2002
Composer: Bobby Troup
Producer: Don Kerr GSI #5 RW
Website: www.myspace.com/donkerrmusic
9. Artist: Frank Atom
Song: Billy Greene From the CD: Golden Anvil Farm
Released in: 2005
Produced &/or Composer: Kevin Lacroix
GSI: #22 D
Website: myspace.com/frankatom
10. Artist: GSI All-Star Band
Song: Gee Blue Exclusive GSI CD release 2008
Composer: George Collins GSI #11 L/RT/C
Producer: Don Kerr #5 RW
11. Artist: Cooling Pies
Song: Scum From the CD: Cooling Pies
Released in: 2007
Produced &/or Composer: Gideon Kendall, Kevin Lacroix
GSI: #22 D
Website: myspace.com/coolingpies
12. Artist: The Dill
Song: Corvette Exclusive GSI CD release 2008
Written/Produced: Dylan Hudecki
GSI: #78 RW
Website: www.myspace.com/dylanhudecki
13. Artist: GWCollins
Song: Dull-cimer Skates Exclusive GSI CD release 2008
Produced &/or Composer: GW Collins GSI: #11 L/Rt/C
Website: http://gwcollins.wordpress.com/
14.Artist:Tim Bovaconti
Song: Dance,Love,Sing and Live
From the forthcoming CD,”Funpants Memory Pillow”
Producer: Tim Bovaconti….Composer:Tim Bovaconti SOCAN 2008
GSI: #7 Centre
Website: www.myspace.com/timbovaconti
15. Artist: Matthew Barber
Song: Red River or Cream of Wheat Exclusive GSI cd release 2008
Produced & or Composer: M.Barber
GSI: #1, part-time ‘keeper’.
Website: www.matthewbarber.com
16. Artist: Chris Brown & The Citizen’s Band
Song: Go On 3 From the CD: Oblivion
Released in: 2007
Produced and Composed by : Chris Brown GSI: #6 C/RW
Website: www.chrisbrownmusic.com
Produced/Designed/Compiled/Duplicated/Sequenced by: GSI #78, #11, #22, #5
Numbered limited release copies of the Gas Station Islanders CD: audio will be available shortly for sale. Proceeds will go to the team’s charity Right2Play.
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