Kirton. Lew had just arrived in Ottawa from his native Barbados, where he was somewhat of a star. After he won a local TV talent show called “Take a Bow”, Lew set out looking for a young backup band; and after a series of auditions, picked The Missing Links. Over the next two years, The
Lew Kirton Soul Review ripped up school dances, church basements and clubs around town. For Roddy, it was an amazing opportunity to play in front of large crowds and expand his musical universe with different rhythms and feels. In 1969, Kirton headed South
to play drums for the legendary Sam and Dave Band, so Roddy hooked up with a well-known Montreal pop band called The Sceptres. After about a year he accepted
a gig playing guitar with an American pop band based in Los Angeles. But a year of playing six nights a week, zigzagging across the States, was enough. “After two years on the road I
said, that’s it, I’m tired of touring,” he says. So Roddy Ellias came home.
This time he got lucky. “I landed a job with some
older jazz musicians, most of them twice my age,” he recalls. “One of the guys, Roy Reynolds, became Stan Kenton’s lead tenor player, just to show you the calibre of these musicians. “I would come home at night
and practice til the sun came up, because I compared myself to them. They clearly had some feel that I didn’t have. “That was my university,
playing the standards six nights a week for three years. We were lucky to have gigs back then, to actually play and learn on the bandstand with real musicians.” It took a few years, but finally Roddy Ellias felt comfortable
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