Rockin’ on the
Rideau part 5
Music for the ʻfolks’
By JIM HURCOMB When the old boys gather around the
hot stove to swap tall tales out of Ottawa’s musical past, you’re bound to hear about the night U-2 played Barrymore’s, or the time Meatloaf fell off the stage and broke his leg. And how about Elvis in ′57, or the Animals riot back in ′68? Yep, those were the days. But then talk turns to Le Hibou,
Ottawa’s legendary coffee house down on Sussex. You’ll hear about Jimi Hendrix sitting beside the stage with a tape machine listening to a young Joni
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Mitchell. (We will reveal the truth behind that legend a bit later on.) Then there was the night, swear to
God, George Harrison dropped in. And, oh yeah, Blues legend James Cotton grabbing his mic and blowing harp in the middle of Sussex Drive while piano “God” Otis Spann and the rest of the band were wailin’ on stage. Dan Aykroyd was a Hibou regular
in his pre-SNL days, and loves to tell the story about the night he jammed with Muddy Waters. In fact, if you hung around Le Hibou, chances are you have a story or two to tell yourself. Sneezy
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