MUSIC
Robert “Uncle Bob” Cabana
Ottawa’s “Sultan of Swag” As a baby boomer “kid” born in 1950
at Grace Hospital in Hintonburg, Bob grew up a local lad…and stayed local. In his early years he never imagined,
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or gave much thought to, like most of us from that era, what the future might hold in store. One thing he knew for sure, from his early teen years on, was that in order to meet girls, rock music had to be part of the formula. The Beatles, Stones, The Who and The Kinks ruled the radio music charts, fan magazines, shaped teen fashion trends and became heroes to emulate, imitate and in any way possible, duplicate. To be a rock star god “wanna be”, you pretended to be in one of these bands, you dreamed air bands, you followed their fashion trends, copied their hairstyles and fantasized their dreams of money, women and millions of adoring fans.
18 BOUNDER MAGAZINE Growing up on O’Meara Street, with
his 3 brothers, a single mom and French Canadian aunts and uncles, he played dirt ball, blew up ant hills, teased the girls at St-Conrad school and dreamed of a music world far, far, away. Around his sixteenth birthday he got focused on his future and drew together some select musical pals and started a band called “It’s Them Things”. They found their wardrobe at neighbourhood services and outfitted themselves in cool old clothes Grand-mère St. Jean would tailor and update and she sure could sew. The U.K. and the British invasion in music shaped his interest in fashion and one might think it was the obvious, Beatles, Dave Clark Five or the Rolling Stones. But no way, it was the Kinks, Small Faces, Dave Dee Dozy, Becky, Mick and Tich. It was their velvet
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