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Bone In the clunky band van on the long NEAL FORD SUNDET


drive to Deep River 1974, Paul Fenton was thinking he was about to become a rock star. It was the first professional gig for him and his brother John. He visualized the screaming girls, a packed club, maybe even a police escort. Turned out there were no screaming girls, “only about six rednecks in the crowd”, and while they did get police escort, it was out of town after his brother John got in a fight with the head of the Town Council after the band was fired. The Chief of Police bid adieu to the Ottawa hippies with the words “Y’all don’t come back to Deep River now”. Paul can laugh about that now,


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because, despite some bumps in the road, he is still playing and garnering massive respect for his guitar prowess and the


sound of his new band, Bone. It’s also a chance for him to reunite with one of Ottawa’s most colorful characters, the man they call “Uncle Bobby”. Bob Cabana and Paul Fenton go back


to the earliest days of the Ottawa punk rock scene. The Action was Ottawa’s first Punk Band, featuring Ted Axe, Paul, Michael and John Fenton. Bob was their first drummer and also handled the managerial duties. His musical relationship with the Fentons continued off-and-on after he left the Action. Paul calls his stint with The Action


“A real learning experience, good and bad. It’s where I learned to write songs and how to perform”. After they broke up in 1981 he had a brief stint with Kingston’s amazing Stones tribute band, The Blushing Brides, but yearned to do


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