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Lou Deadder
12+ albums
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Lou DeAdder (pronounced dee - adder) - Canadian Guitarist, Singer and Songwriter! Wow - where to start? I suppose the beginning is as good a place as any. I was always fascinated by musical instruments when I was a kid - I remember showing my parents pictures of all kinds of instruments when I was as young as 5 - in the Sears catalog and many other publications. I would ask for them to buy me an instrument but I guess they thought I was a little too young at that point. Banjos, Drums, Guitars - I was interested in them all. I use to go to the local Sears warehouse on Saturday mornings when I was in grade 7 to look at all the guitars and drums they had on display - my parents finally agreed to buy me something for passing that year - I decided I wanted a snare drum - when we went to Sears in early July the drums were all gone - they had many guitars still on display so they bought me a Beltone guitar for $21.95 - sort of played like a tree stump now that I think about it but that was my first guitar and I was totally ecstatic. My mum would try and help me with the tuning in the beginning - I would give anything to have a video of that! I was 12 then - by age 18 I was playing music full time! My main influences in the beginning were bands such as the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, Doors, James Brown and while growing up in Toronto during the 60's I was heavily influenced by all the bands that made up the Toronto Sound - basically a heavy R&B influenced era. It was in the lat
