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Show Business Giants
12+ albums
rockpunkcanadaGarage RockCanadian
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Show Business Giants is a quirky, humor-laden independent Western Canadian rock band with a rotating lineup centered around guitarist, vocalist, and main songwriter Tom Holliston, with most frequent collaborators Scott Henderson (Hissanol) and Ford Pier (D.O.A., Jr. Gone Wild). Guest musicians have included John Wright, Andy Kerr, Carolyn Mark, Ken Kempster, and Keith Rose. The band became known via the single "I've Got a Crush on Wendy Mesley", from the album Let's Have a Talk With the Dead, which was a hit on Canada's campus radio charts in 1995. The band began life as a collaborative in-joke between ex-Neo Steve Bailey and failed restauranteur Tom Holliston. Combining acerbic wit and chord changes much too complicated for "The Five-Fingered Ones", as they referred to their fellow-Victorians, they wrote songs about jerks and disease, with only one criterion: if Bailey had to stop rehearsal in the midst of a new work's unfolding to facilitate, they knew they were "on to something." Conscripting to their ranks mandolin player Scott Hendersomething of skatepunks Shovlhed, they recorded their first cassette, Gold Love at Hendersomething's Dollhouse Studios. The tape was outsold in its first quarter only by Suicidal Tendencies and the amazing Neil Diamond. One of the songs, "My Girlfriend's A Robot", was later a big hit for SBG hometown coevals, puck-rockers The Hanson Brothers. For their second foray into the recording milieu, the boys were joined by Gulf Island cable TV pe
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