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Simcoe Street Mob
12+ albums
Canadiancanadahilariouscomedycanadians
about
Simcoe St. Mob was formed, unintentionally, January 11 1997 at the Reddy Family Motel in Toronto, Ontario. It has been speculated that the motel’s address, 168 Simcoe St., may have partially influenced not only the name of the group, but perhaps even their debut album, “168.” Even to this day, details surrounding the events that took place in that motel January 11th remain fuzzy at best. While members of the group attribute their poor memories to a rare calcium deficiency that they all insist they suffer from, Al Reddy, the motel’s owner and operator, maintains, “Calcium deficiency!!? All those bastards ever did was smoke weed and get drunk. That’s why they don’t remember anything. They really said they were deficient of calcium!? Little bastards.” Whatever the reason may be, here is what we know for certain. For the ten days leading up to January 11th, or more specifically, January 1st, January 2nd, January 3rd, January 4th, January 5th, January 6th, January 7th, January 8th, January 9th, and January 10th, Pointy Beak sat alone in room 9 of The Reddy Family Motel, with only his boombox and his imagination, experimenting with different styles and flavours……….. of ice cream. Considering that only a week and a half earlier, Beak had abandoned his family, friends and career to become a rapper, he decided he’d better get busy. During the wee hours of the morning, January 11th, using empty ice cream tubs as the back-bone, Pointy Beak began production on the beat that would soon
