Troy Sinister Documentary
Add to My Profile | More VideosI was born & raised in Saint John, New Brunswick, and got the fuck out as fast as I could turn 20. In 1986 I relocated my ass to Toronto and was quickly thrown out of every band I was ever in at this point. ("Nails on chalk-board charm" is what my style has being called, I think I'm annoyingly weird). What to do.
Enter the Dregs Of Humanity.
The Dregs of Humanity were originally concieved as a busking act around 1989, while on tour with Rochester's Uncle Sam (an absolutely brillant band that I was mis-managing at the time), their singer Dave Genter & I were playing on top of the bus in the parking lot of Blondies (a Detriot club, it burned down), when he joked that WE should go on tour as the "Dregs Of Humanity" and play nothing but parking lots. So I did. For about five years.
Putting more roll in the rock and taking the 'o' out of country, lo-fi Acadian blues, if you will, just a singing 'bout those and what I know, keeping it simple. Since Detroit The Dregs has become a sort of rogues gallery. Having had members of, (at different times), Teenage Head, The Illuminati, Sassy Scarlet, Coyote Shivers, Uncle Sam, Cloven Blade, The Veins, Platinum Blonde, Robin Black, The Sinisters, and a plethora of Toronto's best seminal musicians. 1993 saw the release of "The Dregs'" debut cassette, (Yes! Cassette! It had just replaced vinyl & we were all very impressed), a limited run of 1000 numbered cassettes that have since spread out on the wind. As have the other two following releases."Dregless" & 1994's "Endsville" I occasionally see copies in the morgues of college radio stations. (I steal them)..............Then the Sinisters came and gave me a last name. (for the Sinisters epic tale go to myspace.com/thesinisters it's just too involved to tell, and there's audio/visual aids over there...)............. 1999 brought the CD "Blues from the Boneyard",(originally on my label 'Skeller" )distibuted still available through October 32nd), Now this was a a stripped down
blues dealie. Designed to reflect the New Brunswick kitchen parties of my mis-spent youth.
Since 2001 a string of drummers have come and gone, chief among them...Jack Peddler, who I originally met when he was playing with Coyote Shivers in NYC, lucky for me, the Dental Police caught his hairy ass and sent it back to Hamilton ON. Jack's a fucking laff and a 1/2 and a terrific drummer. voted 1 country drummer 1968..., Karl Anderson from "Tylenol 5", (Karl would play the opening of a fridge), Jim Brown of the Illuminati (who appears on the upcoming live EP - "Hellbound n' Down") and Killer Ky Anto of Robin Black/Crash Kelly (who produced and drummed on the 2006 indie release "Urban Industrial Blues". (Ky was the fucking maaaaaan! He'd play any gig I threw at him and kept me on time like a german train being driven by an obsessive compulsive drum major).............CURRENTLY, I've got a new Backing Combo I call "THE TRAILER PARK GHOULS" to rercord a couple of new albums. One loud electric roadhouse blues. The other Creepy Campfire sing-a-long songs. Both are being done with Carl Petlzer @ TWANG Studios. Go . check out Carl. He's a cool cat.......
...........................OTHER SHIT I'M KNOWN FOR OR WAS MY FAULT: I Managed and Booked a little bar known as THE BOVINE SEX CLUB. Owned and ran SKELLER RECORDS as well as OCTOBER 32nd (With my lovely wife Kandis Sinister). Some of my songs have been recorded by the likes of Husk(country), The Poisoned Aeros(Rock), Bloodwurm(Death-Metal), Sassy Scarlet(Glam Rock). I've also added my ungodly honking of the blues harp, to recordings by The Downbelows, Citizen Kill, the Sam Lawerence 5, the Poisoned Aeros. The Falls River Fiends, that's me too (myspace.com/troysinisterandtheefallsriverfiends) and as mentioned before I managed a brilliant group of Gentlemen from Rochester, NY called UNCLE SAM.
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