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By Ric Taylor, View Magazine, October 5 2006

It was early summer last year when the ballad of the local roots and roll super group The Surly Young Bucks began. Aaron Goldstein bumped into Max Kerman and Mike DeAngelis on a bus bound for Toronto and began the legend. They immediately found common ground as McMaster University students and as musicians, but couldn’t have predicted their common future. “I remember thinking that I’ve got a few years on these boys, but they know what they’re talking about,” smiles Goldstein on the initial connection. “We hadn’t discussed working or making music together or anything, I think we all just agreed that we weren’t done figuring out what the others were about.” So the trio kept in touch and while Goldstein worked on a Led Zeppelin cover band, Red Zeppelin, and Kerman and DeAngelis on Charlemagne. They hung out more and more with Goldstein’s recording skills eventually enlisted to produce Charlemagne.

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 24/06/2006
Band Website: thesurlyyoungbucks.ca
Band Members: Max Kerman - vocal, piano, guitar
Mike DeAngelis - bass, guitar
Cam Malcolm - guitar, bass, vocal
Aaron Goldstein - pedal steel, guitar, vocal
Adam Melnick - organ, piano
Dan Griffin - drums, vocal

And sometimes we’re joined by
Lynn Seward - vocal
Influences: The Band, Neil Young, and other assorted roots-, folk-, and country-rock.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Pepper Jack's is closing and we will be there

It's one of those things we seem to do about once a year if we're lucky - that is, reunite. But this time it's a little more sentimental than usual.In the few years since the Bucks was a regularly-gig...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:44:00 GMT

So I guess we’re playing again

You’d think in a band as shoddy as this that membership would be a pretty flexible thing but it ain’t. Many have wished to join full-bore and yet never quite made the grade, and yet we&rsq...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:15:00 GMT

Thursday Feb 7 at Casbah - Cam Malcolm to join on guitar

So the band is getting back together for a benefit gig this Thursday, February 7, at Casbah. Unfortunately I (Aaron) can't make it but I encouraged everybody to keep the gig and do it without me. So t...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:47:00 GMT

Recordings from Friday at Pepper Jack's

We've posted four tunes from the reunion show. Three of them are Bucks classics. Coastin' is Max's new one. We had a blast. The Mississippi Kings and the Sweet Homewreckers both played killer sets. H...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:25:00 GMT

Reunification

That's right, we're gonna do a gig. It's been six months and all previous grievances have been resolved. Max and Dan are co-existing rather well after the sordid affair that was their romantic undoing...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:58:00 GMT

So...there was no reunion. But there will be.

Our hastily-planned Bucks reunion was actually cancelled due to a miscommuncation with those organizing the night at the club. For crying out loud, for the number of times each of us has played this p...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:03:00 GMT

Aaron is bad at secrets: reunion show

We're reuniting for one night only, this Saturday, March 24. We'll be busting out all the old hits. Do join us, won't you? This is a one-shot deal, there are no more shows in the works. Adam Melnick w...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:09:00 GMT

So it's all gonna slow right down

We're busy folks. Max, Mike and Dan have Charlemagne stuff going on. Matthew and Red Zeppelin have started writing originals and are making a push on that front. Dan has a solo record completed and re...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:36:00 GMT

We've done it again

Uh Had an article written about us, that is. Jamie Tennant wrote us up in the Spec in preparation for our show this week with The Spades which is sure to kick ass. Here's the link
Posted by on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:51:00 GMT

Bucks = press darlings

Oh, hi there. Sorry we've been bad about posting blogs and whatnot. We'll try and fix that. Over the past couple weeks we've gotten some sweet press: - A wicked-awesome full-page f...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:26:00 GMT