Bare Naked Ladies or BNL is a Canadian band that was at the right place at the right time.
They were a local band that were at the end of their careers as local bands go and were on a verge of a break up.
One day they were walking on Queen Street in Toronto and saw the CITY TV’s video booth Speaker’s Corner that was an electronic soap box that people could go and for one loonie which is a Canadian dollar coin deposit their coin into the slot and get three minutes of fame and glory and it would be aired later on TV.
Steve convinced the rest of the band to sing their last song at the video booth before they went to the bars.
Much Music was the Canadian version of MTV that was located at the same TV station and while BNL was singing their song a music producer talking to a person when he happen to look up at the TV monitor and saw the last part of the song and he was impressed to the point that he suddenly ran out the door and after the band to convince them to shoot a music video that aired on Much Music the response was tremendous and they were signed to do a record and lady luck stayed with them.
Jason Priestly of Beverly Hills 90210 and a personal friend of the group convinced the producers play one of the BNL’s songs on the show the group had a major following in America.
The group was scheduled to play Toronto city hall but the mayor who was a woman banned them because of their name.
Many bands that take the wild ride of sex, drugs and rock and roll end up using and Steve Page was no exception.
A couple of weeks before the release of the groups first children’s CD Steve and two women were charged with drug possession in upstate New York the charges were later dropped if they promised to keep their nose clean and keep out of trouble for six months.
Steve has decided to leave the band and start singing his songs maybe get rid of the Mickey Mouse Club image and turn himself into a “No more Mr. Nice guy no more Mr. Clean” as Alice Cooper sang it and re-invent himself into a more jaded ex-con mentality or he might wonder in the caverns of Nova Scotia and try to find his chi.
Most singers of famous bands try solo records without quitting the band like Phil Collins and Genesis and there are other examples I can’t think of right now.
Is the real story that Steve is finished because of his drug addiction time will tell.
And for the BNL they are still going in to record their new CD in April, let’s see if they could do a better job without Steve the final page to their book.
They were a local band that were at the end of their careers as local bands go and were on a verge of a break up.
One day they were walking on Queen Street in Toronto and saw the CITY TV’s video booth Speaker’s Corner that was an electronic soap box that people could go and for one loonie which is a Canadian dollar coin deposit their coin into the slot and get three minutes of fame and glory and it would be aired later on TV.
Steve convinced the rest of the band to sing their last song at the video booth before they went to the bars.
Much Music was the Canadian version of MTV that was located at the same TV station and while BNL was singing their song a music producer talking to a person when he happen to look up at the TV monitor and saw the last part of the song and he was impressed to the point that he suddenly ran out the door and after the band to convince them to shoot a music video that aired on Much Music the response was tremendous and they were signed to do a record and lady luck stayed with them.
Jason Priestly of Beverly Hills 90210 and a personal friend of the group convinced the producers play one of the BNL’s songs on the show the group had a major following in America.
The group was scheduled to play Toronto city hall but the mayor who was a woman banned them because of their name.
Many bands that take the wild ride of sex, drugs and rock and roll end up using and Steve Page was no exception.
A couple of weeks before the release of the groups first children’s CD Steve and two women were charged with drug possession in upstate New York the charges were later dropped if they promised to keep their nose clean and keep out of trouble for six months.
Steve has decided to leave the band and start singing his songs maybe get rid of the Mickey Mouse Club image and turn himself into a “No more Mr. Nice guy no more Mr. Clean” as Alice Cooper sang it and re-invent himself into a more jaded ex-con mentality or he might wonder in the caverns of Nova Scotia and try to find his chi.
Most singers of famous bands try solo records without quitting the band like Phil Collins and Genesis and there are other examples I can’t think of right now.
Is the real story that Steve is finished because of his drug addiction time will tell.
And for the BNL they are still going in to record their new CD in April, let’s see if they could do a better job without Steve the final page to their book.
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