Steve DeMarchi (Alias, Sheriff, Cranberries) induction Mississauga Music Walk of Fame Sept 11, 2016 скачать в хорошем качестве

Steve DeMarchi (Alias, Sheriff, Cranberries) induction Mississauga Music Walk of Fame Sept 11, 2016

On Sunday September 11, 2016, Steve DeMarchi of Alias (Sheriff, The Cranberries, Dolores O'Riordan) was inducted into the Mississauga Music Walk of Fame. www.musicwalkoffame.ca Steve DeMarchi would be delivering a parcel for Prestige Couriers in the late 80s at a GTA office and the hit song When I’m With You would come on the radio. “I’d be carrying boxes in and they’d have CHUM-AM on. The song would play and I’d say ‘that’s me on the radio.’ They’d look at me and say ‘Sure it is. Just put the box over in the corner, you idiot.” It’s been that kind of up-and-down, stop-and-start career for DeMarchi, who will be inducted into the Mississauga Music Walk of Fame during the Southside Shuffle Sun. Aug. 11. It was indeed him playing guitar and singing on Sheriff’s 1983 #1 Canadian hit which also got radio play in the U.S., a real breakthrough at the time. A couple of years later the band found themselves out of work after they were dropped by their label when punk and new wave changed the musical landscape overnight. DeMarchi and lead vocalist Freddy Curci took jobs as couriers. But they also invested $70,000 in a 16-track studio in the basement of the DeMarchi home on Avongate Dr., just west of Huron Park. “We were working all day and then writing and recording after work.” DeMarchi and his talented multi-instrumentalist brother Dennis and Curci decided to record a whole album to have it ready if they ever got another chance. “We did that for a long time but nothing worked.” Then one day, out of the blue, the guitarist got a call from Capitol Records president Dean Cameron in New York saying “you’re going to have a (U.S.) hit.” The three met Cameron at Capitol’s American Dr. studios in Malton a couple of days later where, much to the out-of-work band’s confusion, the confetti flew and the champagne flowed in celebration. It turned out that a Las Vegas DJ had started playing When I’m With You as part of a guess-the-band contest. The song took flight again, climbing into the top 10. “Here we are with no band, no video, no manager, no label and we’re couriers,” laughs DeMarchi. Attempts to reform Sheriff went nowhere since the rest of the band had moved on to another project, Frozen Ghost. DeMarchi and Curci quit the courier business, headed off to do multiple American radio interviews as the song shot up the charts seven years after its original release. Re-signed to Capitol, they hooked up with three founding members of Seattle’s Heart to form Alias, a reference to the fact they were Sheriff/Heart under another name. “The first time we met the Heart guys was in LA, when we shot a photo for the first album,” laughs the 60-year-old, who’s lived in Mississauga for nearly four decades. One of the songs they’d written while couriers, More Than Words Can Say almost became a #1 hit in Nov. 1990. However, a lazy label employee in New York went home early on a Friday night and didn’t call in all the sales figures to Billboard. He lost his job and the song peaked at #2 on Billboard’s top 100 and #1 on the adult contemporary chart. read more here... http://www.mississauga.com/blogs/post...