Inferno 5 Plus 1 - I Can Take It b/w Fays Gig

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		Track Name	Length
	1	I Can Take It	03:39
	2	Fays Gig

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Mike Duhaime: vocals
Lloyd Duhaime: bass
Dwight Snell: rhythm guitar
Wayne Carriere: drums
Lance Whitman: lead guitar

About a hundred miles east of Sault Ste. Marie is Sudbury, Ontario, home of the great Inferno 5 Plus 1. "I Can Take It" has insistent drumming, repetitive guitar riffs, and good harmonies. The lack of cymbals, distortion or echo makes for a very dry production but the band's raw energy is apparent. This song became part of the soundtrack to the movie "Attack of the Brain Demon", which was produced by 19 year old local Sudbury High School student Larry Zazelenchuck in 1967. Starred local school kids Names included Harvey Ransom, Paul Quesnel, Doreen Wright and some others including me as the DJ announcing some sort of demon sightings.

John Loweth produced, and the songwriting credits are R. Larocque and D. Powers. The prefix below the Villa label number, ST-, indicates that this, like the two 45s on Algoma, is an custom press from the Arc company in Toronto.

The Inferno was a local club in a laneway behind Durham Street in Sudbury where they were the house band. That's where the name Inferno 5 came from. The 45 "I Can Take It" was recorded at a local Radio Station, CHNO in Sudbury one evening back in the 60's where John Loweth was a DJ at the time.

John Loweth was a pretty popular DJ on CHNO in Sudbury at that time and also worked for the record company 'Arc Sound' as Sales and A/R, Promotional Rep in N.Ontario. The recording 'I Can Take it' received quite a bit of air play throught Northern Ontario.

Some members went on to form "The East African Fair" and released a 45 "Lovin' Every Little Thing You Do". They moved to Toronto and played in Yorkville.

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