gabe landry – guitar

I was about 11 years old when I first became fascinated with the guitar and told my mother I wanted to become a musician and learn how to play the guitar someday. How could something so simple with just six strings on a neck, bound to a box, create such wonderful sounds and beautiful music! One winter, there it was, under the Christmas tree with all the other gifts piled up around it, and it was a thing of beauty, a Silvertone from Sears! I proudly showed it off to all my friends who would often ask me to play something, but I didn’t know how to play much of anything except the riff in Peter Gunn which really impressed them. I had heard about a musician who lived in my neighbourhood that gave guitar lessons at a price my weekly allowance could afford. I gave him a call and signed up for the beginners’ course. Off I would go for my weekly lesson into the cold Canadian winter night with my new guitar wrapped up in a plastic garbage bag. As I trudged down the sidewalk on the way to my third lesson, I slipped on a patch of ice and fell on the guitar and smashed it to pieces. So began my initiation to the wonderful world of guitars and the beginning of my lifelong commitment to learn how to appreciate and play this most wonderous of musical instruments.

A few years later my family moved to the Toronto suburb of North York, where I met many kids in my neighbourhood and at Sir J.A Macdonald high school that liked music, going to concerts and just hanging around together. This was the perfect environment to rekindle my interest in music, and it didn’t take long before I once again became determined to learn how to play the guitar.  Most of us had part time jobs during the summer and we saved up our money to buy the best guitars and amplifiers that money could buy. We would often get together to jam and learn songs and many of us eventually became good enough to play at High School events and private parties.

After graduation a few of us decided to get together and form a band called Vector composed of a Drummer, Rhythm guitar, Lead guitar, Bass and Horn player with some of the members doubling as a vocalist. We did some cover songs, but most were original compositions.  The band continued for a year or two and we did a few gigs, while continuing to compose songs and develop our sound. As with all bands, members come and go, and Vector eventually broke up over the years and everyone went their separate ways.

Now the interesting part. In early 2019 a Zoom meeting was held with the Vector band members from our high school days, and we discussed the possibility of regrouping and working remotely to compose and record new and original music. This was now made possible using the new recording and communication technologies that had recently been developed like Reaper, Zoom and Jamulus. However, not all former band members were interested or available to participate, but three of us (Jeff, Grant & me) decided to move ahead with the project and see where it would take us. Incredibly, our combined creative talent and sound seemed to have survived throughout the years and eventually led to the release of our first album “Eclipse Move”, which we are very happy and pleased to present to you.

We hope you enjoy listening to the songs as much as we enjoyed creating and producing them.