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Originally Posted by Sliver
The Smalls, To Each a Zone (To this day, I don't understand how these guys didn't get huge.)
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I agree, these guys should have been able to ride the grunge wave to worldwide stardom, or at the very least Canadian stardom. I guess their punk/metal/jazz/country fusion was just too weird for mainstream audiences at the time. Just one of those unfair twists of fate.
They were pretty big in western Canada though. Just about every kid I knew had a Smalls t-shirt and owned at least one or two of their albums, and I remember seeing those little stickers all over the place in the early-mid 90s:
There was a great documentary about them that came out a couple years ago. Excellent viewing if you haven't seen it. I went to the first screening here in Vancouver, and probably 90% of the audience were people from Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.