I spent the afternoon shuffling thru old cassette tapes, hoping to find The Ballad of Tim Horton.
With a great-from-the-get-go intro, it's the ultimate Canadian campfire song:
He was doing 110 in his Lamborghini that fateful day
He had a big french cruller wrapped around his wiener when God took him away
Oh his fans went into fits,
when they found he'd been smashed into Tim bits....
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It gets crazier after that.
Lucky for me, there's a Facebook page for Go! Bimbo Go!, a hibernating musical foursome with three chords and vague connections to the Toronto Sun.
There I find photos of Bimbo cassettes I treasure, a live version of the Tim tribute and lyrics to their hits. Do You Wanna Be My Food? Why Are People Bursting Into Flames? Unforgettable. And I've tried.
I saw the band kick butts in a hotel basement, dubbed by Ryerson's Eyeopener as "the biggest s--t hole in Toronto" and can't disagree.
Thanks to BJ Del Conte, I never lacked news of the Bimbos, once beloved outlaws in the city's throbbing punk underbelly. Grins should be shared.
LINK: The Ballad of Tim Horton (live)
Lyrics to Tim song for your camp fire...
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