Dano - Alive Today

I've just finished the cover art for the re-release of Dan Tait's premier album Alive Today. Check it out.










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Mission: Montreal

So, Montreal, oh man. Lachine is the bomb, I love that place, except for the haul back to the eddy, that shit is a bitch. It messes with you on a couple different levels; you can be surfing Big Joe or Pyramid wave and be thinking: “wow this is the best wave ever to try new tricks but I don’t want to mess it up, flush, and have to spend the next ten minutes dragging yourself over rock getting yourself above the wave for another try”. Regardless, I was totally privileged to be with the people that I was there with. Blake, John, Foxy, Pat, and Ben were probable the best people I can think of to session with. The group was totally of mixed skill but all on the same level with new things to try as well as the general love of kayaking and partying. After a full day session and much deliberation about what ice cream to buy we found ourselves a hotel room for the night. If you mix five sun-wrecked kayakers with one of the best party city’s in the world, good things happen. Catching me out of nowhere I was all of the sudden pedaling a rental bike at high speed through Montreal launching stair sets, nearly running over homeless people, searching for a party. After some bar hopping and general drunken debauchery and after an XL putin, Johnny’s genius box got us back to our hotel room safe and sound. The second day of paddling was a bit slow er than the fir st due to various reasons but the session was still in full swing. By the time Tuesday evening we were fairly wiped and we departed Montreal on our drive back to Beachburg.

Photos: John O'leary