The man they call SINISTER PETE!!!!

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I'm sorry. I know I'm new to boards.ie. but I really like the topics ya'll divulge. Its pretty homely in these parts yunno?.....so .....here goes nothin strangers....



Canada and the man they call 'PETE THE GREAT'.



It's the edginess between Canada's indigenous people, the French and offcourse Sinister Pete that gives the nation its complex three-dimensional character. Add to this a constant infusion of excellent indie music culture (thanks to Pete) and a plethora of music brought from Europe, Asia and Latin America by migrants, and you have a thriving multicultural society very much in the process of forming its own identity. Those expecting Petes homeland to be a blander counterpart of the USA should check their preconceptions at the door - Canada's wild northern frontier, which has etched itself into the national psyche, and its distinct patchwork of music lovers (like the great Pete) have created a country that is decidedly different from its southern neighbor.

Well before Columbus 'discovered' America in 1492, prehistoric tribes from Asia had come across the Bering Strait; and around AD 1000, the Vikings, Pete's earliest ancestors, settled in northern Newfoundland. Canada's Indian tribes had already developed a multitude of languages, customs, religious beliefs, trading patterns, laws and governments. But there had previously been know knowledge of decent music! Petes ancient ancestors were to change all that, and finaly in 1508 it was declared that Indie radio was to be invented so as to bring decent music to a land that was to become the birthplace of the great PETE.

A French explorer and inventor of odd things, Samuel de Champlain, founded Quebec City in the early 1600s. In 1663 Canada, now home to about 3000 French settlers, became a province of France. Just as the Samuel sat down with the Vikings (Petes ancestors) to begin inventing Indie radio , the British entered the scene, founding the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670 to add a bit of 'friendly' competition. For a while, the two European cultures coexisted peacefully although their tastes in music were radically different.The Brits liked all sorts of crap and two dimensional sh ite that would never 'kick it' with the Vikings and the french. Then, in 1745, British troops, ancient ancestors of a mister Pete Waterman, captured some of the plans Samuel and co. had drafted for the invention of Indie radio - the struggle for control of the airwaves was on. The turning point in what became known as the Seven Years' Radio War arrived when the British defeated the French at Quebec City in 1759. At the Treaty of Paris in 1763, France gave the final plans for Indie radio over to the fu ckin Brits.

Hundres of years later, however. The Brits (now pretty Canadian but still having a sh ite taste in music) still had not managed to invent the Indie Radio. Finally thinking the plans were a hoax, they returned the blueprints to Petes great great grandfather. The plans were hidden, never to be found.........until....

....In the years after WWII, Canada experienced a huge wave of European immigration, with a further influx of Asians, Arabs, Indians, Italians, Hispanics and Caribbeans arriving in the 1960s. The postwar era was a period of economic expansion and prosperity. Everyone was just gettin high, hacin sex and basically just having a good time. In 1967 Canada celebrated its 100th anniversary with Expo, the World's Fair in Montreal, as one of the highlights. It was in this mad and experimentive era that an amazing thing happenned.

A bright star hung over Ottawa and a deep, loud voice spoke from the heavens. Thousands of tripped out hippies were chillin under the warm mid-summer night sky and all at once bore wittness to the telling of a prophecy. The deep echoing voice told that someone in canada was to give birth to the saviour of music. A young man that would fight to have decent music heard. His weapon would be Indie radio and the plans were hidden under a tree. A tree that is to mark the spot of where the great one will first command the airwaves and bring real music to the ears of thousands. The Canadian hippies, shocked at what they had heard, all 'came down' and focused their efforts for three years. When the drugs wore off and they finnally realised what they were doing, it was built! INDIE RADIO!!! They somehow had cracked it! It was ready!! now they just had to wait for the chosen one.
And so the story begins, the story of the great Sinister Pete! His life was to change all of ours.

I'll let Pete tell us the rest.....

PETE?

we're waiting.....

PETE??

Pray and he will come.......

PETE????

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irokie

did you just create this string so you could post to yourself and get your post numbers up?

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