For my arts & science diploma in ’96 or ’97, my Lit 101 syllabus mandated I read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the medieval tale.
Years later, I heard of a book by a New Brunswick author, A Distorted Revolution: Eric’s Trip Story.
Between the early and mid-90s, Eric’s Trip was one of the coolest Canadian DIY bands. They got better known with their melodic radio hit Sixteen Hours.
In Distorted Revolution, Eric’s Trip frontman Rick White says he now feels like Eric’s Trip has Keith Moon as its drummer after Purple Knight bandleader Marc Gaudet joined as the band’s drummer.
Thunder and Lightning was one of the original songs produced by Purple Knight in 1974.
Celebrating their fiftieth anniversary next month, Purple Knight has set up a show in Eastern Canada at a venue called Xerox Bar.
Eric’s Trip played several tours around Canada, the United States and the British Isles between 1991 and 1996. As well as White and Gaudet, Eric’s Trip included Julie Doiron as a third member and Moonsocket’s Chris Thompson as a fourth.
White drew on his talents also as a visual artist to contribute to Eric’s Trip the indie motif of the expense of passion for corporate greed in return.
According to me, Eric was inspired by the no-wave music of NYC band Sonic Youth in the mid-80s. The Underdogs was a band he played with when he was in his teens in the Moncton NB skateboarding community. With the opportunities afforded rock musicians in the early nineties with the exploding popularity of grunge music, Eric’s Trip was able to barter their effort on the 1991 EP Peter for Murder Records to a deal with stalwart 1990s Seattle record label Sub Pop to make three LPs, Love Tara, Forever Again, and Purple Blue.
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