PROWLERS, The [CAN]

Homebase: Vancouver B.C.
Stats: 1956-60
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ORIGINAL MEMBERS:
Les Vogt (guitar, vocals)
Fred Bennett (guitar)
Larry Tillyer (bass, guitar, vocals)
Eric Olson (accordion)
Wayne Dinwoodie (fiddle)
Laurie Bader (drums)

LATER MEMBERS:
Johnny Faas (guitar)
Irene Butler (vocals)
Carl Ries (saxophone)
Carl Ashley )drums)

ALSO SEE:
1.) VOGT, LES
2.) VOGT & THE BLAMERS, LES

After the Prowlers disbanded, singer/guitarist Les Vogt co-founded the largest concert booking agency in Western Canada, promoting shows by the likes of Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, James Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ike & Tina Turner, and many others, before becoming Roy Orbison's tour manager in the '70s. He tells the entire fascinating story from the Prowlers to his most recent musical activities on his website. [Read it here]

"The very first rock 'n' roll concert in Vancouver Canada was at the Kerrisdale Arena on June 27th, 1956, with Bill Haley & the Comets promoted by teen DJ Jack Cullen whose Owl Prowl radio program was the big thing at the time. The opening act on that show was Vancouver's first rock 'n' roll band The Prowlers, named after Cullen's radio show where the band often played 'live' on radio and gained serious popularity."
Les Vogt, November 2004 correspondence with pnwbands.com website, (courtesy of webmaster Sam Carlson)

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