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Remembering when... Looking back at these archival tapes from late 2010, the hiss and hum feel like a time machine. On the line is Jake Gold, a name etched into the very bedrock of the Canadian music industry. He was, and is, an institution. The man who saw the fire in The Tragically Hip, the sharp-tongued judge on Canadian Idol and a manager who built careers the old-fashioned way: with grit, instinct and an unshakeable belief in the power of the road.

This was a moment when the industry was deep in its digital panic, but Gold sounds unflappable. His voice is direct, carrying the weight of someone who has seen it all. He didn’t get here by reading textbooks. He got here by doing the work. It all started with a primal love for the noise. “I saw the Beatles when I was six,” he says, the statement landing with the casual gravity of a life-altering event. That was the spark.

🔗 https://519magazine.ca/2026/10/16/the-gold-standard-a-retrospective-with-jake-gold/

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Remembering when... Looking at the raw transcripts from this Jan. 25 2019 exchange is like unearthing a time capsule from the apex of internet outrage culture. It was a moment when the digital town square had devolved into a series of walled gardens each with its own manicured reality. Into this fray stepped two of Canadian media’s most recognizable and defiantly unfiltered voices Ed the Sock and Liana K armed with a live tour bluntly titled the “War on Stupid”.

Their mission was a direct response to a cultural shift they saw as catastrophic. The duo felt a genuine demand for a return to sanity. As Steven Kerzner, the man behind the sock, explains it was a call to action. “We heard the call of the people we heard them rending their garments at the wave of idiocy around us. And we stepped forward to once again shine light on reason and intelligence using humor.” This wasn't just about a nostalgia tour. It was a diagnosis of a society losing its collective mind.

🔗 https://519magazine.ca/2026/10/15/ed-the-sock-liana-k-the-war-on-stupid/

#519Magazine #CanadianMedia #CancelCulture #Comedy #EdtheSock #FreeSpeech #FUNetwork #LianaK #MuchMusic #PoliticalSatire #SouthwesternOntario #StevenKerzner #WaronStupid #Interviews #LostArchives by @519magazine

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Remembering when... Listening back to these raw archival tapes from a 2009 interview with Great White’s Michael Lardie is a study in survival. It’s a snapshot of a band not just on the comeback trail but actively wrestling with its own identity. They had just dropped Rising, their second studio album since the classic lineup had reformed, and the air was thick with a sense of determined restoration. This wasn't just another record. It was a statement about what, and who, Great White truly was.

Lardie, ever the articulate anchor of the band, was quick to contrast the album's creation with its predecessor Back to the Rhythm. That first reunion record was a product of its time and circumstance, stitched together by file sharing and remote collaboration. A necessary evil for a band scattered across the country. But Rising was different. It was born from proximity and pressure, a deliberate choice to enter the studio with only half the material ready.

🔗 https://519magazine.ca/2026/10/14/michael-lardie-on-rising-and-the-return-of-great-white/

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Remembering when... Listening back to these archival tapes from our 2009 interview with Bob Kulick is a stark reminder that rock and roll history isn’t just written by the frontmen. It’s built by guys like Bob. The ultimate session ace, producer and consigliere, Kulick was the Zelig of hard rock, a figure who was always in the room when it happened, guitar in hand. His name might not be on the marquee, but his DNA is all over the platinum records that defined an era.

He was a New York kid, through and through. And he was brutally honest about the role geography played in his ascent. It wasn't just talent; it was proximity. The city was a crucible. It demanded skill and it offered opportunity. But Kulick insists luck was the real catalyst. “Being born in New York, I was able to be in a place where with the amount of talent that I had when I auditioned for gigs... I was able to capitalize, so to speak, and get those gigs,” he says on the tape, his voice pragmatic. “If I was, say, born in New Delhi or born in Iowa somewhere, I might not have had that opportunity.”

🔗 https://519magazine.ca/2026/10/12/bob-kulick-the-invisible-hand-of-rock/

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Remembering when... Looking at the raw transcripts from this late 2019 conversation with Jeff Foxworthy is like unearthing a time capsule. It’s from a moment just before the world shut down—a moment when the cultural anxieties he was navigating felt like a low simmer rather than a boiling rage. Foxworthy wasn't just a comedian by this point; he was a cultural institution, an entire cottage industry built on a single perfectly honed catchphrase. But what this interview reveals is a man acutely aware of the shifting sands beneath his cowboy boots, wrestling with his own legacy and the new unspoken rules of comedy.

It all began not in the deep south but in the industrial heartland. The genesis of the entire “You might be a redneck” phenomenon is a story of pure observational genius. He was in a club just outside Detroit, a city not exactly known for its southern charm. And the criticism he kept getting was that he was just a country boy. But he saw something universal. He saw a shared blue-collar aesthetic that transcended geography.

🔗 https://519magazine.ca/2026/10/09/jeff-foxworthy/

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Remembering when... Looking back at these archival tapes from Apr. 13, 2011, there’s a raw, unvarnished quality you just don't get anymore. The interview starts with a missed connection, an answering machine message. It’s a relic. Then the phone rings, and it’s Tommy Roe himself, casual and apologetic. “I was playing with my guitar and I just missed the call,” he says, his voice relaxed. It’s the perfect, unassuming entry point into the story of a man who stumbled into fame, toured with The Beatles before they were The Beatles and defined a genre he never asked for.

By 2011, Roe was already five years into what he called a retirement, a term he used loosely. “When you retire in show business, that’s kind of a joke,” he explains. “It’s more like a sabbatical, I guess you could call it.” But this wasn't some diva-like retreat. It was a practical decision born from industry exhaustion. The grind of post-9/11 air travel, with its heightened security and logistical nightmares, had worn him down. For an artist who always flew commercial, hauling a band and gear across continents became an unbearable labour. The stage was never the problem. It was always about getting there.

🔗 https://519magazine.ca/2026/10/08/tommy-roe-the-king-of-bubblegum-on-the-beatles-royalties-and-retirement/

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Remembering when... Revisiting this 2023 conversation with Sass Jordan about her archival release Live in New York '94 feels less like a typical press junket and more like cracking open a time capsule. This isn't just another live album pulled from a dusty box. It’s an emotional and sonic document of a specific, brutal moment when Canadian rock royalty was at the absolute peak of its commercial power and on the verge of a personal collapse. It’s a snapshot of a band so hot it was destined to burn out.

The entire project is, of course, inextricably linked to the late Taylor Hawkins. When this recording was captured, he wasn't the global stadium icon of the Foo Fighters. He was a 22-year-old kid with what Jordan calls a “fantastic raw childlike joyful energy”. But he was already a monster. The album serves as a pristine exhibit of his pre-fame genius a raw unvarnished look at the explosive talent Dave Grohl would later tap to redefine his own band’s sound. Jordan knows her old friend would have had a complicated reaction to hearing it. “He would have loved it,” she says. “He would have thought this was terrific and funny and cringey. He would have thought all three things.”

🔗 https://519magazine.ca/2026/10/07/sass-jordan-05-04-2023/

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Remembering when... Looking at the raw transcripts from this early 2018 exchange with Louie Anderson is an exercise in perspective. At the time, he was riding an incredible wave, a late-career resurgence powered by his breathtaking performance as Christine Baskets. He was vibrant, thoughtful and at the absolute peak of his second act. But reading his words now, knowing he would be gone just four years later, lends them a different kind of weight—a quiet poignancy that underscores a career built on resilience and a deep well of empathy.

He was in an airport, heading to Los Angeles, but his mind was on the work. Anderson had been in the business for over three decades, a survivor of the 80s comedy boom who had carved out a unique space with his gentle, family-focused humour. Yet he wasn't coasting on nostalgia. He was more relevant than ever.

🔗 https://519magazine.ca/2026/10/05/louie-anderson-on-baskets-big-underwear-and-staying-present/

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Remembering when... Looking back at these archival tapes from Jan. 10, 2011, is a fascinating exercise. The digital hiss captures a very specific moment in time for Megadeth and for metal itself. David Ellefson had been back in the fold for less than a year, the triumphant Rust in Peace 20th anniversary tour was a global victory lap and the impossible Big Four shows had finally become a reality. And yet, the first thing on Ellefson’s mind during this call was a laser-based interactive music system called Beams. It’s a strange, almost forgotten footnote that speaks volumes about the creative restlessness of a musician finding his footing once again.

Beams was a peculiar piece of tech for its time. It wasn't quite a video game and it wasn't quite a digital audio workstation. It was something in between, a product born of early interactive media ambitions. Ellefson, ever the articulate spokesman, lays it out clearly. “Beams is a company that has a musical interactive apparatus that operates with laser beams by waving your hand through the beam and essentially breaking the beam,” he explains. “You trigger a sound and... you trigger a different instrument.”

🔗 https://519magazine.ca/2026/10/02/david-ellefson-on-beams-megadeths-revival-and-the-big-four/

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Remembering when... Revisiting this conversation with Katie Bell from March 2022 is a stark reminder of the bizarre crossroads artists faced in the immediate post-pandemic haze. Here was a singer navigating the aftershocks of two distinct cultural phenomena: the monolithic reality TV machine of American Idol and a global shutdown that kneecapped the live music industry. The raw transcripts from this period reveal an artist recalibrating in real time caught between industry pressures and a fierce drive for authenticity.

It starts with the name. She was born Katie Bell Aiken and for years she fought to keep it. But the industry always gets its way. “I always thought that Katie Bell Aiken had, like, a really cool ring to it,” she says. “But, honestly, throughout the years, the managers, the producers, everyone's like, it's too long. You need to drop your last name. So I have to say that I really did it because everybody else told me to.” It’s a small detail but it’s the perfect lede for a career shaped by external forces. A concession made before the first note is even sung.

🔗 https://519magazine.ca/2026/10/01/katie-bell-03-16-2022/

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Remembering when... Listening back to these raw archival tapes from Aug. 18, 2012, is a trip. It’s a snapshot of a very specific moment in pop music, a time when the neon-splattered hedonism of the late 2000s was just starting to curdle into something else. And right there, caught in the middle of it all, was 3OH!3. Speaking with Sean Foreman from a noisy restaurant patio, you can hear the ambition and the anxiety of a band trying to prove they were more than a one-trick pony.

They were coming off the commercial highs of Want and Streets of Gold, records that cemented their place as the court jesters of crunkcore. But the scene was changing. The bloghouse party was winding down and the monolithic force of EDM was taking over. This interview captures Foreman on the cusp of releasing Omens, an album he sounds intensely proud of, one he believed would redefine them.

🔗 https://519magazine.ca/2026/09/30/a-look-back-at-3oh3s-omens-era/

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