Two community radio DJs who volunteer at CFUR and CFIS have put together a compilation album featuring local performers, throwing a few iconic Canadian rock bands into the mix to stir the musical pot.
The album, Classic Canadian Rock, is a fundraiser for the two stations and the whole $10 per album will be donated to the community radio cause.
Garrett Perry and Karl Wyssen pre-record their weekly show called Classic Canadian Rock, a nod to CCR - Creedence Clearwater Revival, but you didn't hear it here.
The duo DJs started their gig last June and have recently added a live show called The Garrett and Karl Show 2000 to their CFUR roster.
Classic Canadian Rock goes Thursdays at 10 p.m. on CFIS and Thursdays at 7 a.m. on CFUR with a replay Saturdays at 1 p.m. The live show goes Mondays at 7 p.m. on CFUR.
"The idea for the album came first and the idea to make it a fundraiser came second," said Perry. "The original idea was to just put local artists on the album but then when we started to think about it and got a little confident, we thought 'oh, maybe we'll just e-mail Bill Henderson of Chilliwack and ask him'." And it worked.
Perry and Wyssen, both from Kitwanga, work day jobs, with the creative outlet being the radio shows for Perry, who keeps his hand in the music industry through sound teching as well, while Wyssen is a musician trying to get a band together.
"I'm trying to get music back in my life in a big way," said Wyssen.
On the album is Goddo, Heat Exchange and Chilliwack, who agreed to contribute when they heard it was to support local radio. Also included on the album is Blind Vinyl, Joe Daniels, Brad Reddekopp and Theresa Forsyth, B.C.'s best teen band in 2013 The Racket, Meat Monster, Mama Guroove, Rachelle Van Zanten, Playback, Mike Vigano, Fifteen to Freedom, Mathias Rock, and Phos.
Perry and Wyssen made it a community effort, getting the discs printed professionally, with the cases printed at the UNBC copy center, as CFUR volunteers cut and glued the cases together.
The albums are on sale at the Prince George Community Arts Council, 2820-15th Ave., at CFUR radio station at the University of Northern B.C. and at 2nd Thoughts, at the corner of Second and Brunswick St.
Stay tuned for an album release party and a second compilation album when the first one sells out.
