The title of the first album Doug through together in the basement, was 'Kid coma'. We called it that because Doug had really had a reawakening of interest in music only after the kids left the house and started their own lives. He kept on saying that there were lots of bands he'd never heard of because he was working all the time and spending all his spare time bringing up the kids. It was like Doug was in a coma for 15 years, but had come out of it. So, "Kid coma' for the album of family, blues and rock songs. Now that lots more songs have been composed, it seems like Kid Coma is a perfectly good name for the collected family and friends who make the music.

Yup, Doug's in two semi-pro bands and Nathan plays with Doug in a blues bar on Saturdays.

Increase access.

Sure. But it's NOT going to happen.

When your group includes people from 21 to 54 the influences run thick and deep. I guess what we play is everything.

Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Home.

Doug builds most of the instruments on the tracks, except the piano (although he rebuilt it), the Fender Telecaster, and a 1970's Vantage Avenger. On one track Nick plays a Guild Jumbo 6 string. The other Larson-built instruments include (from big to small), acoustic bass, fretless tricone jumbo acoustic reso bass, 6 different resonators including metal and wood, spider and biscuit. Some have 1960's DeArmond (Rowe Industries) pickups that are HOT. Mandolin, tenor reso, piccolo (6 string reso), and sitar (restored by Doug). The favorite amp for recording is a restored 1938 Westinghouse tube radio, but we also use a Fender Deluxe and a Yorkville AM100.