The Davey Parker Radio Sound

Saturday @ 10 PM - Davey Parker Radio Sound: YES! All these times I've heard the band and thought a show like Sat night could happen were proven at NXNE. Fans screaming, band slaying, front floor rammed to the gills. The DPRS need to carry this wave because they are a great live band.
by Dan Wolovick - Two Way Monologue

Let me tell you a story about a band called the Davey Parker Radio Sound, forever more (as for as this article goes) known as the DPRS. This is a story about how TWM and the DPRS came to know one another. It’s a somewhat bizarre story, but a fun one that has culminated with the band finally putting out their debut album, In a Land of Wolves And Thieves... - Two Way Monologues, Dan Wolovick

putting one foot in the here and now, while the other is firmly back at home in the garage keeping tabs on the swagger and bluster. - Mr.Atavist

"If you’ve spent time around Toronto’s basement/dive-bar psych scene, chances are you’ve come in contact with the Davey Parker Radio Sound. The four-piece’s debut LP hits with a swagger as suited to the Silver Dollar as to a 1960s garage, and aligns the band with a healthy-sized pocket of local nostalgists"
By Richard Trapunski - NOW Magazine

"Trains Are Never Easy On The Run"
scampers in chase-rock rhythm, bellowing through railroad rubble and blue skies - Blog.TO

Peers’ Picks of the Year (Part 1) Monday, January 11, 2010

In our Bands to Chase in 2010 series we picked the 21 Toronto bands likely to make a splash this year, picks with which some of you (gasp) were not in agreement. But we didn’t act alone. To provide the most measured list possible (and maybe to protect our own asses), we based our selections on the advice of bloggers, promoters and all around music junkies. Now it’s time to unveil our sources and perhaps inspire you to adopt one of this city’s troubled garage punks, or even introduce you to a genre you normally wouldn’t check out unless strapped to an auditory-torture device. It’s time to pass the blame. Here we go with Part One:

Bob Battams, blogger, It’s Not The Band I Hate, It’s Their Fans



The Davey Parker Radio Sound
The Davey Parker Radio Sound – Thanks to The Hoa Hoa’s and The Disraelis, the Toronto psych rock scene is finally starting to get some recognition, which means that this band from the right side of Parkdale should be raising a few eyebrows in the new year. Their live shows are apparently getting better and raunchier with every blast and the city seems to be poised and ready for their high octane, fuzzed out, bluesy guitar sound.

http://resonancity.com/?p=1497#more-1497

http://itsnotthebandihateitstheirfans.blogspot.com/2010/01/toronto-bands-to-watch-in-2010.html - resonancity.com

Feb 4- Ripping guitars, high-energy, and an armful of attitude, the potent mix of the 13th Floor Elevators-slash-The Sonics with elements of The Brian Jonestown Massacre proves that scrappy psych-tinged garage-rock continues to be just as relevant as it was 45 years ago. The cosmic journey continues.

Traversing the terrain of Dan Burke’s garage rockstravaganzas to The Optical Sounds label, The Davey Parker Radio Sound travels up that same sonic path. Ripping guitars, high-energy, and an armful of attitude, the quartets take on 13th Floor Elevators-slash-The Sonics combined with elements of The Brian Jonestown Massacre proves that scrappy psych-tinged garage-rock continues to be just as relevant as it was 45 years ago.

http://lonelyvagabond.com/wpmu/2010/02/05/the-davey-parker-radio-sound-lees-palace/ - Lonely Vagabond

Rancho’s Psych Lineup, NXNE is nothing without some spaced-out psych-rock, and since this year Optical Sounds is throwing its party at the rival Wine & Spirit Festival, it has to come from a different source – Rancho Relaxo on Saturday, June 19. Toronto’s own Davey Parker Radio Sound gets things going at 10 pm with its take on electric Dylan blues, before Philadelphia’s Asteroid #4 (11 pm) and Montreal’s High Dials (midnight) prove that psychedelic grooves don’t always have to be homegrown. Following at 1 am, The Darcys tend to sound a bit bland on record, but in a live setting the band’s shoegaze guitars tend to overpower their over-earnest Coldplay-sized choruses… in a good way. - http://resonancity.com/

by: Eric Bunnell

Homecoming
Posted By Eric Bunnell, TIMES-JOURNAL STAFF

Home for Davey Parker Radio Sound is Toronto but the indie band's roots are planted firmly in St. Thomas.

Fronted by city natives Graeme Jones and Jason Fitzpatrick who wrote their first tune together at age 10, even the group's signature song pays tribute to the Railway City.

It's called Trains Are Never Easy On the Run.

"There's something about growing up in a place like St. Thomas that just permeates into our songwriting," says Jones.

With musical influences ranging from Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan to Velvet Underground and Led Zeppelin, the group describes its sound as "hard-driving roots rock for the post-modern era."

A local audience will get the chance to judge tonight when DPRS -- a named derived from the Davisville and Parkdale neighbourhoods where Fitzpatrick and Jones lived in Toronto -- plays the Midtown Tavern as the Talbot Street watering hole celebrates its one-year reopening.

"The atmosphere was great, it's very warm, very real -- there's no attitude," Jones says, recalling the Midtown as the place to hang for a Sheridan College digital media student when he visited home.

Best friends from Grade 2 at Edward Street Public School, Jones and Fitzpatrick reconnected in 2003 at Sheridan after attending different city high schools. Jones went to Voaden; Fitzpatrick, Central.

"We had played with stuff when we were kids -- you know, like we had a rap group, that fun stuff.

"2003, we started writing some stuff, we starred recording. We put out our own self-released CD."

And last year, two friends, bassist Ben Quinn and drummer Kevin Mac-Allister joined to complete the current combo.

"We've been working hard for the past year as a full four-piece band. We knew the material was good, it was just a matter of getting the right people in place to make it happen."

And, indeed, things seem to be starting to happen.

Davey Parker has recorded an EP and has been included on compilation albums. Another CD is in development.

On stage, the four played Pandemonium on Friday in London, Ont. Next month, they have a festival gig in Kitchener.

The band also is getting noticed in the indie blogosphere.

Meanwhile, Jones, himself, has been honing his skills -- he was one of 20 participants invited to a Canada Council supported, four-week Aboriginal Music Performance Camp earlier this year in Manitoba, to learn the business. (His mother, Saralyn Spiers, is Ojibway.)

There's a small cover charge at the Midtown, and audience members are asked to bring a canned good for the Caring Cupboard foodbank. Showtime is 9 p.m.

Davey Parker has a website at www.thedprs.com with links to the band's music

http://www.stthomastimesjournal.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1489823 - St.Thomas Times Journal

The Davey Parker Sound -
"The Flood"

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=171533692&blogID=454084924
- elfie

6. Broken Bricks / The Assistants / Davey Parker Radio Sound @ Silver Dollar
(Friday September 11th; Cost: $5)
We all know how much I loves the psych rock, and two of the best tripsters in the city are playing the same night. I've seen Broken Bricks before and reviewed them here; and I've listened to Davey Parker Radio Sound before and reviewed them here. The Assistants are a little bit more 80's college radio than psych, but some elements are still definitely there. I've seen them before too, and I reviewed them here.

http://itsnotthebandihateitstheirfans.blogspot.com/2009/08/sup-in-september-ten-picks.html - Bob Battams

http://daydreamgeneration.com/site/dg4/

Truly you guys are one of the "finds" of this compilation. smally of daydream generation. - Daydream Generation

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=43365801&blogID=439541381

Mind Expansion charges full steam into its 13th year of making music history. owned and operated by Fuxa frontman Randall Nieman. distributed exclusively by Carrot Top Distribution (CTD). - Randall Nieman

And so we've got another delicious slice of Toronto based high energy psych rock for you, all coming in the form of a band who calls themselves the Davey Parker Radio Sound. For every band that contacts me on myspace, there are about 50 that I don't actually pay attention to, so when one actually grabs my attention, you know I'm gonna write about it. Mind you, it helps if the band in question is right up my 60's loving alley. The DPRS are from the Parkdale area of town, and they specialize in a classic sound that may not be entirely original, but there is a reason why we refer to it as a 'classic sound.' You Name It is their second release and although it flies by way too fast, it never suffers from a shortage of high octane electric energy jams! I really appreciate their organic sound, as the fuzzed out guitar would provide a sonic backdrop that is ideal for any psychedelic soiree. The vocals are reminiscent of a unique cross between Sky Saxon, Roky Erickson and Mick Jagger while the songs range from Muddy Waters' hyped up blues to Bob Dylan Highway 61 styled witticism. Although it can be said that bands that specialize in this psych-rock sound is delving into dime a dozen territory, it doesn't mean that these guys are not welcome to the party. By the sounds of it, they may even be the rowdiest ones in attendance!

http://itsnotthebandihateitstheirfans.blogspot.com/2008/11/davey-parker-radio-sound-you-name-it-ep.html - Bob Battams from 'its not the band i hate, it's their fans.ca'

It’s one thing to start out with an extremely ambitious sound that deviates from today’s popular music, but it’s a whole other thing when it’s successfully followed through and executed magnificently. I’ve yet to hear a Davey Parker Radio Sound song that doesn’t know where it came from and that doesn’t know where it’s going. In short, their influences run far and wide and are spread on extremely thick.

Musically the DPRS has never sounded bigger or bolder, adding everything from the sound of old Vox AC Amps like many great 60’s bands used to use, to some Vox organ and harmonica, to even what sounds to be some talk-box like vocals into its arsenal.

I liken The Davey Parker Radio Sound sound to a best of record from the past four decades compiled into one. They have a very catchy pop feel with the addition of twang, picking, organ, distortion & feedback that showcases and emphasizes their maturing sense of songcraft and influence.

Being disappointed with popular music and it’s uninspired artists isn’t an uncommon sentiment nowadays, but it’s comforting to know there are bands like The Davey Parker Radio Sound that are writing amazing songs and music that doesn’t conform and hide behind that which is safe. - Kelly Jay - relentlessstimulant.ca