We had been friends with Kenny Sheilds
for some time and began our efforts to persuade him to join the band. We wanted someone
strong up front to help project our fairly esoteric, jazz/fusion style. Kenny had been
somewhat of a fan of the band since the early Wascana days and we thought the mix would be
interesting. He balked for quite some time then in early '75 finally came to Winnipeg to
talk seriously. He arrived at our band house on Henderson highway with his personal
manager, Gary Stratychuk in tow. The proposal in a nutshell
was Gary would manage the band leaving Gerry Stoll out of the picture. We consented, Gerry
was somewhat hurt and we moved on under the wing of Star
Kommand Productions.
The band was never quite the same. We drifted from our original
ideas and turned into a pretty good mainstream rock cover band. Gary presented
his idea for us to return to Saskatchewan and change the name to Witness to benefit from Kenny's past
association with Witness Inc. We moved to Saskatoon in the spring of '75. While
in Winnipeg we had hired a sound/lighting tech named David Lynes. Immediately
after our move to Saskatoon, Gary promptly fired him. We then hired Guy Scott,
from the interior of BC.
