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Our Lady Peace is...
Raine Maida- vocals
Mike Turner- guitar
Duncan Coutts- bass
Jeremy Taggart- drums
Raine Maida, 23 years old, does vocals for Our Lady Peace. Raine's real name is actually Michael, but he changed his name, presumably so there would only be one Michael in the band, to prevent media mixups. Raine is from Ontario. His parents are divorced and he has a brother. His father owns a successful construction business. He attended the University of Toronto, majoring in criminology, and quit several credits shy of a degree to pursue his music.
Mike Turner is originally from Bradford, England. This would account for his early influences, mainly punk bands as The Sex Pistols, The Jam and Boomtown Rats. He came to Canada, to Oshawa, Ontario, to be specific. He worked as a welder in a machine shop. He has a degree in English from the University of Western Ontario. Before Our Lady Peace, Turner played in several Canadian punk bands back in the eighties. He has mixed feelings about those experiences. "I probably pissed away eight years of my life when I could've been learning to become a better guitarist," he says. "The whole punk movement was necessary and relevant because it showed people that music wasn't all about technique. Unfortunately, that ethic mutated into the idea that you shouldn't learn to play your instrument, and that got me really twisted."
Duncan Coutts replaced Chris Eacrett as OLP's bassist in 1995 after a parting of ways between Chris and the band. Before OLP, Duncan was working as a set dresser for the TV series Due South and playing in the band Blue Heavies.
Jeremy Taggart replaced former drummer Jim Newell who left the band in 1991. After Jim decided to leave, the band auditioned over 100 people to find a new drummer, and Jeremy was the best candidate. Except that he was young, only 17 at the time. The band had to wait for him to finish high school. In fact, OLP ran into problems in bars because Jeremy was underage. Jeremy includes Miles Davis and John Coltrane among his influences.
RAINE MAIDA
When asked about his influences, Raine says he listens to a lot of middle eastern music, and to female vocalists such as Bjork, Tori Amos, Sheila Chandra, and Sinead O'Connor, who have, as he puts it, acrobatic voices. He also likes male artists such as Jeff Buckley and especially Otis Redding, who he puts at the top of his list.
MIKE TURNER
When OLP formed in 1992, Turner went back and took formal guitar lessons, and learned how to play properly. The result is evident: finely tuned guitaring mixed with punk influences. As for gear, Turner favors Gibson guitars, particularly an ES-135 and Marshall amps.
DUNCAN COUTTS
JEREMY TAGGART
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