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It’s great material and a walk in the park to play. It's a gentlemanly kind of rock and that suits me. What will the Marldmm audience hear? It started with a friend, Peter Brennan, who organizes shows with community orchestras Larry Gowan did a show with him and someone said maybe I could do it. So I did some Beatles shows with Peter and played a song Clapton covered and it brought the house down. Peter then asked if he did an entire night of Clapton songs would I do it? 'Dominion 'Sobeys 'Price Chopper 'Shoppers Drug Mart 'Canadian Ture 'Real Canadian SuperStore 'We Want You 'Longo's ’Royaflon Furnituve 'V.P.l Markham 'MM Meats 'Broadmool Homes ‘Ho Lee Chow ‘HR Block Mr. Emmett, 54, is wearing that hat when he and his four- piece band perform Ian. 26 at Markham Theatre for Performing Arts. But it‘s nothisfirst time here. Back in 1977, he and Triumph performed at Markham District High School, of all places, com- plete with an early version of their flame-throwing light show. Whatisitaboutaaptondmtmade youwanttobuildanam’nshow amundlu‘m? Tofindmnmovaamhwto 'TheBay 'Rona 'Future Shop 'Best Buy ane Brick ‘Sport Chek 'Giant T»ger 'Henry’s Camera 'Michaels 'Staples Business Depot 'Zellers 'Toys R Us 'KFC 'The Source By Circuit City 'Sears 'Prevention Magazine 'IGA 'Foodland 'Loblaws 'No Frills 'Home Depot 'Wa|~Mart Supercentre 'Food Basics 'AP Now you can ada one more: master interpreter of the Eric Clapton catalogue. Rocker, award-winning fla- menco/ jazz guitarist, Humber College music teacher, studio musician and recording artist are all titles you can put after his name since he left the famed power rock trionearlyZOyearsago. BY FRANK KING Staff Writer Figuring out former Tfiumph guitarist/vocalist Rik Emmett depends on what day you talk to him. Noonedouvars mutullkewado! We open with Cream’s White 'Leons Furniture 'Salvation Afmv DOES YOUR NEWSPAPER COME IN A PLASTIC BAG? Please help us help the environment by recycling your bags. Collect your bags and put them out the first Saturday of every month. Leave the bags in the same spot you receive your paper. Your carrier will be rewarded it you participate in this program, PARTNERS WORKING TOGETHER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. It you have any questions, please call your Distribution Department at 905-294-8244 Yes. People say music is con- tent and content should be free. But how much do people pay for their computer and software and iPod and Internet?! think the peo- ple making the big money are the digital telecommunications con- glomerates and they’re integrated into everything from your laptop to your iPod. They lobby the gov- ernment to say ‘Don't reform that copyright legislation. Slow down.’ They keep saying that in order to keep the status quo, so musiâ€" mg muuau.’ Might. Don't want to say too much, but have there been con- versations? Yes. Tickets for Mr. Emmett’s Markham Theatre show are $36 and available by calling 905-305- 7469. Showtime is 8 pm. The theatre is on Town Centre Bou- levard, in the Hwy. 7 and Warden Avenue area. Check out wwwikemmettcom for more information on Mr. Emmett Inamaninterviemyousoidme music business is in complete disor- roy. You must be talking about illeo gal downloading and file sharing killing co sales, yes? It was good and bad. It was hard pushing my voice and I played all the bass, so I was pushing myself there, too. But it was easy because working with Mike was so much fun and it was returning to things you feel comfortable with. I hope it results in sales and I'd like to see it become more than just a studio project, but you just have to wait and see. You and drummer/producer Mike Shotten just put out Liberty Mani- festo, yaurfiisthaM-mdcin’fn in about 100 years. What wasitlike to really a'ank it up in the studio again? Room and Badge, include Blind Faith's Can't Find My Way Home, Derek The Dominoes’ Bell Bot- tom Blues, Tears in Heaven, I Shot the Sherrif and Wonderful Tonight. You’ll also get both ver- sions of Layla, including the hit- you-over-theâ€"head version. Yrmg V‘Cl il‘t.“ “I‘ll C‘G‘.’ Tickets for Mr. Emmett’s Markham Theatre show are $36 and available by calling 905-305- 7469. Showtime is 8 pm. The theatre is on Town Centre Bou- levard, in the Hwy. 7 and Warden Avenue area. me mnemme Immammm mmmmmam WMWMmbadm anything musical? Sure, I wonder. The proof is in the pudding; I’m out there play- ing Eric Clapton tunes (instead of my own‘ stuff). I think I have enough skills to survive no mat- ter what, but in truth, what’s the point of making a record? Liberty Manifwto was a huge undertak- ing, but how many copies will we be able to sell? You Iostyour Mel; Russell, to cancainSeptember. Howbasthe recomypmcess bear? It’s fits and starts. You think ‘I'm coming to terms with then Christmas comes along and it's like a black hole in the famâ€" ily. So I’m not going to say it’s been totally successful, but I'm not going to give up living. 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