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There are two bands called The Matadors:

1. In early 1995 Joel “Hooch” Parkins started a rockabilly band with his two friends “Creepin’” Jeff Sheppard and some other guy.

2. 1960’s Czechchoslovak (Czech) rock (big beat) band, whose ‘Get Down From the Tree’ has appeared on the famous Nuggets album.


1) They played the “Z” circuit clubs of rural Ontario for about a year with much success. Riling up the plowmen and women of tobacco country is no small feat but they seemed to hold a power over them, forcing them to drink more and more booze until the farmers were unable to tend to their fields. Many crops were lost due to the Matadors in those years. Eventually the band would be boycotted on the rural circuit. The field workers feared, and rightly so, that if the MATADORS were allowed to play in their presence again, all would be lost.

So the boys headed into London, Ontario to ply their trade in the urban pubs. The crowds were untamable and reckless in the city. The Matadors set bar revenue records every night of the week.

Dozens of Matador-esque bands would pop up and then suddenly dissolve in frustration every day. Yet somehow, it wasn’t enough for the boys— they yearned for something a little more.

One night in 1999 Parkins was approached by what he describes as “a ghoulish figure in a black hood… or something.”
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