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My dad Bill Casey (left) on guitar. Opened up for The Kinks with his band The Mergers in the 60's.

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April 22, 2023 SADB Montreal - Circle of Life show

Oran Mor in Glasgow, Scotland. 2008.
Left to right: Alan Brown: guitar - Jack: bass - Violet Leighton: vocals - Gary Miller: guitar

1940. My grandfather 'Blackie' Legault just before going off to WW2. This photo was taken on the same street his family grew up on and where I live today.... in SADB. He went missing in action on May 23, 1944... but was found safe later in June. His name is on the WW2 memorial plaque at Centre Harpell in Ste Annes.

I am a 7th generation resident of SADB in west island Montreal.

TEDx at John Abbott college in Ste Annes, Montreal. Sept 15, 2018. Played drums for local band.

Alan Brown. Glasgow blues musician

Overwater Basses is a fantastic company and bass maker. I used to hangout there often when I was a working musician in the U.K. I bought my six string bass there as well as my EA amplifier rig. I still use the gear to this day. Chris and Lawrence are the kindest of people and have a deep passion for what they do. Many of my students purchased their basses after I suggested it over and over lol. The basses are true works of art. The tone is out of this world. Check them out here: Overwater Basses

1987 school project about nuclear weapons of mass destruction\
based on the works of Helen Caldicott,

Jack with Montréal fusion group UZEB. Michel Cusson, Paul Brochu and Alain Caron.
Guitarist Michel came to my high school for a music project and later
his band 'The Wild Unit' played at a venue I worked for..

Last UZEB concert. July 6, 1991 Salle Wilfrid Pelletier of Place des Arts .
Montreal. I got the very same seats 27 years later at the 2018 reunion show & met the band after the show.

Oran Mor on Glasgow, Scotland 2008

Made this in 1981. My brother Mike and my dad had just been to see
'Queen' live in Montreal

Solo bass gig at the Glasgow International Jazz Fest

my wee car in the Sottish highlands.
Finished paying it all off just before I left for Montreal

My first bass ever. Still have it to this day. Took it all over the world with me.
Ibanez MC924 PW 1983

Jack, John Scofield & John Patitucci

French Alps, 2003 - over 300 gigs in a row

Our band Circus in the early 90's

'Mafia' with Dougie Martin
1997 Dundee, Scotland
Dougie opened up for The Beatles and met Jimi Hendrix in the pubs

Artwork by G.Melville from small gig in Dunning, Scotland.
Steve Hamilton: piano. The Thorntree.

Ste Annes Union Church, Montreal west Island

Mike Deans jazz band at Cottiers
in west end Glasgow, Scotland

Montreal in the early 90's

'Playback' lounge gig in Cape Town, South Africa

Taking sitar lessons in south India

Funk band The Nozie in the French alps. 300 gigs in a row

Cape Town on Long Street. Lounge electronica residency

Our Ste Annes band 'Circus' in the early 90's

My dad Bill Casey (2nd from top right) in 'The Mergers' in Perth, Scotland.
They had just opened up for 'The Kinks'.

2017

Last UZEB concert. July 6, 1991 Salle Wilfrid Pelletier of Place des Arts .
Montreal. I got the very same seats 27 years later at the 2018 reunion show & met the band after the show.

Happy International Fun Day. March 24, 2003. We (funk pop cover bands) did 10 shows a week Mon to Sat, then a jazz gig on Sun... for five months solid. Over 300 gigs in a row. 4am toboggan runs with skis, radios, and lasers attached. Was the bootcamp stage of becoming a musician. Here are some photos and audio recordings from that crazy fun special time. Some of us would snowshoe to the next town to go bowling. Too many stories. Wild times but grateful things are calm and peaceful now. French Alps near Italy & Switzerland.

1. https://jackcasey.bandcamp.com/album/... 2. https://jackcasey.bandcamp.com/album/...

Solo gig in Cape Town, South Africa

Mike Stern, Didier Lockwood, Alain Caron in Scotland 2010
Just before I moved back to Montreal.

SADB 1994

Circus live at Les Foufounes Électriques in Montreal, 1990

Thank you 'Overwater' basses for the feature on your social media

Meeting weather person Frankie MacDonald in Nova Scotia

Clydes (formally The Pioneer) in west island Montreal. 1990's

Al Brown (left) and Jack. Blues gig at Oran Mor in Glasgow, Scotland. 2009

Under Our Groove, Montreal. 2017.

Then and later on eh! Cabot Trail, Nova Scotia.

My father Bill Casey opened up for the Kinks
when he was a teenager in the band 'The Mergers'

Playing drums with local friends
in the west island of Montreal

Left in the white shirt is me at the last UZEB show on July 6, 1991

passed by here during a visit

Last photo of the Casey family all together
1994 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue

RIP Jamie, Mike & Bill

Circus gig in Montreal, 1990

I toured the U.K. & Ireland with Rev Doc and the Congregation.
Crackin' wee blues band from Glasgow that taught me a lot.
Photo: The UK's most northerly blues festival in Orkney. 1999.

Playing my first bass in 1991 at Foufounes Electriques.
Nirvana played in this Montreal club around the same time our band 'Circus' did.
I still have this bass and just repaired it.
1983 Ibanez Musician MC-924
photo: L Whittal

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