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Mystery are a Canadian Progressive Rock band formed in 1986 in Montreal by guitarist/keyboard player Michel St-Père.

Formation and First Three Albums[link]

Originally the band had no stable lineup when it was formed in 1986, but in 1990 a lineup formed featuring St-Père on guitars, along with Raymond Savoie on vocals, Stephane Perreault on drums, and Benoît Dupuis on keyboards. This lineup, with Gary Savoie replacing Ray Savoie on vocals and bass player Richard Addison on bass guitar, was the first recording lineup of the band. This lineup recorded the band's first album.^[1]

Stephane Perreault was taken ill with a crippling illness in 1992, which led to a hiatus until 1993, when the band regrouped. The band brought in new bass player Patrick Bourque to replace Addison, and Michel Painchaud joined on saxophone and acoustic guitar. In 1995, the band was reduced to four members when Dupuis and Painchaud left. This lineup not only recorded the band's second album, Theatre of the Mind, but brought the band to an audience outside of Canada.^[2] From this record onward, they are all on the label Unicorn Digital, which St-Père created. ^[3]

During the recording of the band's third album, entitled Destiny?, Stéphane Perreault left and was replaced by Steve Gagné. By the time it came to record the band's fourth album in 1999, singer Gary Savoie left due to musical differences.

A New Singer[link]

After Gary Savoie left he was replaced by Benoît David, who Michel St-Père had met after a Yes tribute gig by David's then-band Close to the Edge. Benoît David later fronted Yes (which he left in 2012) as well as Mystery. This lineup of the band continued until 2007 when the band's fourth album, Beneath the Veil of Winter's Face, was released.^[4] Patrick Bourque passed away a few months after the albums release in September 2007, the cause of death was determined to be suicide. He was also a member of Emerson Drive up until a year before his death.^[5]

Following the passing of Bourque, St-Père, David, and Gagné, soldiered on, hiring Francois Fournier to replace Bourque on bass, and bringing second guitarist Dean Baldwn to the fold. Former keyboard player Benoit Dupuis rejoined the band in his original role. This lineup has released the band's fifth album, One Among the Living.^[6]

Mystery will release their new album The World is a Game later in 2012.^[7] It was announced that Nick D'Virgilio would be recording all the drum tracks on the album. ^[8]

Members[link]

Current lineup

• Michel St-Père - guitars, keyboards, bass (1986-present)
• Benoît Dupuis - keyboards (1990-1995, 2007-present)
• Benoît David - lead vocals (1999-present)
• Francois Fournier - bass guitars (2007-present)
• Dean Baldwin - guitars (2007-present)

Former members

• Stéphane Perreault - drums (1990-1997)
• Raymond Savoie - lead vocals (1990-1991)
• Gary Savoie - lead vocals (1991-1999)
• Steve Gagné - drums (1997-2011)
• Richard Addison - bass guitars (1991-1994)
• Patrick Bourque - bass guitars (1994-2007; deceased 2007)
• Michel Painchaud - saxophone, acoustic guitars (1994-1995)

Membership timeline

Discography[link]

Studio albums

• Mystery (1992)
• Theatre of the Mind (1996)
• Destiny? (1998)
• Beneath the Veil of Winter's Face (2007)
• One Among the Living (2010)
• The World is a Game (2012)

Compilations

• At the Dawn of a New Millennium (2000)

External links[link]

http://www.unicorndigital.com/mystery/

References[link]

Look up mysterious, mysteriousness, or mystery in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Mystery, mysteries, or mysterious may refer to:

Religion[link]

• Sacred mysteries, supernatural phenomena associated with a divinity or religious ideology
• Mystery play, a form of medieval European dramatic theatre dealing with religious themes

Culture[link]

Genres[link]

• Mystery fiction, a genre of detective fiction
• Mystery film, a genre in cinema

Literature[link]

• Mystery (novel), a 1990 novel by American author Peter Straub
• Mystery, a cat character in Emily the Strange
• Mysteries (novel) or Mysterier, an 1892 existentialist novel by Knut Hamsun

Film and television[link]

• Mystery!, a long-running PBS program showcasing British detective fiction
• Mystery TV, a Canadian digital television channel
• Mystery (television), a children's television show
• "Mystery" (Pee-wee's Playhouse), an episode of the children's show Pee-wee's Playhouse

Music[link]

• Mystery (band), a Canadian progressive rock band formed in 1986
• Mysterious, a 1988 release by Shizuka Kudō
• Mystery (Vanilla Fudge album), a 1984 release by Vanilla Fudge
• Mystery (Faye Wong album), a 1994 release by Faye Wong
• Mystery, a 2006 release by Evonne Hsu
• Mystery (Yoga Lin album), a 2008 release by Yoga Lin
• "Mysterious", from the 1999 album Eye II Eye by Scorpions
• "Mysterious" (song), from the 2005 album Jentina by Jentina
• "Mystery", from the 1984 album The Last in Line by Dio
• "Mystery" (Live song), from the 2006 album Songs from Black Mountain by alternative rock group Live
• "Mystery", from the album Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One by The Olivia Tremor Control
• "Mystery", a comic song written and performed by Hugh Laurie for the television series A Bit of Fry & Laurie
• "Mystery", a 1984 pop song, sometimes jazz, by the a cappella group The Manhattan Transfer

People[link]

• Mystery (pickup artist) (born 1971), stage name of entertainer Erik Von Markovik

Other[link]

• Mystery (log canoe), a Chesapeake Bay log canoe
• Mystery (lugger), a Mount's Bay lugger

Ships[link]

• USS Mystery, the name of more than one proposed or actual United States Navy ships

See also[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Mystery

• Anomaly (disambiguation)
• Fushigi (disambiguation), Japanese for "mystery" or "secret"
• Mystère (disambiguation)
• Secret
• unsolved problem

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Band may refer to:

Clothing, jewelry, and accessories[link]

• Bands (neckwear), two pieces of cloth fitted around the neck as part of formal clothing for clergy, academics, and lawyers
• Bandolier or bandoleer, an ammunition belt
• Belt (clothing)
• Wedding ring or wedding band
• Strap, an elongated flap or ribbon, usually of fabric or leather

Science and technology[link]

• Band (radio), a range of frequencies or wavelengths used in radio transmission and radar
• Rubber band, a short length of rubber and latex formed in the shape of a loop
• Möbius strip or Möbius band, an artifact with interesting topological features
• Band (mathematics), an idempotent semigroup
• Spectral bands, part of the optical spectra of polyatomic systems
• Metals and semiconductors
  • Valence band
  • Conduction band
  • Band gap

Medicine and biology[link]

• Bird ringing, or bird banding, placing a numbered bands of metal on birds' legs for identification
• A group of animals, such as gorillas or coyotes
  • Herd
  • Flocking (behavior)
• Band cell, a type of white blood cell
• Protein band, see Coomassie
• Gastric band, a weight-control measure

Organizations[link]

• Bands (Italian Army irregulars), military units once in the service of the Italian Regio Esercito
• Brazilian broadcast television network Rede Bandeirantes, nicknamed Band or Band Network
• The Band (wrestling), the Total Nonstop Wrestling name for the professional wrestling stable New World Order

Society and government[link]

• Band society, a small group of humans in a simple form of society
• The primary unit of Native Americans in the United States
• Band (First Nations Canada), the primary unit of First Nations Government in Canada

People[link]

• Band (surname)

Places[link]

• Band, Mureş in Romania
• Bánd, a village in Hungary

Music[link]

• Band, a company of musicians—see Musical ensemble
  • Rock band
  • Concert band
  • School band, a group of student musicians who rehearse and perform instrumental music together
  • Marching band, a group of performers that consist of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors and incorporate some type of marching (and possibly other movements) with their musical performance
• The Band, a Canadian-American rock and roll group
  • The Band (album), its eponymous album released in 1969

See also[link]

• All pages beginning with "Band"
• All pages with titles containing "Band"
• Banding (disambiguation)
• Drum and bugle corps (disambiguation)
• Stripe (disambiguation)

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Paul Butterfield
Paul Butterfield performing at the 1979 Woodstock Reunion Parr Meadows Ridge, New York
Background information
Born	(1942-12-17)December 17, 1942
Origin	Chicago, Illinois
Died	May 4, 1987(1987-05-04) (aged 44) North Hollywood, California
Genres	Blues-rock, Chicago blues, Electric blues, Blue-eyed soul
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Harmonica, Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
Years active	1963–1987
Associated acts	The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

Paul Butterfield (17 December 1942 – 4 May 1987) was an American blues vocalist and harmonica player, who founded the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in the early 1960s and performed at the original Woodstock Festival. He died of drug-related heart failure.^[1]

Career[link]

The son of a lawyer, Paul Butterfield was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in the city's Hyde Park neighborhood. He was born and raised Jewish. ^[2] He attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, a private school associated with the University of Chicago. After studying classical flute with Walfrid Kujala of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as a teenager,^[2] he developed a love for the blues harmonica, and hooked up with white, blues-loving, University of Chicago physics student Elvin Bishop.^[2] The pair started hanging around black blues musicians such as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter and Otis Rush. Butterfield and Bishop soon formed a band with Jerome Arnold and Sam Lay, both hired away from the touring band of Howlin' Wolf. In 1963, the racially mixed quartet was made the house band at Big John's, a folk club in the Old Town district on Chicago's north side. Butterfield was still underage (as was guitarist Mike Bloomfield.)

Butterfield Blues Band[link]

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was signed to Elektra Records after adding Bloomfield as lead guitarist.^[2] Their original debut sessions were scrapped, to appear in 1995 as The Original Lost Elektra Sessions. A second attempt was recorded live at the Cafe Au Go Go, but these too were rejected by producer Paul Rothchild. Some of the discarded tracks appeared on the What's Shakin LP shared with the Lovin' Spoonful.

At the Newport Folk Festival in July 1965, Bob Dylan went electric in a move considered controversial at the time by much of the folk music establishment, backed by members of Butterfield's band — Bloomfield, Arnold, and Lay — but not Butterfield himself.^[2] In October, the self-titled debut recorded a third time after the addition of organist Mark Naftalin on some tracks, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, containing Nick Gravenites' "Born in Chicago," was released.^[2] Shortly thereafter, Lay became ill with pneumonia and pleurisy and Billy Davenport took over on drums. The Butterfield Band's second album was East-West, released in 1966, after which Bloomfield, Arnold, and Davenport left the band.

Bloomfield formed The Electric Flag with Nick Gravenites, and Bishop began playing lead guitar on The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw (1967). The band now included saxophonists David Sanborn and Gene Dinwiddie, bassist Bugsy Maugh, and drummer Phillip Wilson. In 1967, The Butterfield Blues Band played the seminal Monterey International Pop Festival along with the Electric Flag, Jimi Hendrix, Ravi Shankar, The Who, Otis Redding, the counterculture bands of San Francisco, and many others.

After the release of In My Own Dream, both Bishop and Naftalin left by the end of 1968. Nineteen-year-old guitarist Buzzy Feiten, joined the band for its 1969 release, Keep On Moving, produced by Jerry Ragavoy, and Rod Hicks replaced Maugh on bass. The Butterfield band played at the Woodstock Festival, although their performance wasn't included in the resulting Woodstock film. In 1969, Butterfield also took part in a concert at Chicago's Auditorium Theater and a subsequent recording session organized by record producer Norman Dayron, featuring Muddy Waters and backed by pianist Otis Spann, Michael Bloomfield, Sam Lay, Donald "Duck" Dunn, and Buddy Miles, which was recorded and portions released on Fathers And Sons on Chess Records.

Better Days[link]

Following the releases of Live in 1970 and Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smiling in 1971, Butterfield broke up the horn band with David Sanborn and Dinwiddie, and returned to Woodstock, New York. He formed a new group including Chris Parker on drums, guitarist Amos Garrett, Geoff Muldaur, pianist Ronnie Barron and bassist Billy Rich, naming the ensemble "Better Days." The group released Paul Butterfield's Better Days and It All Comes Back in 1972 and 1973, respectively.

In 1976, Butterfield performed at The Band's final concert, The Last Waltz. Together with The Band, he performed the song "Mystery Train" and backed Muddy Waters on "Mannish Boy".

With Rick Danko, (left) on bass guitar. Woodstock Reunion, September 7, 1979

Solo[link]

The late 1970s and early 1980s saw Butterfield as a solo act and a session musician, doing occasional television appearances and releasing a couple of albums. He also toured as a duo with Rick Danko, formerly of The Band, with whom he performed for the last time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He also toured with another member of The Band, Levon Helm, as a member of Helm's "RCO All Stars", which also included most of the members of Booker T and the MGs, in 1977. In the 1970s, Butterfield dated fellow musician Elizabeth Barraclough.^[3]

In 1986 Butterfield released his final studio album, The Legendary Paul Butterfield Rides Again.^[4]

Harmonica style[link]

Butterfield played and endorsed (as noted in the liner notes for his first album) Hohner harmonicas, in particular the diatonic ten-hole 'Marine Band' model. He played using an unconventional technique, holding the harmonica upside-down (with the low notes to the righthand side). His primary playing style was in the second position, also known as cross-harp, but he also was adept in the third position, notably on the track East-West from the album of the same name, and the track 'Highway 28' from the "Better Days" album.

Seldom venturing higher than the sixth hole on the harmonica, Butterfield nevertheless managed to create a variety of original sounds and melodic runs. His live tonal stylings were accomplished using a Shure 545 Unidyne III and Shure PE54 hand-held microphone connected to one or more Fender amplifiers, often then additionally boosted through the venue's public address (PA) system. This allowed Butterfield to achieve the same extremes of volume as the various notable sidemen in his band.

Butterfield also at times played a mixture of acoustic and amplified style by playing into a microphone mounted on a stand, allowing him to perform on the harmonica using both hands to get a muted, Wah-wah effect, as well as various vibratos. This was usually done on a quieter, slower tune.

Death[link]

Paul Butterfield died of peritonitis due to drug use and heavy drinking on May 4, 1987 Los Angeles, California. Before then, Butterfield tenor sax player Ruben Riera had taken him to Bellevue Hospital in New York City for emergency surgery for perforated intestine.^[5] He died at his home in North Hollywood, California. A month earlier, he was featured on B.B. King & Friends, a filmed concert that also included Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Etta James, Gladys Knight, Chaka Khan and Eric Clapton. Its subsequent release was dedicated to Butterfield in memoriam.

In 2005, the Paul Butterfield Fund and Society was founded. It petitions for Butterfield's inclusion in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Discography[link]

• 1965 – The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
• 1966 – The Butterfield Blues Band - East-West
• 1966 – The Butterfield Blues Band - Live at Unicorn Coffee House
• 1966 - The Butterfield Blues Band - What's Shakin' - Elektra compilation album
• 1967 – The Butterfield Blues Band - The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw
• 1967 - John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and Paul Butterfield - John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Paul Butterfield, EP
• 1968 – The Butterfield Blues Band - In My Own Dream
• 1969 – The Butterfield Blues Band - Keep On Moving
• 1970 - The Butterfield Blues Band - Live
• 1971 – The Butterfield Blues Band - Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smilin'
• 1972 - The Butterfield Blues Band - An Offer You Can't Refuse (recorded 1963)
• 1972 - Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Golden Butter/The Best of the Butterfield Blues Band
• 1973 – Paul Butterfield's Better Days - Better Days
• 1973 – Paul Butterfield's Better Days - It All Comes Back
• 1976 - Paul Butterfield - Put It In Your Ear
• 1981 - Paul Butterfield - North-South
• 1986 - Paul Butterfield - The Legendary Paul Butterfield Rides Again
• 1995 - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - The Original Lost Elektra Sessions (recorded 1964)
• 1996 - The Butterfield Blues Band - Strawberry Jam
• 1996 – The Butterfield Blues Band - East-West Live (recorded between 1966–1967)
• 1997 - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - An Anthology: The Elektra Years (2 CDs)
• 2005 - The Butterfield Blues Band - Live - (Limited Edition with additional tracks)

Butterfield also played harmonica for:

• 1968 - Jimi Hendrix - Blues at Midnight
• 1969 - Muddy Waters - Fathers and sons
• 1972 - Bonnie Raitt - Give It Up
• 1975 - Muddy Waters - Woodstock Album
• 1976 - The Band - The Last Waltz

Sources[link]

• Michael Bloomfield' - If You Love These Blues: An Oral History Backbeat Books, 1st edition September 2000 - ISBN 978-0-87930-617-5 (with CD of uniussed music)
• Ken Brooks - The Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper with Paul Butterfield and David Clayton Thomas Agenda Ltd, February 1999, ISBN 1-899882-90-1 ISBN 978-1-899882-90-8
• Al Kooper - Backstage Passes: Rock 'N' Roll Life in the Sixties - Stein & Day Pub (1st edition February 1977) ISBN 0-8128-2171-8 - ISBN 978-0-8128-2171-0
• Al Kooper - Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock 'N' Roll Survivor Billboard Books (Updated Edition - September 1998) ISBN 0-8230-8257-1 ISBN 978-0823082575
• Al Kooper - Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards - Hal Leonard Corporation, new edition February 2008, ISBN 0-87930-922-9 ISBN 978-0-87930-922-0
• Ed Ward - Michael Bloomfield, The rise and fall of an American guitar hero, Cherry Lane Books (1983), ISBN 0-89524-157-9 ISBN 978-0895241573

References[link]

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