Rabbits Full of Magic

Toys "Keep Yourself Alive" @ Weston High School (Late 1977)

Happy birthday to Thomas Bruneau, my father, who is the coolest rock n roll dad ever. He played drums and guitar in the Northeast in the late 60's and 70's. And now all his kids are doing the same in Atlanta! Guess you'd say it's a family tradition. He played in this band called Toys which was in the New England psych rock scene in the 70s. His bands had played shows with Jonathan Richman and Ric Ocasek, and in the 60's he was in a psych band called Lords of Knight.

A while ago he gave me a box of tapes of Toys and this is from a performance at Weston High School in 1977 and its a Queen cover and its really effing awesome. The singer does an uncanny job of sounding like Freddy Mercury and all the rest is wonderful and it's possibly the best Queen cover I've ever heard!

There's a picture I need to scan of my dad's band from the time. They are all wearing leather and standing in front of a brick wall like the Ramones.