Music Existence Because of Music, We Exist
Neal Busby is a Toronto, Ontario-based drummer best known for his time in the Juno Award-winning heavy metal quintet Slik Toxik, who cultivated a dedicated fanbase with their two full length albums, 1992’s Doin’ The Nasty and 1994’s Irrelevant. Although the band’s dissolution was just as dizzying as their rise to fame, Busby stayed active in music with an assiduous drive that sustains him to this day. He and his wife Huguette Arsenault have since experienced substantial success with their band Twirl, a prolific post-punk/electronic duo whose catalogue has been licensed to over 550 TV shows. The two are also involved in Toxyk Chyld, a supergroup of Canadian musicians that derives its name from Slik Toxik and another of Busby’s formative bands, Chyld. In addition to releasing new Twirl and Toxyk Chyld material, Busby will soon launch a new project called Gypsy Wytch, featuring his wife on lead vocals.
On Wednesday, I invited Busby on Music Existence to discuss how he first solidified his craft as a drummer, his time with Slik Toxik and the bands that followed, and his primary takeaways from his career thus far.
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