Born in Belleville Ontario, Chris moved to Vancouver as a teenager in the 60s and attended the Vancouver School of Art (now the Emily Carr Institute of Design) and played drums in the popular west coast psychedelic blues band My Indole Ring. The band was a regular fixture at The Retinal Circus in Vancouver and opened for visiting acts including The Velvet Underground, The Doors, Muddy Waters, Junior Wells and Bo Diddley.
