Cleave Anderson
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Cleave Anderson
| image = Cleave Anderson.jpg
| caption = Cleave Anderson performs at Salty Dog Bar & Grill in Toronto, Ontario on March 15, 2019
| instrument = Drums
| occupation = Musician, songwriter
| years_active = 1968–present
| genre = punk rock, country rock, rockabilly, blues
| label =
| associated_acts = Blue Rodeo
Battered Wives
The Viletones
Forgotten Rebels
Sherry Kean
| website =
}}
Cleave Anderson is a Canadian punk rock, alt. country, rock, pop, etc drummer. Anderson has played and recorded with several well-known groups, including Blue Rodeo, Battered Wives,{{cite book|title=Saturday Night|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qR_uAAAAMAAJ|volume=106, 1-6|year=1991|publisher=Consolidated Press Limited|page=54}}Tyranna, Viletones, Sherry Kean, Forgotten Rebels, and the Beat Club
Career
While in high school Anderson played drums in bands that performed at frat parties and church drop-in centres. After high school Cleave played around Ontario in cover bands. In 1974 Anderson joined Canada Post as a letter carrier when music failed to pay the bills.{{cite web|title=Glory Road|url=http://www.johnborra.com/the%20band/cleave/glory%20road.html|accessdate=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703155428/http://www.johnborra.com/the%20band/cleave/glory%20road.html|archive-date=3 July 2007|url-status=dead}}
In 1976, after visiting Max's Kansas City and CBGB and seeing the Ramones, Anderson became interested in the new punk movement. Returning to Toronto, Anderson eventually joined Battered Wives one of a few new bands on the scene.{{cite web|title=Battered Wives|url=http://jam.canoe.com/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/B/Battered_Wives.html|website=Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia|accessdate=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307214150/http://jam.canoe.com/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/B/Battered_Wives.html|archive-date=7 March 2016|url-status=dead}} The band recorded their debut album and opened for Elvis Costello on his first tour in North America.{{cite web|title=Interview with Cleave Anderson|url=http://equalizingxdistort.blogspot.ca/2008/05/interview-with-cleave-anderson.html|accessdate=3 March 2016}} On leaving Battered Wives he played and recorded with local Punk Rock groups such as Tyranna, Forgotten Rebels and bubblegum punk pioneers the Way Outs.{{cite news|last1=Perlich|first1=Tim|title=Punks MIA|url=https://nowtoronto.com/music/punks-mia/|accessdate=3 March 2016|work=Now|date=13 August 2008}}{{cite web|title=Tyranna 1979|url=http://www.johnborra.com/the%20band/cleave/tyranna.html|accessdate=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703154917/http://www.johnborra.com/the%20band/cleave/tyranna.html|archive-date=3 July 2007|url-status=dead}}
In 1980 as the first wave of Punk Rock faded, Anderson joined new wave R&B band The Sharks.{{cite web|title=The Sharks|url=http://jam.canoe.com/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/S/Sharks.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307213818/http://jam.canoe.com/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/S/Sharks.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 7, 2016|publisher=Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia}} He would later play with The Shark's bassist Basil Donovan in Blue Rodeo. Around the same time, Anderson also played with blues artists David Wilcox and Colin Linden. Anderson returned to roots music doing gigs with Handsome Ned, who had started playing country and rockabilly in Toronto's Queen St. West artist community.
In 1984 Anderson started rehearsals with Blue Rodeo.{{cite web|title=Blue Rodeo 1984-1989|url=http://www.johnborra.com/the%20band/cleave/blue%20rodeo.html|access-date=2016-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430111051/http://www.johnborra.com/the%20band/cleave/blue%20rodeo.html|archive-date=2009-04-30|url-status=dead}} Anderson joined the group and is heard on their first two albums, Outskirts and Diamond Mine. Despite Blue Rodeos's success, Anderson left the band in late 1989 to raise a family and return to Canada Post.
After leaving Blue Rodeo, Anderson continued to play with local songwriters and then reconnecting with original punksters Screamin' Sam. In 1997 he joined the John Borra band (with John Borra from A Neon Rome and Change of Heart) that continues to the present.{{cite web|title=John Borra band|url=http://www.johnborra.com/the%20band/cleave/jb%20band.html|accessdate=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703154825/http://www.johnborra.com/the%20band/cleave/jb%20band.html|archive-date=3 July 2007|url-status=dead}} In 2004 Anderson formed old school punk rock revivalists the Screwed, who have recorded two albums. In 2011 Sid's Kids were formed to back up many of the Canadian punk originators and the project is ongoing.{{cite web|title=Battered Wives - 1978|url=http://www.johnborra.com/the%20band/cleave/battered%20wives.html|accessdate=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430110901/http://www.johnborra.com/the%20band/cleave/battered%20wives.html|archive-date=30 April 2009|url-status=dead}} He has toured with the Viletones' Steven Leckie, Cheetah Chrome of the Dead Boys and Walter Lure of Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers among others.
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External links
- {{MusicBrainz artist|mbid=3725c412-fcf1-402a-9683-e39b0a62342e|name=Cleave Anderson}}
- {{IMDb name | nm2364250 | Cleave Anderson}}
- {{Allmusic | artist | cleave-anderson-mn0001215588}}
- {{Discogs artist | 1405388}}
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Category:Canadian punk rock musicians
Category:Canadian punk rock drummers
Category:Canadian male drummers
Category:Canadian rock drummers
Category:Musicians from Toronto
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)