Phil Naro (vocals)
Warren Barbour (guitar)
Ray Lessard (bass)
John Livingstone (drums)

Following the demise of MCA Recording act Octavian, Lessard, Barbour, and Livingstone searched through 100 auditionees for a vocalist to create a new quartet. They discovered New York native Phil Naro (formerly of Lou Gramm's Black Sheep) and became Chain Reaction.

After a move from Ottawa ot Toronto they released a their independent album 'X-Rated Dreams' on the small Trillium label in Toronto. However, the album barely made it out the door when the label ran into financial problems and the band bought the album back and shopped it. After some favourable airplay on Toronto's monster Rock station Q107, Attic Records scooped the band up.

They soon found themselves at the short end of the stick during touring in 1982 as they encountered one mishap after another -- a vehicle infraction in Quebec forced them to surrender their assets to authorities, an accident involving their touring van left them without wheels, and guitarist Warren Barbour was mistakenly picked up for vagrancy after standing outside the club the band had played.

The trials and tribulations did nothing to endear the band to the record buying public and they soon disbanded.

Phil Naro would go on to form his own band and he released several solo records in the 1990's; Lessard is now a broker.

with notes from Ray Lessard and Ralph Alfonso.

 


Singles
1982 X-Rated Dream/You Have Gone Too Far (Trillium) TRS-493

Albums
1982 X-Rated Dream (Trillium)
1982 X-Rated Dream [re-issue] (Attic)

Video


Compilation Tracks







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