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Dan Lowe (guitar)
Hal Whitford (vocals)
Roydon Morice (bass; replaced Walker)
Jim Clench (bass; replaced Morice)
Brad Steckler (guitar, vocals; replaced Barre & Whitford)
Steve Nelson (drums; replaced Ego)

Following the evolution of Calgary band Shades Of Blond into 49th Parallel and then into Painter, a number of line-up changes and an aborted album on Randy Bachman's Molten Records led members Dorn Beattie and Dan Lowe to reform the act as Hammersmith.

Hammersmith managed two albums for Mercury - 'Hammersmith' (1974) and 'It's For You' (1976). Mercury dropped the band in 1977 but, Hammersmith stayed together until the end of 1977.

In 1978 Lowe and Whitford went to Edmonton and recorded five tracks at Sundown Recorders with hired guns Bob Walker (bass), Bob Ego (drums), and Norman Durkee (Bette Midler) on piano and Martin Barre (Jethro Tull) on guitar. Two of the tracks made it onto an eponymous LP under the name 451° which also contained more tracks from an entirely different version of the band including Hammersmith's Roydon Morice. Morice didn't stay long and was replaced by April Wine bassist Jim Clench (via BTO). Hal Whitford was also replaced by former Whitewolf vocalist/guitarist Brad Steckler whom Lowe had worked with as a producer.

After the failure of the album to gain any traction, Lowe and Steckel would form Prototype featuring Doug Riley on lead vocals.

with notes from Bill Munson, Dave Buerster, and Bob Walker.



Singles
1980 China/Santa Ana Wind (Intercan/Pickwick) CAN-10012
1980 I've Got The Power/It's Alright (Intercan/Pickwick) CAN-10020
1980 Don't Walk/Fastest Gun In Town (Intercan/Pickwick) CAN-10023

Albums
1980 451° (Intercan/Pickwick) ICI-009

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