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 Adam Faux was born in
Toronto Canada to a eccentric designer and proto hippie sculptor. He spent
years living in geodesic domes and 28 sided houses and even a real farm
house, and attended the Ontario college of Art at the tender age of 5. Okay,
he ran around the halls for a year or so while Al Faux taught, and around
maggies Farm (an o.c.a.d campus, 69-72) while hippies got their freak on.
By the age of 16, Adam had left home and was living in the heart of Toronto’s
art and music scene, on Queen west. His first mohican was administered by Pete
Lawson and Handsome Ned, and his first real job was “kitchen slave” at Yofi’s
restaurant on fabled Baldwin Street, a mecca for vegetarians and green haired
punk rocks. While At Yofi’s, Adam met John DesLauriers of the “10 Commandments”
and “l’etranger”, and hassled him until finally forming “Pigfarm” in the mid
eighty’s.
There was in the mean time, a stay in Mexico hunting iguanas and fishing
commercially near isla mujeures, and a residency at Paris north station in
France, as well as “street level existence” in 9 other countries in europe,
ending in England, where he recovered from a Grecian motorcycle crash, having
his broken fingers set by a widow whose husband had died that day, on the Greek
island of Naxos.
Pigfarm recorded and performed from 1985-1994 in various forms throughout
Canada and the United States and charted number 34 on the college music charts
in America (after they had broken up for the first time), and held top honor on
most Canadian university radio stations at at varying times, and enjoyed a
publishing deal with peermusic world wide during which time Adam delivered
Whitney Houston’s diamond award for the BodyGuard soundtrack to New York, and
held up the train at the U.S. Canada border because immigration didn’t believe
the dread locked and messy lead singer was telling the truth...about the
contents of the box......
The “Lost Dakotas” list Adam as a founding member on wikipedia, and the
“Urban Decay Group” appears if you google long enough; Andy Stochansky, Cyrus
Sundar - Singh being key members...Adam counts among his most memorable
accomplishments, working with Michael Snow (Canadian Hotshot Artist, see walking
woman) on “the Audience” a massive sculpture at Toronto’s Skydome, producing
and/or recording and playing on Kyp harness’s breakthrough “the Floating World”
and “All her Love”, and recording/ mixing on the gemini award winning film “The
Film Club” directed by Cyrus Sundar Singh, doin' the same plus playin' on the
award winning doc “the Jews of India” by the same director, and including
producer Vanessa Laufer.
Adam has in one way or another had video's rotated on Much Music, CTV, and
CBC among others. Been the focus of the Dini Petty show(CTV), swinging on a star
(CBC Radio), Much Music's 'the wedge" and countless other newspaper, TV and
periodical features.
Presently, Adam’s focus is with a gang of disparate characters, "Exploding
Band". Adam Faux, Jesse Capon, Curtis Faux, and Pete Fusco make up the live and
recording band. Jake Chisholme, Brandi Disterheft (guitar and bass respectively)
play on 3 tunes in the exploding band's recorded repertoire. Michael Philip
Wojewoda appears on two tracks pounding the skins, and John Deslauriers plays
bass on "The Same Great Gasp". Adam produced, co-wrote and performed on the “the
Fourway Flashers” debut 2007 pop rock release, and is occasionally jazzing with
fundamentalist pop players “The Tiny Specks”.
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