the players

chris staig: lead guitar

Chris Staig is a gifted guitar player and an encyclopedia of music knowledge. He has played with Toronto bands Taxi Chain and Rockboy, and is also an ecellent songwriter with his own solo albums Deeper We'll Dream and Death of Romance. He met Hobbs while hosting an open stage at Toronto's Old York Tavern. Staig immediately felt a kinship with Hobbs's songs of lost love and barroom philosophy. Staig has an uncanny ability to colour a song perfectly without showing off.

Check out his web page at www.chrisstaig.com

brian lahaie: drums

Brian Lahaie is from Sudbury, Ontario. He joined up with Hobbs in September of 2002. Lahaie also plays with Pagan Mary and Angie Nussey. He's got stellar rhythm and he's quite tall.

ayron mortley: bass, mandolin

Ayron Mortley grew up in Kitchener, Ontario, where he started playing local clubs at the age of 16. Mortley plays mandolin and bass in the Greg Hobbs band. He also plays guitar with Taxi Chain, Pagan Mary and the Chris Staig band. He is a graduate of the music program at Humber College but we don't hold that against him.

chris cobain - ghb member 1998-2003

Chris Cobain grew up in one of those cool families where he was taken to see rock concerts at an early age. He first met Hobbs at summer camp, where together they tortured Neil Young songs on battered acoustic guitars. In the mid nineties they met up while going to school in Ottawa, occasionally getting together to play everything from Bob Dylan to Nine Inch Nails. Cobain now works as a sound engineer. He is the producer of Drake Motel. He continues to do production work with Hobbs.

adam bisby - ghb member 1998-2002.

Adam Bisby has been playing drums since he was a teenager in Kingston, where he is rumoured to have sung a spirited version of Kim Mitchell's Rock'n Roll Duty in front of his whole high school. Some years later while living in Ottawa, Bisby joined the band Water Can... Bisby's musical influences include Phish, the Beatles and Ween. His final gig with Hobbs was in January 2002.