The Surly Young Bucks

By Ric Taylor, View Magazine, October 5 2006

It was early summer last year when the ballad of the local roots

and roll super group The Surly Young Bucks began. Aaron

Goldstein bumped into Max Kerman and Mike DeAngelis on a bus

bound for Toronto and began the legend. They immediately

found common ground as McMaster University students and as

musicians, but couldn’t have predicted their common future.

“I remember thinking that I’ve got a few years on these boys,

but they know what they’re talking about,” smiles Goldstein on

the initial connection. “We hadn’t discussed working or making

music together or anything, I think we all just agreed that we

weren’t done figuring out what the others were about.”

So the trio kept in touch and while Goldstein worked on a

Led Zeppelin cover band, Red Zeppelin, and Kerman and

DeAngelis on Charlemagne. They hung out more and more with

Goldstein’s recording skills eventually enlisted to produce

Charlemagne.

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