CCPS 2.0
Jon Card
Member of:
Biography
Jon Card
December 11, 1960 – April 8, 2024
Born in Germany and raised in Calgary, Jon Card was a legendary drummer on Canada’s punk scene in the 80’s and 90’s, playing with Suburban Slag, Personality Crisis, DOA, Rogue Pope, SNFU and Canada’s Subhumans.
But the Calgary scene is where he got his start. Chris Walter’s excellent book on Personality Crisis goes into his story in depth, including Jon Card seeing his first live band at the age of 14 (The Stampeders, of course) and sneaking into Lucifer’s by slicking his hair back and putting on a tweed jacket when he was 15. His drumming started unassumingly, playing percussion in his high school band – for which he’d go on to win a medal for the highest marks in the province on his instrument.
Walter’s book mentions that Card played for a metal band called Stonehenge before being turned onto punk rock by a miscreant named Al Charlton. After a bit of time at school in the states, he came back to Calgary and hooked up with Doug Boland, Jeff Burns, and Jim Hanlon to form Plasticide (later named Suburban Slag) in about 1979. He never looked back from that – around 1982 he joined Winnipeg punk legends Personality Crisis and played on their seminal Creatures For Awhile LP, then spent time with SNFU (playing on their If You Swear, You’ll Catch No Fish LP)… and then sat behind the kit for DOA in the late 80’s.
After a stint with Chris Houston’s Evil Twang, Card landed back in Calgary in the early 90’s and played with a bunch of folks including Jenny Allen, the Golden Calgarians, Justin Curtis… and one of our favourites, Rogue Pope.
As if he didn’t have enough punk cred behind him, Card also played with Vancouver’s the Subhumans when that band reformed in the mid 2000’s – and then rejoined SNFU in 2010.
With his passing, Jon’s former bandmates have been reflecting on both his unsurpassed skill as a drummer as well as his boundless humanity. We’ve lost another legend.
https://www.straight.com/music/legendary-punk-drummer-jon-card-has-died-with-those-left-behind-praising-his-talent-and
Born in Germany and raised in Calgary, Jon Card was a legendary drummer on Canada’s punk scene in the 80’s and 90’s, playing with Suburban Slag, Personality Crisis, DOA, Rogue Pope, SNFU and Canada’s Subhumans.
But the Calgary scene is where he got his start. Chris Walter’s excellent book on Personality Crisis goes into his story in depth, including Jon Card seeing his first live band at the age of 14 (The Stampeders, of course) and sneaking into Lucifer’s by slicking his hair back and putting on a tweed jacket when he was 15. His drumming started unassumingly, playing percussion in his high school band – for which he’d go on to win a medal for the highest marks in the province on his instrument.
Walter’s book mentions that Card played for a metal band called Stonehenge before being turned onto punk rock by a miscreant named Al Charlton. After a bit of time at school in the states, he came back to Calgary and hooked up with Doug Boland, Jeff Burns, and Jim Hanlon to form Plasticide (later named Suburban Slag) in about 1979. He never looked back from that – around 1982 he joined Winnipeg punk legends Personality Crisis and played on their seminal Creatures For Awhile LP, then spent time with SNFU (playing on their If You Swear, You’ll Catch No Fish LP)… and then sat behind the kit for DOA in the late 80’s.
After a stint with Chris Houston’s Evil Twang, Card landed back in Calgary in the early 90’s and played with a bunch of folks including Jenny Allen, the Golden Calgarians, Justin Curtis… and one of our favourites, Rogue Pope.
As if he didn’t have enough punk cred behind him, Card also played with Vancouver’s the Subhumans when that band reformed in the mid 2000’s – and then rejoined SNFU in 2010.
With his passing, Jon’s former bandmates have been reflecting on both his unsurpassed skill as a drummer as well as his boundless humanity. We’ve lost another legend.
https://www.straight.com/music/legendary-punk-drummer-jon-card-has-died-with-those-left-behind-praising-his-talent-and
Appears On
Email info@calgarycassettes.org to tell us more about this.
info@calgarycassettes.org
© 2024 Calgary Cassette Preservation Society.