Mashmakhan

Pierre Senecal, Brian Edwards, and Rayburn Blake formed their first band in 1960 as teens and played local Montreal dance halls and performed on the local scene under the band names like "the Phantoms," "Ray Blake's Combo," and "the Dominoes." In 1965 they were still playing together but with the addition of another Montrealer, Gerry Mercer, who stepped in to replace Edwards (who left the band for a short while). When Edwards returned to the band, Mercer stayed on to make it a quartet, and by then they were calling themselves "the Triangle" and backing up Montreal R&B singer T...