Former APRIL WINE Drummer Snubbed At Canadian Music Industry Hall Of Fame Induction

March 20, 2009

FYImusic.ca reports: When APRIL WINE was inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame last week, they did so without veteran drummer Jerry Mercer and he's not happy about the situation. Mercer, who had been with the veteran Canadian rock band for 36 years, left the group in November after conflicts with lead singer Myles Goodwyn became what he himself describes as unbearable.

"Myles and I played together but we didn't dance together, if you know what I mean," he he told the Kingston Whig Standard's Ian Elliott yesterday.

Mercer, now 70, said that he and nine other musicians who had played with the group over its long history had been treated "shabbily" by Goodwyn, the only remaining original member of the group, and they all deserved to be on stage for the induction, the way they were all on stage with the band at one time or another.

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