Cleave Anderson is a Canadian punk rock, alt. country, rock, pop, etc drummer. Anderson has played and recorded with several well-known groups, including Blue Rodeo,

Battered Wives Battered Wives, aka The Wives was a Canadian punk rock band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada active during the late 1970s. History The group got together on Toronto's Queen Street West. It originally consisted of Toby Swann (guitar, vocals), Coli ...

,Tyranna, Viletones, Sherry Kean,

Forgotten Rebels The Forgotten Rebels are a punk rock band from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1977,

, and the Beat Club ].

Career

While in high school Anderson played drums in bands that performed at frat parties and church drop-in centres. After high school Cleave played around Ontario in cover bands. In 1974 Anderson joined

Canada Post Canada Post Corporation (french: Société canadienne des postes), trading as Canada Post (french: Postes Canada), is a Crown corporations of Canada, Crown corporation that functions as the primary Postal administration, postal operator in Canada ...

as a letter carrier when music failed to pay the bills. In 1976, after visiting

Max's Kansas City Max's Kansas City was a nightclub and restaurant at 213 Park Avenue South in New York City, which became a gathering spot for musicians, poets, artists and politicians in the 1960s and 1970s. It was opened by Mickey Ruskin (1933–1983) in Decemb ...

and

CBGB CBGB was a New York City music club opened in 1973 by Hilly Kristal in Manhattan's East Village. The club was previously a biker bar and before that was a dive bar. The letters ''CBGB'' were for '' Country'', '' BlueGrass'', and '' Blues'', Kri ...

and seeing the

Ramones The Ramones were an American punk rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974. They are often cited as the first true punk rock group. Despite achieving a limited commercial appeal in the United ...

, Anderson became interested in the new punk movement. Returning to Toronto, Anderson eventually joined

one of a few new bands on the scene. The band recorded their debut album and opened for

Elvis Costello Declan Patrick MacManus OBE (born 25 August 1954), known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer-songwriter and record producer. He has won multiple awards in his career, including a Grammy Award in 2020, and has twice been nom ...

on his first tour in North America. On leaving Battered Wives he played and recorded with local Punk Rock groups such as Tyranna, Forgotten Rebels and bubblegum punk pioneers the Way Outs. In 1980 as the first wave of Punk Rock faded, Anderson joined new wave R&B band The Sharks. He would later play with The Shark's bassist Basil Donovan in Blue Rodeo. Around the same time, Anderson also played with blues artists David Wilcox and

Colin Linden Colin Kendall Linden (born 16 April 1960) is a Canadian guitarist, songwriter and record producer. Linden plays acoustic and electric guitar, specializing in slide guitar, country blues, and ragtime fingerpicking. He frequently collaborates with ...

. Anderson returned to

roots music Roots music may refer to: * American folk music * Americana (music) Americana (also known as American roots music) is an amalgam of Music of the United States, American music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that mak ...

doing gigs with Handsome Ned, who had started playing country and rockabilly in Toronto's Queen St. West artist community. In 1984 Anderson started rehearsals with

Blue Rodeo Blue Rodeo is a Canadian country rock band formed in 1984 in Toronto, Ontario. They have released 16 full-length studio albums, four live recordings, one greatest hits album, and two video/DVDs, along with multiple solo albums, side projects, a ...

. Anderson joined the group and is heard on their first two albums, ''

Outskirts Outskirts or The Outskirts may refer to: * Rural–urban fringe The rural–urban fringe, also known as the outskirts, rurban, peri-urban or the urban hinterland, can be described as the "landscape interface between town and country", or als ...

'' and '' Diamond Mine''. Despite Blue Rodeos's success, Anderson left the band in late 1989 to raise a family and return to Canada Post. After leaving Blue Rodeo, Anderson continued to play with local songwriters and then reconnecting with original punksters Screamin' Sam. In 1997 he joined the John Borra band (with John Borra from A Neon Rome and Change of Heart) that continues to the present. In 2004 Anderson formed old school punk rock revivalists the Screwed, who have recorded two albums. In 2011 Sid's Kids were formed to back up many of the Canadian punk originators and the project is ongoing. He has toured with the Viletones' Steven Leckie,

Cheetah Chrome Eugene Richard O'Connor (born February 18, 1955), better known by his stage name Cheetah Chrome, is an American musician who achieved fame as a guitarist for Rocket from the Tombs and the punk rock band Dead Boys. Career Rocket From the Tombs ...

the Dead Boys The Dead Boys are an American punk rock band from Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The band was among the first wave of punk, and regarded by many as one of the rowdiest and most violent groups of the era. They were formed by vocalist Stiv Ba ...

and Walter Lure of Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers among others.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Cleave Living people Canadian punk rock musicians Canadian punk rock drummers Canadian male drummers Canadian rock drummers Musicians from Toronto Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Blue Rodeo members