Don't It Make Ya Feel - Music

Headpins Are A Canadian Rock Group Founded As A Side Project In The Late 1970s By Then Chilliwack Members Ab Bryant And Brian MacLeod. Macleod Was Impressed By The Vocal Talents Of Vancouver Rock Singer Denise McCann And Asked Her To Join His New Venture. Originally Matt Frenette Played Drums For The Headpins While Bernie Aubin Played Drums For A Fellow Vancouver Band The Soon To Be Renamed Loverboy. But Within Months Aubin And Frenette Swapped Bands Where Each Continues To Play To The Present. The Headpins Began Gigging Around The Vancouver Area Throughout 1981 Quickly Building A Fan Base. McCann Left At The End Of That First Year And MacLeod Brought In Darby Mills To Provide Lead Vocals. The Headpins Are A Mildly Successful Hard Rock Band That Has Ties To Some Of The Biggest Names In Canadian Rock. They Have Continued To Take Their Female Fronted Brand Of Hard Rock To The People With Various Line-Ups Over The Years. The Headpins Were Formed As A Side Project By Brian MacLeod Guitar And Ab Bryant Bass Who Due To A Recording Contract Gone Badly Were Unable To Tour With Their Band Chilliwack. They Toured Around The Vancouver Area With Denise McCann Randy Bachman's Wife On Vocals And Streetheart Drummer Matt Frenette. By 1981 Frenette Had Left To Concentrate On Loverboy And Was Replaced By Bernie Aubin While McCann's Departure Wasn't Far Behind And With The Addition Of Darby Mills The Classic Lineup Was Complete. The Debut Album Sold Well But Mills Had To Tour Without McLeod And Bryant Who Were Still Tied To Chiliwack. The Headpins Toured With Such Acts As Kiss And Billy Squier. By 1983 Members Were No Longer Involved In Chiliwack And Could Concentrate Fully On A Follow-Up Album. Line Of Fire Cracked The Billboard 200 Behind The Success Of The Single "Just One More Time". But 1985 Would Prove To Be The Beginning Of The End For The Band. Their Label Went Bankrupt During The Recording Of Head Over Heels And They Were Picked Up By MCA. When An American Tour With ZZ Top Fell Through MCA Wanted The Band Back In The Studio Only Months After The Albums Release! Mills Decided To Go Solo And MacLeod Tried To Keep The Headpins Alive With Chrissy Steele. After Recording The Album MacLeod's Health Began To Fail Him And They Decided To Release The Album Under Steele's Name. In The Mid 90's MacLeod Passed Away From Cancer. Fed Up That People Other Than The Members Of The Headpins Were Making Money On The Name Mills Reformed The Band With Aubin Bryant And Guitarists Alfie Galpin And Tony Dellacroce. Headpins Continue To Perform Live With Ab And Bernie From The Classic '80s Line-Up. It Was Announced In The Second Half Of 2016 That Long Time Lead Singer Darby Mills Had Moved On To Pursue Solo Endeavors And That Their New Lead Vocalist Is Katrina Kat Lawrence. Mills's Last Performance With Headpins Was In August 2016. Discography - Studio Albums
- Turn It Loud - 1982 - Line Of Fire - 1983 - Head Over Heels - 1985 Compilation Albums
- Greatest Hits - 1988 - Anthology - 1995 - The Complete Greatest Hits - 2002 read less