![]() While temperatures steadily dipped into the coming freeze of another long Canadian winter, Robbie and Don defrosted their fingers over heaters, talking. ![]() Then again, the following Saturday, October the 19 th, reached a high of only 6 degrees. Records will show however that the first half of October in 1991, particularly Saturday the 12 th, ranged from 7 to 21 degrees Celsius-practically a heat wave. The average temperature for Edmonton each October is 10 degrees Celsius, and that’s a teeth chattering high. ![]() One Saturday night after cruising Edmonton Don parked his car in front of Davidson’s house, engine idling, but Davidson did not open his passenger-side door to leave. Davidson was twenty-one years young, and though Canada had only recently survived nine consecutive weeks of Bryan Adams on the top of their charts- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You was practically bleeding through the boom box-hash, marijuana, and mushrooms conducted the transmission of his airwaves.Ĭruising-and for whatever reason, his friend Don came along for the ride, “but he never came into the bar,” Davidson recalled. It was the early nineties-October of 1991 to be exact. You’re coming.”ĭavidson is undoubtedly referring to his former life in the Edmonton bar and club scene, a segment he refers to as cruising around. ![]() It was as if God was telling me, I have a plan. “I DIDN’T CHOOSE THIS LIFE,” ROBBIE DAVIDSON INSISTED over the phone.
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