Bush (Canadian band)

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Bush was a Canadian rock band in the early 1970s who evolved from the respected club act "Mandala" who had had a minor Canadian hit "Loveitis". The band, consisting of Domenic Troiano, Prakash John, Pentti Glan and Roy Kenner, released a single eponymous album in 1970. The band recorded on the RCA label in Canada and Dunhill in the U.S and toured with label mates Steppenwolf and Three Dog Night. Three Dog Night released one of their songs, "I can hear you calling" as the b-side of their hugely successful single "Joy To The World". Bush was short-lived as a band but had some influence among musicians for their jazz-influenced rock.

Both Kenner and Troiano replaced Joe Walsh in The James Gang.They performed together on the albums "Straight Shooter" and "Passin' Thru". Prakash and Glan became highly respected session players who played with Alice Cooper and Lou Reed.

The band regained some notoriety in 1995, through an intellectual property dispute with the British alternative band Bush. As Troiano still owned the rights to that name, the British band were forced to release their albums in Canada as "Bush X". ^[1]

In late April 1997, Troiano and Gavin Rossdale reached an agreement under which Rossdale's band was permitted to use the name Bush without the letter X, in exchange for donating $20,000 each to the Starlight Foundation and the Canadian Music Therapy Trust Fund.

In 2005 at the age of 59, Domenic Troiano passed away after losing his fight with prostate cancer.