Brian Smith (Canadian musician)

Brian "Smitty" Smith (born March 26, 1949) is a British-Canadian guitarist, known for being a founding member of the rock band Trooper.^[1]

Smith began performing on the guitar before he was fifteen years old. Some of his first gigs were playing with Don Geppert and Anne Attenborough, in a band which played Hawaiian music.^[2]

Smith has performed with Trooper along with Ra McGuire since 1975, when their first album was released, to the present day. He currently resides in Langley, BC.^[3]

Smitty and Trooper continue to perform 100 shows a year across Canada. As part of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics festivities, Smith was featured when Trooper performed on February 21, 2010. Coverage of the event was broadcast in Canada and around the world on networks such as CTV and MuchMusic.^[4]

Notable Instruments

Brian Smith has a large collection of vintage guitars, including the following:

• Fender Stratocaster
• 1974 Gibson Les Paul, which Smith still plays at every Trooper show.^[5]
• A Gretsch Guitar, formerly owned and played by Randy Bachman of Bachman–Turner Overdrive and The Guess Who. This guitar was also used for the guitar riff at the end of the Trooper hit "Round Round We Go".^[6]
• A Bill Lewis handbuilt guitar which Smith played mostly when Trooper was known as Applejack.^[7]

References

External links

• Trooper official website