Vancouver guitarist John Murray met singer-writer John Lyle in 1970. Murray had recently left one of Vancouver’s top bands Papa Bear’s Medicine Show. Lyle had been in two lesser known bands, The Gordian Knot and The Western Country Band. These groups disbanded as bands do. Lyle then recruited Murray to help him record the album Bootleg Powerhead. They gigged together for a short while with Murray and bassist Derek Stephenson accompanying Lyle as Lost John Lyle and The Lonesome Ornery Polecats. This group disbanded as bands do. Murray went on the road with a group called Weather while Lyle and Stephenson carried on in Vancouver until Stephenson was offered a better paying job with Paul Hann in Toronto. Lyle to this day has abandonment issues. Lyle went to Toronto, formed a duo with Stephenson and then reconnected with Murray who was there with Weather. (Are you really following this? Get a life.) Murray had written a brilliant song called Unrequited Love’s A #*#*ing Drag, which for some unkn