Without being TOO LOUD, Van Leer is the heaviest band you haven't yet heard. Van Leer is an original music band and a dramatic cover band with a CD, "Thumbs Up!"

The current makeup of the band is as follows. Please click on each name for photo and bio.

Be sure to check out Lee's Blog for the latest news about Lee and Van Leer-the-band. DO please visit Lee's Blog often for updates.

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Wed, Feb 29, 2012	White Swan Restaurant & Lounge 836 Danforth Avenue Toronto	Watch for Event @ White Swan on this date!

An excerpt from The Silver Pages fanzine, Aug-Sept 2011 by Paige Kukul.

Soul Instigators

From the north shore of Lake Ontario comes this issue's feature band Soul Instigators. Formed in 2009 as "L.B." (for Live Band") as house band/jam hosts for a club on Danforth Ave. (Hwy. 5) in Toronto, ON, the band remained at this steady weekly gig 'til early June 2011.

With only one personnel change during that time (bassist-guitarist Wayne Munzy joined in 2010), the band became "The Danforth Project" at that time, finally settling on "Soul Instigators" in June 2011.

The members are Bleed; - front vocals & guitar (Scarborough, ON), his son Scott Sharp, drums, Lee Van Leer - organ and vocals (Colborne, ON), and Wayne Munzy - bass, guitar and backup vocals (Toronto, ON).

Their repertoire consists of a diverse variety of covers from 1959 to present-day plus a varied selection of originals mostly written by Bleed;.

The band has a full sound owing to finely-crafted arrangements, the use of 15" speakers exclusively in the backline plus the fact that the organ plays through a Leslie cabinet, something that so many of today's bands are unwilling to "lug around".

We here at the Silver Pages fanzine feel that Soul Instigators will definitely be a band to watch in the 2010s and beyond.

What we play

(Do The) Mashed Potatoes
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Act Naturally
All Along the Watchtower
Automobile
Baby What You Want Me to Do?
Big Boss Man
Blueberry Hill
Born to be Wild
Brick House
C.O.D.
Can't Get Enough of Your Love
Checkin' Up On My Baby
Cissy Strut
Crossroads
Don't Fight It
Drown in My Own Tears
Empty Arms
Face To The Wall
Fire (Hendrix)
Flat Foot Sam
Flip, Flop and Fly
Folsom Prison Blues
Foxy Lady
Freeway Jam
Georgia on My Mind
Get Up Off o' That Thing
Gimme Some Lovin'
Goin' Down
Goin' to New York
Got My Mojo Workin'
Gotta Serve Somebody
Hideaway
Hip-Hug-Her
Honky Tonk Woman
Human

I Can't Stop Loving You
I Don't Know (Ozzie)
I Had My Fun
I Saw Her Standing There
I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water
I'm Tore Down
I'm a Fool to Care
I'se the B'y
Ice Cream Man
If You Love Me Like You Say
In the Midnight Hour
It's All Over Now
Just a Little Bit
Key to the Highway
Knock on Wood
La Bamba
Let The Good Times Roll
Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go
Love Hurts
Low Rider
Lucille
Mary Ann (Ray Charles)
Mercury Blues
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Move It On Over
Mustang Sally
My Girl
Oh Well, Oh Well
One Way Out
People Get Ready
Politician
Pride and Joy
Proud Mary
Purple Haze
Red House
Roadhouse Blues

Rock and Roll (Led Zep)
Rock and Roll (Lou Reed)
Rockin' Pneumonia
Rocky Mountain Way
Rollin' and Tumblin
Shake and Fingerpop (Jr. Walker)
She Caught the Katy
Sitting On Top Of The World
Sleepy Time Time
Slow Down
Something You Got
Sticks and Stones
Swanee (A. Jolson)
Swanee River Rock
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Tend My Garden
That Hypnotizin' Boogie
That's What I Want To Know
The Breeze
The Hoochie Kootchie Man
The Sun is Shining
The Time
Thirty Days
Ticket to Ride
Tonight I'll be Staying Here with You
Waiting for the Bus
Watermelon Man
What'd I Say
When Something is Wrong With My Baby
Whiskey Train
Will It Go 'Round in Circles
Wooly Bully
You Got Me Hummin'
You Win Again