Chad Allan (musician) - After The Guess Who

After The Guess Who

Allan initially went back to college for a brief period of time, but continued performing. In 1967 he was chosen to host CBC-TV's weekly music program Let's Go. Ironically, the house band chosen for the show was The Guess Who. The show lasted two seasons before being cancelled. Allan, still under contract to Quality Records (signed in 1963), released a number of singles. He also recorded an album, Looking Through Crystal Glass, for the Canadian Talent Library, which was leased to Quality and released in 1969.

Allan was a co-founding member of the band Brave Belt with Randy Bachman. The band released two albums for Reprise Records but as the band began playing a progressively heavier sound, Allan quit. Brave Belt eventually morphed into Bachman–Turner Overdrive.

In 1973 he released his second solo album, Sequel, released by GRT Records of Canada. He was also chosen to play the lead character in a musical adaptation of Beowulf, which was released on album in 1974.

Allan has since pursued many musical endeavours including writing gospel music, hosting a children's TV show in Winnipeg, and forming his own record label called Seabreeze Records from which he released several singles and an album that didn't fare well. For a number of years, starting in 1982 he started teaching songwriting at Kwantlen University College in Surrey, British Columbia.

In January 2008 Regenerator Records (www.regeneratorrecords.com) issued a CD consisting of four rare studio tracks and a live concert recording circa 1963 entitled Chad Allan and The Reflections - Early Roots. A limited edition double vinyl LP set of the collection (minus the 4 1962 studio cuts) was released in Spring 2009. Regenerator has remastered Allan's Sequel and Zoot Suit albums and they are available for download on iTunes.

Allan moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1977. He still performs standards, ballads, and rock and roll classics.