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In 2003, the band parted ways to pursue different projects. Gordon expanded his teaching practice, both privately and at the
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at the age of fifteen. He quickly took to the instrument and within a few months had joined a
Toronto punk band called Intensive Chaos. Primarily self-taught, Gordon continued to play in a string of basement bands and soon graduated to the independent scene where he started playing local gigs with
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