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moniker Slik Toxik was then asked to be support act for
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in place of the ailing Jerry Mercer. Most recently, Neal along with his wife, Huguette
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Those sessions with Bob Potter at the helm didn't work out for the band. So they plodded along, self producing the demo with Andrew St. George (Killer Dwarfs, Dan Gibson) engineering the recording and then mixer/producer
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Slik Toxik was formed out of
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Slik Toxik kept in close touch with their fans through mail-outs and contests, which earned the band an enthusiastic grassroots following. As an indicator of their openness toward their fans, they were invited to be one of the last acts to play
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to question the stability of the band as well as their viability in the changing hard rock climate. After the band had given him a chance to clean himself up, another incident occurred almost immediately and
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