User:Jimdyck/Jim Dyck Musician

Jim Dyck is a Canadian musician and songwriter presently living in Edmonton, Alberta.

Early years Jim was born in Winnipeg in 1952. He took accordian lessons in the sixties. After seeing some Winnipeg bands like the Guess Who, he traded in his accordian for an acetone organ and joined a local band the “Coming Generation”. In 1967 he was playing with the Surface Tension, a band which was managed by Garney Gillis, son of the manufacturer of Garnet amplifiers, a Winnipeg based company. When Surface Tension went on Tour, Jim stayed behind to finish his high school years and joined an eleven piece soul band 'The United Soul Appeal'. He was still playing organ but bought a cheap Kent guitar and spent countless hours in his bedroom learning the Clapton licks from the John Mayall album he had picked up. Vancouver In 1969, Jim's family moved from Winnipeg to Vancouver. At that point Jim abandoned the organ and decided that guitar would be his main instrument. He played with a blues band called 'The Buster Brown Blues Band' in the early seventies. When glam rock hit the airwaves he began working with an art rock band called Riff Raff which featured Jim Bescott ( later of the Young Canadians) on bass guitar. Jim began writing original tunes and the band featured a dozen or so of these in their performances.

Teacher Training Jim married in 1974 and took training to be an elementary school teacher. In 1978 he moved to Vancouver Island and started a 35 year teaching career in Campbell River.

Satisfactory Guys

During those years he continued to write songs and record them with a fellow teacher / musician Richard Franklin. Under the name 'Satisfactory Guys' they recorded their first 4 track tape of original compositions in 1982. Together Jim and Rich have recorded 8 albums, the first four on tape, the most recent four on CD. Jim also released two solo CDs, one of original country tunes dedicated to his parents, the other of original blues tunes dedicated to his brother Bill. While recording these albums, Jim continued to play live on weekends as his teaching career would allow. He was the guitarist in Campbell River bands The Rational Numbers, Stoop Solo, The FunGuys, Elmer Thudd, TomCat, and the Molly Hogans. In the Molly Hogans there was a change of direction to Celtic / Irish Rock and Jim doubled on mandolin and his old buddy the accordian. Richard Franklin and Jim Dyck continue to collaborate on orginial music. Some of their compositions can be heard at

Edmonton In 2009, Jim retired from teaching and relocated to Edmonton Alberta. He became involved in the blues music scene and is presently involved in the weekly Tuesday night jam sessions at LB's Pub in St. Albert.