"They have been called "pioneers" and "as quintessentially Canadian as Medicare and street hockey". Their first album has been hailed as one of the best Canadian releases in history. And you probably haven't heard of them.
The band is Simply Saucer, and by rights, they should have been lost forever, buried in the gritty depths of Hamilton's music history.
Formed on the fringes of the scene, Simply Saucer garnered no critical praise until a decade after they broke up.
This is their story - a story as anomalous as their sound."
- James Tennant, Hamilton Magazine
Emerging from the industrial city of Hamilton, Ontario in the early 1970's, Simply Saucer created a distinct and original sound that was decidedly out of step with the musical climate of the day - a heady mixture of pre-punk noise (Velvet Underground, Stooges) - Krautrock (Can, Neu) and U.K. prog/psyche (Hawkwind, Pink Fairies, Syd Barret) amongst others - far ahead of their time and unappreciated at home.
Almost 30 years after the band disbanded, Simply Saucer are being hailed as "the band that refused to die" placing 36th in the "Top 100 Canadian Albums" book released in 2007.
And now, directors Gregory Bennett and Heather Morgan are bringing this untold story to life.
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