{{Infobox musical artist | name = The Quid | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | landscape = <!-- yes, if wide image, otherwise leave blank --> | alt = | caption = | background = group_or_band | alias = | origin = Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | genre = Garage rock | years_active = {{start date|1964}}–1970s<!--{{end date|YYYY}} (or –present) --> | label = | website = <!-- {{URL|www.example.com}} --> | current_members = | past_members = *Lenny Fidkalo *Ron Rene *Bill Pavlik *Colin Palmer *Morley Nickles }} '''The Quid''' was a Canadian garage rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, active during the 1960s and 1970s.

==History== The Quid was formed in 1964 in Winnipeg<ref name=Allmusic>{{Cite web|author=Ankeny, Jason|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p299984/biography|pure_url=yes}}|title=The Quid|publisher=Allmusic|accessdate=3 March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Einarson, John|date=28 June 2008|title=Divine Vinyl|newspaper=Winnipeg Free Press|page=F1}}</ref> by musicians who were performing at the Twilight teen club.<ref>[https://newspaperarchive.com/winnipeg-free-press-jun-22-1987-p-19/ "Teen clubs reflect '60s"]. ''Winnipeg Free Press'' via Newspaper Archives June 22, 1987 - Page 19</ref> The original band members included Ron Rene, Bill Pavlik, Colin Palmer, Al Johnson, and Morley Nickles. They were the featured band on the compilation album ''Winnipeg 1965–66''.

Johnson left the band and was replaced by Lenny Fidkalo.<ref name=Allmusic />

In 1966, the band released a single, "Crazy Things", on Eagle Records. It reached just #100.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.5750.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Singles - May 23, 1966}}</ref> It was included as a bonus track on the CD reissue of the early garage rock compilation album ''Pebbles, Volume 2''. Their next single "Lover, Lover" also charted on the Canadian Top 100 at #88.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.5720.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Singles - September 5, 1966}}</ref>

A 1980s concert in Winnipeg called "Shakin' All Over" brought the Quid together with other notable acts from the Winnipeg scene, including Neil Young, Randy Bachman, C. F. "Fred" Turner of Bachman Turner Overdrive (BTO), and Burton Cummings of the Guess Who. Later in the decade, after Rene left the band, the others recruited singer Bobby Barton, but soon disbanded.<ref>[http://www.canuckistanmusic.com/index.php?maid=534 "The Quid Crazy Things / Mersey Side - 7" Eagle - 1966"]. ''Canuckistan'', Michael Panontin</ref>

In the fall of 2007, Ron Rene (real name Ron Kreshka) died in Vancouver of a heart attack.

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{discogs artist|The Quid}}

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