LAURA JOPLIN FULL
Joplin and her management subsequently hired Till, bass player Brad Campbell, and pianist Ken Pearson (from nearby Woodstock, Ontario), to fill out her new band, now called Full Tilt Boogie. However, Joplin was not happy touring with some of the group members, feeling some of them to be too "square". Till and others from Full Tillt were hired in 1969 as touring musicians for Janis Joplin's Kozmic Blues Band, along with Full Tillt bass player Brad Campbell on her Full Tillt Boogie Band, as a side project with Till's fellow Canadian band members. After touring with Hawkins, the members of this band moved to New York City to try to establish themselves as musicians in the larger US market, where Till became a studio musician and was doing commercial sessions and led his group, the Full Tillt Boogie Band ("Tillt" spelled with two l's to allude to Till's last name). Till played in local bands until the early 1960s, when he was picked to play in Hawkins's band The Hawks, to replace previous members who had left to tour with Bob Dylan (see The Band). They were eventually taken under the wing of Ronnie Hawkins. In 1957, when Till was around twelve years old, he established The Revols with Kalmusky on bass, Doug "Bo" Rhodes on vocals, and Jim Winkler on drums. Till attended Stratford Central High School, where he met his future bandmates Richard Manuel and Ken Kalmusky. His father played guitar, tenor banjo, and double bass his mother played both classical music and ragtime on the piano.
His parents were both musicians who had a Dixieland band.
Till was born in Stratford, Ontario, on December 24, 1945.
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