Bob Klanac

Promo Man Bob Klanac

"He was the best record hustler I've ever seen" Ronnie Hawkins

"In the Canadian music industry, it was always 6 degrees of separation to Nick Panaseiko"

- Kelly Jay of Crowbar




"Nick was definitely driven. Bill Graham was driven in the same kind of way. He had the same kind of drive, ambition and energy to wake up, pick up the phone and just go all day. Nick had it." Graham Lear (drummer REO Speedwagon, Santana, Gino Vanelli)

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"Nick Panaseiko has led a remarkable life filled with adventure, fueled by a love of music and the music industry. A promotion man extraordinaire, Panaseiko is also an accomplished raconteur from the old school who loves to tell often hilarious stories of the stars he has worked with and what he was willing to do to promote a record." Rob Bowman, Grammy Award-winning Professor of Music

Klanac has written an engaging and fascinating portrait of Panaseiko, the Promo Man next door who became a big-time player in a burgeoning Canadian music industry that literally grew out from under his feet.

- Paul Myers, author of It Ain't Easy: Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues, and A Wizard A True Star: Todd Rundgren In The Studi and Kids In The Hall: One Dumb Guy.