Once upon the late 1990s, before the internet made the world a smaller place, in the isolation of a tiny mining town called Kirkland Lake, a group of kids got together and called themselves The Deefons. Shane came from Swank and Cragmatic Pope. YeTI, Ty and Marco came from Harem. They were named for the family of imaginary friends that one member had as a child. The imaginary Deefons lived in a pile of hay down the alley sometime in the early 1980s. The musical Deefons recorded two albums. "Clippings From The Edge of The Road" was recorded in August 1998 in a small basement studio using the $1200 they had made playing in a bar before the most of them were old enough to be there. "Sunset" was recorded by Ryan Blais (of Cragmatic Pope and Groundstate) in his basement in August 1999 with a 4-track and a couple of Pentium (1) computers. Since 2009 much of their music has been available for free online. In 2024, they released their first song in 25 years.

The Deefons:
Shane Willard: vocals, guitar, drums, bass
YeTI : Bass, Guitar
Tyler Tessier: Guitar, Bass
Hugh Dogg: Keys, Tacet

Former members:
Marc Milot: Drums (Clippings)
Ben Gardiner: Drums (Sunset)
Jen McLenaghan: Keyboards/Vocals (Clippings)

	Cherry Bomb (Tyler’s version) Sunrise EP Track 1 : Rebirth of Sunset's opener. Shane Willard: Vocals, Drums Tyler Tessier: Guitars, Yeti: Bass		Alternative
	All In Sunrise EP Track 2: Our first new song in 25 years! Sometimes when you gamble at love you win. Released. May 11, 2024. Shane Willard: vocals, drums, guitar. YeTI: bass. Tyler Tessier: guitars		Pop Punk
	Overgrown Infant Sunrise EP Track 3: An old Swank song written in 1996 but never recorded until 2025. Shane Willard : Vocals, Guitar, drums, programming Tyler Tessier: Guitar YeTI: Bass		skate punk
	Uncool Sunrise EP Track 4: Released as single July 22 2025 : Shane Willard: Vocals, drums YeTI: Bass Tyler Tessier : Guitars Stabby The Doll: Vocals, Keyboards		PowerPop
	Carlo's Revenge Sunrise EP Track 5 : Sequel to Clippings' Carlo's Cockring. Shane Willard: Drums, lead guitar Tyler Tessier: Rhythm guitar YeTI: bass		Instrumental Guitar Rock
	Immortality Sunrise EP Track 6: Immortality was a song I wrote and recorded with Cragmatic Pope in 1995. It has been a part of the Deefons' live repertoire since the early days. This new version features Stabby The Doll on backup vocals. Shane Willard: Vocals, Drums, Guitar solo Tyler Tessier: Guitars YeTI: Bass Hugh Dogg: keyboards Stabby The Doll: female vocal		Alternative Rock
	Might As Well Fucking Dance Sunrise EP Track 7 : New song with our trademark sense of humour and 33 F-Bombs. We counted. Enjoy. Shane Willard: Vocals, Drums, Keys Tyler Tessier: Guitars Yeti: Bass		Alternative Rock
	Two Sides To Every Face Spent a couple of weeks in the KIAC big 50, first song played on Dungeon Radio, featured on Ronnie Rodent's best of 2009 broadcast part 1, and recently featured on Campground Pirate Radio. See side bar to check out broadcast. From Clippings From The Edge of the Road (1998) Shane Willard: Vocals, Guitar Tyler Tessier: Guitar YeTi: Bass Marc Milot: Drums		PowerPop
	The Theme Song (Instrumental) Meant to sound like cartoon theme song. Was the theme for Ronnie Rodent's morning show on pirate radio station Radio Xanadu in the UK. From Clippings From The Edge of the Road (1998) Shane Willard: Guitar Jennifer McLenaghan: Keyboards Tyler Tessier: Guitar YeTi: Bass Marc Milot: Drums		PowerPop
	Hardcore Love Song The song with the girl singing. Made it to semi-final in 2009 Year of the Indie open song contest in Punk\Emo\Ska. Much dirty sexy love to anyone who voted for it. Featured on KUSF Limelight Radio’s Power of Punk broadcast in 2009 https://youtu.be/0siGag3WdEk From Clippings From The Edge of the Road (1998) Jennifer McLenaghan: Vocals Tyler Tessier: Guitar YeTi: Guitar Shane Willard: Bass Marc Milot: Drums		Girl Punk
	Liquid Talent Just tell the truth about what's inside and you will find. From Clippings From The Edge of the Road (1998) Shane Willard: Vocals, Guitar Jennifer McLenaghan: Keyboards, Backing Vocals Tyler Tessier: Guitar YeTi: Bass Marc Milot: Drums Ian Auger: Egg Shakers		Alternative
	Steak and Potatoes My teenage angst at full tilt and as far as I know the only song of ours to be covered. Check out Hazymind’s live cover. Featured on KUSF Limelight Radio’s Power of Punk broadcast in 2009 https://youtu.be/0siGag3WdEk From Clippings From The Edge of the Road (1998) Shane Willard: Vocals, Guitar Tyler Tessier: Guitar YeTi: Bass, Guitar Marc Milot: Drums		skate punk
	Carpetworld Mid-tempo power pop. Originally recorded by Cragmatic Pope in 1996. Don't throw your heart away cuz you might need it for someday when someone comes along who understands. From Clippijngs From The Edge of the Road (1998) Shane Willard : Vocals, Guitar Jen McLenaghan: Vocals Tyler Tessier: Guitar YeTI: Bass Marc Milot: Drums		PowerPop
	Strawberry Written for high school sweetheart. From Clippings From The Edge of the Road (1998) Shane Willard: Vocals, Guitar Jennifer McLenaghan: Keyboards Tyler Tessier: Guitar YeTi: Bass Marc Milot: Drums		Alternative
	The Death of Cool Cool is a four letter word. From Clippings From The Edge of the Road (1998) Shane Willard: Vocals, Guitar Tyler Tessier: Guitar YeTi: Bass Marc Milot: Drums		Pop Punk
	Today's The Day From Clippings From The Edge of the Road (1998) Shane Willard: Vocals, Guitar Tyler Tessier: Guitar YeTi: Bass Marc Milot: Drums		PowerPop
	My Heroes IT'S MORPHIN TIME BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Found a video made by DragonRanger with Power Rangers footage. We didn't have anything to do with making it (besides the music of course) but we think it's badass. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYUyKx2rSEs From Clippings From The Edge of the Road (1998) Shane Willard: Vocals, Guitar Tyler Tessier: Guitar YeTi: Bass Marc Milot: Drums		PowerPop
	Schlong A song about talking to your own dick while high on drugs. From Clippings From The Edge of the Road (1998) Shane Willard: Vocals, Guitar Tyler Tessier: Guitar YeTi: Bass Marc Milot: Drums		Alternative
	Insincerity From Sunset (1999) Shane Willard: Vocals, Guitar Tyler Tessier: Guitar YeTi: Bass Ben Gardiner: Drums		Pop Punk
	Tits Underwater (Instrumental) Noisy grunge instrumental From Sunset (1999) Shane Willard: Guitar Tyler Tessier: Guitar YeTi: Bass Ben Gardiner: Drums		Hard Alternative
	Wild Turkeys (Turkey Trilogy part 1) A song about killer turkeys. From Clippings From The Edge of the Road (1998) Shane Willard: Vocals, Guitar, Turkey sounds Tyler Tessier: Guitar, farmer YeTi: Bass, Turkey sounds Marc Milot: Drums, Turkey sounds More Turkeys: Matt Higgins, Mike Lively, Crystalyn Aldred		PowerPop
	Wild People (Turkey Trilogy part 2) The events of Wild Turkeys (part 1) from the turkey's point of view. From Sunset (1999) Shane Willard: Vocals, Guitar Tyler Tessier: Guitar YeTi: Bass Ben Gardiner: Drums		Cowpunk
	One Wish Original recording August 1999, remixed sept. 2009. Slow sad acoustic love song. From Sunset (1999) Shane Willard: Vocals, Guitar Tyler Tessier: Guitar YeTi: Bass Ben Gardiner: Drums		Acoustic
	Deefons Circus Circus themed pop punk with improvised lyrics about horny elephants, self exposing clowns and bears with giant balls. I said motherfucker get down! From Sunset (1999) Shane Willard: Vocals, Guitar Tyler Tessier: Guitar YeTi: Bass Ben Gardiner: Drums		Punk
	Carlo's Cockring (Instrumental) Rock instrumental inspired by YeTI’s stuffed worm Carlo and his cockring From Clippings From The Edge of the Road (1998) Shane Willard: guitar Tyler Tessier: guitar YeTI: bass Marc Milot : Drums		Guitar Instrumental
	Your Friends Don't Know Me (Instrumental) From Clippings From The Edge of the Road (1998) Shane Willard: Bass Tyler Tessier: Guitar YeTi: Guitar Marc Milot: Drums		Alternative Hard Rock
	Cherry Bomb From Sunset recorded in 1999 Maybe some day you might say these were the shining times of your life. When they’re gone, we might move on but we’ll never be the same. From Sunset (1999) Nominated for a Golden Kayak Award in 2020 in alternative category. Shane Willard: Vocals, Guitar Tyler Tessier: Guitar YeTi: Bass Ben Gardiner: Drums		Alternative
	So Pathetic Waiting for the sky to fall ..... From Sunset (1999) Shane Willard: Vocals, Guitar Tyler Tessier: Guitar YeTi: Bass Ben Gardiner: Drums Ryan Blais: Backing Vocals		Grunge

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Fade to Black	1/29/2009 10:55:49 AM Hey guys, we dig your stuff, good to see all the songs up now too!
ChewToy	1/26/2009 12:16:16 PM Thanks for the tip on the ChewToy song! I re-upped it and am listening now, so it does work! I appreciate the heads-up! Todd
The Man With No Band	1/22/2009 8:01:26 PM Where on earth did all the songs go ? ... Glad they are still up for streamin ... I'm really enjoying my sit ... really cool stuff ... Just now got up to "Carpet World" ... and digging the sound ... Hell they're all pretty good ... Right now I'm diggin' "Shlong" ... how cool is that ? ... oh I'm supposed to be answering not asking questions here ... I'm definitely comin' back here ... See ya soon ! Peace Sam
The Man With No Band	1/22/2009 4:23:50 PM Ha ! ... sorry about that ... I was just making a mental note to myself to get back here and check out your stuff when I could give it a serious listen ... guess I accidentally typed my mental note ... (actually it was a failed attempt at warped humor) ... :) Just saw you showing up on the blogs and thought I'd tip toe over and have a good listen ... which, right now I have to go out for a bit ... but when I return this is my first stop ... until then ... have a great evening !
The Man With No Band	1/22/2009 9:19:57 AM I'll be back when I have time to be proper ... or at the proper time ... or in the proper proper ... until then .... Peace Sam
alexandra80quesnel	1/10/2009 5:57:42 PM Love hearing the Deefons!
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