Skip Prokop

Skip Prokop

Ronn "Skip" Prokop (born December 13, 1946 in Hamilton, Ontario)cite web| title = www.racerecords.ca/ Biography: Skip Prokop| url=http://www.racerecords.ca/artist3.html| accessdate = 2007-01-20] is a Canadian drummer and band leader who was a driving force in Canadian rock music, creating seminal bands The Paupers [ [http://www.classicrockpage.com/everheardof/thepaupers.htm Classic Rock: The Paupers] ] and Lighthouse.

He is also remembered for "The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper", a seminal live blues-rock album of the late 1960s.

Skip also drums in a London, Ontario rock/funk/christian band called Mercy Train. [ [http://www.myspace.com/mercytrainmusic MySpace: Mercy Train] ]

During the years in which Lighthouse was inactive, Prokop turned towards radio for his career. He was host of CFNY-FM's "Rock and a Hard Place" program in the Toronto broadcast market. As of 2001, he lived in London, Ontario, working for Astral Media radio stations CJBX/CIQM/CJBK in advertising sales. [ [http://www.spiritofradio.ca/Personalities.asp?Show=Prokop%2C+Skip The Spirit of Radio (CFNY-FM): Skip Prokop] ]

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* [http://www.spiritofradio.ca/Personalities.asp?Show=Prokop%2C+Skip Skip Prokop at SpiritOfRadio]

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