Starting early, influenced by his older brothers who played in local bands, Les began to play guitar and sing in teen club bands during his public and high school days. From then on it was all bands - all the time, for him and his pals, some of whom have now become well known Canadian performers.
Moving over to keyboards, Les' big break came when his band "Chucklebait" landed the opening act gig for Alice Cooper's date at the Ottawa Civic Center on his Billion Dollar Baby tour. When asked to choose between two Ottawa acts to open for him, Alice reportedly said: "I'll take the funny band". Though they were not in fact, a comedy act, things took off after that and over the ensuing years Les went on to appear in many well know Canadian recording and touring acts such as Flyer, FIST, Butler, Shooter, The Stacey Heydon Band, Telemann, Wrabit and Charlie Major.