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GGGarth Richardson is renowned for his work with such bands as Rage Against The Machine and The Red Hot Chili Peppers, but to his inner circle he is noted for his devout support of the Toronto Maple Leafs, despite having left the city in 1985.
"Once you are bitten by the Leafs bug, that's it," says Richardson, who prefers his first name spelled with three G's because of his acute stutter.
In his picturesque studio called The Farm on Gibsons, a 45-minute ferry ride from Vancouver, Richardson adorns the place with assorted Leafs memorabilia - including Stanley Cup banners for all 13 cups, bobbleheads for all the team captains, and a Mats Sundin signed game stick.
The most unusual is a Toronto Maple Leafs toilet seat. "Many Vancouver Canucks fans seem to miss the bowl and piss all over the actual seat," Richardson laughs.
Living in enemy territory, that's obviously to be expected and his peers have been known to retaliate. Famed Engineer Randy Staub once borrowed his truck and gave it a little makeover. "It was completely covered in Vancouver Canucks stuff - banners and baubles and dingle-balls and bumper stickers and t-shirts on my seats, but I got him back," says the 49-year-old. "I put a Leafs license plate cover on his truck and he found it and burnt it a month later."
Born in Toronto, with two brothers and two sisters, his father Jack Richardson produced all the classic hits for the Guess Who, seminal albums for Alice Cooper, Bob Seger's...