JL;DR SUMMARY In the late 1950s, talent broker Harold the Colonel Kudlets brought Rompin Ronnie Hawkins and Levon Helm to Canada to perform, including at tough bars like the Concord in Toronto, where owner Jack Fisher had his suits made at Sherman Custom Tailors. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.