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Rock 'n Roll, eh.
« on: May 07, 2008, 09:07:36 PM »
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Re: Rock 'n Roll, eh.
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2008, 10:01:09 PM »
Rik Emmit = great musician
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Re: Rock 'n Roll, eh.
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2008, 05:27:27 AM »
Some nice 80's hair hot chicks in the crowd.
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Re: Rock 'n Roll, eh.
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2008, 05:28:54 AM »
That makes me want to wrap a cucumber in tin foil and shove it in my pants.
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Re: Rock 'n Roll, eh.
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2008, 05:42:29 AM »
That makes me want to wrap a cucumber in tin foil and shove it in my pants.
You are definitely not going to Mexico with the girls.
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« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2008, 05:51:21 AM »
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« Reply #6 on: May 08, 2008, 06:38:09 AM »
Just a couple weeks ago I watched a couple videos of their set at the US Festival in the early '80's.
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Re: Rock 'n Roll, eh.
« Reply #7 on: May 08, 2008, 07:29:12 AM »
That makes me want to wrap a cucumber in tin foil and shove it in my pants.
Interesting idea, but I don't know if I could fit another one in there.
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Re: Rock 'n Roll, eh.
« Reply #8 on: May 08, 2008, 07:59:26 PM »
I'm pretty sure I've said it before, but what the heck.
Triumph is maybe one of my top ten bands of all time, Emmet was/is an amazing guitartist, and a very under rated vocalist and musician. I have never understood how the album
Never Surrender didn't push them to super dooper rock star status, as it was an amazing album, I can only blame it on bad management, or a bad rep at their label.
That makes me want to wrap a cucumber in tin foil and shove it in my pants.
I thought this was called "Saturday Night" in Strohville population 3.
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Obviously he and Kevin DuBrow shopped at the same store.
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Re: Rock 'n Roll, eh.
« Reply #9 on: May 09, 2008, 09:12:27 AM »
I'm pretty sure I've said it before, but what the heck.Never Surrender didn't push them to super dooper rock star status, as it was an amazing album, I can only blame it on bad management, or a bad rep at their label.
Triumph never really fit neatly into a genre when they were at their peak. They weren't metal, they weren't arena rock, they weren't hair. They just kinda of fit in between everyone else. My perception (based on the people I hung out with) was that they sold a ton of albums, were a huge concert draw, everyone knew who they were, but nobody really considered them their favorite band. A bit like Whitesnake in the pre-radio-sellout days (LOL, that was what, one album?).
If they'd been a few years earlier they would have meshed nicely with the Rainbow/Uriah Heap/Head East/Pat Travers type bands.
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Re: Rock 'n Roll, eh.
« Reply #10 on: May 09, 2008, 07:40:23 PM »
I'm pretty sure I've said it before, but what the heck.Never Surrender didn't push them to super dooper rock star status, as it was an amazing album, I can only blame it on bad management, or a bad rep at their label.
They were probably overshadowed a little bit by that other Canadian trio.
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Re: Rock 'n Roll, eh.
« Reply #11 on: May 09, 2008, 08:09:59 PM »
I'm pretty sure I've said it before, but what the heck.
Triumph is maybe one of my top ten bands of all time, Emmet was/is an amazing guitartist, and a very under rated vocalist and musician. I have never understood how the album
Never Surrender didn't push them to super dooper rock star status, as it was an amazing album, I can only blame it on bad management, or a bad rep at their l
[sm_headbang]abel.
They were probably overshadowed a little bit by that other Canadian trio.
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Re: Rock 'n Roll, eh.
« Reply #12 on: May 10, 2008, 10:33:26 AM »
I'm pretty sure I've said it before, but what the heck.Never Surrender didn't push them to super dooper rock star status, as it was an amazing album, I can only blame it on bad management, or a bad rep at their label.
They were probably overshadowed a little bit by that other Canadian trio.
Ya think.
Still two very different bands aside from the obvious, and one of the best live bands of that era. IMHO they deserve a place in the R$(&)R hall of fame, at least before frakin' Madonna, (too late I know).
This song hit (from Never Surrender) right when I was
Out on my own in a great big world...
