Max webster and FM
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Topic: Max webster and FM
Posted By: SNAP
Subject: Max webster and FM
Date Posted: August 24 2005 at 21:00
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If you prognogs like Rush,these two great Canadian bands were opening acts for Rush,late 70s,early 80s. Max webster were a brilliant band fronted by Kim Mitchell and all the lyrics (weirdish,pop,Steely Danish) were written by Pye Dubois (sort of like a Pete Sinfield with loafers) and FM! Well,this trio had great sci-fi thematics,an electric violin,Martin Deller on drums (!) The album Black Noise is a must.Ask it 4 Chrismas. Peace dammit ------------- snapadidooda |
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Posted By: Heptade
Date Posted: August 24 2005 at 21:46
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Max Webster was awesome! And very proggy,
especially High Class in Borrowed shoes...a killer album. FM has been lauded around here before, but it's nice to see some praise for ol' Kim Mitchell. |
Posted By: Richardw
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 04:30
| Max Webster were a great band, and Kim Mitchell is still making fantastic music today. I hear there's a new Kim Mitchell Greatest Hits album with a bonus live DVD included. Should be really good (There was a review in this month's Classic Rock magazine) |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 04:46
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Yup ! MAX WEBSTER definitely deserves inclusion now that Queen is in. Art Rock! However I do not have the CDs to include them in the PA. I may have to find a buddy to borrow them. If I enter the group, can I count on you to introduce the albums......???? However I did not like early Kim Mitchell solo (I left Toronto in 88) but I found it not prog at all!
I hesitate about Triumph, though . Maybe in Progmetal. Certainly so for the first three albums . Many prog moments. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 07:11
| I saw Max Webster supporting Rush at Hammersmith Odeon, probably back in the 70s. They were really good and I bought the album at the time (I think it was called Paradise Skies but I could be wrong). |
Posted By: bartok
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 08:01
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"Paradise Skies" is on the album, "A Million Vacations". I really like their self-titled debut, "Max Webster". |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 08:15
The debut is a classic: 4* Hangover was the first thing friends played on Sunday afternoons after waking-up! High Class In Borrowed Shoes : 4* Oh War! Mutiny Up My Sleeves : 4* (the Party is phenomenal tune always played once per night at every house party in Toronto, fully sung and danced until its end by all males attending also doing perfect air-guitars) A Million Vacations: 4* Slightly more even and quieter (due to a more active KB player) but no weaker track either. The live album is also 4* : too bad it is not a double..... could've made an excellent recap. Universal Juveniles is much inferior, imho , but finally came international success, The KB player had left and things were not the same. The band could not withstand the success and broke up!
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
bartok wrote:Posted By: Gedhead
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 08:46
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Universal Juveniles has the song "Battlescar" which is a collaboration between Rush and Max Webster. I believe I recall Neil saying that the goal was to create a "wall of drums." Geddy and Kim share the vocals and Lifeson fills it out as usual with amazing textures. I think this is the only time all members of Rush actually went into a studio and recorded with another band. Definitely a collector's item for the Rush aficionado. |
Posted By: Heptade
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 08:53
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I will review the heck out of Max Webster.
Kim's solo stuff is a bit, well, rednecky, and not really progressive, but good fun when it's on the radio in the car. And let's not forget Geddy Lee's immortal performance of "Take Off" with Bob and Doug McKenzie! |
Posted By: Richardw
Date Posted: April 14 2006 at 19:45
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Any chance of getting 'Max' on here Max? |
Posted By: Mongo
Date Posted: April 14 2006 at 21:06
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FM- Black Noise- is a must listen for everyone! ------------- "The options are ever fewer on the ground these days" Fish |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 15 2006 at 12:42
Coming up in the following weeks in prog related at minimum maybe even art rock ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Richardw
Date Posted: April 15 2006 at 13:43
Great. Thanks Hugues. |
