Lace up some borrowed sneakers, rewind to Y2K and picture discovering a cassette in a dusty, mildly uncared for bin at a file swap.
It’s your favorite band taking part in all their hits, plus a bona fide musical unicorn.
“It was a live performance recording from 1977 containing a tune that wasn’t on a Max Webster album,” writer Bob Wegner testifies on maxwebsterlive.ca. “It made me notice that there was a plethora of Max music but to listen to. It was the very best $5 I’ve ever spent in 20 years of accumulating music.”
The times of getting any quantity of ear pleasure for $5 on this nation are nicely and clearly behind us, however the music of Max Webster, led by the immutable Kim Mitchell, endures.
The Toronto band had made a reputation for itself after performed nearly each highschool and bar in Ontario earlier than reserving bigger venues within the mid Nineteen Seventies.
As Wegner writes: “Numerous Canadians between the ages of fifty and 70 will inform you they noticed Max play at their highschool, a bar within the early days, a theatre like Massey Corridor, or headlining a spot like Maple Leaf Gardens at their peak.”
Propelled by memorable hits from Excessive Class in Borrowed Footwear to Paradise Skies, the band launched seven albums between 1976 and 1981, six of them licensed gold and one platinum — A Million Holidays could but occupy a milk crate someplace in your coolest uncle’s woodshed.
“From the mid-Nineteen Seventies to the early ’80s, the band toured closely, taking part in as much as 250 dates a yr and opening for rock music heavyweights resembling” BTO, Rush, Blondie, Ted Nugent and Styx, their Canada’s Stroll of Fame bio reads.
The lineup inducted in 2023 included Mitchell, bassists Mike Tilka and Dave Myles, drummers Gary McCracken and Paul Kersey and tickler of the ivories Terry Watkinson, Diamonds, Diamonds all.
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