Topic: New Chords Postings
The classic line-up of Red Rider was born in the late 1970's when Tom Cochrane saw the band perform one night at Toronto's El Mocambo nightclub. He introduced himself to the band and, after an audition, they took him on as their singer and primary songwriter. "Human Race" is from Red Rider's third studio album Neruda (1983). The title was a reference to Pablo Neruda, who was a Nobel Literature Prize-winning Chilean poet and political activist. It was the band's third consecutive album to achieve at least gold status in Canada. "Human Race" reached #27 on the Canadian national RPM charts.
The video for this song actually combines two songs from the record, "Light In the Tunnel" (which opens the record) and "Human Race". On the album, the two songs are seperate, with the track "Power" coming in between them. But when the record was released on CD, a bonus track at the end of the record featured these two songs combined as a single track. (Previous hits "White Hot" and "Lunatic Fringe" were also added as bonus tracks.)
Chord Chart: https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/crd/redrider-humanrace.txt
On the video, "Human Race" starts at the 1:40 mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWlCD68oeu0
On Red Rider guitarist Ken Greer's site, you can click directly to the audio for "Human Race":
http://www.ken-greer.com/pages/audio/neruda.htm
Added note: By clicking on the "Audio" link of the menu on Greer's site, you can listen to any of the four Red Rider studio albums -- Don't Fight It, As Far As Siam, Neruda, and Breaking Curfew -- in their entirety.
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Updated: Monday, October 27, 2008 3:20 AM EDT
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Updated: Monday, October 27, 2008 3:20 AM EDT
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