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Most-viewed tabs for the month of January 2009 (w/ view numbers):
23 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
19 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
19 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
16 - Max Webster - Battle Scar
12 - April Wine - Say Hello
11 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
11 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
10 - Girlschool - Race With the Devil (guitar)
10 - Girlschool - Yeah Right (guitar)
10 - Kim Mitchell - All We Are
10 - Kim Mitchell - That's The Hold
10 - Toronto - Your Daddy Don't Know
Total Tab Views For January: 526
(By section: Canadian-387 Girlschool-60 Various-48 Chords-31)
Most-viewed tabs overall (stats date from Oct.3/07 to Jan.31/09):
215 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
171 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
141 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
140 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
115 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
103 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
94 - Headpins - Don't It Make Ya Feel
88 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
88 - Trooper - Raise A Little Hell
87 - Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
*Only tab views made by people (excluding my own views) are counted here. Webcrawler/bot views are excluded.
Updated: Monday, February 2, 2009 1:37 AM EST
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We go into the request file for this tab, Coney Hatch's "Devil's Deck". The big break for this Toronto band came in 1981 when (Max Webster lyricist) Pye Dubois caught one of their local club shows. He introduced them to Kim Mitchell, who first worked with the band to further hone their sound, and was then instrumental in getting them signed to Anthem Records, the label that was also home to both Mitchell and Rush.
We're celebrating today, AGTA is now two years old! 
I'd like to thank everyone who has visited the site during that time. Much appreciation also goes to those who have returned on a regular basis to see what's new. And for those who have requested tabs, thanks for the show of faith. I've tried my best to do the requests that I can. Over twenty tabs currently on the site were done specifically by request.
"Painted Ladies" was Ian Thomas's first, and biggest, hit single. It was drawn from his 1973 self-titled debut album (pictured), which reached #30 on the Canadian RPM Chart. The single itself climbed to #34 on the Billboard Chart and rose all the way to #4 on the RPM 100 Singles Chart in December of 1973. This success earned Thomas the 1974 Juno Award for Most Promising Male Vocalist.
Originally, I started doing this song with the intention of it being a chord chart. I had been working on a chord chart for a different song, and it was proving troublesome, so I shelved it (temporarily, at least) and did this one instead. The plan was for it to be a chord chart with some tab included. But when I was close to being finished, I realized that if I just tabbed the fills for the final Chorus, I would have all the guitar parts in the song transcribed, making it a full tab. So I added in the extra fills. 
It seems very fitting that a band as quintessentially English as Girlschool would eventually write and record a song that's an affectionate tribute to the city that represents England to the world -- their hometown of London. "London" first appeared on the CD 21st Anniversary: Not That Innocent. The disc was recorded primarily in 1999, the band's 21st Anniversary year, but wasn't released until 2002. It was lead guitarist Kelly Johnson's sixth and final album with the band (five studio albums, one official live album).
First tab entry of the New Year. 
