Topic: New Chords Postings
Mad Mad World (1991) was Tom Cochrane's first solo album after his departure from Red Rider. From that album came his most successful single, "Life Is A Highway". The single gave him a runaway #1 hit in Canada, reached #6 on the US Hot 100, and was successful worldwide. The album achieved rare 'diamond' status in Canada, for sales of over one million, and it also sold two million internationally. All of this netted Cochrane four Juno Awards in 1992, for Album Of the Year, Songwriter Of the Year, Male Vocalist Of the Year, and Song Of the Year for "Life Is A Highway". Added to this were three other awards from songwriters'/publishers' associations (SOCAN and ASCAP).While Cochrane recorded "Life Is A Highway" as a roots rock song, it has since proved popular with country music artists. In 1999, Chris Ledoux took his cover of the song to #64 on the US Country chart. More recently, in 2006, Rascal Flatts covered the song for the movie "Cars", scoring a hit on both the pop and country charts, reaching #7 on the Billboard Hot 100. In February of 2007, Cochrane joined the band onstage at Rexall Place in Edmonton for a performance of the song.
The chord chart:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/crd/cochranetom-lifeisahighway.txt
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCPbL4yA7ik
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A few days ago when posting a Coney Hatch tab, I wrote about how Kim Mitchell had played a key role in helping the band in their early days. It got me thinking: guess who hasn't been done in the riffs section yet? If you guessed Kim Mitchell, you just might be smarter than a 5th grader. (No guarantees, though. 
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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! 
"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.