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Most-viewed tabs for the month of August 2009 (w/ view numbers):
46 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
26 - Max Webster - The Party
19 - Max Webster & Rush - Battle Scar
18 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
17 - April Wine - Just Between You And Me
16 - Girlschool - Yeah Right (guitar)
14 - Harlequin - Innocence
14 - Trooper - Raise A Little Hell
13 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
12 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
12 - Kim Mitchell - That's The Hold
Total Tab Views For August: 594
By section: Canadian-429 Girlschool-85 Various-46 Chords-34
Most-viewed tabs overall (up to Aug. 31/09):
305 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
263 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
229 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
183 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
182 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
175 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
166 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
162 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
144 - Max Webster & Rush - Battle Scar
143 - Harlequin - Innocence
Tabs reaching 100 overall views mark this month:
Your Daddy Don't Know, Two For the Show
*Only tab views made by people (excluding my own views) are counted here. Webcrawler/bot views are excluded.
Updated: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 1:37 AM EDT
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Among the three charting singles from Prism's self-titled debut album (1977, pictured) was the power ballad "It's Over". This track, as well as most others on the record, was written by the band's drummer/producer Rodney Higgs. Higgs was none other than Jim Vallance writing under a pseudonym. Why? Vallance himself explains it this way:
I had some delays while doing this one (none of which had anything to do with the tab itself...got a cold from a night out in the rain, among other things), but when I actually did get some work done on it, it went pretty quickly. "Just Between You And Me" is, of course, one of April Wine's biggest hits. It's from the 1981 album The Nature Of the Beast, their most commercially succesful album. Some really nice, melodic playing on this song. 
From Red Rider's second album, As Far As Siam (1981).
But all week the news had been predicting rain for that night. They were right. We came prepared, but even in the two or three minutes it took to go from the car to the park, we were already pretty wet. (I had pretty much accepted right from the start I was going to get soaked.)
A victim of the rain, I'm guessing. He scattered a few Max Webster songs through the set, "A Million Vacations", "Paradise Skies", and "Battle Scar". It was great to hear those ones done live again. Fittingly, the only time the rain eased up all night was when he was doing "Paradise Skies". Bassist Peter Fredette -- he of the amazing voice -- sang the Geddy Lee verse in "Battle Scar". The show closed out with "All We Are" (where Fredette's vocals really get showcased), "Patio Lanterns", and "Go For Soda". I thought due to the weather, they might not bother with an encore, but they did come back out (not making people wait long) to do "Lager & Ale". The show finished up at about 11:30.
"The Party", from the Mutiny Up My Sleeve (1978) album. The story of this tab is of the I've-got-good-news-and-bad-news variety. The bad news is that I realized pretty quickly while doing the tabbing that I was never going to be able to tab the solo at full speed. So I decided rather than put in forty bars of guess work, I'd just leave the solo out. But I don't like doing that, so it motivated me to finally go searching the Web for a program that can slow down songs without changing the pitch. It also had to allow me to save the altered music and burn it to CD, since I can't do tabbing from my computer. I looked at a few programs, and a couple looked kind of complicated. I was basically looking for "Slowing Down Songs For Dummies", something I could use right away without engaging in a lot of manual reading. The good news is the third one I looked at seemed to be just the thing. Within just a few minutes I knew how to slow songs down and save them to my hard drive. Hurray! 
