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Breakdown In Paradise (1979) has always been my favourite Chilliwack album. Having picked it up out of a bargain bin years ago (along with Dreams, Dreams, Dreams), I found it to be a strong, cohesive album from beginning to end. It's not so much that every track is stellar (some are definitely stronger than others), but they just work really well together. It plays almost like a concept album, with several of the tracks seguing into the next one. For me, it adds up to a very satisfying whole.
AC/DC's 1990 album The Razors Edge (a title in search of an apostrophe 
) is often cited as a big "comeback" album for the band. Recorded in Vancouver, BC, the album was spectacularly successful, achieving multi-platinum status in several countries. It charted at #2 in the U.S. and #4 in the UK. Singles released included "Moneytalks" and "Thunderstruck". The latter was characterized by its pedal tone laden main riff, which is tabbed here.
According to The Story Of AC/DC: Let There Be Rock, this signature riff was inspired by a studio trick Angus Young learned from his older brother George, a producer whose credits include some AC/DC albums. The technique involved playing a guitar with the strings taped, with the exception of one string (in this case, the B string).
It's hotly debated among guitar-playing AC/DC enthusiasts how this riff is actually played. I detail those various ways on the riff page itself, so I won't get into it here. Suffice to say, you need a pretty good picking hand to play this riff well, although it can be played without using your picking hand barely at all (as Young demonstrates in the official promo video for the song, posted below).
AC/DC - "Thunderstruck" (A. Young/M. Young)
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/annesblog/varriffs.txt
Nazareth's 2XS was the 1982 studio album follow-up to their well-received (Vancouver-recorded) live effort 'Snaz. The album produced the single "Dream On", a power ballad in the same vein as "Love Hurts" and "Heart's Grown Cold". The song gave the Scottish rockers a solid hit in Europe, going Top 20 in Germany, and reaching the Top 10 in countries such as Switzerland, Poland, and Austria. Classic rock radio has since helped to make it one of the band's best-known songs.
The 2010 album Mojo marked the end of an eight year hiatus for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The record's debut at #2 on the Billboard 200 CD listing served as a warm welcome back for the band.
It was Petty's intent to do a blues-based "jam"-style record. As such, he entered the project bringing only loose outlines of songs, allowing the songs to take shape during the recording sessions. In keeping with the informal feel, the album was recorded live off the floor at The Clubhouse, the band's Los Angeles rehearsal space.
"I Should Have Known It" was one of the tracks released as a single. One music reviewer summed up the song this way: "'I Should Have Known It'...is a gritty guitar romp that weaves Petty's raspy wail within the boggy sounds of bottleneck slides and a dense rhythm. The song eventually runs head first into a wildly entertaining solo that eventually reincorporates the entire band; the song is truly one of the best stompers from the Heartbreakers in a long time." (culturebully.com/tom-petty-heartbreakers-mojo-album-review)
The tab:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/vartab/pettytom-ishouldhaveknownit.txt
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_iBKacXIA4
Cuts Like A Knife (1983), Bryan Adams' third studio album, was the release that brought him breakthrough success in North America. While that success didn't come quite as quickly elsewhere, the album did eventually gain a foothold in overseas markets, as well. The album went platinum in the US, and triple platinum in Canada, charting at #8 in both countries.
Snowy enough for ya? Well, I suppose it all depends on where you are, but where I am we have plenty of it, and I'm sure we'll be getting more. (How did you like that thunder and lightning mixed into the blizzard?) So regardless of what the groundhogs said yesterday about an early Spring, one thing we can say for sure. For now, it's still winter time.
The Steve Miller Band song "Winter Time" appeared on the band's 1977 album Book Of Dreams. (It's one of my all-time favourite album covers.) That album charted at #2, went triple platinum, and also produced the singles "Jet Airliner", "Jungle Love", and "Swingtown". Later, the song also appeared on Greatest Hits 1974-78.
The problem I ran into tabbing this song is the same one I had a couple of years ago when I was going to tab April Wine's "Fast Train". Some of the guitar parts are on a capoed guitar, other parts are on non-capoed guitars. So I had to try to mark each part to note whether the tab is in relation to the guitar nut or the capo...and hope that it doesn't get too confusing. All of the parts can be played on a capoed guitar the way they're written in the tab, with the exception of a few bars in Verse 3. (Those parts go down to the first fret, so on a capoed guitar you'd have to play them another way.)
So if the weather's keeping you indoors, consider making the best of it by spending some time with this beautiful ballad.
The tab:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/vartab/millersteve-wintertime.txt
"Yikes", indeed. No groundhog is going to want to come out of his hole today. Not with this blizzard. Wiarton Willie and Punxatawney Phil might just stay in and play some guitar. HAPPY GROUNDHOG DAY!
JANUARY 29, 2011 - ANNE'S GUITAR TAB ARCHIVE IS 4 YEARS OLD 
Sometimes things happen in weird ways. Most people probably think I did a chord chart of a Stealers Wheel song to commemorate the recent passing away of Gerry Rafferty. Actually, "Star" was a song I had wanted to do a chord chart of for a long time. To start the new year, I had about three different songs I was considering as the first chord chart entry for the year. I opted for "Star". So Tuesday night (Jan. 4) I sat down with my guitar and worked it out. It went fairly quickly. After typing it up on the computer, I visited a site or two to gather some information to make a blog post to go along with the chord chart posting. It was only then -- after having done the chord chart -- that I learned Gerry Rafferty had passed away that very day. It was a total coincidence that I had decided to work out that song on that day.
"Star" is from the band's 1973 album Ferguslie Park, and was written by Joe Egan, the other half of the duo that was the core of Stealers Wheel.