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Most-viewed tabs for the month of November 2008 (w/ view numbers):
22 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
17 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
17 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
16 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
14 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
12 - Headpins - Celebration
12 - Loverboy - Working For the Weekend
11 - Harlequin - I Did It For Love
11 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
9 - Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin' Care Of Business
9 - Loverboy - Hot Girls In Love
Total Tab Views For November: 529
(By section: Canadian-332 Girlschool-136 Various-37 Chords-24)
Most-viewed tabs overall (stats date from Oct.3/07 to Nov.30/08):
184 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
131 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
114 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
107 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
91 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
79 - Headpins - Don't It Make Ya Feel
78 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
72 - Harlequin - Sweet Things In Life
71 - Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
68 - Trooper - Raise A Little Hell
*Only tab views made by people (excluding my own views) are counted here. Webcrawler/bot views are excluded.
Updated: Monday, December 1, 2008 6:31 PM EST
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Calling all "long-haired freaky people". 
Today's riff is from Ottawa's Five Man Electrical Band. "Signs" is, of course, the band's best-known song. It's from the 1971 album Good-byes & Butterflies (groovy, man 
). According to the liner notes of Absolutely Right (Five Man's greatest hits CD), the inspiration for the song sprang from vocalist/guitarist Les Emmerson's experience of driving Route 66 to California, and noticing along the way the many billboards that cluttered up, and blocked the view of, the scenery.
One from the request file today, Loverboy's "Hot Girls In Love". The song is from the band's third album Keep It Up, released in 1983. The record went double platinum in the US, with "Hot Girls In Love" becoming their most successful single up to that point. It peaked at #11 on the Billboard chart, aided by heavy rotation on video stations like MuchMusic and MTV. This degree of success garnered the band its first headlining tour. The one time I saw Loverboy live was the year before this (summer of 1982). They opened for April Wine at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto, although with the kind of success both bands were enjoying at the time, it was more like a great double bill. 
"American Storm" is the opening track of Bob Seger's 13th studio album Like A Rock (1986), his fifth with The Silver Bullet Band. The album went platinum, reaching #3 in the US. "American Storm" rose to #13 on the US Hot 100 and reached #2 on the Rock Charts. The song title was also tapped as the name of Seger's 1986 tour. It was a nine-month, 105-show affair, which sold 1.5 million tickets. At the time, Seger said the American Storm Tour would be his last major tour.
It's pretty common knowledge amongst listeners of Canadian rock music that Headpins were born as a side project of Chilliwack guitarist Brian MacLeod and bassist Ab Bryant, and that the project ultimately became a full time venture. Perhaps less well known is the fact that the band originally had a different lead singer. It's hard to imagine Headpins without Darby Mills' famous growl, but the band's first lead singer was Denise McCann. Remember the 1979 disco hit "Tattoo Man"? (
Today's riff entry comes from Nazareth, a band who took their name not from the Middle East city in the Holy Land, but rather from the first line of the song "The Weight" by The Band. ("I pulled into Nazareth, Was feelin' 'bout half past dead...") The Nazareth referred to in the song is Nazareth, Pennsylvania. And as a further bit of trivia, Nazareth, PA, just happens to be the home of C.F. Martin & Co. guitar manufacturers.
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.