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Most-viewed tabs for the month of May 2009 (w/ view numbers):
20 - Streetheart - Hollywood
17 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
16 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
12 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
12 - Girlschool - Yeah Right (guitar)
11 - Coney Hatch - Devil's Deck
10 - Girlschool - Race With the Devil (guitar)
10 - Harlequin - Sweet Things In Life
10 - Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
10 - Trooper - Two For the Show
Total Tab Views For May: 491
(By section: Canadian-345 Girlschool-74 Various-39 Chords-33)
Most-viewed tabs overall (stats date from Oct.3/07 to May 31/09):
263 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
199 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
197 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
163 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
153 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
146 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
141 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
118 - Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
117 - Harlequin - Innocence
117 - Headpins - Don't It Make Ya Feel
Tabs reaching 100 overall views mark this month: Say Hello
*Only tab views made by people (excluding my own views) are counted here. Webcrawler/bot views are excluded.
I guess you're just asking for it when you think a tab is going to be quick and easy. This one took a lot longer than expected. Okay, there were some distractions along the way, but the tab itself still took awhile. Originally, I was doing this one as a chord chart, then along the way I decided to turn it into a full tab. I thought it might be plenty of work for a song that maybe not a lot of people are too familiar with, but I've always really liked it.
The Northern Pikes were formed in Saskatoon in 1984. They released two albums independently before landing a deal with Virgin Records in 1986. Their major label debut album was Big Blue Sky (1987). It produced two singles, which charted in Canada in the summer and fall of 1987. The first single, "Teenland", reached #29 with the follow-up, "Things I Do For Money", getting to #85. The album achieved Gold status in Canada. Throughout their career, the Pikes charted mostly at home in Canada, but in 1990 they enjoyed international success with the single "She Ain't Pretty". That song made it onto the US Billboard chart, reaching #86, while going Top 10 (#6) in Canada.
The tab:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/cantab/northernpikes-thingsido.txt
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaoQh9Ak3Rc
Formed in Oakville, Ontario in the mid-1970's, Saga was built around the core of the final line-up of the band Fludd. Throughout much of the band's long career, they've enjoyed greater success in Europe than they have in North America. This was true right from their early years; their synth/guitar/electric drums-driven progressive rock style was embraced overseas, while going largely unnoticed in the US. They enjoyed modest success at home in Canada with the singles "It's Time", "See Them Smile", and "Don't Be Late".
It looks like things are getting back to normal here. I was able to re-post the GS tab page, images will upload again, and I'm getting daily stats again. The only thing that still isn't working is that I'm not getting e-mail notices about blog comments. So I just discovered one was left about four days ago that I didn't know about. I'll answer that soon.
not sureEver have one of those days when part of your website just up and disappears on you? Well, it happened to me last night. And I still can't get it fixed. Last night, I finished up the stats for April and posted them here on the blog. Then I was going to do a very simple task that I hadn't gotten around to doing yet, just add a link to a page. About a week ago I uploaded some photos and created a Girlschool photo page to link to the Girlschool tab page.
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/girlschool_photos
I hadn't added the link from the tab page yet, so I did that. And when I clicked to save the page...everything disappeared. The whole Girlschool tab page. Just gone. I had thought I was going to spend last night working on getting a tab into the computer, but instead I had to work on retrieving that page. At first I thought maybe I clicked on something by mistake and deleted the page. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
I had the coding saved to a flash drive, so I didn't have to totally re-do the page. It was outdated, though, the page has been added to and re-arranged since I saved that coding. So it took about half an hour to get the page back up to date. I clicked to save it again. Once again, it wouldn't save. Finally, I typed in a short message just noting that the page was down, and the problem was being worked on. Of course, that wouldn't save, either. 
Now at this point I don't want to work on any page, because I'm worried that when I click on the save button the whole page is going to disappear. The other pages are there and functioning, and I want to keep it that way. The next tab to be posted is going to be on the Canadian page, and as the most-viewed page on the site, I don't want to risk losing it, too. So I won't be posting that tab (or anything else) until I figure out what's going on. I'm going to save updated coding for all my pages just to make sure I have them backed up. Then I'll try to see if I can get the GS page up and running again.
Added later: I think this is showing evidence of being an Angelfire problem rather than my own computer, because I also tried uploading an image and it wouldn't work, and I went to check my site stats for yesterday, and they weren't there yet. I'll just have to wait until the problem is resolved. In the meantime, Girlschool tabs are still accessible by typing the URL below, with the song title you want, into your browser. This is the URL, using the tab of "Not For Sale" as an example:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/girlschooltab/notforsale.txt
Most-viewed tabs for the month of April 2009 (w/ view numbers):
22 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
15 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
14 - Michel Pagliaro - Lovin' You Ain't Easy
13 - Harlequin - I Did It For Love
12 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
11 - Cry Of Love - Peace Pipe
11 - Max Webster - Battle Scar
10 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
9 - Lee Aaron - Sweet Talk
9 - Harlequin - Superstitious Feeling
Total Tab Views For April: 456
(By section: Canadian-291 Girlschool-60 Various-52 Chords-53)
Most-viewed tabs overall (stats date from Oct. 3/07 to Apr. 30/09):
258 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
192 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
180 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
156 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
144 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
139 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
129 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
112 - Headpins - Don't It Make Ya Feel
111 - Harlequin - Innocence
108 - Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
Tabs reaching 100 overall views mark this month:
Sweet Things In Life, Battle Scar, Raise A Little Hell, I Did It For Love,
Race With the Devil (guitar), Working For the Weekend
*Only tab views made by people (excluding my own views) are counted here. Webcrawler/bot views are excluded.