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In 1978, Chilliwack released their seventh album, Lights From the Valley (pictured), the follow-up to their successful Dreams Dreams Dreams album. Despite a lack of promotion due to financial troubles at Mushroom Records, the album yielded a hit in the band's cover version of "Arms Of Mary".
The annual appearance of the Thanksgiving Day cat...
For all who are celebrating Thanksgiving today, have a great holiday!
In the mid-1980's, the song "New Girl Now" helped Honeymoon Suite to win Toronto radio station Q107's "Homegrown" contest for unsigned artists. Shortly afterward, the band signed with WEA Records.
Most-viewed tabs for the month of September 2009 (w/ view numbers):
37 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
27 - Max Webster - A Million Vacations
16 - Girlschool - Yeah Right (guitar)
15 - Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin' Care Of Business
14 - April Wine - Just Between You And Me
14 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
12 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
12 - Harlequin - I Did It For Love
12 - Max Webster - The Party
10 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
Total Tab Views For September: 501
By section: Canadian-355 Girlschool-56 Various-39 Chords-51
Most-viewed tabs overall (up to Sept. 30/09):
311 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
277 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
239 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
212 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
192 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
190 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
178 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
168 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
150 - Max Webster - Battle Scar
149 - Harlequin - Innocence
Tabs reaching 100 overall views mark this month: That's The Hold
*Only tab views made by people (excluding my own views) are counted here. Webcrawler/bot views are excluded.
A seasonal entry for today, "The Late September Dogs", from Melissa Etheridge's 1988 self-titled debut album. This has always been my favourite song from her first record. I could say I really like the passion with which this song is sung, and the emotion that builds throughout it, and it would be true. But it would seem a bit redundant, because does she do any other kind of song?
I also like the bass playing in particular in this song. I think Kevin McCormick's bass playing added a very unique sound to her earlier records (he played on the first four), and he's really featured on this song. For that reason, I tried to find the studio version of the song to link to, but it wasn't easy.
The chord chart:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/crd/etheridgem-lateseptemberdogs.txt
It seems the audio can only be reached in a roundabout way. I found the song on a page at Imeem, but if I link directly to the page, it gets blocked out with a sign-in box. However, if you click the link below, then click the second link from the top on the Google search results page, you'll get to the same page, but the sign-in box won't appear. I don't know why, I don't ask questions, I just try to overcome obstacles. 
http://www.google.ca/search?q=melissa+etheridge+-+late+september+dogs&btnGNS=Search+imeem.com&oi=navquery_
searchbox&sa=X&as_sitesearch=imeem.com&hl=en&rlz=1R2ADSA_enCA335
Aside from that, there's a live version at YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRrniAqZDjc
Back in the 80's I knew a guy who really liked the band The Cult. And I liked them too, for that matter. One time when we were sitting around with one of their tapes playing, I happened to mention that (Cult lead singer) Ian Astbury had gone to a high school only a few blocks from the one I went to. (Astbury lived in Hamilton, ON in the mid-to-late 70's http://www.juicemagazine.com/THECULT.html) A few weeks later we went to see The Cult, who were plaing the CNE Grandstand. In a relatively quieter moment, between two songs, he turned to his best friend, gestured toward me, and told him, "She used to see Ian Astbury walking to school back in high school." Gotta love the way stories can get embellished that quickly, don't you? 
In all fairness, though, maybe he just misinterpreted what I originally said, and thought that's what I meant. But he probably just thought it sounded like a better story that way.
That was the Electric tour, so this song hadn't been recorded yet, but it's a good one. It's from the band's fourth album, Sonic Temple (1989).
THE CULT - "New York City" (I. Astbury/B. Duffy)
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/annesblog/varriffs.txt
Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF369vRRAWE
A Million Vacations (1979) was the only one of Max Webster's albums to achieve platinum status (which it did in Canada). The band scored a handful of hits off the album with radio-friendly tunes such as the title track.