Topic: Tab Views
Most-viewed tabs for the month of June 2010:
36 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
27 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
25 - Max Webster - Let Go the Line
22 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
22 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
21 - Harlequin - I Did It For Love
21 - Honeymoon Suite - New Girl Now
20 - Trooper - Boys In the Bright White Sports Car
19 - Harlequin - Innocence
18 - Toronto - Your Daddy Don't Know
Total Tab Views For June: 988
By section: Canadian-712 Girlschool-164 Various-61 Chords-51
Most-viewed tabs overall (up to June 30/10):
481 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
473 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
443 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
361 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
316 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
295 - Harlequin - I Did It For Love
292 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
287 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
286 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
276 - Trooper - Raise A Little Hell
Tabs reaching 100 views this month: Make You A Believer, The Party
*Only tab views made by people (excluding my own views) are counted here. Webcrawler/bot views are excluded.
Updated: Monday, July 19, 2010 6:20 PM EDT
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Sometimes you take a flyer on an album, even when you don't know too much about a band. You've heard a couple of songs and hope you like the rest. I did this back in the 70's with Jackson Hawke's debut album Forever (1976). And to this day it's one of my favourite Canadian "hidden gem" albums from the 70's.
In what's been a mostly overcast and rainy week, this seems like an appropriate tab to be posting, (although it's quite nice out today.) So, by request, "Blowing the Blues Away", a relaxed feel-good tune from Max Webster's 1976 self-titled debut album. Like "Let Go the Line", the previous Max tab posted here, this song was penned by keyboardist Terry Watkinson. While it seems like a pretty straightforward song, there are some things about the tab that I'm not sure about. Those things are outlined in the "Notes" section of the tab itself.
In 1974, Five Man Electrical Band scored a Top 10 hit in Canada with the song "Werewolf". The single, which peaked at #6, first appeared on the LP The Power Of The Five Man Electrical Band, a greatest hits compilation that was released in 1975. This same album was later re-issued on CD under the title of Absolutely Right: The Best Of Five Man Electrical Band. 
The Runaways are certainly topical these days, what with the feature film about their career that's currently in theatres. The film originally had a working title of Neon Angels: The Runaways. I guess that was abandoned somewhere along the line, since the final title seems to be simply The Runaways. That working title came from the fact that the movie is based on lead singer Cherie Currie's 1989 autobiography Neon Angel: The Cherie Currie Story.
The Helix track "Breakdown" comes from the band's seventh studio album, Back For Another Taste (1990). They toured extensively behind the album, playing showcase bars. At one point during this touring, while in England, the band were called home to Canada to tour, in order to build on momentum started when the song "Good To the Last Drop" took off as a single there. Ultimately, the album peaked at #82 in Canada and #179 in the US.