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blueEarlier this week I posted to wish people a Happy Hallowe'en, but for me it was actually quite a sad week. Last Saturday morning (October 29), my beautiful little cat Tara passed away at the age of sixteen and a half. She went peacefully, at home, lying in one of her favourite spots. She was a wonderful cat right up to the end. Even in her last couple of weeks, she would gamely muster up a purr in response to attention given to her and for help given to her in getting to food and water dishes and comfortable sleeping spots. I kept hoping she would start to eat more, so she could get some strength back and rally, but it wasn't to be. She has a lovely final resting spot in a stand of woods out behind the house, with a ravine and a stream, her prowling grounds for many years. I miss her terribly.
Born on March 20, 1995, we got her in May of that year. Our neighbours across the street were getting a kitten from some people they knew, and arranged to get us one, too. So Tara lived right across the street from one of her sisters. We had been planning to get two kittens from them, but that didn't work out. So a couple of weeks after getting Tara, we got a second kitten from a newspaper ad. Since Tara was here two weeks before Paddy (and two weeks his senior in age, as well), she always figured she was boss cat. Since Paddy is three times bigger than Tara, he always thought he was boss cat. So it worked for both of them. ;-)
 Tara with me 1995 |  Tara 2010 |
 Tara's Office Chair |  Paddy and Tara |
Most-viewed tabs for the month of October 2011:
37 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
36 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
35 - BTO - Takin' Care Of Business
34 - Harlequin - Innocence
33 - Honeymoon Suite - New Girl Now
29 - Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
23 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
23 - Helix - Deep Cuts the Knife
23 - The Poppy Family - Where Evil Grows
23 - Toronto - Your Daddy Don't Know
23 - Trooper - Boys In the Bright White Sports Car
Total Tab Views for October: 1,278
By section: Canadian-950 Girlschool-99 Various-85 Chords-144
Most-viewed tabs overall (up to Oct. 31/11):
1,027 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
989 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
806 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
755 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
613 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
594 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
592 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
584 - Honeymoon Suite - New Girl Now
560 - Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
558 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
Tabs reaching 100 overall views this month: Ready For Love, Cousin Mary, Love On the Rocks, Edge Of Seventeen, A Criminal Mind
HAVE A HAPPY HALLOWE'EN
Long Long Way was the 1974 follow-up to Ian Thomas's self-titled debut album. It produced two successful singles, in the title track and "Mother Earth". It also gave the 1974 Most Promising Male Vocalist Juno award winner his second consecutive gold album. Thomas showed he was well on his way to becoming the hit-making machine he would be known as in Canada.
As far as I know, the only album the single version has ever appeared on is the 1980 greatest hits compilation The Best Of Ian Thomas. In 1993, when Thomas released another comprehensive best-of compilation (called Looking Back), "Mother Earth" wasn't included on it.
"Nova Heart" was the first single drawn from Arias & Symphonies (1982), the second album from Burlington, Ontario new wave band the Spoons. Released in April of 1982, the song became a Top 40 hit in Canada. It was followed by two more singles, the album's title track and "Smiling In Winter". The success of all three singles propelled Arias & Symphonies to gold status.
Most-viewed tabs for the month of September 2011:
31 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
22 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
21 - 54-40 - Baby Ran
20 - Harlequin - Sweet Things In Life
19 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
18 - Honeymoon Suite - New Girl Now
17 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
17 - The Poppy Family - Where Evil Grows
16 - April Wine - Just Between You And Me
16 - Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
16 - Toronto - Your Daddy Don't Know
Total Tab Views for September: 867
By section: Canadian-625 Girlschool-94 Various-42 Chords-106
Most-viewed tabs overall (up to Sept. 30/11):
991 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
966 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
785 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
718 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
593 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
579 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
576 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
551 - Honeymoon Suite - New Girl Now
538 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
531 - Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
Recorded in July of 1982, not long after the death of lead guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and the firing of bassist Pete Farndon, "Back On the Chain Gang" would become one of the Pretenders' most successful singles. The song was recorded by an interim line-up; Rockpile guitarist Billy Bremner and Big Country bassist Tony Butler joined Chrissie Hynde and Martin Chambers for the session.
The single was released in the Fall of 1982, and became a Top 5 hit in both the US and Canada, while charting at #17 at home in the UK.
The song was included on the band's next full album, Learning To Crawl, released early in 1984. Bremner and Butler played on a couple of other tracks, as well, but the bulk of the album was recorded by the band's new permanent line-up, which had Robbie McIntosh on guitar and Malcolm Foster on bass. The album went platinum and reached the Top 5 on Billboard.
Tabbed here is the Intro.
THE PRETENDERS - "Back On the Chain Gang" (C. Hynde)
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/annesblog/varriffs.txt
Audio (studio version):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzWNY1zwrjY
"In Context Of the Moon", the closing track on Max Webster's High Class In Borrowed Shoes (1977) album, was the second in a series of moon-themed songs, one of which appeared on each of the first four Max Webster studio albums. It was preceded by "Coming Off the Moon", from the band's 1976 self-titled debut album. "Beyond the Moon" was featured on 1978's Mutiny Up My Sleeve, while "Moon Voices" -- the last of the series -- appeared on the 1979 album A Million Vacations.
