The discussion of Bad Co./ Free the other week, it got me thinking about glam rock, which was often the inverse of meat n’potatoes and greatcoats blues rock. Glam was affected, self-conscious, ironic, camp, and liked by big jessies, whether gay, girls, art ponces, or boys like me who preferred showy dramatics that were less macho. Little did I know there was a Canadian outcropping of this genre, and think on that a while: if being glam may have been difficult in Rotherham, you try it in Moosejaw. The pics here promise much, and that a young Bryan Adams was involved (definitely his high point as far as I am concerned) hakes it all the more intriguing. This is my best find since Zolar X, a space themed Devo from 1973.
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An excellent piece made all the more relevant because I’m sat in a hotel in downtown Vancouver wishing the day away so I can fly back to see my dogs tomorrow!
Hope you walked (or ran) Sea Wall around Stanley Park.
Cycled around it twice. Will that do?
Good enough!
Canada often looked to UK rather than US for inspiration. See also a New Romantic/Electronic inspired movement in the 80s.
I don’t remember it being territorial at all – we liked Bad Co, Free, Zep etc at the same time as David Bowie, Roxy, T. Rex and even The Sweet in a slightly ironic way. Music was much less tribal in the mid 70s, certainly amongst my circle anyway.
April Wine…a Canadian Hard Rockish metal band almost made it too.
Their 1981..maybe 2 album Nature Of The Beast was quite ok.
I remember that! I think. I like to Rock.
And where do you stand on Rolling?
I don’t stand on rolling moose, I roll on rolling.
Nobody rolls Moose. Even if he is round.
I assumed this was another Lodestone bid to free the Vancouver island one.