When I was a kid there was a time when this was my favorite band. Good documentary, the trailer doesn’t do it justice.
My favorite story was Gil Moore talking about how in the early days he found the big flame thrower to put in front of his drum kit.
Sound: Infantile, loud and repetitive. Like most rock, its terrible.
I will let Frank Sinatra describe rock:
“Rock n Roll is the most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.”
The movie This is Spinal Tap nicely skewered the entire business and that was nearly 40 years ago.
As a former roadie, it’s always amused me that the “no brown M&Ms” legend has always been interpreted exactly backwards.
Brown acid.
Yasgur’s Farm…
Actually rock bands would put crazy demands in their contracts, like demanding a bowl of red M&M’s be placed in their dressing room, or a case of Egyptian beer with the labels removed, etc. This was done to see if in fact the contract was actually read.
Come, come now, too many notes, court composer?
Rock, like any other form of music has it’s timeless gems and forgettable moments.
I’ll agree that Triumph is not part of the finer product. It’s catchy but meat and potatoes and too glitzy, just girl metal…like a cheap Def Leopard…sorry ladies.
The one and only true 3 piece Canadian band will always be Rush.
Music has three elements, harmony, melody and rhythm. Rush doesn’t use any of these things.
Mozart no doubt would have said the similar things about the crooners.
Opinions are like assholes.
Some rock music is terribly bad, yes, but some is very good.
and the same can be said of every type of music, be it jazz, country, blues, ballads, pop music, etc etc
even some classical music is terrible, very repetitive and very bad and is just noise.
I grew up in the 60s, my father had a tube amp Telefunken stereo on which he played his classical music vinyls, and he had many of them, I heard hundreds and hundreds of classical pieces of music
some concertos or symphonies were wonderful, but some were just a bunch of notes devoid of any emotion or any meaning , they were just noise, there was no melody there was nothing you could consider beautiful.
There is bad, ugly, repetitive music in every genre.
I still have the vinyl album. Rock’ n roll machine , bought it when it came out roughly 40 years ago.
I was about 18 or 20 years old can t remember.
Rick Emmett, like several great guitarists, was classically trained. It shows in his expert musicianship and his accomplishments.
While I was a teen when they hit their zenith, I didn’t appreciate just how big and how they were at the top of the music industry, overall. They Were one of THE acts to see for that 5 year period when they were at the top of their game.
They didn’t rely on CANCON to be successful.
Got to see Triumph live at the Oakland County Coliseum (they played in the basketball arena next door to the Raiders’ old stadium) back in the mid-80s. Awesome concert.
One of my all time favourite quotes from Keith Richards, “ five strings, three chords, two fingers and one asshole”.
I like Triumph.
I also like Coney Hatch, Loverboy, Foreigner, Trooper, April Wine, Journey, Cheap Trick, ELO and a host of others from the time.
Triumph was a glorified garage band.
On that clip someone wondered why they weren’t as popular as Led Zep.
Oh, because Jimmy Page wasn’t in that band.
What’s your problem with garage bands?
Back in the day, I remember the Crimson Jimson and Darcy’s bars, in Hamilton, ON.
There was a lot of really good talent around that never made the big time, like Typhoid Mary, for example.
If you think that all the good talent makes the big time, you are sadly mistaken. You are equally mistaken if you think that making the big time necessarily means that there was good talent involved.
The parochialism inherent in many comments is palpable.
People think “I don’t like X, therefore X must be terrible.”
I don’t really like Def Leopard or Eminem, but I recognize that both have talent.
I prefer Beethoven to Bach or Mozart, doesn’t mean Beethoven is “better.”
WTF is wrong with you people?
I just remember that my Rolling Stone Record Guide stated about Triumph, “all albums docked one star for plotting world domination from Canada.” I thought that was kind of funny.
Triumph, Prism, April Wine, Trooper, Streetheart, … No thank you.