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Tonight’s Reader Tips selection is somewhat unsafe for work. But you shouldn’t be at work anyway.

Their first album was a live recording titled Toilet Rock, produced by Skip Prokop of Lighthouse. Burton Cummings of the Guess Who appears on and produced the studio portions of their second album, Bitter Reality, although his management tried unsuccessfully to have his contribution (singing two short “dirty” songs) removed, fearing it would be harmful to his career. This challenge caused the album’s release to be delayed by several months, by which time the controversy had been widely reported by the media, and the track had been “leaked” to a Toronto radio station which played it on a weekly show featuring comedy records, making the attempted removal a futile effort, and the album was released with Cummings’ contributions intact. Jack Richardson, the producer of the Guess Who’s albums, produced the live portions of this album.
Controversial for their use of strong language, at one point they had to appeal for the right to perform at the level of the Supreme Court of Canada. The title of their album Locked Up for Laughs refers to an incident when they were actually put in jail in Kingston, Ontario after a charge of public indecency at a live performance. Their theme song was a rendition of “Ja-Da” retitled “Fuck Ya”, and it appeared on all of their albums in one form or another. It was often used as a closing to their live shows, following a “mutual heckling” routine in which the audience and performers jokingly shouted abuse at each other; the song would then be performed as a “sing-along” with the audience.

So, lock up the children and issue the trigger warnings. It’s Maclean And Maclean Week. (Or maybe just Maclean And Maclean Coupla Days.)

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