You're welcome - I've loved Max Webster as my # 1 band since the first time I saw them live in 1977. When this concert was announced, I didn't have much time to prepare, but I took what little I know of audio and recorded and mixed the audio separately in Soundbooth and the video in Premiere Pro on an iMac, then put the results together. The Tralf vids are my first attempt at more than a straight-from-the camera-job and the results varied, but I got better results with each one edited.
How would you feel if you knew Kim and Mike Tilka asked me to join the band as lead singer, and second lead guitarist? That was 1970. They saw me singing and playing at a matinee, and came over to talk with me. That started something.
@@markusaurelius777 I know a Mark Clifford who had a white Les Paul and Marshall stack in 1971, I think. As far as being rock stars, I'm not sure who was better-looking.
One of the trickiest Max tunes. You can tell everyone is really concentrating to get through this one. Kim is genuinely triumphant at the end knowing they nailed it. What a band!
Are you kidding only 1200 hits this music is gold the deevolution of music has made this music the pinaccle of rock and roll people are not listening to the right stuff ZOONEY
John Watt - well that makes total sense especially with Pye Dubois’ crazy lyrics. I never got to see Max live, only Kim Mitchell after Miss Demeanor release. A friend lent me Max Webster Live Magnetic Air and I was sold.
@@zambezi-sv1ed! I dropped out of high school for a steel factory job, buying a '64 Stratocaster, Marshall and effects in 1970, five months before Jimi passed away. A flute playing friend and I were jamming jazzy funk at an Atlas Hotel matinee when the original Max Webster was playing. Kim came over to our table and asked if he could sit down. We ended up meeting again the next week in Niagara Falls, trading a Fender Deluxe, trying to wire a DiMarzio P.A.F. Humbucker with single coil Strat pickups. Kim played a Gretch Tennessean, orange, but it was stolen and he couldn't get another. We both wanted Strat and Les Paul sounds on the same guitar. I moved to Toronto and Kim and Mike Tilka, the bassist, asked me to rehearse with them and play that weekend, being the new lead singer. I said look how far you have got doing what you do, Kim is singing his own songs, but you are a band in transition, seeing the keyboard player as a classical musician, a pianist. Two months later they had Terry Wilkinson. Kim recorded gigs with a portable cassette player at the back and gave me a couple of tapes. The next band I was in did a couple Max songs and everybody liked them. It was ordinary back then for bands to do beans, making them faster, thinking bar crowds were used to getting up early in the morning to go to work, so if you kept your energy up, or played faster, everyone thought you were better. I never did that. It was sad, over the years, to see Kim and other band members start to look wasted. I still have the black and white 8x10 agency photo they used when they came to Welland. It is sad now for me, after all these years, to still be healthy and be alone, when so many musicians from the classic rock era can't play any more. Even my flute playing friend thought Max did the best "Locomotive Breath". Six-nighters... traveling around Ontario and across Canada, a million vacations on wheels.
John Watt great story! Music of that time was exciting real and inspired. I reckon there’s a whole new younger generation that would enjoy old style music and maybe they would even improve the production by added the new tech mediums available. There’s always been that divide between music for art/excellence and music for mass consumption. These days I’m happy of the artist plays an actual instrument 🎻.
@@zambezi-sv1ed! I see what you're saying. I thought that Strats and Les Pauls and Marshall and Fender amps would be the new standard of instruments, the new electronic sounds that are as loud as a symphony. Here in Ontario, zambezis got put away when plywood covered the ice for rock concerts, and playing six-nighters was an ordinary job. But it was that desire for more electronic sounds that put electronics on top of the music scene, to the point where, as you say, people who use electronics are making it in a world of media, more than onstage. Our governments should have regulated what is human and machine, instead of jumping all over taxes and new offshore import taxes from electronics manufacture. I see that as a mild form of treason against the human race. Thanks for believing me right away. Too bad I can't use scan and photo attachments here. I played my first computer game in Toronto, Pong, with Kim Mitchell at a big cover charge bar, where Dr.Music was the house band. 1970. That's the kind of trivia I have that goes over now.
Wow, the quality of this is awesome! Nice job getting this captured so well. I've been trying to find quality MW stuff on Ytube. This is the best I can find audio wise for sure.
Strange that Kim’s Olive Oyl shoes on the cover of High Class in Borrowed Shoes still affects me after all these years. What is this Max Webster dancing?
Thank you so much for posting. BEAUTIFUL!! ahhhhh, the memories, Winnipeg Concert Hall, "On The Road", is only one of the so many all time favs from Kim/Max Webster, etc....thank you thank you thank you!!!1
@poundingmetal74 ...thanks for your comments! The sound quality is what I was aiming for, the video is okay considering I was standing on a stairway that bounced every time somebody passed by! Also, I did have a separate sound recording device in one hand... while I did all the camera work, including zoom, with only the right hand (no tripod). Next time, I'll recruit an assistant, it was exhausting to do it all myself. Burn a DVD, maybe, might ask Kim if he's okay with it first.
Listening to the progression of this song is akin to (@ least in my mind) sending 3 humans into space via a rocket launched from earth, successfully landing them on the moon & subsequently launching them off of the moon then landing them safely back on earth albeit into the ocean via parachute landing but safe & alive nevertheless.
Agree, outstanding videography Sandra. Really appreciate your efforts here, could you post as much of this night as possible. Or send or host me the original mpg or mov or whatever it is on an location. Would really love to enjoy this from afar.
This video makes me so sad I missed this concert. Kim's band played the song perfectly, top-to-bottom. The quality of the video and audio is fantastic as well - is it straight from the Camera's mic? Also, is there a chance you could burn the whole concert to a DVD? I'd love to get a copy of this. Huge Max and Kim fan. Cheers & thanks for posting this!
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You're welcome - I've loved Max Webster as my # 1 band since the first time I saw them live in 1977. When this concert was announced, I didn't have much time to prepare, but I took what little I know of audio and recorded and mixed the audio separately in Soundbooth and the video in Premiere Pro on an iMac, then put the results together. The Tralf vids are my first attempt at more than a straight-from-the camera-job and the results varied, but I got better results with each one edited.
How would you feel if you knew Kim and Mike Tilka asked me to join the band as lead singer,
and second lead guitarist? That was 1970. They saw me singing and playing at a matinee,
and came over to talk with me. That started something.
Sounds great Kim !!!!
@@markusaurelius777 I know a Mark Clifford who had a white Les Paul and Marshall stack in 1971, I think. As far as being rock stars, I'm not sure who was better-looking.
Great. Thanks. Seen many shows there. Hot Tuna. Roy Buchanan. Bromberg...much love for Max Webster
I was at the show I had a great time with a couple of friends what damn it was 11 years ago seems like yesterday kimb0 alogo0
The Original Toronto Tontos...MAX WEBSTER grooves on !Thanks for the share.....Cheers
Reminds me of the glory days living in Toronto. It was the ultimate fresh air fund!!!!
Kim is such a guitar God !
Very nice
One of the trickiest Max tunes. You can tell everyone is really concentrating to get through this one. Kim is genuinely triumphant at the end knowing they nailed it. What a band!
Are you kidding only 1200 hits this music is gold the deevolution of music has made this music the pinaccle of rock and roll people are not listening to the right stuff
ZOONEY
Skill, intelligence and substance. Years later, I can’t help but feel that Max Webster was kinda Zappa’esque. Kim Mitchell proper melodic player.
When I met Max Webster in 1970 half of their songlist was Zappa. They took it to the Max.
John Watt - well that makes total sense especially with Pye Dubois’ crazy lyrics. I never got to see Max live, only Kim Mitchell after Miss Demeanor release. A friend lent me Max Webster Live Magnetic Air and I was sold.
@@zambezi-sv1ed! I dropped out of high school for a steel factory job, buying a '64 Stratocaster,
Marshall and effects in 1970, five months before Jimi passed away. A flute playing friend
and I were jamming jazzy funk at an Atlas Hotel matinee when the original Max Webster
was playing. Kim came over to our table and asked if he could sit down. We ended up meeting
again the next week in Niagara Falls, trading a Fender Deluxe, trying to wire a DiMarzio
P.A.F. Humbucker with single coil Strat pickups. Kim played a Gretch Tennessean, orange,
but it was stolen and he couldn't get another. We both wanted Strat and Les Paul sounds
on the same guitar. I moved to Toronto and Kim and Mike Tilka, the bassist, asked me to rehearse
with them and play that weekend, being the new lead singer. I said look how far you have got
doing what you do, Kim is singing his own songs, but you are a band in transition, seeing the
keyboard player as a classical musician, a pianist. Two months later they had Terry Wilkinson.
Kim recorded gigs with a portable cassette player at the back and gave me a couple of tapes.
The next band I was in did a couple Max songs and everybody liked them. It was ordinary back
then for bands to do beans, making them faster, thinking bar crowds were used to getting up
early in the morning to go to work, so if you kept your energy up, or played faster, everyone
thought you were better. I never did that. It was sad, over the years, to see Kim and other band
members start to look wasted. I still have the black and white 8x10 agency photo they used
when they came to Welland. It is sad now for me, after all these years, to still be healthy and
be alone, when so many musicians from the classic rock era can't play any more.
Even my flute playing friend thought Max did the best "Locomotive Breath".
Six-nighters... traveling around Ontario and across Canada, a million vacations on wheels.
John Watt great story! Music of that time was exciting real and inspired. I reckon there’s a whole new younger generation that would enjoy old style music and maybe they would even improve the production by added the new tech mediums available. There’s always been that divide between music for art/excellence and music for mass consumption. These days I’m happy of the artist plays an actual instrument 🎻.
@@zambezi-sv1ed! I see what you're saying. I thought that Strats and Les Pauls and Marshall
and Fender amps would be the new standard of instruments, the new electronic sounds
that are as loud as a symphony. Here in Ontario, zambezis got put away when plywood
covered the ice for rock concerts, and playing six-nighters was an ordinary job. But it was
that desire for more electronic sounds that put electronics on top of the music scene,
to the point where, as you say, people who use electronics are making it in a world of media,
more than onstage. Our governments should have regulated what is human and machine,
instead of jumping all over taxes and new offshore import taxes from electronics manufacture.
I see that as a mild form of treason against the human race.
Thanks for believing me right away. Too bad I can't use scan and photo attachments here.
I played my first computer game in Toronto, Pong, with Kim Mitchell at a big cover charge bar,
where Dr.Music was the house band. 1970. That's the kind of trivia I have that goes over now.
Wow, the quality of this is awesome! Nice job getting this captured so well. I've been trying to find quality MW stuff on Ytube. This is the best I can find audio wise for sure.
I love music that makes you laugh and shake your head at how good it is!
Strange that Kim’s Olive Oyl shoes on the cover of High Class in Borrowed Shoes still affects me after all these years. What is this Max Webster dancing?
Magnetic Air Thank you!!!
awesome!!!! the drummer really kicks ass!!! thanks for this post.
Reminded me of Kim’s music from the Grass Company Days ...great Canadian Rocker
I was at this show. Kim and the band kicked ass!
These guys knew how to play their instruments Amazing band They put many people to shame So much garbage out their These guys were great
This is a kick ass song. Sounds just like the way Kim did it in 79
Thank you so much for posting. BEAUTIFUL!! ahhhhh, the memories, Winnipeg Concert Hall, "On The Road", is only one of the so many all time favs from Kim/Max Webster, etc....thank you thank you thank you!!!1
@poundingmetal74 ...thanks for your comments! The sound quality is what I was aiming for, the video is okay considering I was standing on a stairway that bounced every time somebody passed by! Also, I did have a separate sound recording device in one hand... while I did all the camera work, including zoom, with only the right hand (no tripod). Next time, I'll recruit an assistant, it was exhausting to do it all myself. Burn a DVD, maybe, might ask Kim if he's okay with it first.
It's awesome. Thanks.
You should contact Bob Wegner, a Toronto musician who is writing a book about Max Webster.
He also has a website.
Listening to the progression of this song is akin to (@ least in my mind) sending 3 humans into space via a rocket launched from earth, successfully landing them on the moon & subsequently launching them off of the moon then landing them safely back on earth albeit into the ocean via parachute landing but safe & alive nevertheless.
Gestet Ner, omg where you get ur weed?
Agree, outstanding videography Sandra. Really appreciate your efforts here, could you post as much of this night as possible. Or send or host me the original mpg or mov or whatever it is on an location. Would really love to enjoy this from afar.
Buddy needs to turn his bass volume up.
Blue!
Fast and Bulbous!!!
Kim Mitchell. Is he Clark Kent. Or Superman? Or both!
I'd like to know who that is on drums and bass. Looks like Terry on kb. Great rendition of a classic from the Max machine
I'm wondering if that's Peter Fredette on bass guitar, his longtime collaborator.
@@craignl it sure is. And it's Chris Sutherland on drums. Don Breithaupt on keys.
Mitchell has always had great players in his band.
This video makes me so sad I missed this concert. Kim's band played the song perfectly, top-to-bottom. The quality of the video and audio is fantastic as well - is it straight from the Camera's mic? Also, is there a chance you could burn the whole concert to a DVD? I'd love to get a copy of this. Huge Max and Kim fan. Cheers & thanks for posting this!
What was your "sound recording device " ?
And do you know the names of the drummer, bass, keyboard players ?
so awesome... but would be better with Terry singing and playing along...