These guys were the kings of Canadian Arena Rock for over a decade and Canada's very best guitar band...3 dueling lead guitars and one of the best drummers on the planet...!
@odochartaighofodonegal9815 hi, hope you're doing well. My First Girlfriend was Jill an incredibly at the same time my older brother was dating her sister Brandy. April Wine came to Calgary for the whole world's gone crazy tour. Jerry Mercer was their uncle !. The whole Band came over to their house for dinner . I'll never forget it !. Jill and I were little kids , and when everyone left to go to the show Brandi and my brother had to stay and babysit us. Well, we were about 11:12 years old at the time. Can't forget Jill's mom making a great dinner for her brothers arrival to Calgary. We lived a couple doors down on a army base and not long after her dad got posted somewhere else somewhere else. My first concert my brother took me to see April Wine nature of the Beast ! It was pretty incredible
Oowatanite-April Wine--Total Golden treasure!!! It was difficult to turn on a radio in Canada in the 1970s or early '80s without hearing April Wine. The Halifax-spawned, Montreal-based band made radio-friendly arena rock and sentimental ballads that earned them a mass audience. They had five platinum or multi-platinum albums in Canada, 21 Top 40 singles, and received ten Juno nominations, including seven for group of the year 1975-83. April Wine made their U.S. debut in 1972 with the hard-driving "You Could Have Been A Lady," a Top 40 hit which shot up to #2 on the Canadian charts and became among the band's best known songs worldwide. The band had two other Top 40 hits in the U.S. with "Roller" (1979) and "Just Between You And Me" (1981). Just if your at all curious!! Cheers guys!!
I saw April Wine at the 5th Golden Summernight concert in Mannheim Germany in 1982. A concert with several bands including Jethro Tull and Neil Young. On April Wine's second song an Oompah band came down the river on a barge , anchored and played for a while. April Wine yielded the stage. When they came back, their drummer played a 15 minute solo that knocked my socks off.
April Wine “I Like To Rock” ... BTO “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” ... Triumph “Lay it on the Line”. Songs from some great Canadian bands , just to name a few. Cheers from the great white north.
April Wine is the Canadian band with more than 20 albums since 1971. I always felt here in America April Wine didn't get the recognition they deserved. A few other songs by them worth a listen are, JUST BETWEEN YOU AND ME, SIGN OF THE GYPSY QUEEN, ROLLER and my favorite YOU COULD HAVE BEEN A LADY from 1972. Another Canadian band known for bangers are BTO, BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE.
Red Rider's "White Hot" is a great song from this era. Tom Cochrane is the lead singer. Big in Canada in the 80s. Cochrane's solo hit was "Life is a highway".
So many great memories listening to his album as a young teen hanging with my buddies. No one in America knew who they were. We felt we had stumbled onto the next great thing. Love April Wine....R.I.P. Myles Goodwyn
I bought this album on vinyl in 1982, a year after the album came-out, after hearing the amazing power ballad "Just Between You And Me" on Rock radio several times. I was so glad I did. Even though the first couple of songs on it aren't that great, then we get "Sign Of The Gypsy Queen," "Just Between You And Me," "Crash And Burn" (which I see you guys have already reviewed - yay!!), and it just goes on and on from there. _The Nature Of The Beast_ is actually the heaviest album April Wine ever did in the 70s and 80s, it is their most popular, and it's their best. It's an all-around winner. You DEFINITELY need to react to "Just Between You And Me," "Caught In The Crossfire," "Big City Girls," "Bad Boys" and "One More Time"...ALL of them on this great album. 🤘🏻🐻🤘🏻 By the way, the drummer, Jerry Mercer, an absolute big 🐻 of a man, was an absolute beast on drums, as evidenced on "Roller" and this and all the other songs I mentioned above, plus many others. 🤘🏻🐻🤘🏻
The great John Kay's Steppenwolf iconic Canadian band from the 60's through present. John Kay is an amazing vocalist, blues guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and songwriter. You have all probably heard "Born to be Wild" and "Magic Carpet Ride", but "The Pusher"(Hoyt Axton) and "Hoochie Coochie Man"(Wiilie Dixon) are great blues tunes that are my favorites.
This was a huge hit for them along with Just Between You and Me. Alot of airplay this sing. This is when they started getting more poppy but still rocking.
And they're just as well to watch them live, because they sound the same live as they do on their albums because they can all really play that well, first take.
I know this was a year ago but I gotta answer the 2 big questions posed....... 2 words boys.....Pedal Effects. The guitar is plugged thru a series of pedals that when activated would change the sound of the guitar, distortion/fuzz tone, wa wa, phaser, jet phase, chorus, delay etc etc etc there are MANY. Today with micro processors their usually done thru a single board. Yeah they we're huge in Canada, in New England when this album came out "Just Between You and Me" was almost EVERY couple's song. This whole album is great and the only album of theirs to make a dent in the US, still to this day I still can't understand why. Triumph is another Canadian band that kills it and has many albums but only made a real effect here in the US with one album, it's such a head scratcher. Peace
Thanks so much for the detailed answer regarding the guitars because I also wanted to know. I’ve heard some of those terms and your explanation put them into context for me. Also, your enthusiasm for the band is appreciated as April Wine was a huge part of the soundtrack of my youth and I’ve always been a fan. They had a prolific output of such great music. RIP Myles. Cheers! 🇨🇦
For that era's sound, a compression pedal, crunch, delay, reverb and doubler, typically pushed by a Strat on front pickup, with a switch to mid and back for the more "mellow" interludes. At least that how I approached it. ;-)
Ok, guys, April Wine's good rockers are - Roller, Oowatanite, Say Hello, I Like To Rock, Raise A Little Hell and You Could Have Been A Lady. A more mellow but good one that you could listen to with your girlfriend would be Tonight Is A Wonderful Time To Fall In Love, which even though it's more mellow, is still catchy. Every one of these songs is a must if you want to hear more of this band! Hope this helps. Looking forward to more reactions to this good Canadian band. Cheers from Ontario!
In Canada the radio was mandated to play a certain percentage of Canadian (bands) content, hence why we up here in the great north know most of these bands. It was also very hard (for some reason) for a Canadian band to break into the US market back in the 70's and 80's, and probably right up until today. Historically, very few Canadians bands have cracked the US market.
Future Tense off of the Nature of the Beast album is bad ass and you won’t be disappointed BTW .....I saw April Wine in concert in San Antonio in 1982. One of the best concerts I ever went to 👍
"Wild Eyes" (1975) by the Stampeders - another great lost Canadian rock band. "Fantasy" (1983) by Aldo Nova - Canadian classic 80's face-ripper, keys and guitar "Fly At Night" (1977) by Chilliwack - great 70's soft guitar rock Peace
I am shocked I cannot find someone on youtube who will react to Aldo Nova "Fantasy". When that song came out, we were like OMFG! This is so so so...we were speechless. Never heard anything like it.
Yeah, these guys were pretty good at everything...rockin hits, radio friendly rock, killer ballads to slow dance to...appreciated in Canada, loved at their live shows ANYWHERE in North America...ignored by the U.S. music machine (not the only ones)
I know I'm late to the party here. A lot of bands in the 80's were popular in certain regions of the US. April Wine was very popular in the Midwest. They are still played on Classic Rock stations in Wisconsin. That Nature of the Beast album doesn't have a bad song on it. April Wine was actually on the Monsters of rock tour back in 1980 with Rainbow, Judas Priest, Scorpions and Saxon.
Looks like you guys are instant April Wine fans. Myles Goodwyn just passed away this week at age 75. April Wine were a staple in Canada in the 70's & 80's. I have some great memories of playing their songs in my beat up 1973 Ford Pinto with a Marantz stereo system worth more than the car! Lol. RIP Myles.
Brings back memories of my childhood in San Antonio TX. Joe Anthony used to play these guys , triumph, budgie and rush before they came down on tour, they had a following before they got to San Antonio
Been my fav band forever. Here are my favs: Comin' Right Down On Top Of Me. Before The Dawn. Tonite. Slow Poke. Say Hello. To name a few... Please enjoy responsibly!
Check out their cover of 21st Century Schizoid Man. Maybe it's because we are closer to Canada than you guys are but April Wine gets played on the radio a lot here in Wisconsin. Or at least they did in the 80s and 90s. Thanks for the reaction guys.
April Wine's greatest hits album is can't miss. Boys, check out the tracks on it and choose anything. Also, I Like To Rock, which has a cool shout out to a Stones hit and a Beatles hit overlapped. Also Say Hello and Enough is Enough. They are a straight on rock/rock-pop band. Very underrated group out of Montreal. Myles Goodwin is a really good vocalist and guitarist.
Three different guitarists, playing different guitars. And yes, they will all sound different as they have different pickups and one neck may be longer than the other. This gives them the ability to play different and it all sound different and you can pick out when the guitarist changes. Check out "I like to rock." It too will make your playlist. Along with "before the dawn."
The live version of this from this tour was sooooooo damn good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 80's sound,, COMPRESS the shit out of it, add some chorus and delay.. As far as the sounds... Different effects, different amps, mic placement, room size, etc... Every thing was done with amps (pretty much) guitars, effects.. There were no amp and cabinet simulators, pro tools... EVery thing was recorded on 2" tape. If you F'd up you had to "punch it in" or do it again LOL No "cut and paste".
If you enjoy keyboards, April Wine-Comin' Right Down on Top of Me. For soul chilling blues, Silver Dollar both songs are on same album as Roller. I was lucky to grow up during the 60's,70's early 80's talent abounded back then.
Love April Wine. With me , some of my favorite songs from other bands, that I really didn't originally like, took multiple times listening to them before they became favorites . (If that makes any sense). I'm sure that's the case for a lot of people. I'm glad that you guys have had an opportunity to appreciate this band 😁
oh...they have "some" good songs. LOL "Some" as in a few dozen. And thank you. You're one of the first reaction acts to do this song or any April Wine.
1) Roller 2) Sign of the Gypsy Queen 3) I like to Rock 4) Enough is Enough 5) Say hello and one for your girlfriends or wives....................... Just between You and Me trust me. The wind chimes might be open string strum,
Ditto - For me I got hooked by Bad Side of the Moon on KTel album I got around age 10. Had to go exploring the rock direction from there, never mind Tony Orlando and the like on the same disc.
Been going deep cutting AW and found a few more heavier rockers in "So Bad", blistering guitars in the Frank Marino vein, "Before The Dawn" which is somewhat Proggy too, "Wench" from the debut album, for the first almost 3 Minutes just a "small r" rock song, then we get the first outbreak of the Triple Rack Guitar Attack and the destruction it can leave, "Crash And Burn" has a taste of Thrash Rock to it, damn fine splendid it is, "Electric Jewels" Mellow early, Rocker middle, Prog finisher, "Hot On The Wheels Of Love" Steve Lang's Bass just ripping it up, along with the triplets. There you go, that should keep you busy.
There are even more rocking sound songs by April Wine...Check out their song : *Say Hello* and *Could Have Been A Lady* And check out Joe Satriani : *Big Bad Moon*.......and might as well check out Nazareth: *Bad, Bad Boy* and *Turn On Your Receiver* and *Razamanaz* and *Woke Up this Morning*......Find the Videos with the Lyrics
Came across this today and just subscribed. I hope you go through the April Wine catalog. It's deep deep deep. rock and roll from the maritimes of Canada in the early 1970s. These guys were huge on the radio back in the day
they were signed to a canadian label and had licensing issues in america which held them back from touring and getting airplay on a large scale-otherwise would ve been much bigger. in canada they toured for decades and still play(ed) festivals and casinos i saw them 5 or 6 yrs ago and they were great
Tubed amps. Les Paul vrs Strat on stage. Electric guitars have pickups which can alter sound through manipulation. Strings can be wound differently. BM from Queen plays with a coin or metal pick to get his sound. Tom Schultz from Boston graduated MIT and designed my fav The Rockman and numerous “effects pedals” to achieve diff sounds. Jimmy Page used a bow and fereman?
You need to know about CanCon, which stands for Canadian Content. In Canada there's rules for radio stations where 35% of songs played must be of Canadian origin. This was to prevent US music from dominating the airwaves and suffocating the smaller Canadian recording industry. Ultimately, there has been songs (and bands) getting airplay in Canada that couldn't really compete in the US market. This means bands like April Wine, Triumph and others, while having a few good tracks, had many more get saturation airplay in Canada as a means of satisfying the CanCon rules. People up here have heard these songs on rock radio for 30-40 years and have an affinity due to familiarity, not necessarily due to quality.
It's a very Blue Oyster Cult-ish sound. Very "don't fear the reaper". If I had to guess, I'd say the effect is not the guitar, but a chorus pedal with some echo/reverb.
If April Wine were an American band they would have a string of #1 hits as long as your arm
These guys were the kings of Canadian Arena Rock for over a decade and Canada's very best guitar band...3 dueling lead guitars and one of the best drummers on the planet...!
Jerry Mercer shout out.
Oh agreed !! The whole band was made up of great musicians.
April Wine - Pure magic !
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@odochartaighofodonegal9815 hi, hope you're doing well.
My First Girlfriend was Jill an incredibly at the same time my older brother was dating her sister Brandy.
April Wine came to Calgary for the whole world's gone crazy tour.
Jerry Mercer was their uncle !.
The whole Band came over to their house for dinner .
I'll never forget it !.
Jill and I were little kids , and when everyone left to go to the show Brandi and my brother had to stay and babysit us.
Well, we were about 11:12 years old at the time.
Can't forget Jill's mom making a great dinner for her brothers arrival to Calgary. We lived a couple doors down on a army base and not long after her dad got posted somewhere else somewhere else.
My first concert my brother took me to see April Wine nature of the Beast !
It was pretty incredible
Definitely in my opinion one of the most underrated bands ever this song is awesome the band is awesome
Them and UFO never get enough credit.
The solo in this would have fit right in on Floyd's The Wall album.
I was a Senior in 1982 and THIS album was theeeee album to have back then
April Wine, likeRush it was a love affair with their fans rather than radio promos and record sales. They performed tirelessly.
I love this band,one of many great Canadian bands 🇨🇦❤️
Oowatanite-April Wine--Total Golden treasure!!! It was difficult to turn on a radio in Canada in the 1970s or early '80s without hearing April Wine. The Halifax-spawned, Montreal-based band made radio-friendly arena rock and sentimental ballads that earned them a mass audience. They had five platinum or multi-platinum albums in Canada, 21 Top 40 singles, and received ten Juno nominations, including seven for group of the year 1975-83. April Wine made their U.S. debut in 1972 with the hard-driving "You Could Have Been A Lady," a Top 40 hit which shot up to #2 on the Canadian charts and became among the band's best known songs worldwide. The band had two other Top 40 hits in the U.S. with "Roller" (1979) and "Just Between You And Me" (1981). Just if your at all curious!! Cheers guys!!
I saw April Wine at the 5th Golden Summernight concert in Mannheim Germany in 1982. A concert with several bands including Jethro Tull and Neil Young. On April Wine's second song an Oompah band came down the river on a barge , anchored and played for a while. April Wine yielded the stage. When they came back, their drummer played a 15 minute solo that knocked my socks off.
April Wine “I Like To Rock” ... BTO “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” ... Triumph “Lay it on the Line”. Songs from some great Canadian bands , just to name a few. Cheers from the great white north.
I saw April Wine at my local bar and festival they were great ❤👍
All over Town, Like a lover like a song, say hello, it goes on and on and on .... and on
April Wine is the Canadian band with more than 20 albums since 1971. I always felt here in America April Wine didn't get the recognition they deserved. A few other songs by them worth a listen are, JUST BETWEEN YOU AND ME, SIGN OF THE GYPSY QUEEN, ROLLER and my favorite YOU COULD HAVE BEEN A LADY from 1972. Another Canadian band known for bangers are BTO, BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE.
I grew up in Indiana 50 miles east of Chicago area, and the radio stations there in Chicago played all of the Canadian bands!
Red Rider's "White Hot" is a great song from this era. Tom Cochrane is the lead singer. Big in Canada in the 80s. Cochrane's solo hit was "Life is a highway".
So many great memories listening to his album as a young teen hanging with my buddies. No one in America knew who they were. We felt we had stumbled onto the next great thing. Love April Wine....R.I.P. Myles Goodwyn
I bought this album on vinyl in 1982, a year after the album came-out, after hearing the amazing power ballad "Just Between You And Me" on Rock radio several times. I was so glad I did. Even though the first couple of songs on it aren't that great, then we get "Sign Of The Gypsy Queen," "Just Between You And Me," "Crash And Burn" (which I see you guys have already reviewed - yay!!), and it just goes on and on from there. _The Nature Of The Beast_ is actually the heaviest album April Wine ever did in the 70s and 80s, it is their most popular, and it's their best. It's an all-around winner.
You DEFINITELY need to react to "Just Between You And Me," "Caught In The Crossfire," "Big City Girls," "Bad Boys" and "One More Time"...ALL of them on this great album. 🤘🏻🐻🤘🏻
By the way, the drummer, Jerry Mercer, an absolute big 🐻 of a man, was an absolute beast on drums, as evidenced on "Roller" and this and all the other songs I mentioned above, plus many others. 🤘🏻🐻🤘🏻
The great John Kay's Steppenwolf iconic Canadian band from the 60's through present. John Kay is an amazing vocalist, blues guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and songwriter. You have all probably heard "Born to be Wild" and "Magic Carpet Ride", but "The Pusher"(Hoyt Axton) and "Hoochie Coochie Man"(Wiilie Dixon) are great blues tunes that are my favorites.
Another beauty from the “more cowbell” days 😎
This was a huge hit for them along with Just Between You and Me. Alot of airplay this sing. This is when they started getting more poppy but still rocking.
"Just between you and me" a must do from April Wine!!!
Try another Canadian band called Triumph. "Young enough to cry" "Magic Power " "Lay it on the line" and "Ordinary Man"
Rick Emitt, lead guitar and singer. One of the best in the world. Another three member band that sounded like ten.
"Young enough to cry"... A true fan!
And they're just as well to watch them live, because they sound the same live as they do on their albums because they can all really play that well, first take.
Ordinary man is phenomenal as is fight the good fight
Ordinary Man is so good. "Here's to health, here's to wealth, may you never doubt youself."
type of pickups used,brands of pedals,strings,amps ,cables...everything has a signature it imparts to the sound...
You guys are awesome! Keep introducing all this great classic rock to a new generation.
I know this was a year ago but I gotta answer the 2 big questions posed.......
2 words boys.....Pedal Effects. The guitar is plugged thru a series of pedals that when activated would change the sound of the guitar, distortion/fuzz tone, wa wa, phaser, jet phase, chorus, delay etc etc etc there are MANY. Today with micro processors their usually done thru a single board.
Yeah they we're huge in Canada, in New England when this album came out "Just Between You and Me" was almost EVERY couple's song. This whole album is great and the only album of theirs to make a dent in the US, still to this day I still can't understand why. Triumph is another Canadian band that kills it and has many albums but only made a real effect here in the US with one album, it's such a head scratcher.
Peace
Thanks so much for the detailed answer regarding the guitars because I also wanted to know. I’ve heard some of those terms and your explanation put them into context for me. Also, your enthusiasm for the band is appreciated as April Wine was a huge part of the soundtrack of my youth and I’ve always been a fan. They had a prolific output of such great music. RIP Myles.
Cheers! 🇨🇦
Another incredible band I had this LP. I think the lyrics in this song are top notch! The whole song is!
For that era's sound, a compression pedal, crunch, delay, reverb and doubler, typically pushed by a Strat on front pickup, with a switch to mid and back for the more "mellow" interludes. At least that how I approached it. ;-)
Nature of the Beast was a huge album, got to see them on this tour and it was excellent.
The clear sound effect on the guitar arpeggios is a chrorus pedal , when comes the chorus it's a distortion pedal
Ok, guys, April Wine's good rockers are - Roller, Oowatanite, Say Hello, I Like To Rock, Raise A Little Hell and You Could Have Been A Lady. A more mellow but good one that you could listen to with your girlfriend would be Tonight Is A Wonderful Time To Fall In Love, which even though it's more mellow, is still catchy. Every one of these songs is a must if you want to hear more of this band! Hope this helps. Looking forward to more reactions to this good Canadian band. Cheers from Ontario!
You Won''t Dance With Me is the one to dance with your girl friend
Raise a Little Hell? Trooper
Yes boys we loved it in the 70's
April Wine: Enough is Enough, This Could Be The Right One, Sons of the Pioneers, Rock Myself to Sleep, the whole Nature of the Beast album.
In Canada the radio was mandated to play a certain percentage of Canadian (bands) content, hence why we up here in the great north know most of these bands. It was also very hard (for some reason) for a Canadian band to break into the US market back in the 70's and 80's, and probably right up until today. Historically, very few Canadians bands have cracked the US market.
The effect on the guitar is the stereo chorus pedal!
Future Tense off of the Nature of the Beast album is bad ass and you won’t be disappointed
BTW .....I saw April Wine in concert in San Antonio in 1982. One of the best concerts I ever went to 👍
Stand back and electric jewels my faves
back in the 70's we had some AOR (album oriented rock) radio stations that would play April Wine. The literal depth of 70's rock is immense.
This band was a gem I pulled out on my overnight shifts in Arizona on Kool FM.
this song is a classic jam, i loved this in high school. yeah i am old lol
"Wild Eyes" (1975) by the Stampeders - another great lost Canadian rock band.
"Fantasy" (1983) by Aldo Nova - Canadian classic 80's face-ripper, keys and guitar
"Fly At Night" (1977) by Chilliwack - great 70's soft guitar rock
Peace
I am shocked I cannot find someone on youtube who will react to Aldo Nova "Fantasy". When that song came out, we were like OMFG! This is so so so...we were speechless. Never heard anything like it.
April wine rocks! One of my favorite bands from the 80s. I saw them back in the 80s.
This album sold over 3 million in the US alone and 1 million in Canada
This is an album that every song could have been a single. Killer start to finish.
I thought this was a Blue Oyster Cult song when I first heard it. Reminded me of Burning for You.
Yeah, these guys were pretty good at everything...rockin hits, radio friendly rock, killer ballads to slow dance to...appreciated in Canada, loved at their live shows ANYWHERE in North America...ignored by the U.S. music machine (not the only ones)
People who knew, knew
They were big with us the "Campfire/Kegger Crowd".
April Wine was actually bigger in Europe than the US, as their Euro tours were always much longer.
I was stationed in Ft. Drum NY in the early nineties Great Canadian rock bands were constantly playing in Watertown
I know I'm late to the party here. A lot of bands in the 80's were popular in certain regions of the US. April Wine was very popular in the Midwest. They are still played on Classic Rock stations in Wisconsin. That Nature of the Beast album doesn't have a bad song on it. April Wine was actually on the Monsters of rock tour back in 1980 with Rainbow, Judas Priest, Scorpions and Saxon.
Looks like you guys are instant April Wine fans. Myles Goodwyn just passed away this week at age 75. April Wine were a staple in Canada in the 70's & 80's. I have some great memories of playing their songs in my beat up 1973 Ford Pinto with a Marantz stereo system worth more than the car! Lol. RIP Myles.
Brings back memories of my childhood in San Antonio TX. Joe Anthony used to play these guys , triumph, budgie and rush before they came down on tour, they had a following before they got to San Antonio
I like to rock. Is another of their bangers!
Just between you and me..by April Wine is a must!!
Been my fav band forever. Here are my favs: Comin' Right Down On Top Of Me. Before The Dawn. Tonite. Slow Poke. Say Hello. To name a few... Please enjoy responsibly!
Quintessential song in my HS years.
I like to rock is my favorite by them
"Before The Dawn" you need to listen to!
Epic song live .. .this was the highlight of the show along with Roller and 21st Century Schizoid Man.
Check out their cover of 21st Century Schizoid Man.
Maybe it's because we are closer to Canada than you guys are but April Wine gets played on the radio a lot here in Wisconsin. Or at least they did in the 80s and 90s. Thanks for the reaction guys.
This was a big hit for the band, thanks for reviewing it! My favorite song of their's is definitely "All Over Town".
This song is in grown-ups one when shack is directing traffic! LMAO Classic scene.
April Wine's greatest hits album is can't miss. Boys, check out the tracks on it and choose anything. Also, I Like To Rock, which has a cool shout out to a Stones hit and a Beatles hit overlapped. Also Say Hello and Enough is Enough. They are a straight on rock/rock-pop band. Very underrated group out of Montreal. Myles Goodwin is a really good vocalist and guitarist.
*Halifax
Three different guitarists, playing different guitars. And yes, they will all sound different as they have different pickups and one neck may be longer than the other. This gives them the ability to play different and it all sound different and you can pick out when the guitarist changes. Check out "I like to rock." It too will make your playlist. Along with "before the dawn."
YES. And what about their AMAZING cover of King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man?"
Any song on the Harder Faster album is pure 🔥
This whole album rocks. They use pedals for different tones and guitar effects.
Huge in the midwest!! Really big here in Michigan
The live version of this from this tour was sooooooo damn good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 80's sound,, COMPRESS the shit out of it, add some chorus and delay.. As far as the sounds... Different effects, different amps, mic placement, room size, etc... Every thing was done with amps (pretty much) guitars, effects.. There were no amp and cabinet simulators, pro tools... EVery thing was recorded on 2" tape. If you F'd up you had to "punch it in" or do it again LOL No "cut and paste".
When stuff was just plugged in - and way you go !!
How do guitars sound different? Clear channel vs Distortion vs pickups vs what is used as a pick vs 6- or 12-string and on and on....
If you enjoy keyboards, April Wine-Comin' Right Down on Top of Me. For soul chilling blues, Silver Dollar both songs are on same album as Roller. I was lucky to grow up during the 60's,70's early 80's talent abounded back then.
Love April Wine. With me , some of my favorite songs from other bands, that I really didn't originally like, took multiple times listening to them before they became favorites . (If that makes any sense). I'm sure that's the case for a lot of people. I'm glad that you guys have had an opportunity to appreciate this band 😁
Listen to April Wine - I Like to Rock!!
Love this band and this song!!
Check out she's a roller, I like to Rock, and just between you and me.
To second Triumph, check out the live vids of "Lay it on the Line" and "Fight the Good Fight".
April Wine was a big band in the San Antonio Market in the late 70s and 80s.
Guys, I saw these guys open for Triumph in !982 in Buffalo NY...... Fantastic band and this was their best song.....
oh...they have "some" good songs. LOL "Some" as in a few dozen. And thank you. You're one of the first reaction acts to do this song or any April Wine.
Yup. They do have Ballads as well.
1) Roller
2) Sign of the Gypsy Queen
3) I like to Rock
4) Enough is Enough
5) Say hello
and one for your girlfriends or wives....................... Just between You and Me
trust me. The wind chimes might be open string strum,
If You See Kay was really awesome live. Played this on their Power Play tour which I was lucky enough to see.
3 is my favorite. Epitome of a rock song.
they were HUGE in San Anonio. in the 70s SA and eroit were the two rockiness cities for rock sales.
I'm so old I had this album on cassette tape LOL 🤪👍
I’m so old I had this album on 8 track😂😂😂
Ditto - For me I got hooked by Bad Side of the Moon on KTel album I got around age 10. Had to go exploring the rock direction from there, never mind Tony Orlando and the like on the same disc.
Been going deep cutting AW and found a few more heavier rockers in "So Bad", blistering guitars in the Frank Marino vein, "Before The Dawn" which is somewhat Proggy too, "Wench" from the debut album, for the first almost 3 Minutes just a "small r" rock song, then we get the first outbreak of the Triple Rack Guitar Attack and the destruction it can leave, "Crash And Burn" has a taste of Thrash Rock to it, damn fine splendid it is, "Electric Jewels" Mellow early, Rocker middle, Prog finisher, "Hot On The Wheels Of Love" Steve Lang's Bass just ripping it up, along with the triplets. There you go, that should keep you busy.
April Wine was played A LOT 40 years ago....duh. They should be still played today....thats the question.
There are even more rocking sound songs by April Wine...Check out their song : *Say Hello* and *Could Have Been A Lady*
And check out Joe Satriani : *Big Bad Moon*.......and might as well check out Nazareth: *Bad, Bad Boy* and *Turn On Your Receiver* and *Razamanaz* and *Woke Up this Morning*......Find the Videos with the Lyrics
back in the day a lot of bands used a mixture of fender and gibson to make a certain sound ...fenders usually are crisp gibsons tended to be more airy
April Wine "Wanna Rock"
Thanks for a great reaction. Try" I like to rock", or all over town". 2 of April Wines more popular songs
Still touring after 52 years together
Can't wait to see them next month 2024 November, still touring today 🤘😆🤘🎸🎸🎤🥁
Listen to the album as a whole, Nature of the Beast
If you like “ triple guitars “ the best is Molly Hatchet! “ Dreams I’ll never see” , “ Gator Country” , “ Bounty Hunter” , etc
Came across this today and just subscribed. I hope you go through the April Wine catalog. It's deep deep deep. rock and roll from the maritimes of Canada in the early 1970s. These guys were huge on the radio back in the day
This song is epic and is so underrated. I fucking love this song and wish more songs would be like this ❤
they were signed to a canadian label and had licensing issues in america which held them back from touring and getting airplay on a large scale-otherwise would ve been much bigger. in canada they toured for decades and still play(ed) festivals and casinos i saw them 5 or 6 yrs ago and they were great
sheer nonsense
Tubed amps. Les Paul vrs Strat on stage. Electric guitars have pickups which can alter sound through manipulation. Strings can be wound differently. BM from Queen plays with a coin or metal pick to get his sound. Tom Schultz from Boston graduated MIT and designed my fav The Rockman and numerous “effects pedals” to achieve diff sounds. Jimmy Page used a bow and fereman?
April Wine played at my junior high in Halifax when I was 12/13 years old. Maybe 1969.
You need to know about CanCon, which stands for Canadian Content. In Canada there's rules for radio stations where 35% of songs played must be of Canadian origin. This was to prevent US music from dominating the airwaves and suffocating the smaller Canadian recording industry. Ultimately, there has been songs (and bands) getting airplay in Canada that couldn't really compete in the US market. This means bands like April Wine, Triumph and others, while having a few good tracks, had many more get saturation airplay in Canada as a means of satisfying the CanCon rules. People up here have heard these songs on rock radio for 30-40 years and have an affinity due to familiarity, not necessarily due to quality.
If you want one that is an inferno is "I like to Rock"
These guys do Not get enough credit or airplay, but we loved them back in the '70's and 80's !
April Wine - "Weeping Widow" will fill your itch.
"I Like To Rock" might as well.
If you go through their library you will notice that even if a Rock Band at heart they are also very versatile.
It's a very Blue Oyster Cult-ish sound. Very "don't fear the reaper". If I had to guess, I'd say the effect is not the guitar, but a chorus pedal with some echo/reverb.
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