As any Canadian of a certain age can tell you, Kim Mitchell was a key component of adolescence. For a couple of key formative summers Kim provided the soundtrack for many many fun memories. The paradox of having “Go For Soda” on the same album as “Lager and Ale” was mused over many times, usually while drinking one of those three beverages. I will leave it to you to decide which one.
Anyway, it wasn’t until 1995 that I think we all realized what a critical component Peter Fredette was to Kim’s sound. That’s when Kim released a greatest hits collection that featured a couple of new versions of his classic songs without Peter involved, and to my ears anyway, they just don’t work as well.
The only reason I’m writing this right now is this stuff just came on the iPod and for some reason I don’t have the original recordings, just the re-worked stuff. I thought a public service announcement was in order, you know just in case you were in the market to buy a 14 year old CD and needed some advice. In my opinion, stay away from this disc and buy the original discs, you will be happier in the long run. Note that the market for potential buyers of this CD who are also readers of this blog is probably very very small.
This irrelevant review was brought to you by the letter “S”, Sony Betamax, and MS-DOS.
I gotta tell ya why Ol Pete was left out of those recordings,he jumped ship(Kim)and started going on tour with Life is a hi-way Tom,and aparenttly told Kim screw you,tried a solo thingy and bombed,Kim felt a little pissed and a friend of our’s from the Russell clan tried out for Kimmie(Still got the his phone number if i’am not mistaken),flash forward to now and Petie is back in the Mitchell band all is forgiven and we just have to wait for the next live/best of from the Summer Dude of little hair and lot’s rock before we can hear that “all we are” and “Me Babe” from Alana love’s me again(i think that’s the name of the song…bin a while.Now what about Triumph?;-)
Huh, well there you go. I thought I remembered some sort of rift, but I couldn’t find anything online about it. Thanks Kyle.
btw, what about Triumph? is there something juicy there?
http://punktv.ca/news/105/ARTICLE/2879/2007-11-02.html
I was looking around and found this from Mike Lavine(I actually thought he was dead!)But it was an interesting interveiw…it’s kinda strange,Hearing that some of the bands you use to listen to then,and noe they have job’s like you and me!Mike was in the tech buz(and somewhat successfull i heard)Bruce Dickenson of Iron Maiden is a pilot for British Airways(Scream for me Hammersmith!)Thanks Court.
what a load of manure – there was no rift…it’s called trying to survive by earning a paycheck.