What about Stompin’ Tom Connors? Is he still around?
CK
Seventh grade, getting high. Yeah, what about them? They were pretty good.
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What about April Wine?
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Go ya one better. They played my high school 5 years in a row. They were all from the same 'burbs as I. Knew their manager in later years and sat front row at the Mtl Forum for them and …omg…another Canadian band as yet mentioned here…ugggghhh…I can barely type it…Loverboy…
But April Wine rocked. 21st Century Schizoid Man, a cover of the Fripp/Belew (King Crimson) original. Drop Your Guns…an all time fav…
Now…for all you true officianado’s of Maple Rock, a good ol’ newfie band:
Buddy What’s His Name and the Other Fellas. 
Side note that some industrious mod may want to bump to the best gig ever thread…King Crimson…The Club Montreal…2000 people…sweet show…
That’s funny, Stew. I delivered newspaper’s to Gary Moffat’s mom and dad for years. Nicest people in the world. Happened to pass by one time and the whole band was in the back yard having a barbecue for Gary’s birthday. Felt like that kid in the Cameron Crow movie “Almost Famous”; saw some things that really opened my eyes that day! 
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[quote=“citizen k”]That’s funny, Stew. I delivered newspaper’s to Gary Moffat’s mom and dad for years. Nicest people in the world. Happened to pass by one time and the whole band was in the back yard having a barbecue for Gary’s birthday. Felt like that kid in the Cameron Crow movie “Almost Famous”; saw some things that really opened my eyes that day!
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It was Gary’s sister Lynn’s husband that I knew. Paul Church…Did you know him? He was (is) one of the funniest people I know. Reminds me alot of our own RichardM. He was trying to get me to be a roadie one time and offered me “100 bucks a day and all the pussy I could eat.”
Did anyone mention The Crash Test Dummies? My “professional debut” as an actor was a one-man show that coincidentally ended up opening for CTD at a small club, again in Montreal.
No, I never had the chance to meet Paul. But with an offer like that, he sounds like a good man to know! Six degrees of separation, I guess. 
CK
Not even a mention of Nomeansno. Oh well. I guess I have no taste in music.
I guess not. Supremely lame, they were.
Not to grind my axe, but as a passionate lover of music I have an axe to grind. We are not living in the 14th century. We have the mass media. Opportunities to hear great music from every corner of the globe are endless, and to deny yourself the extreme pleasure of great sounds simply due of a parochial desire to support the kids from Moose Jaw or wherever is pathologically inward and stupid. If you could get great French bread in Moose Jaw for the same price, why would you buy Wonderbread?
Canadians do not make good popular music, meaning postwar modern music from Elvis onward to post-punk, hip hop, etc. It’s just not what we do well. We do, however, punch above our weight in postwar fiction, and I’ll take Alice Munro over Flannery O’Connor any day.
But music? Nah. There’s a reason that Neil Young left Winnipeg for Toronto before ending up in California and spending the major part of his life writing quintessentially American folk-rock for Americans who most likely think that the lyric “there is a town in North Ontario” refers to a mythical mindscape that’s probably based upon a place in Minnesota. The reason is that it’s not our/Canadian music, and to pretend otherwise is obtuse.
For the longest time, the Japanese music scene was full of derivative drivel, but now they’re starting to put out stuff that is distinctive and interesting. But Canada?
Rock’n’roll is nasty, dirty, aggressive music. The antithesis of nice, polite, politically correct Canadian values. It’s difficult to create compelling art when you come from a place that’s so…nice. It’s no accident that rock’n’roll sprang from the most backwards, illiterate, poverty-stricken, grimy bowels of the Mississippi Delta. You really do have to suffer for art.
Anne Murray
Rita MacNeil (Eat A Big Meal)
Mitsou (we should probably let that memory fade)
William Shatner (his albums rock!)
Leonard Cohen
Gordon Lightfoot
Martha & the Muffins
Roch Voisine (oh the horror!)
Loudon & Rufus Wainwright
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Cowboy Junkies
Crash Vegas
Platinum Blonde (I still wake up screaming…)
Jane Siberry
Ashley MacIssac
Apollonia & Vanity (Prince’s eighties sidekicks)
and…
the formerly Canadian Pamela Anderson who sure knows how to play a mean skin flute
What is it with Forumosa that whenever something Canadian comes up, either people get wildly defensive and start ranting about how great Canada is, or people get wildly offensive and start ranting about how shitty Canada is.
There are irritating Canadians (and otehr nationalities) in Taiwan, to be sure. I’ve met a plenty. But, it’s not that big a deal and surely, we have more interesting things to discuss.
The Box
Tom Cochrane & Red Rider
Triumph
John Hiatt
Steve Earle
…and I’m not even a member of the Great White North…
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Steve Earle
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…is a Hoosier and a Tennessee boy, respectively (if I recall correctly).
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Nickelback, Nelly Furtado or Avril Lavigne, the anti-Britney. My personal favorite is Moist.
Nickleback isn’t that big. They enjoy what seems to be a moderate following. And Avril? Please. It might be bitching in a different way, but it’s bitching nonetheless. Like most fashionable trendy music, she won’t stand the test of time and I predict she won’t be around the top of the American music scene too much longer.
Porcelain princess said “Nomeansno were supremely lame”. Umm, when did they mutate with Bryan Adams. They were one of the best live bands I ever saw back in New Zealand. Musical tastes are like fingerprints: everyone’s is different. I know someone here will consider Bryan Adams to be gold.
Holly Cole’s smooth and sultry voice completely makes up for Celine Dion.
Way to go Canada! 
Hiatt’s hometown is L.A., Earle is from Virginia originally – both breakaway regions of Canada!
Neil Young and Crazyhorse (Worked the door at the Maple Leaf Gardens 1990 Show)
Cowboy Junkies (Margo Timmins checked me out–or maybe she was thinking, “what an idiot.”)
Blue Rodeo (drank beer with them backstage)
Crash Test Dummies - Mmm…Not that I like them.
Rush were/are simply excellent.
Are not The Eels from Canada? I think they are pretty good.
[quote=“Wookiee”]Neil Young and Crazyhorse (Worked the door at the Maple Leaf Gardens 1990 Show)
Cowboy Junkies (Margo Timmins checked me out–or maybe she was thinking, “what an idiot.”)
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Cowboy Junkies are a great band! Timmins’ voice makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck.