YYZ may have beaten us. Or at least one of us. I'm making a fair approximation of most of it but Di is struggling to play the bass part, which in fairness is probably the hardest part of the track ( Read more... )

Back when I was first getting started on the drums I listened to Rush and wanted to be every single member of that band. At the very least I had a goal; some day I would be good enough to play some of those songs...

This is Sunrise by Uriah Heep. I heard it for the first time yesterday. It took only a few listens to fix it in my head to the point ( Read more... )

The first time I saw the Canadian trio they'd been around for 14 years, hugely successful despite being relentlessly unfashionable and having grazed the singles charts only twice in all that time which, back then, seemed like a prodigious feat of endurance. That was almost 20 years ago ( Read more... )