Fantastic links: I will definitely have to revisit Kiss (I was quite taken with the unpluggedd session) and Ted Nugent!

Here's some more nostalgia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqgslos32mk and a link which may be of interest to Cowboy Junkie fans (the start of a podcast series stemming from a recent book charting their history) https://cowboyjunkiesmusicisthedrug.buzzsprout.com

The soundtrack(s) of my youth 🙂 . Speaking of which : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o4vIlg4alz8

Don't think I'll ever forget this . One of my cousins came to Mom & Dad's house . It was him on guitar, Dad on acoustic , me on bass , we played a slightly altered version of this : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=71xvwVQABvw

As for "Incense & Peppermints" , the guitarist on the left in the yellow , is Ed King , who later went on to play in Lynyrd Skynyrd . The main riff in "Sweet Home Alabama" was his .

Dad & I usee to sing this in the car when I was a kid, when it came on the radio : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q_ZzBGPdqE

Courtesy of one of my uncles , I became a KISS fan in 1975 , been a fan ever since . I got to see them play twice on that tour (the video I linked to) .

Probably my favorite KISS song : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0NK7X2DjxXs

The place this was performed in (The Summit) , is noe Joel Osteen's church .

Some local bands we used to go and see back in the 80's in Vancouver:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnHm4ro_l8s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8bO9YrI6Nk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJEaPTox6to

Some more classy Canadian music which I do not think made much impression in UK, although I note that at least one of the concerts was in Germany so perhaps they did okay in Europe.

Also interesting and amusing to see what Ed King was getting up to at an earlier stage!

Lex, those bands never really "made it" internationally. They sound is very typically Canadian -- not necessarily a good thing, since for some reason Canada has never produced a drummer who can do anything but Bang, Bang, Bang, with no subtlety. In fact, I can almost always tell that a song is a Canadian band because the drumming is so one-dimensional.

But those three tunes were pretty darned good.

Didn't know the last two but Loverboy had a few hits down here back in the day. This was another (audio only) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxhj1Is7HpY

When I hear that Loverboy song, flotsam, this is all that I can think of now:

Loverboy song

I had never seen that Marian!

Oh, good! I was not sure whether this would be new to you.

Unfortunately that video isn't available here, but given that it's Chippendales I think I know where it went...

Here's another Canadian band : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQZIhFQjUfE

April Wine! We never saw them, but of course they were all over Canadian radio.

And since we're on a roll here, this is the first band I ever saw live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvVN_KRriTM

One notes that the drumming here is rather good.

Here's another one from the same band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwXMxifC9eA

You know, I haven't listened to these guys in over 40 years, and looking back now I have to say, they were right up there with bands like Chicago.



EDIT: And holy smokes, one of the original Lighthouse band members is none oter than Howard Shore, movie composer extraordinaire!

Hagatha really made me laugh with that comment about Canadian drummers!

Here are a couple of tracks from one of my favourite Canadian bands Bros Landreth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkAV_YM16Ts and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExzlRHm1g5M

It was a Saturday Night Live skit with Patrick Swayze and Chris Farley in which the song Working for the Weekend figured prominently.

I think this may be a bit of the one Marian mentioned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHGmw7wFe5g

I confess I'd never heard of the Boros. Landreth but I really liked that second song. The first one was infected with a bad case of Canadian Drummer Syndrome.

I didn't know most of those.
Here is a much more recent and favourite Canadian participant (and hopefully without the dreaded syndrome ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB-xAQBWrm0

From another Canadian band

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yMG-Mi9I0-k

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FJmYUmrnP0o

The first album from Bros Landreth, Let it Lie is packed with strong tracks but I think they have struggled tp follow up as solidly (probably not least because Joey Landreth has/had various side projects including a solo career).

And one more from the Guess WHo -- and this is a track I first heard when I was 13, in a palm-thatched beachfront bar in Mombasa, out with my older sister. No idea where my parents thought we were and how we made it out of the house...

But anyway, this song was all the rage at the time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uf6EY2BZBw

I love the change about 120 seconds in!

I like all those from The Guess Who and these also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUpW783GL0E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jKkiV0Qp90

as well as several others.

The Guess Who are still my favourite Canadian band from that era. I haven't really thought about them for a while so it's nice to revisit.

Undun is pretty sophisticated, with its jazz themes.

I knew very little about them so started exploring and see that Randy Bachman was an original member https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7miRCLeFSJo

That last one took me back to first year university. Fun times!

I guess the Dreaded Drum Syndrome started in the Eighties.