The progressive Canadian band Saga managed four rock hits in the 80s, along with some pretty sweet mullets, keytars, and interesting music videos. The band was formed in Ontario in 1971, and featured Michael Sadler on vocals and keyboards, Jim Crichton (guitar, synthesizer), Ian Crichton (guitar), Steve Negus (drums), Jim Gilmour (LEAD synthesizer and vocals). [...]
Call my a VH purist, but I prefer the party-hearty, showman style of the Roth era over the workman-like pop leanings of the Hagar era. I like Sammy’s stuff, just not as much. While Van Halen has had many hits throughout the years, this playlist is not about the hits, it’s about standout album tracks that came out during the first Roth era.
Based on a novel by Terry Davis, the 1985 film Vision Quest is the story of a high school wrestler and his quest for glory and getting laid. A mash up of a coming of age story with an underdog sports story (ala Rocky), the film starred Matthew Modine, the oddly deep-voiced Linda Fiorentino, and [...]
The pride of Halifax, Nova Scotia, April Wine scored a few hits on the AOR charts in the early 80s and actually had a bit of longevity — their first hit was in 1972, and their last was in 1993. As the followup single to ballad “Just Between You and Me”, the harder-rocking “Sign of [...]
