Posted in: Rock by Chris Hamilton on February 17th, 2008 | 2 Comments
A small article on just some of Canada’s greatest rock musicians young and old. Article contains when the band formed, how many singles and albums where released and were they are today. The facts within are merely base facts but does contain useful and entertaining information.
Like most people I grew up with rock and roll through out the years and kind of grew to enjoy a lot of it. I like some of the new rock but personally I prefer the classic stuff myself. It’s no surprise that through out the years Canada has produce some great rock bands and rock stars that are legendary and always will be. Here’s my list of only 10 of some of these infamous rock stars that helped paved the way for other musicians. My list holds recent and classic rock stars and or bands with information on when they formed, and the number of records released as well as where the bands are today. So please feel free to have a look and enjoy!
The Guess Who was a 5 man local rock band that got their start in Winnipeg, Manitoba in the early 1960’s. The band originally started out with the name “Chad Allan and the Reflections” and after a few other name changes, finally became known as “The Guess Who” in 1965. Guess Who has had over 38 hit singles, did 7 live albums and also 27 compilations through out the many years they been performing. Many of The Guess Who songs are known world wide and always will be like “These Eyes” or “American Woman”. “The Who” is one of Canada’s oldest rock bands and even still does tours. Although some of the members have changed or died over the years the band was touring as recently as 2 years ago in 2006 last I heard.
Nickelback is a hard rock band that was formed somewhere around 1996 or 1998 in Hanna, Alberta. The band originally started off as a cover band but grew tired of singing other bands songs. With this Nickelback was formed and although still not well known to the public that would all eventually change. In 2000, Nickelback’s song “Leader Man” grew in popularity over night and before the band knew it, they where touring and doing 200 shows. The song “How You Remind Me” has to be one of the bands most infamous songs to date and this song is the only other song next to The Guess Who’s song “American Woman” that’s been number 1 on the charts in Canada and the US at the same time in history. Nickelback’s last album out that I know of, was released in 2005 and then the band decided to take a break for awhile.
Bertie September 9th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
You have good taste of these 10 my fav is Bryan Adams. To this day he is second to none. However my opinion I think you should add one more to this list for he’s number one in my books.Bon Jovi like Bryan Adams has been around for like forever and to this day is still going strong. Of all that I have heard about him, his values and belief in music is by far one of passion and well me being a girl his looks speak for itself…LOL
Good read all the same. Bertie
JimBob January 18th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Neil Young??