Top Ten Canadian Mullet Fostering Bands
Now if this isn't an obvious topic, I don't know what is. Growing up in Oshawa (aka the Shwa), the cultural crotch of Ontario at the time, I am over-qualified to write this list. And so, with a quick sign of the devil, a shot of JD and a pen knife to the gut of the goof who was lookin' at my old lady's tits, here it comes - raise a little hair y'all!:
- Trooper
- Kim Mitchell/Max Webster
- April Wine
- Chilliwack
- Steppenwolf
- Head Pins (Did Darby Mills sport the first giant Canadian female mullet?)
- Brighton Rock
- Loverboy
- Triumph
- Helix
Labels: Canadiana, Top Canadian Lists, Top Lists
posted by K-Dough at 2:28 PM
26 Comments:
Man oh man, that's definitive. Though I would have to say Max Webster was a bit too quirky for most mullet-heads (they wore make-up and acted all crazy-like)....Mitchell ended up morphing into a mullet encourager once he went solo.
There were a few bands that might be a bit before your time that you might have missed:
Wireless
Moxy
Harbinger
Oh yeah, Goddo.
BTW, I'm officially IN for the 16th. Yay!
Ha! RE: Moxy- I actually grew up with Buzz Sherman and Buddy Cane from Moxy being around my family. My uncle was friends with them. And Billy Wade (RIP)- Moxy's drummer- dated my Mom!
I knew Billy well. Great fucking guy. He died of cancer only a few years back.
Holy shit....Bill Wade was a kick-ass drummer. Played a lot like Bonzo. (Even had a Bonzo kit....4 piece transparent Ludwig.)
Didn't something happen to Buzz as well?
Leather- Buzz Shearman died in 1983 in a motorcycle accident. He was replaced by none other than Mike Reno- pre-Loverboy!
I remember feeling so lucky as a kid cuz my uncle was a recording artist and all his band mates went on to do cool stuff (I thought). His old bass player Paul LaChapelle started Quest Studios in the Shwa, and he was a good friend of my Mom's as well, so I had an in when cool people came through.
This was late 70s early 80s when everyone recorded there. I remember him calling me up one night saying why don't you come in and listen to Kim Mitchell's solo stuff being mixed by Jack Richardson. I was floored- that was the EP he released right afetr Max Webster - I think the single was Miss Demeanour.
Anyway- just another misty vignette. Point is, I grew up amidst Canadian music history and will always be thankful for that.
BTW- we used to rehearse in the same unit as Goddo and sghared the same sound guy. We also played alongside Saga at a place called Falcon Studios once. Holy fuck was that cool. Steve Negus was a god.
Now THAT is the Top Ten List I was waiting for. Where's Harlequin?
Sheena- Ay, why d'you gots to be bustin' my balls like that all the time, eh?
I coulda said Harlequin, Streetheart, Prism, Coney Hatch, Haywire. I mean the list coulda gone on forever ya know?
C'mon...
K-Dough … finally it’s come to this: the Mullet … if there was ever anything that might possibly be better in this world than the Habs; the glorious mullet might be it!
You guys and gals are making me all nostalgic 'n misty 'n stuff ...
I have to confess: I’ve had some of the best mullets in all the 'Shwa ... when I was young ...
Just ask K-Dough ... when we came tripping into Amsterdam on Independence Day 1992, I was sporting one of- nay the finest example of the still classic All Business Up Front and a Party in the Back baby!
I just have to look at my old passport picture (and I do!), and I fall in love with myself all over again!
Doggone it, thanks K-Dough!
DGI- you definitely were a super mullet sporter. I have a picture of you that I found recently, wearing a striped dress shirt done all the way up, with a black porn moustache and a full on Patrick Swayze circa Road House coif.
Ah, glory days: dude, I remember that picture!
Way back a lady friend of mine at the time remarked that I looked like Jesus on speed!
Good times indeed!
True story:
Sitting at a bar up in the Cliffs in Negril a few years ago. Mixed crowd at the resort - Europeans, Canadians, Americans....
I lean over to my friend beside me at point at a guy a few tables away.
"Betcha 10 bucks that guy is from Winnipeg". She took the bet. Went and chatted to him. Sure enough he was.
When she came back to our table she asked if I knew him. I said "No. But I could tell by his hair".
Then I got cocky and tried to narrow it down to the street in Transcona I suspected, and lost on the double or nothing.
Sheena- you flew too close to the sun that day...
Sheena, you must be the Professor Higgins of Mullets!
All Hail Sheena!
... er, wait, maybe I should just go rah rah over to Sheenavision, eh?
Sorry honey, but you're gonna have to get your jdog love over here at K-Dough's just like everybody else.
I simply don't blore anywhere else.
(with all this mullet talk I'm feelin' giddy, I wonder what bella put in the espress-oh flask this morning?)
K-Dough - Does Squeaky have a mullet?
If not, he should get one for the show.
And can I get one too? When I'm a big star I don't wanna get confused with Cousin It!
Oooh, Mandude's supposed to handle this, but I called him this morning and- if he's not so busy workin' at the farm that fucker always seems to be helpin' someone move!
I believe Squeaky has a faux-hawk. I suggest you go smooth baby. No one likes a bristly pouch! Although, I'm not sure Smenita would notice the difference....
K, I don't know what to say because when it comes to music knowledge scale, I am at the lowest level. I was just never interested in music that much as a child or teenager since I was always up to some other mischief.
Thanks KD, I just finished breakfast.
Smenita, she'll know for sure. We do a High T-Bag ceremony every afternoon at four o'clock!
JC- breakfast?
Ohhh right- time difference. Living at the centre of the universe, it's difficult sometimes to communicate with people living on the edge of the world.
STMWHNS: High T-Bag. LOL!!!
According to the latest economic indicators... Calgary is actually the center of the Universe, while Toronto is the tail-end.
Think of it in terms of body parts, Vancouver is the mouth of Canada, Calgary the stomach, and Toronto, the asshole, and Ottawa is only good for pissing on everyone.
Montreal is that which everyone must walk upon. (Thus the plaintive cry by Frenchman of "Don't tread on me").
makes sense JC- without us, all the shit you guys spew would pile up on the prairies and further "isolate" the west..
I like that KD... instead of a "Firewall", it would be a wall of "Shit".
Or a "brickshit wall".
What about the drummer from The Killer Dwarfs? Classic!
Helix! LOL!!! Although, it's too bad- his mullet was somehow over(under?)shadowed by his seemingly ubiquitous missing tooth!
No Spoons?! Kim Clark Champniss is going to be distraught.
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