Old Enough to Forget

Since finding Teaze Live in Japan a few years ago, I had been on the lookout for this one. Not that it was hard to find once I made up my mind that this was coming home - I just wasn't convinced I needed to add it to my collection. Part of the issue was the live album. Yes, it was enjoyable, and it was definitely one of those albums I had been curious about since my teen years ... but it was also sort of uneven, and the songs just weren't that memorable, which I still find strange because I really do like the album, and I was listening to it again the other day. One Night Stands , though, just looked cool, and it had the benefit of having Myles Goodwyn's name stamped on the back cover. April Wine was one of those bands that always had a song on the radio growing up, but during my formative years between 1978 and 1981 the band was on a tear: First Glance , Harder ... Faster , and The Nature of the Beast . Right in the middle of their commercial peak, Teaze were touring with...

This is the one that got away from me back when I was in high school. There was a great little second-hand store I frequented all the time. It was where I got my used comics and picked up a seemingly inexhaustible number of Robert A. Heinlein paperbacks. Occasionally I'd get a Clarke or Asimov, but Heinlein was my jam..  They also had a small section with records. I picked up the first couple of PRISM albums there, along with my once-coveted copy of The Beatles White Album on white vinyl. There in the piles, where I found April Wine's Live! , was a copy of Tour of Japan . I'd never heard of these guys, but it was a cool-looking cover with an awesome logo, and the inside of the gatefold was really cool too, with an extra panel of band photographs. They looked like they were killing it. I'd pick up and put back that album many times, and then one day it was gone. Dang. Fast forward more than a few years (fine ... decades), and I'm digging through a bunch of records a...