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I thought I had already posted on this topic.  Maybe I was wrong.  When I was in high school, the goalie of the hockey team I was playing on had a copy of 'Just A Game' on cassette.  He played 'Lay It On The Line' for me and I was hooked.  Kinda simple, but that's where it all began. 

I'm new to this forum so, first at all, excuse me to my bad english. It's a pain to write (thanks "Babel fish" online translation).

Probably it was a small article in the Popular 1 Spanish rock magazine. The best and only in those days here. It was about a new album (Never surrender) and that would not issued in Spain (very common then). It had a photo of Rik and it drew attention to me by the guitar. It was the first time that I saw a Dean.

Just a short time later (the summer of 1983) I went to a rock festival in the coast of Spain, 600 km from home. In the bus I knew several rock fans whose friendship lasts today. The oldest guy (6 years more than me) introduce me to the music of "obscure" bands: Rush, Uriah Heep, Riot, Nazareth,... and, of course, Triumph. Bands whose records you could not find here, only on import (normal price x3). This new friend had a work. So he recorded all those records in cassettes tapes to me. I was in the school and I could not buy many records, 1 or 2 every month.

I was into (bands whose music you could listen in the radio or in the metal club): NWOBHM (Saxon, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Girlschool,..), Judas Priest, Scorpions, AC/DC, Whitesnake, Rainbow, Kiss, Sabbath, Purple, Lizzy, Accept,...

One year later, I was a workingteenager and I began to buy more and more records and travel to European festivals (example: Donnington). We bought many records there where we were (example: London, France,...). Some times we slept in the parks to spend the money in records and not in hotels or bed&breakfast.

By the end of the '80 I had all  Triumph Lps, and even, I had brought copies to friends from outside Spain. All? not. I bought the first album (canadian copy) in a record fair in Barcelona 8 years ago. And I complete the collection four years ago. I went to Japan (holidays) and I bought "R'n'r machine" Lp (the compilation album with songs from 1 and 2) there. Yes, I had all the Triumph albums in vinyl. I like vinyl. And yes, I visited some parks in Japan but I did not sleep in any.

Cruising down highway 101, in the Cali Bay Area, with my folks, Fight the Good Fight came on the radio. (My dad loved... and still loves, at age 68... rock music. Go pops!!! ;)) This was 1981, the year AF came out. I was fifteen. At first, I thought it was another song by Shooting Star, whose song "Last Chance" I really liked at the time. Something about it sounded a little similar to me.

Now, when I first heard Fight, I was pretty well -sure- Triumph was a five piece band. I would have thought no way could a trio pull that one off live! So, I was later shocked to later see them as a three piece on MTV doing a mighty fine version of the tune! At that point, I was hooked. I went out and bought Allied Forces and proceeded to acquire everything else they had recorded. (that was available in America... which meant the R&RM compilation rather than the first two records.)

Never Surrender was the first new T album I got. I still remember sitting in the parking lot of the record store, in my 78 Buick Regal, pulling the cellophane off the LP so I could look at the record sleeve. My then girlfriend was like: "Why can't you just wait until you get home?" :)

I played my Triumph LPs to death!!!

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I had heard Allied Forces on the radio and was hooked. Once I saw them in concert for the Thunder 7 tour I became a life long fan.

An old boyfriend got me totally hooked with Allied Forces.  I fell in love the moment I heard it, saw them on the tour (my 2nd concert ever).  I've followed them on and off over these years and have actually turned my nieces and nephews onto them.

Wow, it's been so long, I don't rightly remember exactly how I got into them.

 
Most likely, it was probably from hearing a song of theirs on a mix tape ( "Lay It On The Line" would be my guess) my buddy John & I would trade amongst each other. We were good friends, but lived a couple of towns away from each other - which being a teenager back then was a big deal, with no car or internet. However, whenever we'd get together to hang, we'd often trade mixes we'd made back and forth, and whatever songs we'd like, we'd than go out and each buy those albums. As soon as I heard Triumph, I was sold, and I've been a fan ever since.

 I know that the first time I recall really hearing them on the radio a lot was with the Allied Forces album, back in '81. The local rock station used to play "Magic Power", "Say Goodbye" and "Fight The Good Fight" all the time.
 

Apparently Shel and I saw the same commercialon TV. Seems I saw it on WTBS back at the time Just A Game was being released. Was  around 12 then I suppose.Was the first album I bought, and still have, in a collection that was well over 1,000 lps before cds pretty much knocked lps off the market, except for you specialty collectors. Have always appreciated that the band found a way to be positive and uplifting in a musical form that often finds it easier to be negative or dark.

In 1980 my high school band buddy Llyod and I  used to meet after school ( and homework) at his house,we'd get buzzed and crank out anything we could get our hands.For weeks and weeks we had listened to Rush's 2112 over and over  with just a little Queen thrown in for good measure.One day I got to the house and he said"man I got this killer album from some band from Canada",it was Rock-n-Roll Machine.We went into his bed room and he turned on the record player.Putting it on side two first ,he said I had to hear a particular song first,and he played Blinding Light Show for me.Not since Rush had I been so blown away by a band.and for a long time the only thing I listened to was Rush and Triumph.The next day I went to buy the album but it was nowhere in sight so I took my tape player over to Lloyd's and set it in front of his speakers so I could record it.It too 2 weeks to get a real copy.From then on I got my hands on anything I could.Rock-nRoll Machine and Never Surender remain my favorites today.Man I'll tell ya' we wore some pretty deep grooves into that record.

                                                              J 

Back in the mid to late 70's, a friends' band used to play at a rock club in Lockport, N.Y. called After Dark.  We used to go watch them play, and one night they opened for Triumph.  We were blown away.  They played songs from their first album "Triumph", the original one on the Attic label, and covered Led Zepplins "Whole Lotta Love" better than Zepplin.  We saw them play there a few times, and they also played at Buffalo's Kleinhans Music Hall a little later on. Back then the band logo was a TRIUMPH with wings on either side, reminds me a little bit of the Aerosmith logo. Watching them play in that little club, sitting right up front having a beer and listening to Blinding Light Show, those were some good times.

Thanks for joining jb7

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Watching the boys on MTV in 1981 did it for me.  Not only was their music the greatest (and profound), but Rik was just too damn cute!  I’ve been a HUGE fan ever since.  Not just a fan really, I’m obsessed.  I named my daughter after a “Triumph fantasy” and I’ve been inked with the Triumph logo (see picture).  Okay, that’s not something I share with everyone, but I figured you Triumph fans might appreciate my passion.

 

BTW…I’m glad to see that there are some young people on here that enjoy Triumph.  I wish more would take the time to listen.  It doesn’t get any better!

 

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thanks for posting Lisa

 

Hank 

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1982 we got MTV.  The rest is history!!  Still the BEST band out of Canada!! 

it was a band i had always heard about, but for many years just passed me by. i got into heavy metal and hard rock in the late 80's when i was in 2nd grade, and for a long time just got into the standards (priest, maiden, metallica) along with whatever was coming out in that era (thrash, death metal, etc.) around my mid teens i became very uninterested in the music that was coming out (grunge, nu metal, rap, etc.) and started working backwards. in the past 3-4 years in particular i've become completely obsessed with the 70's and very early 80's hard rock/metal and triumph obviously is one of the flagship bands of the era, so it was a natural that i would get into them. amazing stuff and i have been completely obsessed since hearing them....