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The trio – bass player Mike Levine, guitarist Rik Emmett and drummer Gil Moore – pack a dynamic visual and musical package into their shows and Citizen rock critic Bill Provoke called their NAC concert last January “a rock and roll battlefield and victory celebration.”
Toronto seems to be Canada’s home for heavy metal. Now it’s time to watch out for Triumph. Every sign points the band to the top of the heap in a competitive, noisy struggle for the affections of a young audience. There have been four albums, so far – the fifth is due in mid-July. The first, Triumph, went gold, and the three since, Rock and Roll Machine, Just a Game, and Progressions of Power, have all gone platinum in Canada, and selling close to 400,000 copies each in the U.S. All the albums have been produced by Levine – and their success has led to several requests to undertake productions projects for other major acts – requests he’s declined, so far, to devote his full energies to his own band.
Whoever invented the term “Rock -n- Roll Machine” must have had a band very much like Triumph in mind. Triumph relentlessly churns out a style of music that the experts regularly pronounce to be deader than a doornail. And if it weren’t for the millions of people who regularly buy Triumph records and attend Triumph concerts, the experts would be right.
Back from the edge By Richard Chycki, Canadian Musician, February 1993 For over a decade, Triumph has carved a successful and innovative path through the heavy rock market, not only …
He’s been playing bass since the age of 10 and has been influenced by Richard Davis, Sly Stone and Phil Spector.According to the concert program, Mike likes, “money, sex and room service” (so, who doesn’t?). He also likes his old Fenders, JBL speakers, Crown amps, Reflex cabinets and Hammond B3’s.
Of all the bands playing the People’s Rock, Triumph is certainly the most self-made, adopting a policy to headline concerts only, and to build up an audience whether it received assistance from the press and radio or not. The group’s music – cement-hard rock – guaranteed no sympathetic ear in radio, not even Canadian stations, who are legally required to air a certain amount of local music.
“This one’s for you!” said singer Gil Moore from behind his raised drum kit before Triumph broke into the walloping rocker Allied Forces in the Kingswood Theater last night. The gold and platinum record holders offered material from their latest LP Surveillance and such older releases as Rock and Roll Machine, Just A Game, Thunder Seven, The Sport Of Kings and Allied Forces.
Triumph is getting ready for a career worthy of the name.The power-rock trio made its dance-and-dive reputation slugging out effective carbons of Deep Zeppelin and Led Purple. This week, though, for the first time, whole sets of original material are being included. Not only does the new music sound like it belongs in the same league with the metal masters, the Gasworks crowds are also responding to it just as eagerly. Triumph makes its maximum impact live.
Triumph is getting ready for a career worthy of the name.The power-rock trio made its dance-and-dive reputation slugging out effective carbons of Deep Zeppelin and Led Purple. This week, though, for the first time, whole sets of original material are being included. Not only does the new music sound like it belongs in the same league with the metal masters, the Gasworks crowds are also responding to it just as eagerly. Triumph makes its maximum impact live.
Triumph is blazing a trail across Canada this summer in preparation for an assault on the United States in the fall. Its second album, Rock and Roll Machine, has already sold 100,000 copies and the first one is selling briskly in the wake of the concert appearances.
