Max Webster
| Max Webster | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | The Grass Company, The Quotations, Big Al's Band, ZOOOM |
| Origin | Sarnia, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Hard rock, progressive rock, heavy metal, pop rock |
| Years active | 1973–1982 |
| Labels | Anthem, Mercury, Capitol, Taurus |
| Website | maxwebster |
| Past members |
Kim Mitchell Terry Watkinson Dave Myles Gary McCracken Paul Kersey Mike Tilka Jim Chevalier Pye Dubois |
Max Webster was a Canadian hard rock band formed in 1973 in Toronto.
In the 1960s in Sarnia, the band went through names such as The Grass Company, The Quotations, Big Al's Band, and ZOOOM. They settled on "Max Webster" in 1973.
The original members were guitarist and vocalist Kim Mitchell, keyboardist Terry Watkinson, bassist Mike Tilka and drummer Paul Kersey. Mitchell and lyricist Pye Dubois wrote the majority of their material, During his tenure with the band, Watkinson also wrote one to three songs per album.
Kersey left the band after their 1976 self-titled debut album, and was replaced by Gary McCracken. After recording and touring for their second album, High Class in Borrowed Shoes (1977), Tilka would follow suit and leave the band, being replaced by Dave Myles. Myles had previously played with Mitchell in a series of pre-Max Webster bands, all based in Mitchell's and Myles' hometown of Sarnia, Ontario.
Max Webster's third album, Mutiny Up My Sleeve (1978), was produced by the band and Terry Brown in collaboration with their ex-bassist Mike Tilka (who was now concentrating on a production career), and featured the Mitchell/Watkinson/McCracken/Myles line-up. This line-up would last through their fourth album, A Million Vacations, and a subsequent live album, Live Magnetic Air, both of which were issued in 1979.
Though their albums had become FM radio staples in Canada, A Million Vacations was the first Max Webster album to generate hit singles that cracked the Canadian top 100. The group's first hit was "Let Go The Line", written and sung by Terry Watkinson, and peaked at No. 41 on the Canadian charts. Follow-up single "A Million Vacations" was written by McCracken/Dubois, sung by McCracken, and peaked at No. 80 in Canada. The album's third and final single, "Paradise Skies" was a Mitchell/Dubois composition sung by Mitchell, and was a minor hit in both Canada (number 21) and the UK Singles Chart (number 43).
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