Canuck torture?

Motley Crue? We're playing Honeymoon Suite and Platinum Blonde over and over and over again. We win.

 

Canada's a nation of peace. Surely they wouldn't resort to these cruel tactics against a group of harmless terrorist animals...

 

We learned from the best?

 

If you add Trooper, Toronto and Helix to the mix, I might be inclined to agree with you.

 

And playing Celine Dion should get somebody's hoser ass hauled before the International Criminal Court

 

No, not even we would inflict Celine Dion on those bastards. Maybe The Spoons, though. And throw in some Rankins for good measure. That oughta make 'em cry.

 

Hey the boys in Honeymoon Suite are picking up a few bucks singing "New Girl Now" in a McDonald's commercial now.

 

I didn't realize they still were around. Isn't that song at least 20 years old?

 

Honeymoon Suite was my first foray into journalism. Was the editor of my junior high newspaper and snuck into their concert at the university. Parents were livid but for the sake of a story, I would do anything.
That was Grade 9, so 1984 ... 22 years ago. Dammit. I'm old.

 

What does it take........to get some service around here?

 

I go way back with those guys. I remember when "New Girl Now" - in a much heavier arrangement than we're all familiar with - won the top prize in Q107's Homegrown contest. I saw them (along with Corey Hart) open for April Wine in the summer of 1984 when I worked at the Kingswood Music Theatre, a shed at Canada's Wonderland.

 

Was that before or after Corey left home, got a ride in the back of a truck driven by two mean hillbillies and ended up in NYC?

I think "Sunglasses At Night" was about prison torture.