I have a friend here who is an avid fan of April wine, several years ago he was at a concert in Winnipeg IIRC, he said Myles Goodwin pointed out my buddy in the crowd and tugged his shirt because........he had the same shirt as Myles had lol.
I didn't realize they had formed in 1969, underated in my view.
Funny thing, I saw them again in June 1980 are Super Jam in Busch Stadium in St Louis MO. As you said they were everywhere. Right on the verge of hitting it big.
My favorite I believe is Short Down, I don’t know that it was released on a U.S. album
BoltactionMan; Good evening, I hope the day down in East Central Missouri behaved and you're well.
For sure when I was trying to find when it was that I'd seen them, I was shocked at the schedule they kept as they were playing pretty much every night of the week and making a few hundred miles a day.
As an aside, it was perhaps Red Rider's first big opener for anyone too and they were big on western Canadian radio first. If I'm thinking of the right story from Tom Cochrane, they had to choose between gassing up the van to get to Vancouver or eating. After they played to a fairly packed house in Vancouver about 5 days after I saw them, their careers took off.
Back to April Wine, I believe my favorite album and song for that matter was "the Whole World's Goin Crazy". Was big out in western Canada again anyways.
RIP once more Miles, thanks for adding to the soundtrack of my youth.
Thanks for the post sir, much appreciated and all the best.
Losing my musical icons.