So so why is it why do you feel like kind of attracted to, you know, is what is it about these maybe like bands that aren't as popular? a little forgotten uh maybe you know maybe time is they're slipping through right they're kind of maybe uh you know through the mists of time they're fading away a little bit but yet you're here kind of like bringing them back to life why why is that important to you

Well, yeah, no, you're absolutely right.

I mean, that is exactly what I want to do.

You know, on a very, very basic level, I'm kind of putting books together that I myself, as a fan of these bands, would want to read.

that just don't seem to be out there in the market.

The Fleetwood Mac one obviously was an exception.

I'm glad it turned out the way it did.

Yeah.

It's

crazy.

Again, that goes back to that early variety that I was telling you about.

But in the US, I think people might be surprised to find out that this band had 16 studio albums.

Wow.

Because they really were only popular in the U.S. for about two or three years.

And so there's only about three, maybe four albums that sold any great amount in the U.S.

numbers looked like then.

So how did they form? When did they form?

Yeah, they formed all the way back in 1969, and it, it, the, the band, um, almost completely different than the picture that's on the cover.

Like, the c- picture that's on the cover of the book is, like, their best-known lineup, the five-piece lineup that, that was together from, uh, '78 through, like, '84.

But, um, in the beginning it was, uh, Myles Goodwin, the late Myles Goodwin, who was the main songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist who wrote the majority of April Wine's material.

But he joined a band that was formed by three Henmans.

So you had Richie Henman on drums, you had Jim Henman on, I think, bass, and David Henman on guitar.

And for the life of me, I cannot get it straight in my head which two of those guys were brothers and which one was a cousin, but that's how it works.

Right.

Tim, since you're the Fleetwood Mac guy, how is your, we know that you wrote a book about Fleetwood Mac, but what is all your history with Fleetwood Mac?

Well, I mean, my history is such that like, when this came out, I wasn't really paying attention.

Other than just being aware of, you know, they were on the radio and they and they were back.

It was a few years before, well, before my wife and I got together.

she kind of got me listening to them more yeah well seriously listening to them but yeah no I knew this was a big deal when they got back together the rumors line up the best-known lineup and this was a huge comeback for them I mean the previous album they put out as Fleetwood Mac called time in 1995 was a complete dud and a commercial just not even hardly worth mentioning that it came out because it just didn't sell so the next logical step of course like a lot of bands are doing in the 90s if a band wasn't reforming from having not been together for years or the best known lineup of a band reforming that was the time when a lot of bands are doing this so I think it was inevitable that Fleetwood Mac Also followed suit.

And, uh, the, the aforementioned hit single you're talking about, I didn't know at the time was an old song.

That was a, it was a new song to me.

Because this

Mm

... or alternative or anything like that, and I love the fact that Van Halen was, like-Beating the odds, and they still had a number one album and a double platinum album.

They were still getting radio play and video play despite everything, all these, you know, that rock is dead or, you know, traditional, uh, 80s rock is dead or whatever you wanna call it.

It, it's hard to explain to younger people, but it felt very real at the time.

It felt like an us versus them type of situation, and the fact that Van Halen was still rolling along, doing good business, which is why it made all the, the less sense a year later when that fell apart.

I remember being very disappointed with that.

But, um-

Well done

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... or alternative or anything like that, and I love the fact that Van Halen was, like, beating the odds and they still had a number one album and a double platinum album.

They were still getting radio play and video play despite everything, all these, you know, the rock is dead or, you know, traditional, uh, '80s rock is dead or whatever you wanna call it.

It, it's hard to explain to younger people, but it felt very real at the time.

It felt like an us versus them type of situation, and the fact that Van Halen was still rolling along, doing good business, which is why it made all the, the less sense a year later when that fell apart.

I remember being very disappointed with that.

But, um-

Whoa.