History in Five Songs Episode 383: Uncommonly Important Drummers

This is Triumph with Allied Forces.

Paratroopers everywhere, can't you see? Strategic weapons are something we don't need

Okay, so we are celebrating the great Gil Moore here.

You know, Gil in Triumph, super important person.

Number one, it's a trio.

So the drummer is 33% of the flesh and blood meat puppets in the band.

And so he's important automatically for that reason.

But...

Gil is also a writer, a lead singer.

This album, he's also got the opening track on this one, Fool, Fear, Love.

He's good for three on Never Surrender.

Boy, this band was quite successful.

Allied Forces, so this is September 81, goes platinum.

They have four more gold albums in the States.

It's a pretty impressive run.

What are they? It's Just a Game, Never Surrender.

the other gold, uh, I'm not sure, but the classics as well.

So the, um, so classics went gold.

Um, they have a greatest hits album.

So yeah, he's important for that reason.

And then all of a sudden he becomes the biggest entrepreneur in the band, uh, with metal works studio.

So he starts this, this big, important, celebrated, um, uh, studio complex, probably the most famous studio complex, uh, or the biggest, I would say, um, In Canada, certainly anywhere outside of Vancouver by far, Vancouver has its own illustrious number of studios and big albums made out there.

And Metalworks, maybe less so on the big albums, actually, come to think of it.

But it's a huge, important place.

And he's run a school out of there and he's just been a very entrepreneurial guy, you know, and kind of running the business and sort of being the biggest spokesman for Triumph as well.