Longtime BraveWords scribe and famed author Martin Popoff has unveiled his latest and possibly most personal tome, Live Magnetic Air: The Unlikely Saga Of The Superlative Max Webster.
In his own words:
"Guys, a few opening words. Whatcha get is 260 pages and over 100,000 words-plus loads of pictures... live, studio, ads, memorabilia, sleeves-on a band you may not know and love... yet! They only made five studio albums and a live album, all between 1976 and 1980, but they are indeed, my #1 top fave rave rock 'n' roll unit of all time. You've heard me say that in radio interviews over the year and you've seen it in print. Sure, occasionally I tucked a few together, including ZZ Top, Deep Purple, BOC, Gillan... but Max Webster is always in that list of five and depending on the day, get the most props. For those soon to see the light... best description I can give is 92% Blue Oyster Cult crossed with Cheap Trick, topped by 4% Kansas and another 4% Zappa. So... you wanna learn something, step up. It's a short print run, a financial risk, all of that, but it's Canuck history and I'm proud to tell it, along with the blessings of the guys in the band. So yeah, back cover sez... Dubious, unlikely, improbable...but indeed verifiable and certifiable! The book now buzzing in your privileged hands is in fact the story of the finest rock 'n' roll band that ever was. Zeppelin, The Beatles, U2, Springsteen, Queen, King's X... none can hold an expiring lighter to the conflagration that was the near mythical Max Webster.
Consume these pages, and you will learn the secrets-often in the impenetrable code of the band's top-shelf wordsmith Pye Dubois-of the wily Canuck wizards who made the above boast sing with unassailable truth.
"Toronto Tontos", "Hangover", "High Class In Borrowed Shoes", "America's Veins", "Oh War!", 'Beyond The Moon", "Lip Service", "Charmonium", "Paradise Skies", "A Million Vacations', "In The World Of Giants", "Battle Scar"... these are towering anthems from the band's tight catalogue of five classics spanning the years 1976 to 1980. And so the time has come to re-celebrate and re-calibrate their majesty, along with dozens of other Kim Mitchell classics stuck in cult status... until now?!"
For more info and to order your copy contact Martin direct at: martinp@inforamp.net.
