Speaking of Triumph, anyone know what's up with that movie that the Beyond the Lighted Stage guy was making about Triumph?
Currently streaming exclusively through Crave and due for DVD release later this year.
I watched it a month or two ago. It was a great watch, and I had forgotten how successful Triumph were in the U.S. They still have a base of superfans.
When I started getting into this type of music, Triumph was (as far as I knew) on the same level as bands like Rush, Styx, Maiden, etc. This was during the Never Surrender album cycle, so Thunder Seven was my first new album, and then things went downhill pretty fast. I've still never heard anything from the one album they did without Rik.
I just finished watching the Triumph doc. I'd say it was good but not great. A lot of cool, older footage that I'd never seen before, but it also seemed fairly superficial. They also had a very limited number of guys who had been influenced by the band...Sebastian Bach, some guy named John that I've never heard of...and not much more. They also had that annoying guy with the super thick glasses who shows up in a lot of Rush stuff (I think he's from some Canadian TV show). All in all a worthwhile watch.