The live Triumph were at the absolute peak of their power in this period as proven in the 1983 US Festival performance, which you should own on DVD if you like this band to any measurable degree. Everything seems just a bit more cohesive, planned, polished, and executed. I think the one-two-three punch of Allied Forces/Never Surrender/Thunder Seven marks what is probably my personal highpoint for the group. But these days, revisionism is huge in all areas of life, so I shouldn't be surprised. Just good quality suburban hard-rock, surviving the era of bad clothes and big hair with respectable musicianship and grueling tour constitutions. Triumph always struck me as similar to what Styx would sound like without Dennis DeYoung, if it were led by Tommy Shaw and James Young alone as it is today. How some folks see fit to trash this band with one-star reviews is beyond me. Triumph is one of those bands which officially sanctioned "proggers" feel the need to debase, when in reality the band has always been a feel-good hard rock band who I'm sure doesn't pine for the approval of we, the musical Asgard.
King Biscuit Flower Hour (In Concert) 1996 After several lineup changes, and despite a good fan base in the hard rock community, they broke up in 1993.įans hard rock should like TRIUMPH as well as the fans of DREAM THEATER'S less complex more straight-ahead rock moments.
In 1977 TRIUMPH really kicked off, getting radio play and growing as a band artistically. They quickly moved on to standard hard rock, however. Hailing from Canada and also a trio, they initially played similar music to RUSH's early period, but much less fantasy-oriented and more AOR. TRIUMPH is usually known as the band who, in their early days at least, tried to be like RUSH.
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