Defend the Canadian Defense Shield: Kim Mitchell

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the slap base on "go for a soda" funks me up!

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

he's into patio lanterns!

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

he refuses to go bald gracefully! why should he!

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:28 (twenty-one years ago)

he IS a wild party

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Kim Mitchell used to (still does?) live a few blocks from my dad's office. He used to see him walking around the neighbourhood all the time.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:29 (twenty-one years ago)

is that your only defense? c'mon now!

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i was hoping someone would something nice to say about Kim Mitchell!

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

introduced Pye Dubois to the world

― dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:40 (twenty-one years ago)

he has a girl's name

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:40 (twenty-one years ago)

there we go!

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:41 (twenty-one years ago)

He pointed out that soda is both better than slander and better than lies. There is pure truth in those statements.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 07:08 (twenty-one years ago)

he refuses to go bald gracefully! why should he!

Doesn't he have a completely shaved head now? A quick search informs me that yes he does.

I saw the video for "What It Takes" last night, and it actually wasn't a bad song. If you could overlook all the mugging in the video.

― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Er, that should read: "I saw the video for 'Easy To Tame'". "What It Takes" is of course by Canada's other great rock contribution, Honeymoon Suite.

― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Two words: MAX WEBSTER!

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Kim Mitchell is the direct precedent for the fantastic Joel Plaskett Emergency.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I've met him through my work on several occasions. Super nice guy. And "Easy To Tame" is a classic.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

He was my contribution to the old "What's Your Hometown's Claim To Musical Fame?" thread, or at least the closest approximation. (A native of Sarnia, Ontario, my virtual hometown; no musicians of note hail from my LITERAL hometown of Owen Sound.) And, yeah, MAX WEBSTER! (Can't say I care much for his solo stuff tho.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know anything about him except that he's a Canadian guitar hero and he was in the last episode of Kids in the Hall, so he's doing just fine by me.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

He's just doing his rock and roll duty, leave him alone guys

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

some say he's in it for the money, but he's in it for love love love

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

creating a buzz buzz buzz!

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got a lot of time for the guitar break in Paradise Skies.

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a diary for rock 'n' roll men
you catch'em as they free their minds
from one crowded street to another
from one hog town to the next
they'll tell you why the world stands on end
why music is the luck of friends
from any state to any province
there's a diary for rock 'n' roll men
there gonna tell ya
sometimes we got smokin' guns, rock 'n' roll whips
sometimes we got lemon twist lips
sometimes we like circles and dots
sometimes we like love we like open hearts
sometimes we get electric shocks
we get our words mixed up
we get stomach knots
sometimes we write the diary for rock 'n' roll men
sometimes we are.....
there's a diary for rock 'n' roll men
they get anxious and lose their minds
they dream about setting those misty cities on fire again
they'll tell you why the world stands on end
why music is the luck of friends
from any state to any province
there's a diary for rock 'n' roll men
they're gonna tell ya
sometimes we got smokin' guns, rock 'n' roll whips
sometimes we got lemon twist lips
sometimes we like circles and dots
sometimes we like love we like open hearts
sometimes we get electric shocks
we get our words mixed up
we get stomach knots
sometimes we write the diary for rock 'n' roll men
sometimes we are.....
we're going to tell you
sometimes we got smokin' guns, rock 'n' roll whips
firecracker eyes and lemon twist lips

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriously, though, listen to "Red Light" off Joel Plaskett's 2003 album Truthfully, Truthfully, it's got Kim Mitchell all over it.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

How can this guy be anything but the natural heir to KM?
http://www.fire-dweller.com/canadaday/plaskett_1.jpg

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr. Huk. I like your Joel Plaskett-Kim Mitchell link. It work for me.

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

How can this guy be anything but the natural heir to KM?

Without an OPP hat and a singing keyboardist, he just doesn't have the commitment.

― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

And he needs one of those hats. You know, Those hats.

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahahahaha, OPP hat! awesome.

Is anyone going to nominate Kim Mitchell for the CBC's new 50 Tracks-Canadian Edition? we should try and get Go For Soda on there.

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

It is our (rock & roll) duty.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

GOOD LORD NO!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone remember Mitsou of "bye, bye look out boys" fame. The french-canadian porn-star-looking pop-star of the early nineties.

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

She's a Quebec film producer now.

― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Might as well go for a soda.
http://www.mtv.com/onair/pimp_my_ride/images/pic_napolean_car.jpg

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

'Bye Bye Mon Cowboy'?

She's also appeared in softcore tv show Bliss.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

that's it. Mitsou! You must be from Quebec. C'est ca?

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

No, just old enough to remember French Kiss. Though that song was on heavy rotation anyways.
Quebecois music rulz! S/D
French-language Quebec pop-rock: what do you know about it?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

mmm, Mitsou!

we had an old thread around that we filled up with Mitsou pictures, I thought.

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.qim.com/nouvelles/images/mitsou.jpg

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"hero"

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 07:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Compared to his music, he's an adequate dj.

― grapeshine (grapeshine), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Mitsou just signed to host a show on CBC Newsworld!
WTF is up with Newsworld and their compulsive hiring of people who seem like Youth Culture Icons only compared to Knowlton Nash.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

word that

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

eighteen years pass...

OK, I'm interested in listening to Max Webster…what can anyone reading these words who knew of Kim Mitchell et al growing up or who is otherwise knowledgeable tell me about 'em? They were tight buds with Dirk, Lerxst and Pratt… they seem very, ahem, quirky, by the lights of mainstream Cnauck rock… were the Tragically Hip into them, frinstance?

― veronica moser, Saturday, 13 January 2024 18:07 (two years ago)

I only have their posthumous compilation, Diamonds Diamonds, though I don't really need it because I could just turn on Q107 and hear them playing most of the songs in regular rotation for the sake of Canadian content; Kim Mitchell ended up as a DJ on the station for several years.
The band did have an eclectic mix of hard rock, progressive touches, gentle balladry, whimsical humour and the unusual lyrics of Pye Dubois. Maybe a heavy Canadian version of Todd Rundgren, sans his wildest experimentation? I also have a persistent, inexplicable urge to call them the product of an unintentional merger between Split Enz and April Wine?
I get the feeling that their slick late 70s studio sound would have been anathema to the Tragically Hip, though there's no way they didn't grow up hearing Max Webster on the radio even more often than I did.

― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 13 January 2024 19:58 (two years ago)

I can recommend A Million Vacations and to a lesser extent Universal Juveniles (though the later has "Battle Scar", featuring Geddy Lee on vocals and with a super-heavy riff.)

They were fun live. Back in the day if you saw Rush you also saw some combination of Max Webster, Triumph and April Wine.

― henry s, Saturday, 13 January 2024 22:28 (two years ago)

Based on MW's general weirdness, I thought Kim Mitchell would be a really interesting DJ when he was on Q-107 for a few years. He wasn't--he leaned towards the most conventional late-'80s hair metal imaginable.

― clemenza, Saturday, 13 January 2024 22:46 (two years ago)

I like to think of Kim Mitchell's "I am a Wild Party" as the precursor to Andrew WK

― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 15 January 2024 15:38 (two years ago)

Those last two Max Webster albums are great fun, they really came into their own.

As for Kim's solo stuff, Akimbo Alogo is unbeatable. "Lager & Ale", especially.

― A. Begrand, Monday, 15 January 2024 16:45 (two years ago)

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