USA
$42USD
Paperback
A Million Vacations: The Max Webster Story
is my updated, expanded, somewhat rewritten and newly copy-edited update on the celebrated and long out-of-print earlier version of this book. It’s my most satisfying write ever (at least for the straight biographies) because it’s about a band I’ve been known to call my favourite Canadian act of all time. It’s over 100,000 words of Canuck obscurity, but it also include Philip Kamin and Scott Feeney photos of this Canadian treasure.
Canada
$48CAD
International
$56USD
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Folks, a few opening words. Whatcha get is over 100,000 words plus pictures—in this newly expanded and updated edition—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 Canuck rock ‘n’ roll unit of all time.
For those soon to see the light, the best description I can give is 92% Blue Öyster Cult crossed with Cheap Trick, topped by 4% Kansas and another 4% Frank Zappa.
So if you wanna learn something, step up. It’s Canuck history and I’m proud to tell it, along with the blessings of the guys in the band. So yeah, as the original back cover (back when it was called Live Magnetic Air) declared (notwithstanding slight changes):
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?!