April Wine

April Wine is a Canadian rock band that was founded in 1969 and today with creative and breaks but never gained the big popularity in Canada and the United States gold and platinum status in Europe. The group was always a tip among insiders. Creative head and bandleader Myles Goodwyn is the singer from Montreal, who understood it in his compositions, catchy melodies ( Goodwyn himself cites the Beatles as an influence ) and hard guitar riffs ( partially the band played with three guitarists ) to join. A not insignificant contribution to the success gave the drummer Jerry Mercer, who belongs to the band since the early 1970s and its sound is unmistakable, especially on the deep bass drums.

Their albums in the late 1970s and early 1980s are essential contributions to the history of hard rock, such as Harder ... faster (1979). Besides catchy original compositions It contains an original processing of Pete Sinfield / King Crimson 21st Century Schizoid Man Classic.

Nevertheless, or perhaps because the band is not seen as a pure hard rock group, because the melodic line is consistently present in all their compositions. This is also reflected in the band's name, in the texts and not even hard rock outfit and appearance of the members. For example, brings The Whole World's Goin 'Crazy (1976 ) rather humorous nonsense rock with hard guitar sound and also very quiet, soft sounds, which was released in 1977, "Forever, For Now " is even up to two exceptional title pure soft become pop album.

On 3 November 2010 Jim Clench died in Montreal on lung cancer. He was from 1970 to 1975 and from 1992 to 2006 the bassist for the band and had played in the meantime even with Bachman -Turner Overdrive.