Mashmakhan
Mashmakhan was a Canadian rock fusion band which had their greatest success in the early 70s. Her biggest success was the single "As The Years Go By".
Career
The band emerged from the Mashmakhan, was founded in 1960 in Montreal. Even before this occurred Pierre Senecal, Brian Edwards and Rayburn Blake on together. 1960 fell during one of her performances in the short term from the drummer. So Jerry Mercer was dazugeholt who joined out of the band. Shortly thereafter, Brian Edwards left the band again, while the remaining three band members had minor roles under different names such as The Phantoms, Ray Blake's Combo and The Dominoes.
In 1965, she appeared as The Triangle and had joint performances with the R & B singer Trevor W. Payne. Four years they supported each other until The Trianglevon was discovered the music producer Bob Hahn, who in Toronto a contract with Columbia Records gave them. Payne had no interest in this contract. Edwards joined the band for a year back in because they needed a bass player, and it was agreed finally on the band name Mashmakhan. The name comes from Michoacán, a region in Mexico, which was known at that time for their high-quality marijuana.
The song "As The Years Go By ", written by Pierre Senecal, was published in 1970 on the debut album Mashmakhan and became the first and biggest hit of the band. The album sold 100,000 copies in Canada initially and 500,000 times in the United States. In Japan, the album was even sold 1,000,000 times. In America, the album from the famous label Epic Records was sold. The band itself was never assume that just this song would become a hit since it was written newly added to the already fixed album. The next two singles, Gladwyn and Days When We Are Free, this success in the English speaking world could not reach.
1971 worked with in the Mashmakhan from the NFB ( National Film Board of Canada ) filmed musical Epilogue / Fieve. The song Could not Find the Sun, written by Rayburn Blake for this film was released on Mashmakhan 's second album, The Family (1971). Although this album sold very well in Japan, Mashmakhan was hardly recognized within the USA and Canada and the members parted. Blake joined the Lisa Hartt band and also released solo material. Mercer joined the band April Wine in. Senecal tried with the musicians Brian Greenway, Steve Laing and Allan to let Nicholls Mashmakhan still exist, but without success. In 1973, the band was dissolved. Greenway and Laing would later also join April Wine.
Had their greatest performances the band at the concert tour Festival Express 1970 within Canada. The fact that this footage was not published until 2003, the band became known to the younger generation.