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22 авг 2023 : |
RIK EMMETT - Legendary TRIUMPH Guitarist / Vocalist To Release Then Again... Album In September; "Magic Power" Streaming Now |
2 июн 2023 : |
MIKE LEVINE Rules Out TRIUMPH Reunion: 'I Don't Think We're Physically Able To Do That' |
2 июн 2023 : |
TRIUMPH's GIL MOORE Says AI 'Could Be A Creative Tool For Musicians' When Not In Hands Of 'Bad Actors' |
30 май 2023 : |
TRIUMPH Tribute Album To Feature NANCY WILSON, JOEY BELLADONNA, SEBASTIAN BACH, NITA STRAUSS And Others |
27 май 2023 : |
Watch TRIUMPH's Full Set From 1983's US Festival; Official DVD Video Streaming |
9 мар 2023 : |
TRIUMPH's RIK EMMETT To Release Long-Awaited 'Lay It On The Line' Memoir In October |
18 ноя 2022 : |
TRIUMPH Announces Never Surrender Vinyl Reissues; Special Hockey Night In Canada T-Shirts |
6 июн 2022 : |
TRIUMPH Bassist MIKE LEVINE Says Tribute Album Will Feature MICKEY THOMAS, SEBASTIAN BACH, KENNY ARONOFF, PHIL X |
13 май 2022 : |
TRIUMPH Bassist On Hypothetical Reunion Tour: 'We Would Need To Have The Best Medical People Around Us' |
19 апр 2022 : |
TRIUMPH's GIL MOORE Admits He's A 'Control Freak', Says It Was 'Totally' Difficult To Allow Documentary Makers To Tell Band's Story |
8 мар 2022 : |
The Story Of TRIUMPH's Appearance At 1983's US Festival: Preview Clip From 'Rock & Roll Machine' Documentary |
6 янв 2022 : |
RIK EMMETT Says Upcoming Memoir Will Tell More Of His Side Of The Story Of What Happened With TRIUMPH |
15 дек 2021 : |
TRIUMPH Announces Opening Of The 'Triumph Vault' |
22 окт 2021 : |
GIL MOORE Says It Was 'A Good Decision' To Split Songwriting Credits Equally In TRIUMPH |
26 авг 2021 : |
TRIUMPH's RIK EMMETT To Release 'Reinvention' Book Of Poetry |
25 авг 2021 : |
TRIUMPH: Rock & Roll Machine Documentary To Premier At TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival); Video Trailer Streaming |
17 июл 2021 : |
TRIUMPH's Long-Awaited Documentary To Be Released This Fall |
16 июн 2021 : |
JOEL HOEKSTRA, RUDY SARZO, KEN MARY And GABRIELA GUNČIKOVÁ Cover TRIUMPH Classic "Lay It On The Line" (Video) |
15 июн 2021 : |
MIKE LEVINE Says Recession Derailed TRIUMPH's Reunion Tour Plans More Than A Decade Ago |
24 май 2021 : |
TRIUMPH's Long-Awaited Documentary Is 'A Couple Of Weeks' Away From Being Finished: 'It's Sensational' |
24 апр 2021 : |
ANGELO NGUYEN Covers TRIUMPH Classic "Fight The Good Fight" In New Video |
22 мар 2021 : |
TRIUMPH - Metalworks Institute Students Perform Cover Of "Lay It On The Line"; Video |
17 мар 2021 : |
TRIUMPH Named 2021 Record Store Day Canadian Ambassadors; Allied Forces Box Set Announced; Video |
24 фев 2021 : |
Musicians Cover TRIUMPH Classic "Fight The Good Fight"; Video |
8 сен 2020 : |
TRIUMPH – RIK EMMETT Didn’t Speak To Bandmates For 20 Years After Leaving Band |
2 авг 2020 : |
RIK EMMETT On Upcoming TRIUMPH Documentary: 'There's A Surreal Nature To It' |
11 июл 2020 : |
TRIUMPH's RIK EMMETT: 11 Solo Titles Reissued Digitally |
3 июл 2020 : |
TRIUMPH's RIK EMMETT: 'I Have Retired From The Road, But I Haven't Retired From Creativity' |
22 янв 2020 : |
MIKE LEVINE Says 'Physical Issues' Will Likely Prevent TRIUMPH From Touring Again |
24 дек 2019 : |
TRIUMPH Performs With SEBASTIAN BACH, PHIL X At 1993 Q107 Rock Awards; Rare Video |
27 ноя 2019 : |
Canadian Rock Legends TRIUMPH 'Had A Great Time' Performing Again At Special Event In Toronto |
25 ноя 2019 : |
TRIUMPH - Special Vinyl Edition Of "Classics" Album Unboxed (Video) |
11 ноя 2019 : |
TRIUMPH's 'Classics' To Be Re-Released As Double LP |
7 ноя 2018 : |
Canadian Rock Legends TRIUMPH Are Collaborating With BANGER FILMS On Feature-Length Documentary |
1 авг 2016 : |
TRIUMPH Members Reunite On RESOLUTION9 Album; More Details Revealed |
5 июл 2016 : |
TRIUMPH Members Reunite For RIK EMMETT's New Album |
30 авг 2012 : |
TRIUMPH - \'Live at Sweden Rock\' |
11 июл 2012 : |
TRIUMPH: 'Live At Sweden Rock Festival' CD+DVD Trailer Available |
28 июн 2012 : |
TRIUMPH: 'Live At Sweden Rock Festival' CD+DVD Artwork, Track Listing Revealed |
20 мар 2012 : |
TRIUMPH: 'Live At Sweden Rock Festival' DVD, CD Due This Spring |
19 ноя 2010 : |
TRIUMPH: Trailer For Classic-Album Reissues Available |
29 окт 2010 : |
TRIUMPH: \'Diamond Collection\' Vinyl Box Set Announced |
25 июн 2010 : |
TRIUMPH\'s Classic Anthem \'Lay It On The Line\' Featured In New ADAM SANDLER Movie |
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2 апр 2024
RIK EMMETT: Why TRIUMPH Will Never Get Inducted Into ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
He continued: "Years later, I did a thing where I did a tour and I did an album with Pavlo and Oscar Lopez. It was like a guitar trio kind of a project, and we toured the country and we were up for an instrumental Juno of the year. And I said to those guys, I looked at the thing, and I said, 'We're never gonna win.' And they went, 'Oh, Rik, you're so pessimistic.' I go, 'No, I'm not.' I'm actually not. Professionally, I'm known as an optimist. 'The reason that I'm pessimistic about this is,' I go, 'there's a couple of people from ARCADE FIRE that did a little offshoot thing, and they have a voting block of a much larger label than the distributor for ours. We're never gonna even get close. We won't get within sniffing distance politically."
Emmett added: "In the United States, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame politically… I mean, we were on RCA Records, which was — of the seven major labels, they were number six. And then we sued them, and we lost, and then we moved to MCA, and they were the seventh largest. They were the smallest and they had the least impact of all the labels. Now, once they combined their publishing division with their record division, and then they went on this spree where they bought Motown and they just kept acquiring catalogs and they became — now the only game in town is Universal; most of the other labels don't even exist. But at the time, we were with these small labels — not small, but the weakest ones. So voting-wise, we were never that big, we didn't sell enough records, we didn't have enough of a commercial, industrial kind of impact to have it be that the people go, 'Oh, yeah. Well, I remember when they went quadruple platinum.' We never did go quadruple platinum. We struggled to get gold up to platinum, and it would eventually happen with some of the records, but not very many of them. And then you're in a world where there's JOURNEY. Well, they went, like, seven times platinum, 10 times platinum. Oh, there's FOREIGNER. There's some noise this year about FOREIGNER. I don't think there's probably nothing in their catalog that was under five or six times platinum. They deserve to be in there; they really do. There's a good reason why [Paul] McCartney is swearing [in producer Mark Ronson's compilation of videos from famous friends vocalizing their support for FOREIGNER's induction into the Rock Hall]… They should have been in a long time ago. But there was a huge prejudice that [Rolling Stone co-founder] Jann Wenner, it bled throughout the entire board of that thing, which was, 'No, we're only gonna recognize the truly great, and the thing that defines truly great is what I say is truly great.' And he thought FOREIGNER and RUSH and STYX and TRIUMPH, he thought all that stuff was crap. And he would hire writers to write stuff in Rolling Stone that would say, 'Yeah, these bands are shit. They're terrible. They're crap.' And so that became the sort of the standard thing of, 'Yeah, well, no, we're not gonna put them in the Hall Of Fame. They're shitty.' There you go."
Emmett recently completed radiation treatment for prostate cancer.
Rik, who quit TRIUMPH — acrimoniously, in 1988 — over music and business disputes, went on to pursue a solo career, while TRIUMPH carried on with future BON JOVI guitarist Phil X for one more album, 1992's "Edge Of Excess", before calling it a day the following year.
Emmett was estranged, both personally and professionally, from the two other members of the legendary Canadian classic rock power trio for 18 years before they repaired their relationship.
Rik's memoir, "Lay It On The Line - A Backstage Pass To Rock Star Adventure, Conflict And Triumph", came out last October via ECW Press.
After 20 years apart, Emmett, Gil Moore (drums) and Mike Levine (bass) played at the 2008 editions of the Sweden Rock Festival and Rocklahoma. A DVD of the historic Sweden performance was made available four years later.
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