Last Friday night my buddy Nazz and I went to the Trans-Canada Highwaymen concert at the Yellowhead Casino, which was a weird ass room for a show. When I first heard of this super-group of Canadian musicians featuring Moe Berg of The Pursuit Of Happiness, Chris Murphy of Sloan, Craig Northey of Odds and Steven Page ex of the Barenaked Ladies I thought this would be an interesting collaboration. Then word came out that they were recording a covers album of Canadian hits from the 60's & 70's. And if you watch the video for their infomercial you will get a sense of what they doing. It's a very 70's feel K-Tel Records compilation thing going on. A group of guys having a lot of fun, and that's exactly what the concert was like too.
Checkout the infomercial for the album Explosive Hits Vol.1. It is well worth watching and gives you an idea of all the songs covered on the album.
This was my first time being at the Yellowhead Casino. I didn't even realize they had a venue at this casino until I heard about this show. The name of the venue at the casino is called Pearl, a weird name for a weird venue. The show was sold out well in advance, not sure what the room holds for attendance but my guess would be a couple hundred for this show. Even the band made a comment about the weirdness of the room.
The show started with Steven Page doing the Barenaked Ladies song "It's All Been Done". I had never seen the Barenaked Ladies perform before so it was cool to finally see and hear Steven Page live, and he was in good form, as all the members were. I've included the setlist so as you can see all the songs played. Each member did three songs from their bands. And each member played each instrument. Was weird to see Moe Berg on bass and even weirder to see him on drums. Talented bunch of guys to be able to switch up the instruments through out the almost two hour show. And between song banter was quite funny too. Very nice to see a group of musicians like this having so much fun on stage. This was an incredibly fun show to see. Good times!!!
- (Barenaked Ladies cover)
- (Odds cover)
- (The Pursuit of Happiness cover)
- (Michel Pagliaro cover)
- (Odds cover)
- (Barenaked Ladies cover)
- (Lighthouse cover)
- (Sloan cover)
- (April Wine cover)
- (The Guess Who cover)
- (The Pursuit of Happiness cover)
- (Sloan cover)
- (Barenaked Ladies cover)
- (Odds cover)
- (Barenaked Ladies cover)
- Encore:
- (Andy Kim cover)
- (Sloan cover)
- (The Pursuit of Happiness cover)
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