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ML upscaled/enhanced to 1080p60 (video source from the 80's is much more difficult to upscale since it really is garbage in, garbage out territory). From Surveillance (released in November 1987), the original official music video was released on July 27, 1987. This (a progressive rock tune with a guitar instrumental prologue entitled "Prologue: Into The Forever") was also one of my favorite Triumph tunes (the melody, the lyrics, the guitar riffs and solo). I still crank the volume on this one. Surveillance would also be the last release with Rik Emmett who left the group in 1988.
ML upscaled/enhanced to 1080p60 (video source from the 80's is much more difficult to upscale since it really is garbage in, garbage out territory). From The Sport of Kings (released in August 1986), the original official music video was released on September 11, 1986. This (a pop rock tune laden with synths and guitars) was also the bands biggest hit (27th place in the Billboard 100 over the course of 15 weeks).
ML enhanced to 720p. Legendary performance of Lay It On The Line at the US Festival in 1983. Personally consider myself lucky that I saw Triumph live during their Allied Forces, Never Surrender, and Thunder Seven tours. The tune saw a renewed (viral) revival in Canada when a sample of the song was used in promotions for the Stanley Cup Finals in Edmonton (Triumph themselves are from Ontario, Canada). This live was sans their usual laser light and pyrotechnic show.
ML enhanced the video/tweaked the audio (both as best as possible) from the digitized VHS tape recordings of this concert. I was in high school at the time and remembered listening to the concert in my car (stereo blasting). This was simulcast on both Westwood One to FM stations around the US and an MTV special live; whatever that evening show was that used to show concerts (it was re-broadcast a few times). Finding a stereo recording (from that FM broadcast) is something that has never popped up unfortunately (and most of the VHS recordings were mono plus very grainy quality).
Setlist:
- 1. Tear The Roof Off
- 2. American Girls
- 3. Lay It On The Line
- 4. Allied Forces
- 5. Fight the Good Fight
- 6. Rock & Roll Machine
- 7. Petite Etude
- 8. Guitar Solo
- 9. Nature's Child
- 10. Drum Solo
- 11. Magic Power
- 12. Allied Forces (Improvised outro)
- EN. Hot Time In This City