Featuring Corey and Mark from And The Podcast Will Rock There's a guy in Tennessee who thought Canadian music was just Rush. He was wrong. This is the episode that fixed that. Sean, Todd, and Corey from And The Podcast Will Rock spent 12 hours on prep work — between them — to put together the ultimate Canadian music education for Mark, Corey's American co-host on the Van Halen podcast And The Podcast Will Rock. The playlist covers four corners of Canadian music — classic, newer, rock, and metal — and Mark's reactions are everything you'd hope for. Along the way there's a debate about what makes something a bar song, whether Kim Mitchell is the Canadian David Lee Roth or the Canadian Huey Lewis, why Canadian bands are apparently mandated to have singers with impossibly high upper registers, the difference between a Spinal Tap bassist and a Triumph bassist (it is not as much as you'd think), why Nickelback's problem is their fans and not their music, what happens when you buy beer in Canada versus Tennessee, and whether the Headstones doing Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald at 4 minutes 46 seconds is better than Gordon Lightfoot doing it at 17 minutes. It is. Welcome to Canada, Mark. You're one of us now. This episode features: Triumph — the power trio from Ontario who were massive in Texas for reasons nobody has fully explainedDevin Townsend — whose Addicted album is the one you need to sit down before pressing play, and whose connection to Steve Vai most people have forgottenMax Webster — Kim Mitchell before he went solo, Battle Scar with Geddy Lee, Alex and Neil playing along, and Mark immediately recognizing Rush before being told who it wasKim Mitchell — Go For Soda, Rock and Roll Duty, Easy to Tame, and the video that features what looks exactly like BugamoKiller Dwarfs — the band that gave Mark Iron Maiden and early Judas Priest vibes and apparently played to a certain someone's tape deck back in the Moncton daysThe Northern Pikes — the Saskatchewan bar song that Corey picked specifically for the day Mark comes to visitThe Odds — Heterosexual Man, featuring Kids in the Hall in the video, a Corner Gas connection nobody knew, and everybody ending up in dragThe Headstones — Tweeter and the Monkey Man, a Traveling Wilburys cover, the beer CD promotion story, and a casting session for the movie version of the songThe Tragically Hip — Ahead by a Century, the SNL appearance, the Dan Aykroyd introduction, why they're Canada's Bruce Springsteen, and why Dave Matthews is a poor man's Tragically Hip Guests: Corey — Fine Wine Corey — And The Podcast Will RockMark — Craft Beer Mark — And The Podcast Will Rock Linktree: https://linktr.ee/seangeekpodcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/seangeekpodcast We are a part of the Boneless Podcast Network: https://bonelesspodcasting.com/ Merch: Tee Public: https://www.teepublic.com/seangeekpodcast Red Bubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/seangeekpodcast/shop @seangeekpodcast on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Mentioned in this episode: New Merch Ad An ad that incorporates Red Bubble and Tee Public
