◇ image via WikipediaRed Rider
Red Rider is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Procol Harum. Those roots explain a lot about how Red Rider arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Harlequin, Chilliwack, Kim Mitchell, Tom Cochrane and Triumph, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Go West, Roger Waters and Loverboy, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 29 connections around Red Rider, reaching back through Procol Harum and forward to Go West. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Red Rider, later known as Tom Cochrane & Red Rider, is a Canadian rock band popular in the 1980s. While they achieved significant success in Canada, the band never had a song in the top 40 in the United States, although "Lunatic Fringe" from their second album, 1981's As Far as Siam, became popular on US album-oriented rock radio. They also charted on the Billboard Hot 100 with "White Hot" from their debut album Don't Fight It (1979) and "Young Thing, Wild Dreams " from Breaking Curfew (1984), and charted comparably to "Lunatic Fringe" on Mainstream Rock (AOR) with "Big League", "Human Race", and "Power", the latter two tracks off 1983's Neruda.
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Red Rider connections
Red Rider grew out of Procol Harum, shares an orbit with Harlequin, Chilliwack, Kim Mitchell and Tom Cochrane, went on to shape Go West, Roger Waters and Loverboy. 29 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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