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There is perhaps no bigger legend in the history of Canadian hard rock than Toronto's MOXY.
One can still hear the roar of vocalist Buzz
Shearman, twenty years after a motorcycle accident tragically ended his life just north of Canada's biggest city. But you'd have to go to Texas to hear that roar on the radio, the Lone Star state by chance and by fate,
having become the band's biggest market, their home country of Canada having conveniently slotted the band into the files of long-lost rock 'n' roll dinosaur rockers, good for the odd classic rock spin, but more or less
left to fond memory.
"Texas was certainly something," muses guitarist Earl Johnson. "It was like we got off the plane and we were the Beatles or something. We'd play Toronto all the time and the
managers are all telling us to turn it down or you're going to get fired and everything, and you go down there and you get off the plane and you're the Beatles. We had Boston opening for us. We played these huge clubs
with AC/DC. They were playing whole sides of the album on radio down there, not just the songs. It was unbelievable."
To this day, Texas radio still samples from the band's four albums, three with Buzz
Shearman, and one with a young Mike Rynoski, who would go on to major fame as Mike Reno of Loverboy. And now Texas, and hopefully 49 other states and as well as ten provinces get to fly the flag once more, the original
members of MOXY reuniting with long-time friend and bar band belter Brian Maxim for what is essentially a 25th anniversary album of all new material, appropriately titled Moxy V. Moxy Raw was also released on the
Bullseye Label in 2002. Moxy continue to play gigs in Canada and the US.
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