Okay Henri
I was impressed with your Max Webster pick, but how did you ever latch on to Goddo?
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I have never heard of them, but I will queue them up for next. Looking at that review, I am looking forward to it.
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Okay, so in the Netherlands in the second half of the 1970s there was a music magazine called ‘Newspaper Ear’. I have translated the Dutch name. It was actually in the same format as a real newspaper. Large pages and folded in half.
They had a young guy writing for them called Kees Baars. And he wrote about hard rock. He searched for new bands and reviewed them. Well, I was lucky in that in Eindhoven, my hometown, we had a import record shop. So when Kees wrote about some band, I checked them out at Bullit, name of the shop, and bought it if I liked them. We could listen to the record in the shop before buying them.
We, my younger brother and me, spend hours there, hunting for new bands. Btw, I am still doing that. I always try to find new original bands. The desire to hunt down new bands never left me.
Anyway, around 1977 it became a thing for me to discover new hard rock bands from Canada.
Most of the time I found them to be different, somewhat original, raw and here and there humorous if not weird and very likeable.
So I made it my goal to discover as much good hard rock from Canada.
And it’s been one of the most musically satisfying journeys I have ever undertaken. I like a lot of Canadian music to this day. Be it the late ‘70s hard rock, the smart and original metal from Voivod, the wonderful music of Joni Mitchell, especially her more jazzy mid ‘70s period, or the somewhat strange and eclectic music of Dalbello.
Canada rocks. And I love it!
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The Canadian music scene is probably as good as it has ever been. I was pleasantly surprised when I
moved here. These are some great artists to check out.
Finger Eleven
Yukon Blonde
Theory of a Deadman
Half Moon Run
Ghostly Kisses
Huis
Adaline
Rhye
Great Lake Swimmers
Kathleen Edwards
Monkey House
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Performing live with your head into a tv. And work with exploding head gear. Frank Soda sure knew how to draw attention to himself. 
Still, I always thought this was an excellent live album.
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That’s a fantastic story. I was slightly too young in the late 70s to appreciate it then, but I had (have) older brothers. Seeing the likes of Max Webster, Goddo and The Imps reminds me of looking through their record collections when I was young and amazed by some of those crazy covers. They actually had the Max Webster and The Imps records you posted.
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Thanks for the thoughtful reply! my experience as a youth first getting into music sounds remarkably similar to yours.
Finding Goddo was entirely different though, as they played regularly in my area.
One of my best childhood friends had a good looking older sister with questionable morals, walking back to his place one late night we spotted a transport truck and bus parked in front of the house…the band was playing a basement gig before moving on to the next town. 
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My favourite Canadian band…
Was hoping to see them live again this autumn, but now postponed by 12mths
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The Fugitives live
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Another favourite
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Who started this thread @GKern. 
I love Canadian music!
Without going over the oldies that we all know about; it was roughly the mid 90’s I really liked Hayden & about the same time Eric’s Trip. Because of Eric’s Trip, I really like Julie Doiron (Julie D to me)
Fast forward a bit, I started getting into most things Constellation Records - everything from Godspeed, Thee Silver Mt. Zion & Fly Fan Am to Sandro Perri.
Then there’s The New Pornographers (as said above somewhere), Great Lake Swimmers, Jim Guthrie, Destroyer…
Just to name a few off the top of my head.
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While we are still on the topic of late 70s hard rock, here is Saskatchewan’s finest:
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There are many great classical artists - Marie-Claire Alain is one of the great organists and Bach performers.
https://i.imgur.com/jYOIGbA.png
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Can’t say I know much about 70’s hard rock - essentially not my thing (Canadian or otherwise), unless of course, we are to include the Aussie band affectionately known as AccaDacca. 
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Sorry, it wasn’t directed at you. I was responding to some other comments upthread.
Eric’s Trip is a great call. That reminds me of some other names from the 90s Halifax scene (Canada’s Seattle).
Thanks again for the recommendation last night! I really enjoyed it.
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