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About||the comic strip and fictional cowboy|Red Ryder|the diabetic cyclists|Tour de Cure|the Australian band|Red Riders|the Biblical horseman|Four Horsemen of the Apocalypserefimprove|date=August 2008Infobox musical artist | name = Red Rider| image = Tom_Cochrane_%26_Red_Rider.JPG| caption = Tom Cochrane & Red Rider perform in HalifaxRegional Municipality|Halifax August 2007| image_size =| landscape =| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = Toronto , Ontario , Canada | genre = Rock music|Rock | years_active = 1979–1989 2002–present| label = Capitol Records|Capitol , RCA Records|RCA | associated_acts =| website =| current_members = Tom Cochrane Ken Greer Jeff Jones (musician)|Jeff Jones Gary Craig Davide Direnzo Tom Lewis| past_members = Bill Bell John Webster Randall Coryell Rob Baker Peter Boynton Ken"Spider"Sinneave Steve Sexton Randall "Mongo" Stoll Red Rider are a Canadian Rock music|rock band popular in the 1980s. While the band achieved great success in Canada, in the United States|US , the band never had a song in the Top 40 . Although LunaticFringe was #1 for 16 straight weeks on the American Adult-oriented rock|AOR charts in late 1981.
In 1978, Tom Cochrane joined up with Rob Baker on Drum kit|drums , Jeff Jones (musician)|Jeff Jones on bass, Peter Boynton on keyboards and Ken Greer to form Red Rider. They were signed to Capitol Records and released their first album ''Don't Fight It'' in 1980. With the singles "White Hot" and "Don't Fight It", the album quickly reached gold status. Their second album As Far as Siam was released in 1981 and featured the hit " LunaticFringe (song)|Lunatic Fringe " which was used in the 1985 movie Vision Quest and which is now a mainstay on American classic rock radio. The song also saw high rotation on the United States cable network MTV . Boynton was replaced by keyboardist Steve Sexton on Red Rider's third album Neruda , released in 1983. The track "Napoleon Sheds His Skin" would become one of the more popular songs from the album.
For their 1984 album Breaking Curfew , John Webster replaced Sexton on keyboards. The album did not sell as well as Neruda and a dispute with Capitol Records over the future direction of the band resulted in Red Rider being dropped from the record label later in 1984.
The band subsequently signed with RCA . In what became a strong signal regarding the future of the band, they officially became known as Tom Cochrane and Red Rider , and released their self-titled fifth album in 1986 which included Ken Sinnaeve|Ken "Spider" Sinnaeve on bass.
In 1987, Capitol released a compilation CD titled Over 60 Minutes with Red Rider , covering the band's first four albums. Also in 1987 the band who had been nominated 11 times for Juno awards finally was awarded one for group of the year.
In the fall of 1988, the band released their sixth album Victory Day which contained the track "Big League," about the death of a young hockey player. The young man's father approached Cochrane on the day of a concert, mentioning that his son was a big fan of Red Rider's song, "Boy Inside The Man." Cochrane asked the man if his son was going to be attending the concert, and the man responded that his son had recently died in a car accident. http://www.melodicrock.com/interviews/tomcochrane.html MelodicRock.com interview with Tom Cochrane. Accessed September 27, 2008. Another note about "Big League" is that Cochrane and Greer played it at GM place at the start of the 08/09 hockey season to commemorate the passing of Luc Bourdon , a member of the Vancouver Canucks. The song was featured in a segment on CBC Television 's Hockey Night in Canada .
Red Rider's final album, The Symphony Sessions , was released in 1989 and saw the band performing with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra , as Procol Harum had done seventeen years before. Cochrane's solo career was taking off and the band broke up shortly after the album was released.
The three- compact disc|CD box set Ashes to Diamonds , which includes material by both Red Rider and Cochrane as a solo artist, was released in 1993. Professional wrestler Kurt Angle uses an instrumental version of LunaticFringe as his entrance music in TNA Wrestling|TNA . UFC fighter and former Pride Champion Dan "Hendo" Henderson uses LunaticFringe as his intro song.
Cochrane, Greer and Jones reunited in 2002, and have been touring as Tom Cochrane and Red Rider since.
http://www.80sxchange.com/bios/red_rider.html Red Rider biography
http://www.canadianbands.com/Red%20Rider.html Another Red Rider biography
http://www.ken-greer.com/index.htm Official Ken Greer website
External links
http://www.tomcochrane.com Official Tom Cochrane and Red Rider Website - includes full streaming audio and video, bio, etc.
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