April Wine Myles Goodwyn Story of (2023)

“Rock N’ Roll is a Vicious Game: The Story of April Wine”. “This is the most complete and thorough documentation of April Wine and Myles Goodwyn there is.” Jim Henman (Co-founding member of April Wine)

“This documentary began production in February of this year with the intent to present it to Myles, his family and all the members of April Wine past and present, as a Christmas gift. Now I present it to everyone… Merry Christmas! Rest in Peace Myles.” Steeve Hennessy (Director)

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April Wine Interviews and content available on YouTube:

“Myles Goodwyn – April Wine Interview (2014)”
See the full interview with Jason Saulnier on “Jason Saulnier”

“April Wine – David Henman Interview”
See the full interview with Jason Saulnier on “Jason Saulnier”

“April Wine – Brian Greenway Interview”
See the full interview with Jason Saulnier on “Jason Saulnier”

“Myles Goodwyn (RIP) Lost Interview, In Studio 1988”
See the full interview with Steve Burges and John Beaudin on “Rock History Canada”

“INTERVIEW #4 Jim Henman’s Honest Thoughts On April Wine’s First Album”
See the full interview with John Beaudin on “Rock History Canada”

“April Wine Co Founder Jim Henman Has No Regrets On Leaving Band”
See the full interview with John Beaudin on “Rock History Music”

“Reunited Band Teaze Give Props to Myles Goodwyn”
See the full interview with John Beaudin on “Rock History Canada”

“Myles Goodwyn Bringing it Home”
See the full interview with Sheldon MacLeod on “SaltWire”

“Myles Goodwyn – April Wine”
See the full interview with Kelly Barrett on “Kelly Barrett”

“Brian Greenway April Wine on Etcetera Live!”
See the full interview with Kelly Barrett on “Kelly Barrett”

“Pam Marsh”
Full interview with Sean McKenna and Dave McPherson on “Barstools and Bandtalk / Rimshots”

“Jerry Mercer April Wine 2000 Interview”
See the full interview with Gary B on “Gary B”

“April Wine Brian Greenway Interview”
See the full interview with Gary B on “Gary B”

“Shaping Your Journey with special guest: Jerry Mercer”
See the full interview with Aldo Mazza on “Aldo Mazza”

“April Wine Brian Greenway Interview”
See the full interview on “The Metal Voice”

“Canada’s Rock of Fame – April Wine Induction”
See the full segment with Terry David Mulligan on “Canada’s Walk of Fame”

“Ep 26: Myles Goodwyn – Full Episode”
See the full interview with Mick Dalla-Vee on “SocialNRG Presents”

“April Wine Co-Founder Jim Henman”
See the full interview with Terry Parker on “BUZZ Moncton”

“Myles Goodwyn of April Wine talks about the Rolling Stones”
See the full interview on “uDiscovermusic Canada”

“April Wine – Live in London (1981) [Full DVD]”
See the full concert on “UnidiscMusic”

“April Wine – Myles Goodwyn interview”
See the full video on “Mark Stamcoff”

“The 2023 East Coast Music Awards | Rogers Tv”
See the full show on “Rogers TV”

“Myles Goodwyn gives his farewell speech at his last show with April Wine”
Recorded by Matt Mansfield on “Matt Mansfield”

“Myles Goodwyn – You Won’t Dance With Me”
Recorded by Harry Jamm on “Harry Jamm”

“Myles Goodwyn returns to Waverley Nova Scotia “You Won’t Dance With Me”
Recorded by Brian G Burnett on “Brian G Burnett”

“Brian Greenway’s Blues Bus 2019”
Recorded by Luc Grisé on “shookmebaby”

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He missing you the way I do missing you the way I do wishing you were here wish I could be with You maybe I should call you I don’t know all there something you should see that Show uh yeah okay semi retirement I’m just not interested in touring anymore and it really is about April and the music and people like our songs and they want to hear those songs and the fans too they want to hear more music it really is about April one and the music

So find somebody else that would do that instead of me I’ve been on the road for 50 years I was on the road before April Wine got together and I still be involved in other aspects but no more touring I grew up listening to the music of April Wine as a young adult and I had the privilege of working for them and now tonight I am honored to be a part of inducting them into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame over the last 40 years they’ve recorded 16 Studio albums and

Given us some of the most memorable guitar riffs this country has ever heard please welcome miles Goodwin and Brian Greenway April Wine I’d like to thank Carris for this fantastic Honor on behalf of April Wine members past and present and they Are [Applause] [Applause] Oh [Applause] [Applause] so basically I just let the band know that I’m not interested in touring anymore so we’re looking for someone to replace me April Wine audition 2 roller take 75y R all it won’t be easy but you know it will happen you know there’s so many classic rock bands that have had yourplay singers drummers guitar players for all the obvious reasons you know uh some don’t want to tour anymore some can’t you we’ll find somebody nobody

Really wanted the band to end because I didn’t want to tour including me I didn’t want to stop what I love to do and that’s write record and to sing and to play guitar I like all those things I’m just tired of traveling worn out if

That means then if I don’t try I don’t do anything I think that’s a bit drastic I know that’s not what the other guys in the band want or the other people that work at this thing called April Wine full-time it’s a job it’s a full-time

Job for not only band members but crew members and other people that are associated through agencies there’s a lot going on and I want to continue doing everything but touring so it really is about April and the music [Applause] miles and his friend Jim Henman started

It all in a basement in the Halifax suburb of Waverly miles and I had played in a band during high school called Woody termites when I in 1966 I was a young teenager with Jim and Woody termites we were a cover band that’s what we did we did cover

Songs so we were playing the best songs out there through about 3 years playing Sam and Dave know some pick James Brown The American rock and roll I suspect that really influenced the craft of writing tunes and I had the opportunity to write songs it is a song that I wrote in about

1966 or seven it’s very juvenile but I was a young teenager it was like this and you down to me and you w hold hands with Me and that’s not the way to be girl you’re treating me B in 1956 when I was very young Elvis I was there in front of a black and white TV I watched Elvis on that c i was mesmerized you know country music influenced me at first and then when my mother died in 1959 when I was 11 and I

Had already been very attracted to music as a very young fellow I turned to music big time that was my place that’s where I went and then the British Invasion then I loved everything British everything from Dave Clark 5 the Rolling Stones to the beetle to everybody else I

Was subjected to everybody I was like a sponge and then of course things started getting heavy getting into Zeppelin and then in high school in a school band cover band called Woody’s termites with Doug Grace Jim of course on bass guitar Dave dodworth on drums Greg Steven on keyboard [Applause] And and that’s not the way to be girl yeah treating me B in the late 60s the group I’d been with went through a transformation into rock and roll and we formed Mash pan I left home to be a professional musician in ‘ 67 in ‘ 68 I was with a band called Eastgate Sanctuary down in Cape Britain miles Goodwin in a band

Together we were called the Eastgate Sanctuary we played for years or so and then in 1969 he quit the band now how long’s the band been together uh 1969 started that band in 1969 in Nova Scotia I talked my cousins in into starting this band and they said well

We’ll do it if you go get miles and I said okay so I went down and spent some time with Miles told him what we wanted to do we wanted to write all original songs and get out of no scholarship because there wasn’t that much of a future here about

A man who left fromwhere to be and every day has to pay so my cousin David he knew more than we did about the business side at that point kind of ran the show in a business sense of that he did a lot of that work

The very early days we spent the first four months of our existence were in Nova Scotia and then we moved to Montreal April Wine hit the road and there was no looking Back we spent a lot of time with mash mccan we did a lot of shows with them and we became friends with those guys now Mash mam was a very original and unique Attraction then 1970 April Wine came up to Montreal and mash ban took April Wine on the road and that’s where I met miles and the boys and I was in mashan from 1972 until 1974 and L was in that b in 1975 this started with a band called

Cheek in 1968 and Steve Lang was the bass player in that band i’ had gone to high school with him and so they got me in the band and then CH broke up and mash bcan had broken up too in 72 so Pierre senal grabbed me Lauren nering

And Steve Lank to join the second edition of mash McAn so this was the second band now that I was in with Steve Lang and with mash mccan we had toured with April Wine so I got to know them and that lasted until 73 in 75 Steve

Joined April Wine and I joined in 77 so Steve sort of preceded every band that I eventually joined from ‘ 68 until I joined in’ 77 so those were my lucky breaks and he was my lucky star I Guess gig by gig they built a huge loyal following I saw the being loved them just thought they were great they were signed to Aquarius records April 171 Brothers David and Richie Henman their cousin Jim Henman and myself the first album was called April 1 came out in

71 when the only song that did anything off that album was called Fast [Applause] train her first single was fast train in 1971 which was Top 40 in Canada doing the first album I see four separate guys just learning to write and play together we were all working our own independent music and things I don’t see a unit on that album uh because we weren’t at that point I only after moner control of the band that is started to

Become a [Applause] Unit I was a victim of some negative aspects of it so I left the band I left the business and came back here to Nova Scotia and went to work in a medical laboratory but on the side I was always writing and recording and kind of had it

In my back of my mind that when I left 9 to5 Jo that I would get back into music so a Bas player singer picked up and left on us and he was replaced by Jimmy Clinch The second album produced drop your guns guns yeah David Henman wrot drop your guns drop your guns was the only song that I wrote that was a hit I wrote other songs with three of them I think but they weren’t as commercially viable drop your guns so drop your guns and

Song called teacher the B side could have been lady were two songs that I Wrote I think it was on record about that time we started leaving Montreal area and going across the country so Donald K Donald the promoter who was representing us and he was part of the management team at the same time Terry fled management he says let’s go across

The country let’s go to these small towns let’s do this this tour it’s never been done like this let’s do it and we’re going yeah let’s do this we went right from high school to to trying across Canada doing that kind of Thing you could have been a lady all tonight sweet as wine a lady that all right that here tonight that sweet as Wine Lady and so he could have been a lady I didn’t write that songs I wrote fast right but I didn’t write could have been a lady a hot chocolate song that was Name could have been all right could have tonight could so you could have been a lady and bad side of the mo I didn’t write those seems as though I’ve lived my life on the back side of the moon stir your drags and sick still without a r

Stone common people live with me where the light of the night a sh and the hermit FL like a Hing speaking upon T the lock world away on the people who make me S on the back side of the moon David and Richie Henman Jim clench and myself lasted to the middle of

Electric Jewels Richie left the band so I got a hold Jerry Mercy from mash mccan and I said I need a drummer for April Wine you know to go where I want to go and when David left the band I brought in Gary Moffett who we had known from a

Band called Pops marily from Montreal and he’s a student of the American song book so there’s solos on APR wine records that are just absolutely outstanding and the best of them are Gary Moffett not that Brian Greenway and myself didn’t play decent solos but Gary’s were spectacular so my brother

And I played on the third album electric Jewels but I don’t know exactly which tracks we’re on and which tracks we aren’t on there was two songs of mine that were scheduled to be on that album that were pulled because I was no longer going to be in the band and when my

Brother Richie left Jerry Mercer the drummer for Mash McAn was the guy that replaced him I found out that Miles and Jimmy had been trying to reach me myself and Gary Moffett about hooking up with the band at first myself and Gary were busy learning Richie and David’s Parts

The Henman brother Parts you know so we were copying everything and playing that in 1973 I had a meeting with miles to join the band when the Henman left but Gary Mett got the job instead so my bu and I left April lne and we in the band

Called the dudes with Brian Greenway we had an album on Columia I joined April L they were in the middle of recording they had some songs already recorded by the original group and then myself Jimmy clinch and Gary mof finished the album with Miles Goodwin the electric jeels came out that’s when I went oh wow that’s when I

Knew that they had into something they had the right combination musicians in the band because of course they transition to Gary Mercy rson Gary Mar that album had really nice St don’t know why you make a [Applause] the we have the in the [Applause] Sky back R anything to tease you and ra the world to save anything to pleas you now all night long We Roll Along we ate it B is I know down well we’re going to hell pay the price in Heaven electric Jews was a great period we were still kids and we were still having fun and because with poor management and everything else there’s a lot of frustration electric Jewels we were breaking up while we’re making it so you get songs like electric Jewels it’s time to

Choose no one has to lose when it could be right maybe there Some so by the time we got into electric Jewels we’re developing our own personalities we’re starting to come into music and the first complete song that I recorded with the band was the band has just begun [Applause] Look coming go I feel like I can’t go without love long only too long Jee corners and Dino denelli on the rasal wanted to work with April WI so they recorded an album called April Wine live we recorded at a high school in Helifax that was our very first live [Applause] Album I’m on fire for you baby and I’m on fire for I didn’t write that song that song was for signing with a record label Doug Morris was the president of that label and we were in the studio and Doug said I want a

Hawaiian guitar S I said hang on a sec I went out and G was in the live room and I said g bring a slide with you he wants Hawaiian guitar and said sure and he did it so that’s what the solo is Gary doing these slide things as the president of

The record label Hawaiian guitar would sound good on the Record and so je and Dino said let’s do a studio standby the monster Out song was written by Jim clench he wrote the song and we was in a recording studio we wanted a way to start the song and there was a firebell in the hallway we took it off the wall took it into the studio mike it up recorded it talk about Earin everything will be right come come love me tonight and now be old still the Sun comes [Applause] [Applause] Out you can call me a punk I like to scrap when I’m drunk and I’m likely to C the scene I got no kind of la like a set in the back and cl the do between the covers of SE hey man don’t push me around man up and

Around je Ando said write us a couple of songs and come on down to New York so I wrote tonight’s a wonderful night I wouldn’t want to lose your love and we recorded those two songs in new Yorky let our love goong see I wrote down on piano I don’t write too much with piano the thing is I bought a piano after hearing Elton John Elton John came unchanged every you a lot of people’s lives in mine so I wrote wouldn’t want

To lose your love which was H Canada I wouldn’t to lose your love want to lose your love I couldn’t stand the pain we know it Dr me insane darling I need you love she said tonight is a wonderful time you fall in love oh yeah tonight is a wonderful [Applause]

Time in 1975 from mashan Steve langing joined April wi as a bass player so now I’m leaving [Applause] Jimmy clinch yeah we had some conflict of interest and we were both young and we didn’t seem to be room for the two of us at that point it’s so dumb to think

About it now as the band started to get more and more airplan they began to grow in stature and now we moved into the Arenas and a tour was playing arenas from one end of the country to the other end of the Country it’s all right that’s just all right I you wonder what to do BBE i’ been Away even show maybe I should go there nothing that you want to say just keeping eyes baby what your price cuz it looks so I have to pay but something clean on this machine but you never let it in the way give me love I need love it give me love give me

Love give me love give me love oh yeah give me Cuz you’re so make Me and yes [Applause] I We’re also the first Canadian group to ever ship Platinum April Wine made Aquarius R there’s no ifs there’s no as there’s no Butts Be some you can be More you can Be you can be more you Are maybe I should go outside maybe I should go outside I hear the weather’s warm no need to stay inside maybe I’ll forget this morning’s news it means as much to me as it does to you the wings the love Carri you Away the door of f is closed the Angels [Applause] Said I don’t want to talk about that anymore and now it’s ended broken hearted and as anyone can see there was no way we Agree we can get there to try and I want to live if I to die if I die if I have to die as the band started to get more and more airplan we were selling 300 to 700,000 albums those are staggering numbers by today’s standard much later

In April Wine I was scaming around for songs for a new record here is a song that I wrote in Woody’s termites in about 1966 or seven and it was actually was supposed to be my solo record that’s why it’s so different for a wi song go like this dance with

Me and you will hold hands with me and that’s not the way to be girl you’re treating me bad and I had a second song song called why that I tagged onto the first song so why [Applause] when you my [Applause] love Gary MF guitar Soul if you listen

To Mama the Solo in that she’s the wish never Never away no no no she never [Applause] Fall here’s one of the most exciting evenings in my life I would say yes this is a treat for the people here at one of the most closely guarded secrets probably in the history of recorded music The Rolling Stones are in fact here at the El mabo performing for a

Very small select audience 300 people are participant in a live album which is being recorded tonight in 1977 when the Rolling Stones wanted to make an unannounced appearance in a Toronto nightclub jam-packed with music fans April wine sold out the house the first night it was a good

Secret for while it lasted they know that we can sell the venue out we’re going to be like a smoke screen so it’s an April one show but then hey look be a surprise for everybody side three is all the Elma combo which is pulled from just

Two nights that we did in Toronto at that 300 seat Club please welcome to the Elbow combo Toronto [Applause] Canada For Montreal welcome April 1 when I think back I mean there’s not much to say about that because really it was all about the stones and don’t get in the way of anything cuz this is big this is the biggest thing in Canada anywhere at the moment so it was all

About recording the stones so while he’s literally rolling tape may as well do April Wine my management we worked at a deal and uh I enjoyed that experience a Lot a night everything will be all right I’m love me [Applause] Tonight in 1977 when Brian Greenway joined us we broke out of Canada we got to go around the world a bit and sell more records yeah it’s 1977 I was in April Wine for 3 months during the summer tour to see how I fit in I played

A little keyboards and I sang and I wrote a bit so I fit the bill of what they’re looking for they have an album with two or three singles in Canada a gold platinum album in’ 76 a certified double platinum album in this country and nothing in the states and nothing in

Europe was very frustrating and people started to believe that we can’t be that good but all of a sudden we got a new record deal we took a deep breath we brought everything into Focus we said let’s go with pure rock and roll let’s right what people want to [Applause] Hear why do you think it happens so quickly well I guess we were a new we were a new group which helped a lot but we were seasoned you know so we had a lot of our stuff together and although people thought we were new on the scene we had

Been around and so we had our thing pretty much worked out and we could contend with almost any situation from headlining to uh to being third or whatever with this much space on stage or the whole stage we could handle it because for 10 years up here before I

Found a par I’m alone water I was gone here come them on my way yeah on the heels of Love Yeah after the Great Canadian success that the band enjoyed for so long without International success do you think you weren’t ready until now or do you think you’ve been ready for quite a while I think one of the big things was first glance which is the album that

Really started happening uh that was the first album that really focused on the direct direction that April one has taken since then it was no longer a band that of many styles it was a band that concentrated on rock and and that turned it around for us ice thing about rock

And roll right now and about having a good time and feeling good and putting out energy and receiving energy back that’s what I’m doing right [Applause] Now Isn’t it a pity isn’t it a shame no one ever wary rock and roll is a vicious Game I think one of the things especially with the American Market is that we are a band that has a lot of experience but because everything is so new for us in America we also have a lot of freshness it’s sort of like a a marriage between those two things which

Is not really common Ben’s been around a long time won’t really have the freshness but we were down there putting out but with a lot of experience enthusiastic and and I think it definitely helped a lot when I joined with the first glance album in 78 we’re

Hoping we get some push in the St and all of a sudden that little station in Michigan started playing roller and boom roller really didn’t get going until the band started playing down there and then everything sort of naturally developed from people being excited and seeing the [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] Band roer was based on a fictional character that like to gamble and I wrote that after my first time to Las Vegas she CRA hear what they say yeah telling all the boys to get rid cuz giving it all away that excitement propelled the single roller into the US top 30 and the

Album first class was certified Gold what makes April one special and Different I find it hard to uh really put a finger on that being on the inside because we we invariably never see ourselves the way other people do apart from the writing I think the live show has a lot to do with it you know a lot

Of groups are great recording groups but they don’t have a good live show or vice versa can be true and it doesn’t always work for them there uh when you got that balance it’s uh it works well but in terms of actual characteristic I really can’t see specifically what it is the combination

Of Things come on in it’s good to see you again now how been you know I’m not in no hurry and you’re not wasting my time now to get ready get ready to love oh my swe Oo brows is really good for us he took a lot of our songs and okay that part’s got to go arranging he helped immensely in that way and that has sort of overlooked sometimes besides of the actual Production a million years ago when I was very very young I was a drummer back then and so when I write I’m always conscious of tempo and time and groes and things like that the beat in that song is very unusual I took it to Jerry and he said that’s really Different say [Applause] Hello say hello say hello Say how did the name April L come about I think they were sitting around a Tavern one day and decided it would be a name that would really nail them down to any style of music or anything like that it was a name they just like the sound

Of I wasn’t around at the time that was the first April Wine miles maybe you can f Us in well David was buying so I remember and he came up with a name and you can’t argue with a guy that’s buying last night what SE So Cool J Queen the town around as I am The production on stage uh our sound man everybody is uh is working 100% there’s no weak links in the chain Lor Lor light sunshine in the night making everything worthwhile you know I need you love pretty lady help me now but do you love me I’ve got to know I’ve got to know

Now right something’s got you going tonight doing all she comes all right come on can’t you see and when we all out go we get higher Ro Brew with tours alongside scks Journey rush and Nazareth this led to International stardom particularly in the UK playing the very first Monsters

Of Rock Festival in Castle Donington 1980 and the next year headlin the legendary Hammer Smith Odon in London I always thought April Wine was just a stellar incredible rock band [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] I’m Jerry Mercer Jerry has a very good ear musically like we did version of 21st century skitso man a guitar version of a song that belonged to King Crimson and I had always wanted to do it since I got T of the Crimson King by them and

The song was there and I said I really want to do this one day so years go by and then I said okay but it was Mercer some of the really complicated stuff that’s Incubated and Jerry worked it on in the piano the studio cuz we were going like what you doing there anyway you know and it was Jer he has a good ear so he would sit down and figure no this is it here there okay there’s the Harmony on

Another song he he he was good that way that came from his church up then in 198 for nature of the Beast we went to England to do it at the Manor Studios just outside Oxford England I always look forward to getting off the road because I could record some more songs

Me it’s very exciting I know work with a B Le Guitarist know it’s all over to I said you walk out of Myck know the’s going it were the first Canadian band on MTV and with nature of the Beast selling over a million albums equa wine were at the top of their Game get my sadd and TI on Western Window is fast and strong jump back is good and long we’ll resist till we reach the go running seems like the best defense staying just don’t make any sense no one could ever stop it now show the cards of the Gypsy Town of the Gypsy Queen your leave word of a woman know take you for more than a decade there songs were on every radio station in North America well as you can all see we’ progressed and they’ve now put a roof over our [Applause] head boom like it was Nothing just between you and me baby I know I love World be just between you and [Applause] Me they call it the with a good somebody’s going to take a life just trying to have some fun the neighbor’s going to say we’re crey no matter what they say you know I’m going to rock on got to rock on night day if you want to try it bur Crash and

Burn Crash and Burn Crash and Burn in 1980 I just returned home from England from recording the nature of the Beast and I got a call from a French group called Offenbach they were just unique they had their own Blues gutsy Rock feel they’re desperate their drummer had gotten sick in the hospital

And they don’t have a drummer and then I was on drums and we pulled it off as a matter of fact John found the recording and released it for drum Jerry Mercer the new album is power play I’m to andat I said I’m ready to go a never going to stop you can’t just be the big girl can never get enough of that Oo anything you want you got it you know that I can’t going to mess around and I’ll never put you down so if you want yeah tell me why you cry and why you li to me tell me why you cry baby tell me why you C with four gold and seven

Platinum albums April Wine toured the world they produced a string of hits which became instantly recognizable Rock anthems everybody got and finally had to make and no one could believe it and he still doesn’t know until you fill me up until I had enough could you fill me

Up can’t you see that you’re my girl and enough is Enough animal Grace there’s a lot of frustration we were breaking up while we’re making Well miles walked out of the studio at one point so Donald went to Miles and convinced him that he should come Back waiting for this could be the right one this could be the right one you can be this be the right this be the one way you are the world there is no doubt you ate it up spit it up you want the fall you made it

Clear you can take it we are the S we are ofday Let I was done with it and I left April so yeah that was it April Wine what was left of us without miles became men without work we broke up in 1984 is the sky really Falling or does it just seem that way where’s my re for living have they all slipped away it’s coming right down on top of me [Applause] I’m getting so I can’t hardly breae it’s coming right down on top of me just let Me you know skap rewine had a real hard time at the end you know it was not pleasant we did this tour called one for the road it was the last thing we had to do and voided that was the hardest thing I think I’ve ever done then for them too

We did not get along we did not talk to each other but we had to go on stage every night and play it was very very difficult so finally we just couldn’t agree on anything at any time so I said you know I’m out of here and it was over

That was it boom the contract was done I went back to Nassau I really had to get out of Montreal I had to get out of Canada I get a phone call remember miles we need one more album a contractual album AER wine I they had to have one

More album there was no more April Wine we’d broken up so I said okay brought into some guys from Montreal we didn’t April Wine album without April Wine but it was not April Wine it was Marty Simon on drums and Jean pel on bass Daniel Barb on keyboards my cell phone guitar

Recorded it at Nasa at the compass point Studios I tried to make it sort of sound like an April L album without the group wrote some songs I asked Brian to come down and I recorded the last April one studio in the Bahamas Every I myself every night IEP every night I myself thinking about you thinking about you every I remember me s since we’ve been together the love is Remember Me Love is remember it’s been so long seemingly forever but love is remember Love When April Wine broke up in 1984 Jerry Mercer played in a band called The Buzz band with B Lau from a band called Offenbach the buzz band is brand new but the players in it have been playing great rock and roll for years John Migel and Breen Leu spent eight years with the

Late great kqu blues band Offenbach drummer Jerry Mercer was the driving force behind some Montreal Legends triangle Mash McAn April 1 it’s kind of exciting from that I don’t feel like oh CP I’ve got to do this all over again it’s not my attitude at all it’s like

Hey this great you you can almost compare it to putting together a new song you know you’re excited about it you see the potential you see the possibilities and the April Wine and the offen back fans that came every manand that could uh go play in the Forum and

Then go play in the metro to catch the people on blues went F [Applause] Around it was a fun Project [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] so I was done with it and I left a and I want to do solo album He’s from a small town but had to get away he took the boss North all the way to South La you can’t fight it if you can’t see it you can identify in the day to continue I still had a full glass April Wine reassembled in 1992 your love will be safe with me whatever you need from me know that I’ll be here for you the joy of it’s only a breath away if you believe me where I believe in you tonight is a wonderful time to fall in love oh yeah tonight is a wonderful time to

Fall so back to the mansion Steve seagull didn’t want to come back so we went down to four piece for the first time since I had joined the band in’ 77 and I change to do the Good I got to get away from sound I got to rock it brings me down how about you baby how about you I won’t go there no more I won go back no more i w I won’t go that I won’t that I won I won’t be And the latest edition April Wine and we’re very proud to have him in the band all right Breen La Breen is a very big Quebec star from a French band called offenback and he’s toured played with Alexis sindon and a lot of other large french stars in this

Province he’s very well known here and green actually played with Jerry Mercer Bing back in a band called The Buzz Band o what a night everything will be all right come going up in the night and out the your Till The Sun Comes Again yeah the Soulful caring is something I put together together to collect shoes to distribute the people that are homeless and I started this with Dr Van dice so we started collecting shoes right across the country and worked with some good people including Value Village and we generally

Collect about 5,000 pairs of shoes and boots and distribute them to shelters so across the Country when I wrote my Memoir I wrote it for my family and the fans and it was wonderful to have Brian Greenway to back me up because people had no idea why these changes were happening why people came and went and the rumors and the folklore where was Jim emman after one

Album where did David and Richie go and all that kind of stuff it was like so wrong so I said the purpose of this book is to just to make things understood properly and that’s why I wrote It you don’t write everything you know you don’t write everything that you could but I wrote what I thought was of Interest I mean I’d say at the beginning of the book that I wrote this from my children I have grandchildren and children and I wanted my family to know

What I’ve been through because I was never around I was always on the road I missed a lot and I was divorced twice so writing about those kind of things very very hard but anyway I wrote it for my family and the fans I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention

Martin Mish that helped me with this book thank you Marty for everything you did in my book so going back eight nine years now we auditioned people to replace me and nobody was happy and so I said I’ll stay in in a band but under one condition we cut our shows down to

30 a year that’s it I spent all of my life with April Wine I’ve had no time for anything else and I’m going to make a little [Applause] Time so I did I wrote two books one of them was a bestseller I recorded two Blues albums wrote them and recorded and produced them the first one miles Goodwin and Friends of the Blues came out in 2018 and then miles good and Friends of the

Blues 2o which came out a year later and I wrote everything all the songs are mine except two out of two albums so and then I just contacted all these blues players across the country and some in the US and I said I wrot some blues

Songs and would you play on my blues record and they responded positively so I got a lot of great players on those two records miles good and Friends of the Blues and Miles good and Friends of the Blues 2 I’ve liked the blues but I don’t like everything Blues here we go

Back to the songwriting to me a great Blu song is a great song Like The Thrill Is Gone by BB King I just like really good songs so my big influence in the Blues was a fell named Tash Mahal and I have one of his albums called Natural

Blues and I just love the songs and the man is a brilliant singer and a brilliant writer and performer and player he’s got all of those things and I put together a little five piece BL band with Gary m call the Blue and I’ve got my project long pants and it’s so not Pap wine is SOA Blues this is just me as an artistic person I do things that you know are connected somehow obviously my memo was connected to Everything I did musically and long pants I the cover which I’ve just

Designed is one of my paintings as the basis the main part of the cover this is something I’ve been working on for 42 years it’s a personal album it’s a very mature album I have happy songs and sad songs I have songs about living I have

Songs about dying so SS for every one of my children song my partner I have a drinking songs it covers all kinds of things and it covers a couple of very serious issues with indigenous people in Canada and it’s called some of these children they never grew up and this is

About the unmarked Graves indigenous children that have been discovered in recent times and this is a song that was written by Jim Henman and I and maybe the children can show us a way out of the sac ground they’re crying Today we stole their dreams and there at a tongue they’re telling all of us what you and I have a song about the missing and murdered indigenous women in this country and that’s called darling where are you slowly the sun falls from the sky though darkness comes it could never

Hide all the faces and the names of the families and the pain that they Ure the uncertainty weighs heavy on their hearts while the grief is teing them apart and their voices echo in the night darling where are You where are You and both of these songs I wrote Because my life partner Kim is native she’s sue a cab and her children are native an extension of my family so what affects them affects me so that’s why I respond to these they up this is how I respond to anything in all

Of my life I’ve never really wanted to get into politics and religion I just leave them alone so I stay away from it but I write songs what I identify with these two cases I had I felt I one had something to say well miles would write

The songs on his own and he’d bring in ideas and we would learn them and add our own parts and it would develop that way for like an example like roller he came in with the lick and the cords and then we develop how the arrangement is

Going to be most songwriters that are prolific we you know we have different ways all always hear something musically that that kind of get get grabs your imagination leads you down a path and you follow it I’ll have lyrics in the beginning with A Melody and then I’ll

Finish the lyrics later once I have the whole format together I’ll tweak the massage the lyrics and music together and I’ll try things in the studios you know and eventually come up with something I’m happy with but the whole process starts typically with me wrapped around an acoustic guitar

Uh yeah just trying to write from the heart you know whatever the direction might be or the project might be just do the best I can and you if I like it maybe other people will I write songs what I identify with and often the lyrics mean something my daughter a song

About her the night she was born it came home from the hospital I went into my studio at home and and I wrote a song called Forever Amber and then I went to bed 42 years later I finally got to record it and folks not one note not one

Word has changed since the time I sat down and wrote it because I nailed it was one of those things that was very pure I’ve had songs that come quickly though just between me came very very quickly but not like this nothing in my experience ever came like first time

Done and I mean some of the stuff that I write for April Wine are just flat out rock and roll songs period and don’t mean much except you know they sound good and they got a good feel yeah so that album long pants I’ve been working

On it since 1942 I me for 42 years Jim Henman Jim and I have known each other since 1963 we started April lne together and we still perform in my Trio it’s called miles good Trio hi everybody I’m miles Goodwin I’d like to tell you about my acoustic show it’s called just between

You and me it features Jim Henman on guitar and vocals and Bruce Dixon on bass guitar and Vocals good have been all right could have been here tonight could have been sweet as WI Jim and I played in a high school band back in the 60s called Woody termites it was during this time that I wrote a song that would become a hit for April Wine that song was you won’t dance with me when you won’t dance with me and you won’t hold hands with

Me Jim and I started April Wine in 1969 the first first single from our debut album is called fast train it’s a fast train it’s a fast train yes it is she said tonight just between you and me is a musical Journey that covers 50 years

It’s a lot of fun we have stories and antidotes and of course lots of great music let’s do it and take me high take me high say hello say Alo say Alo sign of the gy queen back your things leave just between you and me always I know I love with will

Be just between you just between you and then Ukraine watching what was going on in Ukraine and I wrote this song and I put it up I don’t know about you I don’t know about you it’s so tragic My Heart Is breing is true fory you C thank

You okay let me read this please I’d like to thank Harris for this fantastic Honor on behalf of April Wine members past and present and they are David Henman Jim Henman Rich hman Jim clench Jerry Mercer G mopet Steve Lang Steve sigle Breen labou and Blair McKai and my buddy behind me Brian

Greenway and yours truly miles Goodwin thank [Applause] you also a warm thanks to George Elms to Feldman and Associates Graham Bishop sumowski who’s no longer with us to radio that has been so generous for all these years to Dean Cameron to Emi to soan to Terry flood to Donald

Tarlton and of course for the fans for their love their respect and their unwavering support God bless you thank You when some future Rock historian places April Wine in the history of rock and roll what would you like him to say about miles goodn and April Wine they did good music I don’t I mean there’s no way I’m going to be a mcj or Paul

Mccarton but just to be a good solid musician a good solid person making good solid albums and just to be respected and not to be uh forgotten how many more years would you like to do rock and roll I can’t imagine um anything less than five or anything

More than 10 you know uh somewhere around there I guess but music forever and Ever wo wo W yeah rock and [Applause] Roll welcome my dear friend PA original member of April War Jim Hond come on now [Applause] Jim yeah it’s been a long road and so finally I’m 75 in 4 months and so I I think I think I want to have to hang my guitar I just wanted to say thank you a

Lot of guys in the band back over the years and it was a pleasure working with you it was a pleasure if you can never do this alone it’s teamwork always you know and uh as they say Brian’s been there for all that all that while and what wonderful uh man he

Is and and a friend and as much as you supported April one with me in the band I would like you to get behind Brian and L and Richard as April wine goes forward and we have a wonderful fell trip be standing where I am his name is m Carl

And Let Me Tell You Folks this man can sing and he can play I can’t wait for you to here thank you for all these I love you all I live in Nova Scotia now April Wine started here I grew up in Nova scoia I’m

Back here and I’m now again part of the local music Community Matt manglewood has been around for years I’ve known Matt since the 70s and now we’re buddies I really really enjoy the community down here there’s so many great players in NOA scotians it’s like crazy how many

Great players that are down here so I’m becoming part of that community and and it’s wonderful in Quebec I didn’t have that at all I didn’t really know anybody in Quebec it’s a very different place and I was I was isolated okay singer guitarist songwriter author you’ve done it all how

Do you feel about being here tonight well I’m thrilled this award is really special to me I mean um I wanted it for a long time I 50 plus years is about writing songs uh April one had a hit in 1971 with a song I wrote in high school

So it feels like it’s been a long time coming ladies and gentlemen latest induct team to the Canadian songwriters Hall of Fame miles Goodwin come on up here [Applause] [Applause] Miles thank you [Applause] hello hello hello thank to be here hello [Applause] everyone this is an honor to be here tonight and I am thrilled to get this award uh firstly I’d like to thank April Wine yeah and thanks to radio especially Canadian radio for the support all these

Years a shout out to fans hello I love [Applause] you thank you to the ecma for their involvement here tonight a very special thanks to the Canadian songwriters Hall of Fame for the recognition and this beautiful award thank you thank you thank you and welcome to the [Applause] Concert April Wine is known for in fous Melodies and Timeless hits selling over 10 million albums worldwide I like to rock I like Tock the band’s extensive discography includes over 20 classic hits like bad side of the moon roller i’ like to rock and just between you and me just between you

And they were the first Canadian artists to be played on MTV etching them in the memories of rock enthusiasts worldwide their fifth album stand back achieved Platinum Status in Canada solidifying their status as a national treasure in 2009 April Wine was inducted into the Canadian music industry Hall of Fame and

They received the Juno Lifetime Achievement Award the band was also inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame the following year thank you very much audence good night and here to accept the honor of Canada’s Walk of Fame is Miles Goodwin Jerry Mercer Brian Greenway of April [Applause] Wi they’ve been with you your whole life it’s a long time [Applause] now you guys are famous for being a great live act rightly so you earned that was it a Canadian audience that helped along the way oh yeah I mean we were accepted here well before we were

Outside of uh the borders uh yeah we finally broke through to the rest of the world in 1977 with roller and then it went from there but up until then from 1969 until 1977 we were just a Canadian band and and proud of that too you know fantastic yeah

Yeah and finally I mean how does it feel to be here tonight on this stage with this audience this night know was fantastic just to be with everybody else that’s been inducted I mean I don’t tour anymore I gave it up early this year and the band tours without me and they’re

Killing it they’re absolutely amazing under Brian’s leadership and uh I was just tired of traveling I didn’t want to do it anymore uh but I write and produce and everything for them still you know I still do all those things but I just don’t travel anymore I just wanted to

Say uh April Wine started in 1969 in Nova Scotia and uh the members of the band there the original four guys are in the room and I would like to introduce Jim Henman David Henman and Richie Henman just come up and it’s ready to say come on up guys [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] we got the band back together we have the band back together ladies and gentlemen April [Applause] Wine Maritime Rock Legend miles Goodwin passed away in hospital this morning the group was inducted into the Canadian Walk of Fame just a couple of months ago miles Goodwin was 75 well the last voice I hear be an angel well I leave this world peacefully where the last voice I I hear

Be an angel Lord saying take my hand and walk with Me just between you and [Applause] me yeah W rock and Roll Christmas snow is falling on the ground peace and love are finally coming round children are playing in a Joyful Way everyone is smiling on this holiday bring the bells ring the bells ring the bells ring ring the bells ring the bells ring the bells ring ring the bells ring the bells ring

The bells ring ring the bells it’s Christmas time ring r r ho ho ho mer Christmas Everyone and I have to thank everybody has supported April wi of myself all these years you know I want to be known at the end of my days as a songwriter and that’s that’s the Truth