Yep, I have to agree that Salute is a great record. I was taken aback by a couple of things when I first heard it. First was the change in Gord's voice. After Shadows just a year before ('82) where his voice was reaching down to the lower registers (14 Karat...She's not the same...Shadows) Salute
seemed to find him having lost a lot of those lower tones. It may have been intentional, but I just thought he had quit smoking or something, anyway, I liked it.
Secondly, Dean Parks unique electric guitar
sound added much to Gord's sound.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Gord stopped drinking around that time, and started to lose weight and get healthier, maybe that's why his voice changed. I remember reading in USA Today when Salute came out that he was disappointed in the sales of DSR and Shadows, and was looking to do more of an upbeat record..paying special attention to a more in-your-face guitar sound and more back beat with the drums. As usual, Warners didn't promote it much.
Gord seems to like releasing albums in the spring..DSR was in March, WFY was in April of
'93, PPT was in May of '98, maybe his next one will be this coming spring...anybody think it will be on Rino,who might actually promote it a bit? Maybe Gord will show up on an American tv show or two!
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