Yes, more Canadiana.🇨🇦 Kudos to Louie for bringing such great tunes to the Besties. This is from their debut album, " Black Noise", which was released by CBC Records but only sold it through mail order. Later released by Visa Records in the US they were given a wider release market and quickly climbed the charts. Such a groovy tune with this progressive rock group and clever title using a phrase from Star Trek. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Louie. 👏👏 Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
It is fun seeing you discover more Canadian talent from the 70's. There was a lot. We were musically spoiled and I am the first to admit it. A lot of us (Canadians) got to see these bands playing at our high school dances and other small venues in their beginnings. Fun times. 🎹🎹🎹 🎸🎸
I have seen, FM band member, 'Nash The Slash' play live in southern Ontario in the early 80's. Amazing performance for a solo act that had one of the loudest amplifier set I was able to survive hearing. Nash did a cover of Jan & Dean's, 'Dead Man's Curve' with a touch of humor worth checking out.
I had the pleasure of seeing this band live in Edmonton around 1979/80. They were the warm up band for Max Webster on the Million Vacations tour. Great stuff. Their Direct To Disc album is amazing.
Another great trio from Canada saw them at my high school and blew the doors off the gym. Also the guitarist doubles as Nash the Slash. At times he would perform in the invisible man bandages with FM great musicians and the mandolin play is great in this song as like RUSH a very tight band great live
Of all the things I never expected to see on youtube, a reaction to Phasors on Stun is up there, lol. I remember hearing this song on local radio when it came out. I even bought the 45. I may still have it somewhere. I loved this song.
Let me guess -- You were a 70's Teen in Toronto just like me. Am I right? Are you familiar with the stories about Nash living upstairs at The Roxy Theatre on Danforth?
@@markmarsh27 not even close. I was 25 and living where I was born in Eureka California. Contemporary Keyboard magazine reviewed the album and I bought it.
@@markmarsh27 Yep, I know the story of Nash at the Roxy. I live 2 subway stops away from there. My cousin went to high school with Nash way back when. Sadly, both are now deceased. I saw Nash perform at The Edge and The Horseshoe many times. He was truly amazing.
Thanks for this, Harri. An almost forgotten song. I'm from Oakville, Ontario, a half-hour drive west of Toronto. You want more excellent, but seemingly forgotten 1970s and '80s Canadian rock/pop bands, check out Saga (On The Loose, Wind Him Up), The Kings (This Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide) and especially Max Webster (the quirky, fast tempo rocker High Class In Borrowed Shoes, Let Go The Line, Hangover, The Party, Diamonds, Diamonds etc.) You should definitely get into the Tragically Hip too, the last great Canadian Rock/pop band.
Believe it or not, the "bass player" you shouted out on this track was one and the same as the keyboard player. Cameron Hawkins did double duty with keyboards and bass pedals..
Thanks Louie for a great request. Harri, until I subscribed to your channel I had no idea there was so much fantastic music from Canadian artists. It’s a shame that American radio doesn’t play more of it. 🌺✌️
Progressive AM/ FM stations Kmac/Kiss 99.5 here in San Antonio Texas played this album ,especially late at night back in the day .A really cool futuristic sounding album Also another good release of theirs called City of Fear was played as well. Yes it's a shame you don't hear FM on the radio anymore Ms Chang. Kmac/Kiss radio slogan was called " Spread the Word"! FM's music rocked the nightwaves !
Saga is another great Canadian band that doesn't get enough recognition. "On The Loose" is a great tune as well as "The Flyer". Probably their 2 best known tunes, but they have a great catalog.
Have always loved this song...one of my favorites ever. Although this song was not part of a soundtrack, FM did make a haunting soundtrack for a movie called "Search and Destroy".
Heres some trivia. When they went to digitize it for CD they discovered the masters had been lost. They were sent to LA for a planned US release on lp and never seen since. The recording engineers at the CBC went and bought 5 copies from different record stores. Digitized from those lps. I have a remastered lp from a couple years ago. Great ballad of theirs from City of Fear lp. Nobody at all
I watched them 2x in my hometown #Barrie #Ontario #Canada Cameron Hawkins Keyboards and Bass / Plewman "Nash the Slash" Violin and mandolin / Martin Deller drums lineup No. 1 Phasors on Stun Members Cameron Hawkins Paul DeLong Aaron Solomon Ed Bernard Past members Nash the Slash Martin Deller Ben Mink Simon Brierly Greg Critchley Randy Cooke Martin Shaw Paul Marangoni Claudio Vena Ivana Popovic
I grew up in that era and Saga was from my area the Toronto/Niagara region so I know of FM and Nash the Slash very well and i liked them alot. This area was chalk full of great musicians many never made it big but were still very good.Another band I got to see often was Saga another "ahead of it's time band". I guess the reason why there were so many good musicians form this area is that there were many venues that could support the smaller bands and give them ways to make money and get noticed.
Excellent choice! Love their sound and have been wanting to get this record. Like you, first time hearing this track.. has some krautrock influence, similar to the band Nektar from the 70's. You would like their songs, "King Of Twilight", "A Tab In the Ocean", or "Do You Believe In Magic"..now. Thanks.
Hi Harri B, I was surprised to see you doing some FM stuff from Ontario, Canada. I've got another surprise for you and your commenters. Back in '87 they released an LP/CD titled "Tonight." They have three really good songs on it that you and your commenters may want to check out. Look for the songs: 1) Magic In Your Eyes 2) Dream Girl 3) Alone Together (Super nice rock ballad!). Note: There was also a British band named "FM." Their best song is "That Girl" which is a real good rocker. You'll also find a great live version of this song from 2007. Later!
RIP to Nash The Slash playing electric mandolin and singing background vocals to Cam Hawkins... and major kudos to Martin Deller on the drums. I'm a Nash fan and saw the band many times here in Canada. Nash left to do his own stuff but came back to FM for a bunch of great shows together. Phasors On Stun told me they were Star Trek fans and I was all in to that. Not all FM albums have Nash on it, Ben Mink filled in for electric violin and mandolin and their albums were more jazz fusion, Nash came back for the last couple of albums and they did shows together doing FM's music ( co-written by Nash ) and Nash's solo stuff . Great times back then!
Just ran across your reaction video...although "Phasors..." was not written as a "soundtrack" song, the band, FM was creating the music for a CBC science fiction Radio series (Johnny Chase: Secret Agent of Space), and wrote the album at the same time. Here is an interesting thing about the band...there are only *three* people in the band! Cameron Hawkins, who plays bass, keyboard, Moog Taurus bass pedals, sings lead and wrote most of the music for the band. The drummer is Martin Deller, who is a jazz trained drummer and purcussionist, and was a good friend of Neil Peart, the drummer from Rush. The third member of the band went by the stage name of Nash the Slash. He played electric violin, electric mandolin, some keyboards and vocals. The album this song is from, Black Noise, was chosen by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the top 50 Progressive Rock albums of all time! As brilliant as the band was, they consistently had bad luck with record companies, having multiple companies go out of business while they were signed to them! There are some of their albums that are not available today because of that, unless you were a fan back in the day, like myself, and have the vinyl. Sadly, Nash the Slash, whose real name was Jeff Plewman passed away in 2014.
Lots more fire in this bands catalog. Great pick Harry. Overall from their catalog, I get a Genesis/Yes vibe from the instrumentation, and an ELP feel in the composition. Definitely have their own distinct thing going. Mid 70's, the Toronto music scene was crazy hot talented. My head exploded so many times, and I still live; I now identify as a cat.
I think you have the British FM band in the thumbnail picture instead of the Canadian trio. Anyway very cool to be checking out this great group and album!
Great band like Rush a 3 piece that multitask. They also gave rush an intro to synthesizer music. It eas way ahead of its time..saw them live in highschool. Live was as good as it gets. And mandolin in song makes the sound extrodinary. And Nash thr slash bandaged up on stage like the invisible man was cool as well.....check out Blue Peter think you will like them as well
You've discovered a GOLDMINE my Brother! First, I LOVE you for bringing back my teenage Musical Heroes. FM is from Toronto, the Genius on keyboards is Cameron Hawkins, his partner in FM was the TOTALLY strange "Nash The Slash," a genius weirdo who played live with his face completely wrapped up in gauze bandages like a mummy, AMAZING violin player. You HAVE TO do Nash The Slash next, you'll LOVE him.
They were still killing it when Ben Mink replaced Nash on the electric mandolin. Down at Ontario place beside the water. Both band incarnations were fantastic. The solos those guys played were incredible, and would take your head into the stratosphere, almost every song.
I am fortunate to live in the Toronto southern Ontario area so I'm treated to some great bands my first concert was fm and rush in 1980 I was in my glory. Black noise was a fantastic album it's just not the one song great sci-fi album
This is one of my favourite songs of all time -- classic Canadian progressive rock!
Greatest line in a Rock song: "Nothing is a dream until you wake up."
FM - The best band most of the world never heard of.
So true. They used to open for Rush but only in Canada.
@@quincee3376 I saw them at the Forum in Los Angeles during Moving Pictures Tour.
The open for rush everywhere I saw them in buffalo@@quincee3376
@@quincee3376 - Yes, they and Max Webster. I recall seeing FM at the Ontario Place Forum in the summer of '78.
@@incub8 absolutely true.
I love that you do songs that NO ONE ever does. This is an underground 70s Canadian classic! Thank you sir.
Yes, more Canadiana.🇨🇦 Kudos to Louie for bringing such great tunes to the Besties. This is from their debut album, " Black Noise", which was released by CBC Records but only sold it through mail order. Later released by Visa Records in the US they were given a wider release market and quickly climbed the charts.
Such a groovy tune with this progressive rock group and clever title using a phrase from Star Trek.
Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Louie. 👏👏 Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
It is fun seeing you discover more Canadian talent from the 70's. There was a lot. We were musically spoiled and I am the first to admit it. A lot of us (Canadians) got to see these bands playing at our high school dances and other small venues in their beginnings. Fun times.
🎹🎹🎹 🎸🎸
Canada comes out with some really amazing artists! Yet another reason I wanna flee north....
Thanks Louie, thanks Harri!
I was at strangers Toronto for Nash the Slash's final shows just before his death. I was 12 when this song was released.
I have seen, FM band member, 'Nash The Slash' play live in southern Ontario in the early 80's. Amazing performance for a solo act that had one of the loudest amplifier set I was able to survive hearing.
Nash did a cover of Jan & Dean's, 'Dead Man's Curve' with a touch of humor worth checking out.
I had the pleasure of seeing this band live in Edmonton around 1979/80. They were the warm up band for Max Webster on the Million Vacations tour. Great stuff. Their Direct To Disc album is amazing.
I was at that concert too! Awesome memories. I have Direct to Disk and it's probably my favorite album.
@@normbourassa2211 The recording quality of D2D is amazing. I can't believe how well the drums were mic'd. My favorite FM album.
The first concert I ever attended FM opened for Rush at Varsity Stadium in Toronto on September 2, 1979.
Another great trio from Canada saw them at my high school and blew the doors off the gym. Also the guitarist doubles as Nash the Slash. At times he would perform in the invisible man bandages with FM great musicians and the mandolin play is great in this song as like RUSH a very tight band great live
They released 8 albums but this is their best.
Brings back such great memories. Working in a carnival we'd blast this out all night long.
Of all the things I never expected to see on youtube, a reaction to Phasors on Stun is up there, lol. I remember hearing this song on local radio when it came out. I even bought the 45. I may still have it somewhere. I loved this song.
Cameron Hawkins:
Bass
Keyboards
Vocals
Nash The Slash:
Electric Violins
Mandolins
Martin Deller:
Percussion
It’s Spock
I love FM. I think you are first to react to them. Black Noise is a masterpiece. One O’Clock Tomorrow is my favorite. ❤
Let me guess -- You were a 70's Teen in Toronto just like me. Am I right? Are you familiar with the stories about Nash living upstairs at The Roxy Theatre on Danforth?
@@markmarsh27 not even close. I was 25 and living where I was born in Eureka California. Contemporary Keyboard magazine reviewed the album and I bought it.
@@markmarsh27
Yep, I know the story of Nash at the Roxy. I live 2 subway stops away from there. My cousin went to high school with Nash way back when. Sadly, both are now deceased. I saw Nash perform at The Edge and The Horseshoe many times. He was truly amazing.
Great song!! Brings back great memories while in college in T.O. In the 70’s. Now have to hear some Ian Thomas. 🇨🇦🍁
Of the 3 times I saw RUSH live in the 80s FM was one of the opening acts
Thanks for this, Harri. An almost forgotten song. I'm from Oakville, Ontario, a half-hour drive west of Toronto. You want more excellent, but seemingly forgotten 1970s and '80s Canadian rock/pop bands, check out Saga (On The Loose, Wind Him Up), The Kings (This Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide) and especially Max Webster (the quirky, fast tempo rocker High Class In Borrowed Shoes, Let Go The Line, Hangover, The Party, Diamonds, Diamonds etc.)
You should definitely get into the Tragically Hip too, the last great Canadian Rock/pop band.
Oh, a wonderful blast from the past. I heard this song on the radio and immediately bought the album. Played this track over and over.
Believe it or not, the "bass player" you shouted out on this track was one and the same as the keyboard player. Cameron Hawkins did double duty with keyboards and bass pedals..
Thanks Louie for a great request. Harri, until I subscribed to your channel I had no idea there was so much fantastic music from Canadian artists. It’s a shame that American radio doesn’t play more of it. 🌺✌️
Progressive AM/ FM stations Kmac/Kiss 99.5 here in San Antonio Texas played this album ,especially late at night back in the day .A really cool futuristic sounding album Also another good release of theirs called City of Fear was played as well. Yes it's a shame you don't hear FM on the radio anymore Ms Chang. Kmac/Kiss radio slogan was called " Spread the Word"! FM's music rocked the nightwaves !
Going DEEP into the Canadian content now Harri!. FM's star shone brightly for a brief period. Fantastic lush electronic pop sound.
Harri, thanks to you and Louie for the introduction to FM. First time hearing this band from the Great White North!
Had this album when it was new. Been looking for a new copy for years, but it is damn difficult to find - glad to hear it again.
still got mine
I found this CD in a "dollar bin" at a mall in Albuquerque, New Mexico during my college days. What a great find!
Thought I was the only person on earth that's heard of this song b4. Great pick man!
Welcome, brother
Saga is another great Canadian band that doesn't get enough recognition. "On The Loose" is a great tune as well as "The Flyer". Probably their 2 best known tunes, but they have a great catalog.
Wind Him Up and Scratching the Surface as well!
Have always loved this song...one of my favorites ever. Although this song was not part of a soundtrack, FM did make a haunting soundtrack for a movie called "Search and Destroy".
Heres some trivia. When they went to digitize it for CD they discovered the masters had been lost. They were sent to LA for a planned US release on lp and never seen since. The recording engineers at the CBC went and bought 5 copies from different record stores. Digitized from those lps. I have a remastered lp from a couple years ago.
Great ballad of theirs from City of Fear lp. Nobody at all
Nash The Slash, can really pick up the phasors pew pew
I watched them 2x in my hometown #Barrie #Ontario #Canada
Cameron Hawkins Keyboards and Bass / Plewman "Nash the Slash" Violin and mandolin / Martin Deller drums lineup No. 1 Phasors on Stun
Members
Cameron Hawkins
Paul DeLong
Aaron Solomon
Ed Bernard
Past members
Nash the Slash
Martin Deller
Ben Mink
Simon Brierly
Greg Critchley
Randy Cooke
Martin Shaw
Paul Marangoni
Claudio Vena
Ivana Popovic
Welcome to my teenage years, FM was a big influence on Gary Numan. Love your reaction brother.
I heard this album up at college with my buddies ,we were high on hash at the time.Wooooo I miss those days.
I grew up in that era and Saga was from my area the Toronto/Niagara region so I know of FM and Nash the Slash very well and i liked them alot.
This area was chalk full of great musicians many never made it big but were still very good.Another band I got to see often was Saga another "ahead of it's time band".
I guess the reason why there were so many good musicians form this area is that there were many venues that could support the smaller bands and give them ways to make money and get noticed.
Excellent choice! Love their sound and have been wanting to get this record. Like you, first time hearing this track.. has some krautrock influence, similar to the band Nektar from the 70's. You would like their songs, "King Of Twilight", "A Tab In the Ocean", or "Do You Believe In Magic"..now. Thanks.
I always crank my stereo up to 11 to play Phasors on Stun. It's gotta be earth-shattering loud. So much energy.
RIP Nash the Slash
Hi Harri B, I was surprised to see you doing some FM stuff from Ontario, Canada. I've got another surprise for you and your commenters. Back in '87
they released an LP/CD titled "Tonight." They have three really good songs on it that you and your commenters may want to check out. Look for the
songs: 1) Magic In Your Eyes 2) Dream Girl 3) Alone Together (Super nice rock ballad!).
Note: There was also a British band named "FM." Their best song is "That Girl" which is a real good rocker. You'll also find a great live version of this
song from 2007. Later!
Check out Nash the Slash (Jeff Plewman)'s bio. It'll fill in / confirm some of the gaps raised in Harri's commentary.
Hear this on Kshe 95 Classics (Metro St. Louis MO) regularly. Great radio station that always had their finger on the pulse of some choice music.
Harri .. you should check out the ‘ Jet Pilot ‘ video on RUclips that goes with this song ! It makes the song even more impressive !!
RIP to Nash The Slash playing electric mandolin and singing background vocals to Cam Hawkins... and major kudos to Martin Deller on the drums. I'm a Nash fan and saw the band many times here in Canada. Nash left to do his own stuff but came back to FM for a bunch of great shows together. Phasors On Stun told me they were Star Trek fans and I was all in to that. Not all FM albums have Nash on it, Ben Mink filled in for electric violin and mandolin and their albums were more jazz fusion, Nash came back for the last couple of albums and they did shows together doing FM's music ( co-written by Nash ) and Nash's solo stuff . Great times back then!
Great Canadian prog rock. RIP Nash the Slash. Good stuff mate.
Just ran across your reaction video...although "Phasors..." was not written as a "soundtrack" song, the band, FM was creating the music for a CBC science fiction Radio series (Johnny Chase: Secret Agent of Space), and wrote the album at the same time. Here is an interesting thing about the band...there are only *three* people in the band! Cameron Hawkins, who plays bass, keyboard, Moog Taurus bass pedals, sings lead and wrote most of the music for the band. The drummer is Martin Deller, who is a jazz trained drummer and purcussionist, and was a good friend of Neil Peart, the drummer from Rush. The third member of the band went by the stage name of Nash the Slash. He played electric violin, electric mandolin, some keyboards and vocals. The album this song is from, Black Noise, was chosen by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the top 50 Progressive Rock albums of all time!
As brilliant as the band was, they consistently had bad luck with record companies, having multiple companies go out of business while they were signed to them! There are some of their albums that are not available today because of that, unless you were a fan back in the day, like myself, and have the vinyl. Sadly, Nash the Slash, whose real name was Jeff Plewman passed away in 2014.
Lots more fire in this bands catalog. Great pick Harry. Overall from their catalog, I get a Genesis/Yes vibe from the instrumentation, and an ELP feel in the composition. Definitely have their own distinct thing going. Mid 70's, the Toronto music scene was crazy hot talented. My head exploded so many times, and I still live; I now identify as a cat.
I just seen a video of them playing in 1976 and he plays two organs at the same time
I think you have the British FM band in the thumbnail picture instead of the Canadian trio.
Anyway very cool to be checking out this great group and album!
Thank you.
Great band like Rush a 3 piece that multitask. They also gave rush an intro to synthesizer music. It eas way ahead of its time..saw them live in highschool. Live was as good as it gets. And mandolin in song makes the sound extrodinary. And Nash thr slash bandaged up on stage like the invisible man was cool as well.....check out Blue Peter think you will like them as well
this was the beginning of the use of Synthesizers ....
RIP Nash
Star Trek (1966) invented the word and concept of Phasors.
The pic that you have on is the British Rock band FM not the Canadian one
Pew! Pew! Pew! Eh?
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Welp, the emoji didn't go through and that's what happened when I copy/pasted.
Can I request a song?
You've discovered a GOLDMINE my Brother! First, I LOVE you for bringing back my teenage Musical Heroes. FM is from Toronto, the Genius on keyboards is Cameron Hawkins, his partner in FM was the TOTALLY strange "Nash The Slash," a genius weirdo who played live with his face completely wrapped up in gauze bandages like a mummy, AMAZING violin player. You HAVE TO do Nash The Slash next, you'll LOVE him.
I think Nash The Slash was going more for The Invisible Man.
They were still killing it when Ben Mink replaced Nash on the electric mandolin. Down at Ontario place beside the water. Both band incarnations were fantastic. The solos those guys played were incredible, and would take your head into the stratosphere, almost every song.
@@slowfinger2 get live at Nearfest 2006 comes with a DVD.
@@shyshift I never heard of that. OK Thanks!
They also played a great cover version of Baba O'Reilly live - Nash sounded like Townsend. Great memories
I am fortunate to live in the Toronto southern Ontario area so I'm treated to some great bands my first concert was fm and rush in 1980 I was in my glory. Black noise was a fantastic album it's just not the one song great sci-fi album
I was at strangers Toronto for Nash the Slash's final shows just before his death. I was 12 when this song was released.