Diamonds Diamonds is a "Greatest Hits" album by the Canadian band Max Webster

Max Webster

Max Webster was a Canadian rock band of the 1970s and early 1980s.-Career:The band was formed in 1973 in Toronto, Ontario and originally consisted of guitarist and vocalist Kim Mitchell, keyboardist Terry Watkinson, bassist Mike Tilka and drummer Paul Kersey. Mitchell and Pye Dubois would write the...

. It was released in 1982, after the band had broken up, and features two new tracks: "Hot Spots" and "Overnight Sensation". Strangely, no songs from the band's fifth album Universal Juveniles

Universal Juveniles

Universal Juveniles was Max Webster's fifth and last album, released in 1980. The album features a guest appearance by friends and fellow Canadian rockers Rush on the song "Battle Scar".Certified Gold by the Canadian Recording Industry Association...

 are included on this album.

Track listing

1. "Gravity" – 4:52 (Kim Mitchell
   Kim Mitchell
   Joseph Kim Mitchell is a Canadian guitarist. He was the lead singer and guitarist for the band Max Webster before going on to lead a solo career. He is currently a radio show host for CILQ-FM in Toronto....
   
   , Pye Dubois
   Pye Dubois
   Pye Dubois is a Canadian lyricist and poet. He has worked with a number of bands, including Rush and Max Webster, with whom he was considered an unofficial fifth non-performing member. Dubois would accompany the band in the studio and wrote lyrics for each of their albums. Dubois was given lyric...
   
   )
2. "High Class in Borrowed Shoes" – 3:59 (Mitchell, Dubois)
3. "Diamonds, Diamonds" – 3:19 (Mitchell, Dubois)
4. "Summer's Up" – 2:36 (Mitchell, Dubois)
5. "Blowing the Blues Away" – 3:15 (Terry Watkinson
   Terry Watkinson
   Terry Watkinson, BSc, is an artist, painter, illustrator, and musician.After spending his youth in Thunder Bay,& Iroquois Falls Ontario, Watkinson attended the University of Toronto for two years in the field of architecture until he left to participate in the band Max Webster...
   
   )
6. "Let Go the Line" – 3:14 (Watkinson)
7. "A Million Vacations" – 3:34 (Gary McCracken, Dubois)
8. "The Party" – 4:46 (Mitchell, Dubois)
9. "Hot Spots" – 2:41 (Mitchell, Dubois)
10. "Paradise Skies" – 3:27 (Mitchell, Dubois)
11. "Overnight Sensation" – 2:55 (Mitchell, Dubois)
12. "Lip Service" – 4:02 (Mitchell, Dubois)
13. "Hangover" – 4:38 (Mitchell, Dubois)

Tracks 1-5, 13 produced by Max Webster and Terry Brown

Terry Brown (record producer)

Terry Brown is a record producer involved in a variety of work, but most noted for his involvement with the Canadian rock band Rush and the British/Canadian band Cutting Crew. Brown is currently working with emerging Ottawa roots-rockers Ken Workman & The Union. He is referred to fondly by the band...

Tracks 8, 9, 11, 12 produced by Max Webster, Terry Brown, Michael Tilka

Tracks 6, 7, 10 produced by Max Webster and John De Nottbeck

Personnel

• Kim Mitchell
  Kim Mitchell
  Joseph Kim Mitchell is a Canadian guitarist. He was the lead singer and guitarist for the band Max Webster before going on to lead a solo career. He is currently a radio show host for CILQ-FM in Toronto....
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
   and vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Paul Kersey - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
   and percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
   (tracks 4, 5, 13)
• Gary McCracken - drums (tracks 1-3, 6-12)
• Mike Tilka - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   and vocals (tracks 1-5, 13)
• Dave Myles - bass guitar (tracks 6-12)
• Terry Watkinson
  Terry Watkinson
  Terry Watkinson, BSc, is an artist, painter, illustrator, and musician.After spending his youth in Thunder Bay,& Iroquois Falls Ontario, Watkinson attended the University of Toronto for two years in the field of architecture until he left to participate in the band Max Webster...
  
   - keyboards
  Electronic keyboard
  An electronic keyboard is an electronic or digital keyboard instrument.The major components of a typical modern electronic keyboard are:...
  
   and vocals
• Pye Dubois
  Pye Dubois
  Pye Dubois is a Canadian lyricist and poet. He has worked with a number of bands, including Rush and Max Webster, with whom he was considered an unofficial fifth non-performing member. Dubois would accompany the band in the studio and wrote lyrics for each of their albums. Dubois was given lyric...
  
   - lyrics
  Lyrics
  Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of...