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The band is playing their first shows in 30 years in celebration of their 50th anniversary<\/p>\n

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Triumph\u2019s Rock & Roll Machine may have been reloaded for the band\u2019s first trek in 30 years, which pulled into Scotiabank Arena on Friday night for a hometown gig, but it has a few additional players really turning up the volume.<\/p>\n

The \u201870s Mississauga hard rock trio\u2019s 50th anniversary trek finds original members and singers Gil Moore on drums and Rik Emmett on guitar with the added firepower of guitarist Phil X (Bon Jovi) and bassist Todd Kerns (Slash), with both also filling in on lead vocals on certain occasions, and drummer Brent Fitz (Slash) banging away alongside Moore and sometimes on his own.<\/p>\n

Original bassist-keyboardist Mike Levine, 76, has so far sat out this tour due to health issues \u2013 apparently a hand problem \u2013 although he was supposed to be in the building watching from a suite on Friday night, according an interview I did with Moore a few weeks ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve taken a couple of decades off but we\u2019re here to rock your socks off!\u201d said Moore, 73, who began singing lead vocals and behind his kit for the show-opening, When The Lights Go Down, after a brief Triumph video dubbed the Time Canon.<\/p>\n

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Certainly, Emmett, 72, was no worse for wear as he showed off his guitar chops and lead vocals on the next song, Somebody\u2019s Out There.<\/p>\n

Initially, it seemed surprising that Kerns was on lead vocals for the next song, Spellbound (and later Follow Your Heart), but he and Phil X (later singing lead on Allied Forces), were so strong in their roles it only added to the strength of the hour-and-50-minute show bolstered by slick-looking graphics, video and fireworks.<\/p>\n

Emmett joked even his grandchildren were in the crowd as he introduced Hold On, a song he \u201cwrote 47 years ago\u201d when he couldn\u2019t conceive of being a grandfather and that tune saw Moore take a break from drums.<\/p>\n

Emmett, who trotted out the double-necked guitar for Blinding Light Show, and Phil X often played side-by-side upping the ante on the big guitar sound and when Moore and Fritz were both playing it had a similar effect on drums.<\/p>\n

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\"Triumph Triumph guitarist-singer Rik Emmett and touring bassist Todd Kerns play together at Triumph\u2019s concert at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on Friday, April 24, 2026. Photo by Supplied \/Tom PandiEmmett showed off his guitar playing on Rock & Roll Machine<\/p>\n

Fireworks heralded the start of Rock & Roll Machine, with Moore back on lead vocals and moving between his drum kit and out front on stage, and everyone actually cleared out entirely for Emmett\u2019s lightning-fingered guitar solo mid-song.<\/p>\n

Moore stayed out front the entire time as lead vocalist for a cover of Joe Walsh\u2019s Rocky Mountain Way, which included Emmett, Phil X and Fritz solos, and Emmett returned for lead vocals on Never Surrender before sharing that position with Phil X on crowd-pleaser Lay It On The Line.<\/p>\n

Fans also particularly enjoyed Magic Power as in the lyrics \u201cI\u2019m young, and I\u2019m wild, and I want to be free, got the magic power of the music that\u2019s in me!\u201d with Emmett on lead again.<\/p>\n

Moore came back out front to sing lead on the first encore song, I Live For The Weekend, and Emmett wrapped up the night as lead vocalist for Fight The Good Fight.<\/p>\n

Opening for Triumph were fellow \u201870s Can-rock group April Wine \u2013 the perfect appetizer, despite the absence of original frontman Myles Goodwyn who died in 2023.<\/p>\n

With guitarist Brian Greenaway their longest serving member since 1977, the group\u2019s hits-heavy 40-minute set included Oowatanite, You Could Have Been A Lady, Say Hello, I Like to Rock, Just Between You and Me (dedicated to Goodwyn), and Sign of the Gypsy Queen.<\/p>\n

\"Triumph (L-R) Touring guitarist Phil X, Triumph guitarist-singer Rik Emmett, touring drummer Brent Fitz, Triumph drummer-singer Gil Moore (out front), and touring bassist Todd Kerns \u2013 as they perform at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on Friday, April 24, 2026. Photo by Supplied \/Tom Pandi<\/p>\n

TRIUMPH SET LIST:<\/p>\n

(Time Canon \u2013 video)<\/p>\n

When the Lights Go Down<\/p>\n

Somebody\u2019s Out There<\/p>\n

Spellbound<\/p>\n

Hold On<\/p>\n

Allied Forces<\/p>\n

Blinding Light Show<\/p>\n

Rock & Roll Machine<\/p>\n

Rocky Mountain Way<\/p>\n

Never Surrender<\/p>\n

Lay It On The Line<\/p>\n

Follow Your Heart<\/p>\n

Magic Power<\/p>\n

ENCORE:<\/p>\n

I Live For The Weekend<\/p>\n

Fight The Good Fight<\/p>\n

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