Triumph Interview with Jeff Woods 

No matter what they decide to do in the future, you can't take away what they accomplished together 30+ years ago. Long live Triumph!!!

These guys are one of the most underrated bands of all time. They deserve way more credit than they have gotten. One of the greats !

One of my favorite bands of my youth. Rik Emmett is my favorite guitar player ever. They all seem to have a real love for one another as well.

Incredible musicians!! LEGENDS…✊🏼 Rick Emmet is one of the best that’s ever done/does it 🙏🏼

One of the greatest Canadian bands ever. They really NEED to write another album to see where they are within the ocean of bullshit that calls itself music these days~ Rock till the end !

I would sooner see these guys again than Van Halen

my back hurts just watching them sit on that couch! lol

I remember as a kid back in the 70s, KISS was playing Triumph and Rush here in San Antonio, and MAN IT WAS SO KILLER!!! I still own Triumph on Vinyl records today!

I'm tearing up seeing these brothers sitting down again together. This is so great :))

That was AWESOME! To see those guys being buddy buddy in the same room on the same couch again was and is so satisfying, because look at all the INCREDIBLE music they made together. They belong together, and that's all there is to it. If they never play together again, I'm just glad to see my childhood heroes having salvaged their friendship, because their friendship is where all my favorite albums, and basically the soundtrack of my youth, are rooted in.

San Antonio, what can you say...thanks to Joe Anthony the rest of the world has Triumph. The rest is history...R.I.P. Joe Anthony.

Say Goodbye is one of the best songs ever. Why it's not played on the radio now boggles my mind. I hear Bob Seager Here I am every dang day but no Triumph.

And I was there. Such an awesome time, KISS FM promoted so many bands. God Bless and RIP Joe Anthony. Triumph is still my favorite and Rik is by far one of the best guitarists ever. Gil screwed the pooch, but glad to see them sitting together.

I love these guys--always have and always will.

What an incredible guitarist Rick Emmett is! Every time I see him playing and singing, I just put my guitar away... He is a gem...

I'd pay some good money to see these 3 tour most definitely!!! Do it guys!!!!! Fight the good fight for rock -n-roll and the power of music!!

1980 toledo speedway jam - donnie iris, triumph, loverboy , foreigner.. still the best show i had seen .. even till this day

2018 Triumph is still Big in the San Antonio Austin TX music scene

Triumph and Rush are my favorite bands! Rock On!

first band I ever seen....Windsor Ontario Canada ..Feb.2 , 1978....I was 15, almost 16...still the best show ever !!!!

I was lucky enough to see them at the US Festival and they were phenomenal!!!

Triumph, Rush, rule every single day!!!, Greetings from Mexico

Love the band, great guys. Hope they become close again.

I'd love to see them do a show together!

Five letters come to mind with this band------ RRHOF!!!!!!!----Long overdue!

Cool interview!!! All good guys...Great Band.

I love how simple and straightforward these guys seem to be...

When I graduated high school , we had our ceremony at the Municipal Auditorium, and my friends and I were like...”Dude, Triumph played here!” It was cool!

you guys need to come back and do another TOUR.. I WOULD take the summer off work and attend every show in my region..

Interviewer does a great job breaking the ice at first. Wish i could see these guys live...

I love love love that gill mentioned Louisville KY I was at both shows and I would love to see them again thank you gill and thank you guys for a lifetime of memories love the band love the music

My favourite band! I just feel cheated that I never got to see them live!

Been a fan since 81. It was so great to see these guys together Again !

Already 12 years ago... Wow!

I would see them in a heartbeat if they got back together.They were WAY better then so many other bands.

If any of the members of Triumph reads this comment, I would like to let them know that San Antonio still loves them and would love to have them come back. Also, the Municipal Auditorium underwent remodeling and is now the Tobin Center.

I wish I could see Triumph live. I can, and do, listen to Time Goes By, Never Surrender, and Lay It On the Line over and over again!

omg. sitting on the same couch. how the f did i miss this 9 fkn years ago.

Gil and Mike haven't changed their hairstyles since 1979 - lol

Gil Moore, drummer and singer for Triumph.... the personality of the band ! Rocky Mountain Way boiz .......

Great memories with these guys. My best was Canada Jam in 1978. Look forward to seeing them back on the road.

still rockin my world 40 years later

Rik Emmett mentions my name at around the 6:45 min mark :)

I seen Triumph in concert 1983' AWESOME they need to tour now the economy is ok they will make a lot of money around the world and make alot of fans around the world happy and make alot of new fans along the way TRIUMPH FAN FOR LIFE✌👊☝👌💪✋✊👍👆🙏

one of my favorite bands

Just seeing these guys together is cool I agree being friends again is very important, I feel a small Canadian tour would do very well , but they have to be in the right space to do these shows and money it cost money to do tours, I know they would sell out in Toronto, but I am crossing my fingers to see these guys back playing even if was for one tour

So good to see all 3 back together here! I feel bad about Rik's brother. I think I know why I named my youngest son Nik now with a "K" ... Because Rik was with just the "K". I would love to see them reunited with a live concert in a tour as Triumph in a new adventure. The fans are crying out for you guys ...but understandable it is your lives. Good luck guys from a fan of a lifetime~

I seen these guys at the Texas World Music Festival in Dallas at the Cotton Bowl in the summer of 82, they were on point, spectacular show.

Great to see them backl together

Lovely guys and great band. One of the best in my opinion.

AWESOME. Thanks so much for this. Small venue, select gigs across Canada and the US.

No weakness in that band. All Rockers!.

Little Texas shaker, very very 1st rock and roll machine album, only released in Canada

I love the fact that some of the bands personal travesties have been reconciled. I've watched these guys since "Rock and Roll Machine" tour (Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada) , Saw "Thunder Seven" in Fredericton N.B. Canada, and have been listening to their music since the very first album. Power Trio is an understatement as to what these guys are capable of. My hat is off to all three. Wish you would tour again. I am a drummer myself and know's what it takes to entice an energy out of an audience to warm the fires. You guys got it Hands Down. Respectfully Yours, Perry Calder.

Three Canucks !! All Class !!

Love these guys sooo much

This was my favorite Band, I actually had dreams id be walking through a forest and come across a field and their they are playing on a big stage, I know corny .lol What was cool when i seen them in my home state RI is when they shot the video for Follow Your Heart.

Definitely an underrated band! Great musicians

I remember growing up playing road hockey with jeff in oshawa back in the day best voice yelling hey scores

Right fuckin on. Sorry about the earlier comments. You guys played Fresno, Ca in the 80"s with the white Marshalls. You guys are one of the best rock bands that ever existed. so?

Triumph yes love it

Mike is wearing a T-shirt from the local radio station of my town in PA. Always cool to save 2nd Base.

Please please please please comeback and if you don’t care to make a new record I would be very happy to hear the classic 🤘come to San Antonio to reflect on the 🤘Little Texas Shacker🤘

I got to see Triumph at the US Festival ll in 83 with Quiet riot, Motley Crue, 🦂, Ozzy, Judas priest and Van Halen!

Awesome to see Truimph healed!!!!

Big Triumph fan from way back but I see the same pattern here that contributed to the demise. Gil just takes over and does all the talking. He disagreed with Mike about his primary point of the economy and he cut Rick off when talking about the trio idea and platform. He took 75% of the talk time while the other two sit there and take it. He feels he is a natural leader and I get that but Rik was Triumph. Without his work they would never have seen San Antonio. Gil being a bull all the time is why they are no more. I saw them in concert on the SOK tour and he did the same...he did most of the talking and Rik did most of the singing while Mike master-classed that bass. Watch their Us Festival performance and tell me who Triumph is and who it is not.

They have nothing else to prove and I respect their choice. I saw them they were starting doing smaller venues like memorial auditorium in Chattanooga. They did some cool tv promos and me and a bunch of friends that played in bands together were hooked. Great show great musicianship and the song they were known for was rocky mtn way. Then a great string of albums. Many of the local bands would cover 5 or 6 triumph songs. I still love them today. The Canadian rock bands really were strong at that time 1978-83. My bands played half our set list with Rush, Triumph and Judas priest (not Canadian) because they all had live albums that were great and we had seen them all live. If a band didn't sound good live we lost a little respect for them. 2 examples in that era were Aeorsmith and Blackfoot they just didn't sound good live but had good studio albums .

Wish they would make some more music together I grew up with they're music and still love it yet here we are 9 years after this interview and still nothing come on guys let's go we're not getting any younger time is running out

no surprise they didn;t get back together,,,,this was tough to watch.....

If you're gonna go out again as TRIUMPH, go out as TRIUMPH!

I remember the bass player on wheel of fortune

AWESOME. Thanks so much for this.

Nice interview! Thanks to everyone involved!

These guys are geniuses!

THE BEST - TRIUMPH!

You guys need to just do it damn it

Please come back!

I would pay to see them in a hearbeat!!!

It sucks that they couldn’t come together for one more tour.

They could do well with some supporting bands from the 80's and 90's backing them in a festival setting.

still waiting on you to bring it an rock us again .

Hey, Triumph was a Success !! ----- No one ODed and you guys had Real Fans !! --- Ya started and stopped,... Alive !!!, eh?

1983 they were playing a 17k arena then in 1990 a 500 seat bar.

Seattle...the Paramount Theater please!!!

Tour..tour...tour...

I just found this video, and think its GREAT that these guys were able and willing to regroup together so to speak. And i dont know what happened AFTER this interview? Im just seeing it now, and its now 2019 going into 2020. BUT if they havent yet? I would like to encourage them to stop the lolly gagging, and have a REAL talk together, and decide wheather or not they REALLY WANT TO BE TRIUMPH AGAIN???? and if they do? then NO MONEY OR OTHER OBSTACLE CAN OR WILL STAND IN THEIR WAY! SO PLEASE! FOR THE PEOPLE! AND FOR YOURSELVES, MAKE IT HAPPEN! DO IT... never surrender! follow your heart! hold On! remember the MAGICE POWER you have!!!! : ) : P you can have a great light show IF YOU SUPLY YOURE OWN LIGHTS... Im sure if you offer a lighting company a good price? you can buy your own lights in bulk! KISS has the most outragious stage show in terms of lights, smoke, and bang.. you dont really need all that. and at this point in time, just being there, and being triumph, and giving the people old and new, the TRIUMPH EXPERIENCE?? WILL BE MORE THAN ENOUGH! you guys ALWAYS played your hearts out and did your best right? so, who can ask for more than that?????? : / all the best to you guys.......... ps. you really had something special together as triumph! and you touched alot of lives with that specialness! think of THAT! and just be YOURSELVES .....

cuz they’re old tired. and ya. duhhhhh 2008. crash. oh well. i will not be mad at jeff woods. hes a legend.

Fight the Good Fight the money will come.

7:19 Hey, Gil - Y & T (originally Yesterday & Today) are from the Bay Area, not LA.

An incredible great band. That being said, Mike Levine had way too much coffee before this interview.

Can't hear Mike !!! Triumph is AWESOME!!

The Godfather Joe Anthony!!!! Enough said

Time... Marches... On.

BTW if you're gonna have a power trio, you'll have to have a rhythm BASS player like Mel Schacher, Jack Bruce or Noel Redding/Billy Cox to make it happen. Gotta fill the space when you're rocking out.

Mike Levine is used to it lol. Gil and Rik like to talk (and were great singers and showmen) plus Rik and Gil have been very successful outside of Triumph. Rik as a solo artist and Gil Moore owns a very successful studio recording company. I'm sure Levine would want to tour until they dropped dead. :)

Fact is the audience base has aged and those who say they would go see them never do. Album ? No as the cost to sell ratio is sad , and I think that doing limited shows would be better as that creates the shit see them whilst I can. Great band but learn from the others no when its time .

Healthy recipe 🎉🎉🎉

They seemed to get along okay, though at the same time, it appeared to be some tension. It could just be my misinterpretation though.

Great band! One of the first bands I saw live in Rochester N.Y 2 reasons why Triumph will never tour again and one is on Rikks right and one on the left.

Well..., like it or not, I will stand behind these guys 10 times out of 10. They are the real thing as opposed to that Randy dude......... What was his name again (just kidding Lol...)? On more serious note, these three guys are next to, if not parallel with another Canadian trio "The Rush". Not to take away from anyone of them, Rick (aka Rik) Emmett was and still is the one who established band's sound with his stratospheric vocals and outstanding guitar playing. Be it heavy rock, metal, lyrical ballad, even jazz standard or what have you..., Rik could cover it all. *The Triumph* is most certainly the most underrated of old Canuck bands but still going strong continuing the legend of The Band, Rush, or those youngsters (What is their name again ?) Oooh something... berries... Lol... ?