Universal Juveniles was 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...

's fifth and last album, released in 1980. The album features a guest appearance by friends and fellow Canadian rockers Rush

Rush (band)

Rush is a Canadian rock band formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario. The band is composed of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart...

on the song "Battle Scar".
Certified Gold by the Canadian Recording Industry Association

Track listing

1. "In the World of Giants" (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...
   
   , 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....
   
   ) – 4:18
2. "Check" (Dubois, Mitchell) – 2:37
3. "April in Toledo" (Dubois, Mitchell) – 3:40
4. "Juveniles Don't Stop" (Dubois, Mitchell) – 3:32
5. "Battle Scar" (Dubois, Mitchell) – 5:48
6. "Chalkers" (Dubois, Dave Myles) – 3:45
7. "Drive and Desire" (Dubois, Mitchell) – 3:53
8. "Blue River Liquor Shine" (Dubois, Mitchell) – 4:15
9. "What Do You Do with the Urge" (Dubois, Gary McCracken) – 3:20
10. "Cry Out Your Life" (Dubois, Mitchell) – 5:33

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...
  
  
• Gary McCracken - 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 ....
  
  
• Dave Myles - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• 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...
  
  

This album was released internationally on the Mecury/PolyGram records label outside of Canada.

Additional musicians

• Doug Riley
• Neil Peart
  Neil Peart
  Neil Ellwood Peart , OC, is a Canadian musician and author. He is the drummer for the rock band Rush.Peart grew up in Port Dalhousie, Ontario . During adolescence, he floated from regional band to regional band in pursuit of a career as a full-time drummer...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Alex Lifeson
  Alex Lifeson
  Aleksandar Živojinović, OC, better known by his stage name Alex Lifeson, is a second generation Serbian-Canadian musician, best known as the guitarist of the Canadian rock band Rush. In the summer of 1968, Lifeson founded the band that would become Rush with friend, drummer John Rutsey...
  
  
• David Stone
  David Stone (keyboardist)
  Dave Stone is a keyboard player best known for playing with Rainbow. He later played for Three Dog Night during a reunion tour, and was a guest musician on the 1980 Max Webster album Universal Juveniles...
  
  
• Geddy Lee
  Geddy Lee
  Gary Lee Weinrib, OC, better known as Geddy Lee , is a Canadian musician, best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush...