A report on Mike Turner (musician), Our Lady Peace and Spiritual Machines

Turner in September 2001
Our Lady Peace performing in 2009
Turner in September 2001
Raine Maida co-founded the band with Mike Turner in 1992
Select The Age of Spiritual Machines excerpts voiced by author Ray Kurzweil were incorporated into the album.
Jeremy Taggart joined the band as drummer in April 1993
Guitarist Mike Turner posing with Spiritual Machines artwork.
The exact circumstances surrounding former lead guitarist Mike Turner's 2001 departure are disputed
Maida, Turner and Coutts during the original Spiritual Machines tour.

Spiritual Machines is the fourth studio album by the Canadian alternative rock band Our Lady Peace, released by Columbia Records in December 2000.

- Spiritual Machines

He is best known as the former lead guitarist and founding member of the band Our Lady Peace and current member of alternative rock supergroup Crash Karma.

- Mike Turner (musician)

A combination of lead singer-songwriter Raine Maida's prolific songwriting at the time and lead-guitarist Mike Turner's discovery of The Age of Spiritual Machines in a bookstore hurried the completion of the album.

- Spiritual Machines

In late 1991, guitarist Mike Turner placed an ad in Toronto-based Now newspaper in search of musicians.

- Our Lady Peace

Maida stated that it wouldn't "be right" to make a sequel to Spiritual Machines without Turner.

- Mike Turner (musician)

In 2000, the band recorded and released Spiritual Machines, a concept album inspired by Ray Kurzweil's book The Age of Spiritual Machines.

- Our Lady Peace
Turner in September 2001

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Maida performing with Our Lady Peace in 2010

Raine Maida

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Maida performing with Our Lady Peace in 2010
Maida performing solo in 2007
Maida during a 2008 interview

Raine Maida (born Michael Anthony Maida; February 18, 1970) is a Canadian musician best known as being the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the alternative rock band Our Lady Peace.

Maida started the band with guitarist Mike Turner in 1992.

Maida has also been producing music since 1999, when he co-produced Our Lady Peace's albums Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch and Spiritual Machines.

Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch

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Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch (written as simply Happiness... on the cover) is the third studio album by Canadian alternative rock band Our Lady Peace.

Touring effectively ended after Summersault as the band had announced work for a brand new studio album, Spiritual Machines which they had been working on since before the festival and which would be completed and released in Canada before the end of the year.

Mike Turner - electric guitar

Clumsy (Our Lady Peace album)

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Clumsy is the second studio album by the Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace, released on January 23, 1997 by Columbia Records.

In December 2009, the band announced that they would be "recreating" both Clumsy and their 2000 record Spiritual Machines by performing them live in their entireties throughout a new tour that began in March 2010; only nine months before the 10-year anniversary of the release of Spiritual Machines.

Mike Turner – electric guitar

Spiritual Machines 2

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Spiritual Machines 2 is the tenth studio album from Canadian alternative rock band Our Lady Peace, a sequel to their 2000 art rock concept album Spiritual Machines.

It is the first Our Lady Peace album to involve the participation of founding member and original guitarist Mike Turner since Gravity in 2002, and the first studio release to feature Saul Fox on its cover since the original Spiritual Machines album.