Matthew Warnock from Guitar International spoke with legendary Canuck guitarist/singer Rik Emmett (TRIUMPH, STRUNG-OUT TROUBADOURS) recently and asked about the ongoing rumours about Triumph hitting the road again and the possibilities of a new studio album.

"I can’t put them to rest," says Emmett, "and the reason I can’t is because there’s nothing really going in. In a vacuum, people try and come up with stuff to fill the vacuum. There’s a Triumph website and people are talking about it a lot, but we’ve got nothing planed. In all honesty, Gil (Moore) isn’t really all that keen on doing a full-time rock drumming gig right now.

When you’re pushing 60, being a rock drummer isn’t easy. I’ve maintained my playing chops over the past few decades, but the other guys were semi-retired. For the reunion shows we did a few years back, those guys had to bust their butts for a couple of months to get back into playing shape. We did 45 rehearsals for two gigs, something like that, because they hadn’t played. So, when you look back on that experience you think that it’s a lot of work for a few shows.

Gil is a busy guy. He’s got the recording studio and the production company. He’s always been a workaholic kind of guy. He’s also really into golfing, so he’s out on the course with Alex Lifeson and Tom Cochrane because he loves to do it. Then, Mike Levine is down in Jamaica every winter because that’s what he always did, so it would be tough to make it happen. I honestly doubt that anything solid would materialize, but I guess you never know.

Read the entire interview at Guitarinternational.com.

Classic Triumph live at the US Festival in San Bernardino, California on on May 29, 1983: