Northern Pikes mark album's 30th anniversary with three-disc re-release, tour

Don Schmid of the Northern Pikes has plenty of time to reflect on the 30th anniversary tour of his band’s 1987 major label debut, Big Blue Sky.
The drummer is whiling away the hours lying in one of 12 bunk beds on the Pikes’ tour bus, setting out on the second leg of the cross-Canada jaunt that will see them playing Festival Place in Sherwood Park this Friday. Just a few days before, Schmid and his wife were opening vinyl reissue copies of Big Blue Sky (Super-Sized), a remastered, th