Rik Emmett opened up about returning to the road for a North American tour after a 30-year hiatus. In a new interview, the legendary Triumph singer and guitarist revealed that he started to make a ”pros and cons” list with his wife, Jeanette, and stopped after one “pro.”
"I sat down with my wife when the thing was proposed, the tour,” Emmett, 72, told Ultimate Guitar in January 2026. “And she said, 'Well, let's do pros and cons.' And so I go, 'Well, okay, let's start with the pros. I think the first one would be that I'm just going to have to get myself back in shape. Like, I'm going to have to work out, and I'm going to have to get my cardio up again and all that stuff.' And she said, 'Stop right there. That's a good enough reason to do it. Why wouldn't you want to get yourself in better shape?' And she said, 'We don't need to do the list anymore. That's one good reason. That's good enough.'"
In April, Emmett will reunite with original bandmates Gil Moore and Mike Levine, with backup from guitarist Phil X, bassist Todd Kerns, and drummer Brent Fitz, for Triumph’s 50th anniversary Rock & Roll Machine Reloaded Tour. The band’s last official tour was Edge of Excess in 1993.
Emmett told Ultimate Guitar that it has been “fun” getting back to tour rehearsals. “That's one of the things that draws you,” he explained. “So even though you're in your 70s, it hasn't stopped being fun.”
He also speculated that fellow Canadian rockers Rush, who are also headed to tour, are getting similar feedback from their spouses. “I mean, you got to work around arthritis and other things, and I think that same reasoning that when my wife said, 'Well, it means you're going to get on your elliptical machine more often,' I think probably Alex [Lifeson] and Geddy [Lee] are getting that from their better halves, too." he said.
“It's broken the whole routine of being a retired guy sitting around and slowly but surely rotting away,” Emmett added.
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In December, Emmett told The Preston and Steve Show that he “thought” he’d retired until the 1979 Triumph song “Lay It on the Line" had an expected resurgence.
“They started playing ‘Lay it on the Line’ during the Stanley Cup here in Canada and ‘Fight [the Good Fight’], ‘Magic Power,'" he told radio hosts Preston Elliott and Steve Morrison. "There's, you know, six or seven of these songs, and it just it pulls the rest of the whole rock and roll machine along with it, you know, and you go, ‘Okay, I guess I better get myself in shape and get back out in the world.”
In addition to motivation to get into shape, Emmett told Ultimate Guitar that there was “an accumulation of many things over time” that prompted him to agree to the tour.
“Phil X is playing in the band, so, I mean, that's one part of it, right?” he admitted.
Triumph’s Rock & Roll Machine Reloaded tour starts April 22 in Sault Ste. Marie, ON, and runs through June 6 in Boston, MA.
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