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On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock. by Dave Bidini On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock. By Dave Bidini. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1998. 278 p-, ill. ISBN 0771014562. $19.99 When the Tragically Hip embarked on its a table with a bunch of posters in fiont of him. Trouble in the Henhouse tour in the winter of His skin looked blue and he could barely keep 1996, the Rheostatics were invited to be the his head up ... 'Joey. It's me, Dave.' He had opening act. The offer was a dream come true no idea who I was. I left the store. Outside, for the self-described "Canadian Shield art the rain felt like spiders." rock band." Dave Bidini, a rhythm guitarist and founding member of the Rheostatics, In Toronto Bidini arrives at a different decided he would also take the opportunity to point on the musical spectrum. Inspired by write about his experiences. Thanks to Mitch the "poignant heaviness" of My Stompin' Potter, the Toronto Star ran some excerpts Grounds he sets out to find the self-exiled from Bidini's tour diary in December of 1996. Stompin' Tom Connors. Protesting what he This exposure interested McClelland & perceived as an American bias in the Canadian Stewart which, two years later, published On music industry, Stompin' Tom had stepped a Cold Road: Tales ofAdventure in Canadian out of the Canadian music scene in 1977. Rock. After a long and dogged search, Bidini gets a lead from an employee at Connors' record The adventures begin in Vancouver and label in Mississauga. Armed with a "Tom, take the reader eastward across the Prairies. We Want You Back" petition, he finally meets After a couple of brief stops in the U.S., the Connors at his 50" birthday celebration. "My tour moves on to the Maritimes and memory flutters at this point. ... My band Newfoundland, and ends with a triumphant loves Canada, hockey, the National Dream, hometown performance at Maple Leaf besides, we think you're really, really great Gardens in Toronto. ....'9 Bidini uses his original tour diary as a kind In addition to his obvious love for music of narrative catalyst which triggers memories and Canada, hockey is clearly one of Bidini's of his life as an ardent fan, developing passions. It is therefore fitting that most rock performer and working musician. For venues usually turn out to be coliseums or example, the Rheostatics had been signed to hockey arenas. As the tour moves through Sire Records and so, while the tour moves Winnipeg he writes lovingly of goaltender through New York City, Bidini recalls some Charlie Gardiner; at Le ColisCe in Montreal he of his experiences with famed punk rocker exclaims, "BCliveau played here"; and he Joey Ramone, also with the Sire label. As a gives us a glimpse of the Tragically Hip and teenager, Bidini was infatuated with Ramone life offstage as they all take to the ice for a and he actually got to know him fairly well fiiendly game of shinny at the Max Bell when he was doing interviews as a rock Centre in Calgary. journalist in the early 80's. However, years later at an autograph session in Ireland, he was One of the unique features of this book is finally disillusioned. "[Ramone] was sitting at Bidini's use of selected stories and anecdotes gathered fiom a group of people he throughout the text, including Frank Soda collectively refers to as the "chorus." This with a yet-to-be-detonated television on his group represents across- section ofpeople and head. musicians Bidini feels were responsible for blazing the original rock tour trail across Some might criticize Bidini for what could Canada. It's not entirely clear why this appear to be a reluctance to tell the whole particular group of people was chosen over story. There is no sensationalism here. Drug some of the others one might expect to find in and alcohol use do come up fiom time to time, a collection like this. Contemporary concerns but the tone is casual and the treatment is dealing with life in Canada's current musical secondary. At one point Bidini describes the climate are also missing. Nevertheless, these Rheostatics as "mostly a chaste band ... (some vignettes serve to enrich Bidini's own stories would call us a dumb band)." Is this integrity and provide a nice oral history of life and or reticence? Considering that his primary survival in the earlier days of the Canadian concerns tend to focus on things like band music industry. dynamics, the performing experience and personal growth, rather than scandal or gossip, For instance, guitarist Frank Soda this reviewer prefers to side with integrity. He describes one of his performance ideas: "I had is an observer. He looks at the people and this song called "TV People" about people events that have inspired and influenced him, getting brainwashed watching too much and relates them to his current perspective and television. I imagined a guy's head turning life experience. into a TV. I thought, wouldn't it be funny if we could get a TV and put it on someone's Bidini has been writing since he was a head and just blow it up? So I got this old TV teenager and has developed into a wonderful fiom a used-electronics shop, gutted it out, put storyteller. His writing is clear, thoughtful it about twenty feet away and we blew it up and entertaining, and although his style is very with these pots. We realized that it didn't personal it is never self-indulgent. He has an move too much if you loaded the powder excellent sense of dramatic timing that goes right. It made a lot of noise, but it didn't well with his ability to express his own appear that dangerous. So we padded the struggles and successes in this somewhat inside, and I tried it on my head. I added more obscure independent musical group. The and more powder and it worked great. Later book is worth reading for these qualities on, if the roadies were a bit drunk, they'd put alone, but it is also worthwhile for its honest too much powder and I'd burn my hair. But it portrayal of life on the road and leaves the sounded and looked great in arenas, like reader with a warm appreciation of the cannons exploding out of my head ...." Some Canadian rock music scene. of the other more memorable tales are told by Greg "Goddo" Godovitz, Ken Tobias, Rik F. Tim Knight Emrnett (Triumph), and Dave and Richie Composer & Law Librarian Henman (April Wine). There are also some The Law Society of Upper Canada great black-and-white photographs sprinkled Toronto, Ontario .
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