On a Cold Road
Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock
David Bidini, rhythm guitarist with the Rheostatics, knows all too well what the life of a rock band in Canada involves: storied arenas one tour and bars wallpapered with photos of forgotten bands the next. Zit-speckled fans begging for a guitar pick and angry drunks chucking twenty-sixers and pint glasses. Opulent tour buses riding through apocalyptic snowstorms and cramped vans that reek of dope and beer. Brilliant performances and heart-sinking break-ups.
Bidini has played all across the country many times, in venues as far flung and unalike as Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto and the Royal Albert Hotel in Winnipeg. In 1996, when the Rheostatics opened for the Tragically Hip on their Trouble at the Henhouse tour, Bidini kept a diary.…
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October 1, 1998
Author and musician DAVE BIDINI is the only person to have been nominated for a Gemini, Genie, and Juno as well as CBC's "Canada Reads." A founding member of Rheostatics, he has written thirteen books, including On a Cold Road, Tropic of Hockey, Around the World in 57 1/2 Gigs, and Home and Away. He is a three time National magazine award-winner, and his play, The Five Hole Stories, was staged by One Yellow Rabbit Performance Company, touring the country in 2008. He last book was Keon and Me and he is the publisher of the West End Phoenix community newspaper in Toronto.
Midnight Light
Dave Bidini
Keon and Me
Dave Bidini
Writing Gordon Lightfoot
Dave Bidini
Around the World in 57 1/2 Gigs
Dave Bidini
For Those About to Write
Dave Bidini
The Best Game You Can Name
Dave Bidini
Baseballissimo
Dave Bidini
Tropic Of Hockey
Dave Bidini
On a Cold Road
Dave Bidini
I Heard There Was A Secret Chord
Daniel J. Levitin
The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain
Kazuo Ishiguro
A Book of Days
Patti Smith
Stories I Might Regret Telling You
Martha Wainwright
Sound Within Sound
Kate Molleson
Bedroom Rapper
Rollie Pemberton
Letters of Note: Music
Shaun Usher
Beautiful Scars
Tom Wilson
Song of a Nation
Robert Harris
A Newfoundlander in Canada
Alan Doyle
Sticky Fingers
Joe Hagan
Play It Loud
Brad Tolinski and Alan di Perna; Foreword by Carlos Santana
I Am Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson with Ben Greenman
Testimony
Robbie Robertson