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33: 638: 564:, an album based on a children's story written by Bidini. The album, which featured the band's songs interspersed with narration by Bidini's wife, Janet Morassutti, detailed the adventures of Dot and Bug, two children from the land of Harmelodia who fell through a hole into the land of Popopolis. The album was packaged with a book featuring Tielli's illustrated text of Bidini's story. Hearn and the band's frequent producer, 444: 415:. The resignation came very shortly before a cross-Canada tour. Clark has stated in interviews that he left because he was uncomfortable with the chart success of "Claire" and feared that the rest of the band would be persuaded to evolve in a mainstream direction. Tielli's perspective on "Claire", however, was very different: 758:
On December 9 and 10, 2016, Rheostatics (Bidini, Clark, Tielli, Vesely, Hearn, Marsh) performed at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto, where five new songs were debuted: "Mountains and the Sea" (Bidini), "Music is the Message" (Vesely), "Chemical Valley" (Hearn), "Albatross" (Tielli) and "It's the Super
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Dave Clark hated it, but we were totally successful at what the assignment was. Nobody’s picked up on how funny that is: the assignment was to write Desmond Howell’s hit song, and we did it – and it’s our only charting hit, except maybe for "Bad Time to be Poor". It’s funny as hell that we can do it
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was released. The album is a distillation and resequencing of material drawn from the band's first Green Sprouts Music Week, held from April 12 to 18, 1993 at Ultrasound Showbar in Toronto. Two singles, live versions of "Record Body Count" and "Woodstuck", were released in digital format and also
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Rheostatics announced three reunion concerts to take place on December 5 and 6, 2012 with a lineup of Bidini, Clark, Tielli and Vesely to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto. The shows were ultimately cancelled nine days prior to the planned dates due to Martin
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on Perimeter Records. Though Kerr plays on the album, it was announced prior to its release that he would be departing from the band. The reasons given were his desire to focus on his work at Gas Station Recording Studios in Toronto, as well as his role in
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On August 27, 2016, Rheostatics (Bidini, Kerr, Tielli, Vesely) with Kevin Hearn and Hugh Marsh headlined at the Harvest Picnic festival (Christie Lake, Ontario). On September 18, 2016 the same line-up performed at the Toronto Urban Roots Festival (TURF).
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hit, "Claire" in 1995, they were simultaneously one of Canada's most influential and unconventional rock bands, a band whose eclectic take on pop and rock music has been described both as iconic and iconoclastic. In particular, two of the band's albums,
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On April 29, 2016, Rheostatics (Bidini, Kerr, Tielli, Vesely) with Kevin Hearn and Hugh Marsh performed at Massey Hall. They performed a warm-up show on April 24, 2016 at the Starlight Social Club in Waterloo, Ontario with the same line-up.
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band. They were formed in 1978, and actively performed from 1980 until disbanding in 2007. After a number of reunion performances at special events, Rheostatics reformed in late 2016, introducing new songs and performing semi-regularly.
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The band's style was highly eclectic, feeding off the creative cross-pollination of each member's distinct musical style, and was marked by a willingness to experiment with just about any musical idea. Tielli's material tended toward
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influences, Vesely pursued a relatively mainstream pop-rock orientation which meant that his songs (including both "Claire" and "Bad Time to Be Poor") garnered nearly all of the band's radio airplay, and Clark's songs were
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The centrepiece of the soundtrack was "Claire", a love song from the main character in the movie to a woman who'd moved into his house, which became Rheostatics' first and only Top 40 hit and earned the band a
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Martin Tielli left the band at the end of 1988, and shortly thereafter the Rheostatics broke up. During the hiatus, Bidini and Clark played a number of shows as supporting musicians for the recently reunited
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Controller!" (Clark). With Dave Clark returning to the drum kit, and the introduction of new material by all members, this show marked a return to regular, if infrequent, performances.
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On October 24, 2009, the band reunited to perform at an event put on by Toronto's International Festival of Authors and Humber College, produced by Judith Keenan of BookShorts, honouring
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Tielli's inability to perform. The owner of Six Shooter Records (the band's label) indicates that Tielli told her it was due to his long-time battle with stage fright.
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In late 2001, the band revived their tradition of a week's club residency, formerly known as "Green Sprouts Music Week", and played 11 straight evenings at Toronto's
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While this eclecticism appealed to the band's fans, it also made them difficult for a major label to market – some of their later albums, especially
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Bidini and Tielli have continued working together after the Massey Hall show. The first of such projects was a musical-theatre piece entitled
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in 1996. This album garnered airplay for the single "Bad Time to Be Poor," a scathing indictment of life in Ontario during the government of
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out of retirement, after Bidini and Vesely crashed Connors' birthday party in 1986 and wrote an article about it for a Toronto newspaper.
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in May 1997, wherein front man Gordon Downie opens the album – and show – by saying, over the beginning of the first track “Grace Too”,
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On September 4, 5 and 6, 2015, Rheostatics (Bidini, Kerr, Tielli, Vesely) with Kevin Hearn, plus guest Hugh Marsh performed the album
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On April 12, 2014, Rheostatics (Bidini, Kerr, Tielli, Vesely) performed with Bidiniband and various guests as part of the 2nd Annual
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Tim Vesely publicly announced his departure from the band on September 8, 2006, citing his desire to concentrate on his side project
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After it was revealed that Vesely would be leaving, Bidini embarked on a solo tour and chronicled his experience in the 2007 book
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in 1978, the band played their first gig at a club called The Edge in February 1980. The band originally consisted of guitarist
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was released in 1994, putting the band in the odd position of having two almost identically-titled albums in its catalogue.
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was released on September 6, 2019. It is their twelfth album and their first album of original material in 14 years.
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is the only other artist to have achieved the distinction of placing two albums in the top five in the same year.
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Bidini and Tielli explored the possibility of continuing the band with Wojewoda and collaborating keyboardist
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In the early 1980s the Rheostatics released a number of independent singles, and the three song demo
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On March 30, 2012, the fifth anniversary of the group's final show at Massey Hall, a live album,
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Rheostatics' final show at Massey Hall, 2007. From left to right: Bidini, Clark, Kerr and Vesely
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It was also Clark's last album with the band, as he left to concentrate on his own band,
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that year. The single "Record Body Count" garnered them significant airplay on radio and
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was brought in. Tielli and Clark had previously been bandmates in the group Water Tower.
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Rheostatics (2007) L–R: Tim Vesely, Michael Phillip Wojewoda, Dave Bidini, Martin Tielli
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A farewell concert was planned and on March 30, 2007, the Rheostatics played Toronto's
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placed tenth, becoming one of six albums to place in the top ten all three times, and
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The band also opened for the Tragically Hip on that band's tour to support the album
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On August 31, 1997 the group performed a live session for the last episode of
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in February 2009 on Zunior. Vesely and Wojewoda contribute to two tracks.
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class at a summer music school. After the departure of the horn section,
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placed sixteenth. When the magazine conducted a follow-up poll in 2000,
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In June 2018, Rheostatics started recording sessions for a new album.
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in the winter of 1995. Also in 1995, the band first toured with
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Best Original Song Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners
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Jill Wilson, "The Secret Sessions: Rheostatics Tribute".
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in 1994. "Claire" was also featured on the band's album
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Later in 1995, the band attracted the attention of the
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Rheostatics then returned to the studio, and released
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Maple Serum: Rheostatics Live at the Horseshoe Tavern
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Maple Serum: Rheostatics Live at the Horseshoe Tavern
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Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack and Jason Schneider,
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Index

Rheostatics (2007) L–R: Tim Vesely, Michael Phillip Wojewoda, Dave Bidini, Martin Tielli
Etobicoke
Ontario
Indie rock
Intrepid
Sire
DROG
True North
Zunior
Six Shooter
Dave Bidini
Dave Clark
Kevin Hearn
Hugh Marsh
Martin Tielli
Tim Vesely
Don Kerr
Michael Phillip Wojewoda
rheostatics.ca
indie rock
Top 40
Whale Music
Melville
Etobicoke
Ontario
Dave Bidini
Tim Vesely
Dave Clark
R&B
funk

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