Biografía:
Rheostatics are a Canadian indie rock band. Although they had only one Top 40 hit (Claire in 1995), they were simultaneously one of Canada's most influential and most unconventional rock bands in the 1990s, a band whose defiantly quirky, yet compelling, take on pop and rock music has been described both as iconic and iconoclastic.
They played their farewell concert to a sold-out house at Toronto's Massey Hall on March 30, 2007. Sound board recordings of that and many other shows are available (with permission) at http://rheostaticslive.
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Otras canciones:
- Aliens Christmas 1988
- Bad Time To Be Poor
- California Dreamline
- Claire
- Dead Is The Drunkest You Can Get
- Dope Fiends And Boozehounds
- Horses
- Introducing Happiness
- It
- King Of The Past
- Legal Age Life At Variety Store
- Lyings Wrong
- Making Progress
- Mumbletypeg
- My First Rock Concert
- Northern Wish
- Queer
- Record Body Count
- Saskatchewan
- Self Serve Gas Station
- Take Me In Your Hand
- The Ballad Of Wendel Clark
- The Harmelodian Anthem
- We Went West
- When Winter Comes
- You Are A Treasure
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
My First Rock Concert
Dave Bidini - Blue Hysteria
Transcribed - Ira Aikman
G
My first rock concert was a stadium affair
C D G
our dads drove us down to the front gates there,
G
And we looked at all the people and all their rock-n-roll hair,
C D G
And for the very first time i smelled dope in the air,
E C G
And we saw ELO, but they sucked.
D C D
But Meatloaf was wicked, so we gave it up for the fat man. (Gave it up for Meat)
G
My second rock show I was offered some pot,
C D G
But i refused to be swayed or to be caught by a cop.
G
Geddy, Alex, Neil: they played penultimate rock,
C D G
And for the very last song they set off five flash pots,
E C G
My friend had an epileptic fit.
D C
But the crowd cheered him on cause they thought that he was dancing.
D
(Thought that he was a fool on his back.)
G
My third rock show was an epochal day,
C D G
It was out at the ex, beneath the Alpine way
G
Aerosmith and Goddo, they were okay,
C D G E
But when i saw the Ramones and it changed the way i saw the world.
C G
I saw everything.
D C
So I bought a leather jacket, cut holes in my jeans.
D C D
When my parents saw my pants, then they took away the car keys for two days.
G
The Specials, Gand of Four, and all the new wave.
C D G
I saw the Birthday Party play with Nick Cave.
G
I saw XTC twice, I thought Paul Weller was Christ.
C D G
I even met Michael Stipe, he was distant but he was nice.
E C G
Joe Jackson saved my life
D C
At Massey Hall, I got up and i started to dance
D C
Big ol' cop, he grabbed me, and pinned me against the stage.
D C
Cop reached down, and he took the hat off my head.
D C
Then Joe reached down and he took the hat off the cops head,
D C D
So i wiggled free and i ran up into the balcony and swan dived.
G
Now it's many years later and I'm up on the stage,
C D G
Sometimes i feel a little like a bird in a cage.
G
Under these lights you're either a mouse or a sage,
C D G
Music belies one's actual age.
E C G
Is it just a passing churn (yeah, could be, could be)?
D C
Like a rusty car, hair style, or an old shirt (shirt shirt),
D C D
A CHUM chart, an 8 track, or a gate-folds double live.
G C D G
Oh yeah, I was there
Dave Bidini - Blue Hysteria
Transcribed - Ira Aikman
G
My first rock concert was a stadium affair
C D G
our dads drove us down to the front gates there,
G
And we looked at all the people and all their rock-n-roll hair,
C D G
And for the very first time i smelled dope in the air,
E C G
And we saw ELO, but they sucked.
D C D
But Meatloaf was wicked, so we gave it up for the fat man. (Gave it up for Meat)
G
My second rock show I was offered some pot,
C D G
But i refused to be swayed or to be caught by a cop.
G
Geddy, Alex, Neil: they played penultimate rock,
C D G
And for the very last song they set off five flash pots,
E C G
My friend had an epileptic fit.
D C
But the crowd cheered him on cause they thought that he was dancing.
D
(Thought that he was a fool on his back.)
G
My third rock show was an epochal day,
C D G
It was out at the ex, beneath the Alpine way
G
Aerosmith and Goddo, they were okay,
C D G E
But when i saw the Ramones and it changed the way i saw the world.
C G
I saw everything.
D C
So I bought a leather jacket, cut holes in my jeans.
D C D
When my parents saw my pants, then they took away the car keys for two days.
G
The Specials, Gand of Four, and all the new wave.
C D G
I saw the Birthday Party play with Nick Cave.
G
I saw XTC twice, I thought Paul Weller was Christ.
C D G
I even met Michael Stipe, he was distant but he was nice.
E C G
Joe Jackson saved my life
D C
At Massey Hall, I got up and i started to dance
D C
Big ol' cop, he grabbed me, and pinned me against the stage.
D C
Cop reached down, and he took the hat off my head.
D C
Then Joe reached down and he took the hat off the cops head,
D C D
So i wiggled free and i ran up into the balcony and swan dived.
G
Now it's many years later and I'm up on the stage,
C D G
Sometimes i feel a little like a bird in a cage.
G
Under these lights you're either a mouse or a sage,
C D G
Music belies one's actual age.
E C G
Is it just a passing churn (yeah, could be, could be)?
D C
Like a rusty car, hair style, or an old shirt (shirt shirt),
D C D
A CHUM chart, an 8 track, or a gate-folds double live.
G C D G
Oh yeah, I was there
Rhii
Rhoma Irama
Rhonda Vincent
Rhose
Rhyman
Riana Nel
Ribas
Ribelli
Ric Manrique Jr.
Ric Segretto