Rheostatics Week Continues
Well today a rare song, an upcoming interview and a book excerpt as the Rheostatics farewell countdown continues.
First the interview. This week on the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show, Rheostatic Dave Bidini will be on talking about the last show. The interview will take place around 7:30 am this Wednesday on CFRU. I'll provide the link after the interview. For full details go here.
Next the excerpt. At radio free canuckistan, Michael Barclay has an excerpt from his amazing book he co-wrote, Have Not Been The Same, from the Rheostatics chapter. It's a four part post and part one can be seen here.
Lastly the rare song. One of the biggest Rheostatics hits would have to be "Bad Time To Be Poor". Originally on The Blue Hysteria album, it came during Mike Harris and the PC "Common Sense Revolution". People were hurting and the song struck a nerve. At the same time the Ontario government was in the middle of merging all the municipalities of Toronto into the "Mega City". Lots of people didn't like the idea and a benefit album came out to fight it, No Mega-CD, in 1997. On it was a new version of "Bad Time To Be Poor". Not really circulated much I'm sharing it here with you all. Just a straight up mp3 on YouSendIt and the link is below.
Rheostatics-"Bad Time To Be Poor" No Mega-CD version
Back tomorrow with another Rheostatics post.
First the interview. This week on the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show, Rheostatic Dave Bidini will be on talking about the last show. The interview will take place around 7:30 am this Wednesday on CFRU. I'll provide the link after the interview. For full details go here.
Next the excerpt. At radio free canuckistan, Michael Barclay has an excerpt from his amazing book he co-wrote, Have Not Been The Same, from the Rheostatics chapter. It's a four part post and part one can be seen here.
Lastly the rare song. One of the biggest Rheostatics hits would have to be "Bad Time To Be Poor". Originally on The Blue Hysteria album, it came during Mike Harris and the PC "Common Sense Revolution". People were hurting and the song struck a nerve. At the same time the Ontario government was in the middle of merging all the municipalities of Toronto into the "Mega City". Lots of people didn't like the idea and a benefit album came out to fight it, No Mega-CD, in 1997. On it was a new version of "Bad Time To Be Poor". Not really circulated much I'm sharing it here with you all. Just a straight up mp3 on YouSendIt and the link is below.
Rheostatics-"Bad Time To Be Poor" No Mega-CD version
Back tomorrow with another Rheostatics post.
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