Double Live, by Rheostatics

Double Live

by Rheostatics

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1.	Saskatchewan (Live at Le Colisée, Quebec City, QC) 07:59	buy track
2.	Feed Yourself (Live at Bathurst Street Theatre, Toronto, ON_ 07:58	buy track
3.	Shaved Head (Live at Bathurst Street Theatre, Toronto, ON) 06:05	buy track
4.	Torque, Torque! (Live at Louie's Pub, Saskatoon, SK) 01:39	buy track
5.	Claire (Live at Bathurst Street Theatre, Toronto, ON) 05:49	buy track
6.	Legal Age Life (Live at Louie's Pub, Saskatoon, SK) 04:07	buy track
7.	Dead Is The Drunkest That You Can Get (Live at Bathurst Street Theatre, Toronto, ON) 02:56	buy track
8.	Bees (Live at Bathurst Street Theatre, Toronto, ON) 01:46	buy track
9.	Dope Fiends & Boozehounds (Live at Louie's Pub, Saskatoon, SK) 06:12	buy track
10.	Song Of Flight (Live at Louie's Pub, Saskatoon, SK) 01:54	buy track
11.	Self Serve Gas Station (Live at Louie's Pub, Saskatoon, SK) 05:11	buy track
12.	Horses (Live at Club Vertigo, Victoria, BC) 08:52	buy track
13.	Dope Fiends (Ending) (Live at Uptown Theatre, Calgary, AB) 02:24	buy track
14.	Record Body Count (Live at Uptown Theatre, Calgary, AB) 03:34	buy track
15.	A Midwinter Night's Dream (Live at Bathurst Street Theatre, Toronto, ON) 09:02	buy track
16.	The Royal Albert (Joey 2) (Live at The West End Cultural Centre, Winnipeg, MB) 02:16	buy track
17.	Introducing Happiness (Live at The West End Cultural Centre, Winnipeg, MB) 03:13	buy track
18.	Stolen Car (Live at Bathurst Street Theatre, Toronto, ON) 05:36	buy track
19.	Jesus Was A Teenager Too (Live at Bathurst Street Theatre, Toronto, ON) 04:25	buy track
20.	Good Canadian (Live at Bathurst Street Theatre, Toronto, ON) 00:31	buy track
21.	Bread, Meat, Peas & Rice (Live at Bathurst Street Theatre, Toronto, ON) 03:18	buy track
22.	Christopher (Live at The Quilted Bear Pub, Banff, AB) 04:36	buy track
23.	The Ballad of Wendel Clark, Pt. 1 & 2 (Live in Kelowna) 05:16	buy track
24.	Palomar (Live at The West End Cultural Centre, Winnipeg, MB) 05:10	buy track
25.	Triangles On The Wall (Live at Club Vertigo, Victoria, BC) 03:57	buy track
26.	P.R.O.D. (Live at Coyote's, Thunder Bar, ON) 04:03	buy track
27.	Regina (Live at Coyote's, Thunder Bay, ON) 01:02	buy track
28.	The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Live at Coyote's, Thunder Bay, ON) 08:13	buy track
29.	Desert Island Discs (Live at The Quilted Bear, Banff, AB) 03:53	buy track

about

Welcome to our live album. As we recorded it – that is, as we dragged two digital tape machines and a mixing board across the country and unboxed them nightly, often in haste and with minutes to spare before hitting the stage – we had no idea that, upon reflection, this would turn out to be a defining recording for us. Yet it is. All of your favourites were considered for this record (please, no letters lamenting the exclusion of “The World is Fluffly” or “Hallowe’en Eyes”) and we tried to slip in a few lost gems for good measure. Everything was recorded on our last Canadian tour with hits added from our arena stint opening for The Tragically Hip. We hope that this platter sounds like the road, which, for us, represents more good than bad. In the 27 songs included here, you can feel all of those miles rolled up in there, those timeless purple evenings spent on the highways of Canada, driving through wilding snowstorms and blinding sunsets, wheeling from town to town, club to club, hall to hall, colliding paths with strangers, and unapologetically tapping into the astonishing goodwill of Canadian music lovers coast-to-coast-to-coast who opened their doors to us and saved our collective bacon on more than one occasion. This band would be dead were it not for them.

With Martin Tielli’s handpainted triple-mapled double-neck guitar on the cover, Double Live became one of the band’s bestselling albums, a document of life on tour with The Hip, and life well outside the orbit of the arena machine, in clubs and wherever else the Rheos clawed and conjured their shows. Live Between Us is the story of a national headliner in peak form; Double Live is the weirder, jagged, chasmic dog-eared story of a band that wouldn’t fit that role, yet endure regardless, on their own stubborn terms and in their own rapturous way.

With rarities and oddities including the nervous seasick cover of Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” improvised material not found on any other Rheos’ albums and all the hits from the band’s cabinet of curiosities, Double Live is a deep dive into a time, group and traveling scene.

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released November 18, 1997

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Rheostatics Toronto, Ontario

Ever bound for ragged glory, Rheostatics occupy a unique place in the Canadian music landscape, pulled together and apart for nearly forty years. Finding grace in the reality of endurance, Rheostatics show us a special type of longevity, through upheaval, personal (and personnel) change, and a basic refusal to play the game in any way, shape or form, stretched over decades. ... more

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