Dave Bidini

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Dave Bidini is a Canadian musician and writer. He is a founding member of acclaimed indie rock band Rheostatics, and has published several books about music and sports.

Bidini's wife, Janet Morassutti, has received songwriting credit on the band's song "Dope Fiends and Boozehounds", and was the narrator on the band's 1999 children's album The Story of Harmelodia.

Bidini has recently collaborated on music with Dave Merritt of The Golden Seals. On his website, he has released a song from these sessions entitled "Desert Island Poems", which presents a narrative in which the Rheostatics survive a plane crash in Drumheller, Alberta, but are forced to "eat the drummer" in order to survive. (The lyrics do not specify whether the drummer being eaten is Wojewoda, Clark or Kerr, although both Tielli and Vesely are mentioned by name later in the song.) [1]

[edit] Books

On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock (1998) based on a diary he kept during a cross-country tour with the Tragically Hip in 1996.
Tropic of Hockey (2001)
Baseballissimo (2004)
For Those About to Rock (2004)
The Best Game You Can Name (2005)
The Five Hole Stories (2006)