Dave Bidini

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Dave Bidini
Dave Bidini performing with the Rheostatics at Massey Hall in Toronto, Ontario, 2007
Background information
Origin	Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada
Genre(s)	Indie rock
Occupation(s)	Musician, writer
Instrument(s)	Guitar
Years active	1980–present
Associated acts	Rheostatics
Website	www.davebidini.ca

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 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. ^[1]

Bidini championed Paul Quarrington's novel King Leary in the 2008 edition of Canada Reads. King Leary won the competition.

[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)
For Those About to Write (2007)
Around the World in 57½ Gigs (2007)