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Brad Wheeler

2 years

"Love brought joy and life brought pain, the emptiness of money and a name / after that things got a little rough, in the American Dream"

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

1 year

On his deathbed, Gordon Lightfoot told his longtime friend and booking agent Bernie Fiedler, "We've had a good run."

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For my interview, Netflix stipulated that I not ask Groening about Apu controversy. I asked Netflix, "Is Matt declining to comment on Apu?" They declined to answer that, so I went ahead and asked Matt about Apu. Netflix halted the interview immediately and disconnected the call.

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"Simpsons" creator Matt Groening: "I think particularly right now, people feel so aggrieved and crazed and powerless that they're picking the wrong battles."

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Brad Wheeler

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4 years

The Spin Doctors and Little Miss Can't Be Wrong

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1 year

Neil Young has posted his tribute To Gordon Lightfoot at @NeilYoungNYA .

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11 months

@CaelanConrad The woman in the audience doing the talking uses the word "literally" way too often.

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6 years

@JuddLegum He says Germany "never had difficulties, never had problems" before immigration. Germany.

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6 years

Just caught John Prine at the House of Strombo. Gord Lightfoot in the crowd. Jim Cuddy only the third best songwriter in the room.

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11 months

"Journey to the stars, rock 'n' roll guitars..." RIP Myles Goodwyn

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Brad Wheeler

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3 years

Rest in piece, Dallas Good of the Sadies. A baritone in voice and in presence, he always seemed he was from another time and place. There was an elegant doom and gothic twang about him...A pure piece of walking, breathing music and a distinguishable artist.

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Brad Wheeler

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1 year

I spoke to Steve Earle today; asked him about Ron Sexsmith opening up for him in Toronto next month. "As soon as I heard it was going to be at @masseyhall , I asked for Ron. And it worked out, thank god."

Ron Sexsmith 💙

@RonSexsmith

2 years

Here I am today at Sirius Radio in NYC with the great Steve Earle RS

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Brad Wheeler

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5 years

@LaurenPelley I once went to a public fenced-in basketball court. I assume it was once a tennis court. A woman there with her dog was upset I interrupted her dog time by playing basketball...on a basketball court. Wondering if that was you.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

4 years

@OseKry @SethAbramson That's his legacy. At least McCarthy claimed America was infiltrated by an enemy power/ideology. Trump's attack is on America itself. Bizarrely unpatriotic leader.

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Brad Wheeler

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3 months

@derecho_series The flooding and the highway are not new. This isn't a "once world-class city" story.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

4 years

Looking forward to the Blue Jays home opener.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

4 years

Steve Earle & the Dukes will record an album of songs written by Justin Townes Earle with 100% of artist advances and royalties going to a trust for Justin's daughter. To be released in January, 2021, around the time of what would have been Justin's thirty-ninth birthday.

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Brad Wheeler

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3 years

Came back from concession stand at Jays game to find a maskless guy with a camouflage backpack sitting in my seat. "Call the police," guy said. Usher kicked him out. Guy called me a "little bitch." I told him I wasn't little.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

9 months

It's Tracy Chapman's Fast Car.

billboard

@billboard

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Here Are the Lyrics to Tracy Chapman & Luke Combs’ ‘Fast Car’

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

6 years

LOL People who won't pay for online news content but who don't think twice about buying bottled water.

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@BWheelerglobe

9 years

@stephenasmith "I'm not accusing of him of taking PEDs, but..." is the new "I'm not a racist, but..."

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Brad Wheeler

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7 months

@Olivianuzzi "Me boy," as if Lee was a leprechaun. Where does that even come from?

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8 years

Robot: "1,000 #TragicallyHip tickets please." Ticketmaster: "Are you a robot?" Robot: "I am not." Ticketmaster: "Ok"

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

2 years

@PubityIG That alligator's brain is the size of a walnut. It's not happy. It's not anything. Does its "expression" change when the scrubbing starts? Nope.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

5 years

@Sethrogen I was thinking actor Richard Masur.

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@BWheelerglobe

1 year

Steve Earle on different women asking which song is about them: "I don't have the heart to tell 'em that they're all about me." #SparkleAndShine

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Brad Wheeler

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1 year

A do Ron Ron, a do Ron Ron. A birds eye view of one of Canada's elite songwriters. #RonSexsmith @masseyhall .

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@BWheelerglobe

1 year

There are more perfect things in this clip than I could count.

Old Canada Series

@oldcanadaseries

1 year

Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and friends at Gordon Lightfoot's home in Toronto's Rosedale neighbourhood in 1975.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

3 years

Last one out is the first back in. Gordon Lightfoot, the last artist to perform at Massey Hall on July 1, 2018, will re-open the venue on November 25, 26 and 27, a week after his 83rd birthday.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

5 months

The Phoenix has fallen: Effective Jan. 15, 2025, after 33 years, Toronto's Phoenix Concert Theatre will close its doors at 410 Sherbourne Street. Work on a residential housing development is scheduled to begin next year. Phoenix owners are looking for a new downtown home.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

7 years

To listen to CBC radio in Toronto is to have a thorough awareness of the weather expectations of Peterborough & the Kawarthas.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

6 years

Up where she belongs: Buffy-Sainte Marie to be inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame on April 1 at the SOCAN Awards in Toronto.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

11 months

Sad to see this. April Wine was the first band I saw in concert. They opened up for Styx on Nov. 30, 1979, Lloyd Noble Center, Norman, Oklahoma. I mentioned that to Myles recently in an email. "That's a long time ago, Brad," he wrote back. It was. Now, much more so.

Eric Alper 🎧

@ThatEricAlper

11 months

April Wine’s Legendary Singer-Songwriter MYLES GOODWYN Passes Away At Age 75 Myles Goodwyn, singer, guitarist, writer, producer and leader of the multi-Platinum selling rock band April Wine, who shaped and directed the group from its earliest beginnings, has died today at the

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Brad Wheeler

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6 years

@lavan_s It's not Groening...it was Netflix. I have no doubt Groening would have answered the question. It wasn't going to be a big part of my piece at all...I only had 10 minutes, and wasn't planning to get into it deep at all.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

6 years

@dfriend My question was going to be "Has the Apu controversy affected the writing or the characters of your new series, Disenchantment?" I was cut off before I could finish the question.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

7 years

During a rehearsal break for the upcoming production of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem, to happen at Toronto's Streetcar Crowsnest. Kim Coates, and Nicholas Campbell to boot.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

2 years

Artist/musician/iconoclast Mendelson Joe has died. Spoke to him recently, asked how he was doing. "I'm dying," he said, "that's how I'm doing." Asked if he was afraid of dying. "I drove a motorcycle for over 40 years, all year around, including winters. What does that tell you?"

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

1 year

Statement from Madison Thomas, director of the 2022 documentary Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On, on the CBC story questioning #BuffySainteMarie 's indigeneity.

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2 years

This is the greatest thing I have ever seen.

''This guy are sick.''

@vvicthor

2 years

gm.

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Brad Wheeler

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6 years

@realDonaldTrump The name of Bruce Ohr's wife is Nellie, not Molly. Molly is the sInger in a band.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

4 years

@PlanetRockRadio @the_60s_at_60 Leonard Cohen does a great job with Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah. And Joni Mitchell's interpretation of CSNY's Woodstock is not bad.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

2 years

Guess who I bumped into at the Burton Cummings Theatre in Winnipeg?

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

2 years

Local singer-songwriter waits for his chance on the open stage at #mariposafolkfestival . #GordonLightfoot

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

3 years

Here's my Dallas Good feature obituary:

Singer-guitarist Dallas Good created powerful cosmic-country rock with the Sadies

Dallas Good and his bandmate brother, Travis, were part of a musical family that included their father and uncles, who formed the award-winning group the Good Brothers

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

4 years

@jimsciutto I don't see Trump coming back from that.

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Brad Wheeler

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1 year

It's not mentioned here, but Jimmy Buffett's grandfather was Canadian. A steamship captain who inspired Jimmy's song Son of a Son of a Sailor.

American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett dies at 76

Best known for his ‘Margaritaville’ tribute to tropical life, Buffett made 27 studio albums in a career that spanned over five decades

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

7 years

Just interviewed Neil Young. Told him @globeandmail had prepared his obituary. "You can never be too prepared," he said. He fondly remembers the old Globe offices and press at 140 King Street West.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

4 years

When you interview someone who spits off-the-cuff quotes out their mouth that are so fantastic you couldn't write them yourself if you had all day. I feel guilty using the quotes, like I should pay them for their work. @TomWilsonArt is one of those guys. Scratch that -- THE guy.

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1 year

It's time to revisit this one of a kind book by @hockeyesque .

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

6 years

I'm still not down with the kids' "No worries" instead of "you're welcome." I've been told that language evolves and that the two phrases are the same. But I'm not buying it. One is warm and positive; the other, a breezy dismissal of a negative.

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8 months

Last year Allison Russell and @JasonIsbell organized Nashville’s Love Rising benefit concert in support of LGBTQ causes, in response to Tennessee introducing a law banning drag performances on public property. Hayley Williams was among the performers.

Rolling Stone

@RollingStone

8 months

The Tennessee House of Representatives approved an honor for Paramore but blocked honoring Allison Russell. Hayley Williams and Co. aren't having it. "The blatant racism of our state leadership is embarrassing and cruel." More:

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Brad Wheeler

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11 months

At the Horseshoe, @stevenpage (with Sloan's Chris Murphy, Odds' Craig Northey and TPOH's Moe Berg) sings the Guess Who's Undun. SOCAN confirms the greatest CanCon moment since Gordon Lightfoot sipped a warm can of Molson Golden and hummed Joni Mitchell's Help Me while canoing.

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Brad Wheeler

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4 years

Just heard "It’s a Good Life If You Don’t Weaken" in an LCBO. I realized I hadn't thought of Gord Downie in a couple of months. Felt guilty because of it. Man's a legend. Forget him at your peril.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

4 years

Speaking of Brewers Retail, I used to work at a beer store. We had code names for all the brands. For example, if a customer asked for 12 Coors, the cashier would order "12 of the Banquet" into the microphone to the guy in the back room. It was really all the fun we had.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

3 years

The patio re-openings are not moving me. I have no impulse to rejoin society. It's not the corona -- I'll be double vaccinated soon enough. It's that I've gone from loner to hermit. The lockdown beat down my soul even further than it was before.

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Brad Wheeler

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1 year

Just Announced: Steve Earle solo-acoustic @masseyhall on August 25. Opening act is @RonSexsmith . Earle co-produced Ron's Blue Boy (2001). After Interscope refused to release the album, it was released on independent labels.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

7 years

@IvankaTrump Your lack of awareness when it comes to your father is fascinating.

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Brad Wheeler

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2 years

Really well done piece on Buck Martinez by sports reporter @simonhoupt .

Blue Jays broadcaster Buck Martinez drops a quiet bombshell about his future

After a bout with cancer, the former player and manager, and now broadcaster, reflects on a long career and considers leaving the Blue Jays booth. ‘Maybe this is a sign that I should change,’ he...

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Update on this 2022 story, and good news: Hugh's Room Live now owns 296 Broadview Avenue.

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@BWheelerglobe

3 years

Fans of Toronto's Hugh's Room Live folk club may want to read this. Hugh's is hoping to purchase a church in the east end to escape what they call the "rental treadmill."

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4 years

They will starve to death.

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3 years

Damon Albarn, Bono and Eric Clapton being knobs. "Don't let it bring you down, it's only castles burning/ Find someone who's turning, and you will come around." Neil Young restores our faith in rock stars by demanding his music be removed from Spotify over "fake" vaccine info.

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1 year

Exile on Main St., the second best Rolling Stones album, was released this day in 1972. What's your favourite track? I'll go first: All Down the Line.

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@BWheelerglobe

3 years

Howard Hesseman died on Saturday, but Dr. Johnny Fever died long ago. Here's my piece on the meaning of Fever and WKRP, with the thoughts of @JohnDerringer , @TerryDiMonte , @strombo , @RawMikeRichards and @bobcesca_go .

Howard Hesseman’s WKRP character Dr. Johnny Fever moved the dial

WKRP in Cincinnati holds a nostalgic spot in the hearts of television viewers of a now middle-aged demographic

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

7 years

I've watched the Ali-Foreman fight near 20 times, and I think @GeorgeForeman is going to win, every time. He never does though.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

5 months

Canadian Music Week announces Tom Wilson ( @leeharveyosmond ) will receive the 2024 Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award. The award is presented annually to a Canadian artist, duo or group, in recognition of their social activism and benevolent support of humanitarian causes.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

5 years

Here's where I talk to @thedavidcrosby about the new doc on him, David Crosby: Remember My Name.

As a new and intense documentary reveals, David Crosby keeps on keepin’ on

The musician spoke to The Globe and Mail about his estrangement from Neil Young, his unaccountable career renaissance and having no choice but to carry on

www.theglobeandmail.com

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@BWheelerglobe

1 year

Steve Carell and Rainn Wilson chilling at The Office reunion party.

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@BWheelerglobe

6 years

@Susan_Hennessey Reporter: Why did you increase the national debt? Trump: We had to rebuild the military. Reporter: Where will your wall money come from? Trump: From the military budget. (Curb Your Enthusiasm music)

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

3 years

The new wraparound seating on Massey's auditorium floor is an excellent upgrade. The old seats deep on the sides were not the best.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

7 years

The seventies were glorious. #GreyCup on ESPN Classic.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

11 months

Really like this shot. The Queensway, 1965. Photo courtesy of City of Toronto Archives.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

3 years

I have seen the future and it is History. The new Live Nation venue at Kingston Rd. and Queen East is fab. General admission on floor; mezzanine seating above. Capacity 2,435. Opens Sunday, with The Bleachers. The Kool Haus it ain't, and thank god for that.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

8 years

@kayleighmcenany "real first family"??? A twice-divorced president with his trophy wife?

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

5 months

Caught @RonSexsmith at the Sergeants Mess Hall at @Base31PEC in Picton last night. Lovely performance, in the kind of classy venue Toronto is lacking since Hugh's Room Live left its spot on Dundas West.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

5 years

#NeilPeart from my 2007 interview: "My natural exuberance is balanced by my natural reserve. I love show-offy fills and all that stuff, but I never intrude on a vocal part. And I never would co-opt an instrumental section, saying 'I should solo here.' It's not the Canadian way."

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

1 year

Trans-Canada Highwaymen (Steven Page, Chris Murphy, Craig Northey and Moe Berg) announce covers album of Cancon classics from 1969-75. Out Oct. 27. Tracks include Undun, Rock Me Gently, Which Way You Goin’ Billy?, Raised on Robbery and Tonite is a Wonderful Time to Fall in Love.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

4 years

My obituary of Cathy Smith, seen here with the love of her life, Gordon Lightfoot, backstage at a 2017 concert in Vancouver.

Cathy Smith, who admitted to killing John Belushi, was a woman of mystery

For the one-time muse to Gordon Lightfoot, sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll wasn’t a cliche, it was her life

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

2 years

When out last Sunday. Dinner at the Lakeview. Show at the Dakota Tavern. Night cap at the Communist Daughter. First such extended excursion in over 2 years. I have the COVID now.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

3 years

Kind of awesome.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

5 years

On the way to a cottage and it just got real outside Whitby. #TragicallyChip

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

4 years

I miss stereo rigs that look like they belong in a medical laboratory.

Vintage Audio Love

@VintageAudioLuv

4 years

Vintage JVC Love 😍

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5 months

Notice what's missing here at the venue not be named? No Budweiser or Bud Lite for the @NeilYoungNYA show. I'm told there were a number of demands by Neil that needed to be met before he agreed to play here. #ThisBudIsNotForHim #SponsoredByNobodyStage

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

2 years

Gordon Lightfoot has cancelled his concert schedule for 2023. According to a statement, the singer is "currently experiencing some health related issues and is unable to confirm rescheduled dates at this time." Lightfoot last performed at Winnipeg's Club Regent Casino Oct. 30.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

1 year

Gord Downie tried to warn us.

CP24

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1 year

An Ontario woman is calling on McDonald's to do more to warn its customers after she says her eight-year-old daughter nearly swallowed a bone found inside a chicken McNugget.

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3 years

Slept in my Beatles T-shirt. Woke up, fell out of bed. Keep it going...

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@BWheelerglobe

6 years

Just got off the phone with Moe Berg. The Pursuit of Happiness is putting out a remastered deluxe 30th anniversary edition of its 1988 debut album, Love Junk on Friday. A few TPOH shows will happen he tells me.

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@BWheelerglobe

3 years

"I think a lot of people feel sorry for you if you were on Saturday Night Live and emerged from the show anything less than a superstar. They assume you must be bitter. But it is impossible for me to be bitter. I’ve been lucky.” #RIP #NormMacdonald

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

9 months

So cool.

Big Sugar

@Big_Sugar_Music

9 months

So thrilled to get this shout out from #jackwhiteofficial #the500lbstour #bigsugarlive #bigsugar500lbs

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

4 years

Jagger looks to be about 120 pounds. Thirty of it, package.

Old Toronto Series

@oldTOseries

4 years

The Rolling Stones playing the upstairs of the El Mocambo in 1977 on Spadina. credit: Ken Regan

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5 months

Did not see this coming: An unannounced Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson of Rush join @BlueRodeo for a psychedelic take on The Way I Feel, at @masseyhall . #GordonLightfootTribute

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@BWheelerglobe

3 years

Intermission and beer break at the big @RonSexsmith show at Danforth Music Hall. So far, enjoying what the critics are calling "a generous exposition of melody, meaningful words and an efficient charismatic presence." Well, this critic is calling it that anyway.

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3 years

You want more Barn? Here's my chat with @Neilyoung . #Barn #MoreBarn #NeilYoung

Neil Young can’t get enough Barn, or too much Canada

Out Dec. 10, Barn is Neil Young’s 18th studio album with his electric cohorts Crazy Horse

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

2 years

If only Elon Musk had bought Ticketmaster and ran into the ground instead of nosediving Twitter.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

2 years

A reliable source tells me Buddy Guy "loves himself a Mr. Sub sandwich" and more than once he took Buddy from the airport to the Mr. Sub at Derry & Goreway on the way to a hotel or Massey Hall (where he is playing this weekend). The closest open Mr. Sub to Massey is 1881 Yonge.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

4 years

Gord Downie.

Richard Marx

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4 years

Who are the voices you’d describe as truly unique? Who don’t sound remotely like ANYBODY else? My list: John Fogerty, Peter Cetera, Sting, Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits, Michael McDonald, Carly Simon. Carry on...

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"And the sun don't shine anymore..." Eric Clapton pays tribute to Robbie Robertson by opening his Toronto concert with The Shape I'm In and It Makes No Difference, "for Robbie."

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

2 years

David Crosby was scheduled to play the Lobero Theater in Santa Barbara in Feb., with Bruce Cockburn as special guest. David had asked Bruce to do "If I Had A Rocket Launcher." Bruce hadn't been doing but was going to relearn it for this show.

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@BWheelerglobe

5 years

Who do you want to see as your first post COVID-19 vaccine concert? I'm thinking @youarestars or @bssmusic .

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

3 years

Have you guys seen this? Retired carpenter Andrew Smith builds miniatures of Toronto live music venues that are now closed and silent.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

1 year

That's @SteveEarle watching @RonSexsmith from the wings, at Massey Hall.

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Brad Wheeler

@BWheelerglobe

2 years

@RollingStone Hey Rolling Stone, would have been appropriate to link to the source article.

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters says he’s ‘far, far, far more important’ than Drake, The Weeknd

The British rock legend talked to The Globe and Mail via Zoom about hope, his complete ignorance of the aforementioned Canadian musicians, and being literally spitting mad

www.theglobeandmail.com

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