Dave Bidini’s quirky personal path to becoming a writer (as well as a well-known rock musician and sports enthusiast) began when he was very young and loved to pick at the typewriter.
Dave Bidini Libri
Dave Bidini è riconosciuto per il suo versatile talento letterario, dimostrato nei suoi nove libri. La sua scrittura esplora frequentemente temi legati allo sport, con le sue opere su hockey e baseball che hanno ottenuto un notevole successo. Lo stile di Bidini è caratterizzato da una cruda onestà e da una profonda visione dell'esperienza umana, che lo rendono un narratore distintivo. La sua produzione creativa si estende oltre la parola scritta, poiché è anche un affermato regista e vincitore di numerosi premi.
David Bidini, rhythm guitarist with the Rheostatics, knows all too well what the life of a rock band in Canada storied arenas one tour and bars wallpapered with photos of forgotten bands the next. Zit-speckled fans begging for a guitar pick and angry drunks chucking twenty-sixers and pint glasses. Opulent tour buses riding through apocalyptic snowstorms and cramped vans that reek of dope and beer. Brilliant performances and heart-sinking break-ups.Bidini has played all across the country many times, in venues as far flung and unalike as Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto and the Royal Albert Hotel in Winnipeg. In 1996, when the Rheostatics opened for the Tragically Hip on their Trouble at the Henhouse tour, Bidini kept a diary. In On a Cold Road he weaves his colourful tales about that tour with revealing and hilarious anecdotes from the pioneers of Canadian rock - including BTO, Goddo, the Stampeders, Max Webster, Crowbar, the Guess Who, Triumph, Trooper, Bruce Cockburn, Gale Garnett, and Tommy Chong - whom Bidini later interviewed in an effort to compare their experiences with his. The result is an original, vivid, and unforgettable picture of what it has meant, for the last forty years, to be a rock musician in Canada.