Career
From 1982 to 1989, he regularly played at open stages in Toronto, developing his songwriting and started producing his friends from the open stages like Sam Larkin, Sara Spracklin, Bob Snider, Kyp Harness and Ron Sexsmith. He joined his first band in 1984 Blue Rodeo and quit in 1992 following their 5th record. Wiseman's songs often incorporate avant garde musical elements and explicit political lyrical themes. His second solo album, Bob Wiseman Sings Wrench Tuttle: In Her Dream, was released in 1988 on Atlantic Records. The album created some notoriety when the first thousand copies were destroyed by Warner Music due to the song "Rock and Tree" which was feared libelous. It was about the murder of Salvador Allende and mentioned Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger and Donald M. Kendall, the president of Pepsi Cola. "Wrench Tuttle", the credited songwriter, was a pseudonym for Wiseman himself. Bob Wiseman Sings Wrench Tuttle: In Her Dream was included in the Canadian music critics top 100 albums of all time The album yielded the video "We Got Time", with cameos by iconoclast Mendelson Joe and friends, Tracy Wright, Don McKellar, Leslie Spit Treeo and Mary Margaret O'Hara. The album also featured "Airplane On The Highway" which had an accompanying video by Caroline Azar and animator Lisa Bujoin. In 2009, the album was re-released by the Blocks Recording Club and the songs were performed live by various friends including Ron Sexsmith, Geoff Berner, Owen Pallett, Kyp Harness, The Phonemes, Picastro, Don Kerr, Michael Holt, Maggie MacDonald, UIC, Laura Barrett, Henri Faberge, and Don Christensen. Wiseman was also a member of The Hidden Cameras. His wife, Magali Meagher, was the original drummer. They are in a 2006 video accompanying Daniel Johnston on his songs "Speeding Motorcycle" and "Beatles". Wiseman was also a member or regular guest of Toronto bands Slutarded, Black Eyes and Dick Duck & the Dorks. Some of Wiseman's better known songs include "What the Astronaut Noticed and Then Suggested" aka Separated- the theme song for CBC Television series Material World -, "White Dress" - a song about sexual assault, recorded by Serena Ryder, and "Maureen" - a song added by David Byrne to his 2010 March playlist
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