| Double Live | ||||
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| Released | 1997 | |||
| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Label | DROG Records | |||
| Producer | Gary Stokes | |||
| Rheostatics chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Province | [2] |
Double Live is a 1997 album by Rheostatics. It collects a variety of live performances by the band, ranging from intimate club settings to record store sessions to their arena tour with The Tragically Hip in 1996.[3]
The album includes a number of tracks which have never appeared on any previous Rheostatics album. One of these tracks, "Good Canadian", was improvised on the spot, while the version of "Record Body Count" was recorded in the lobby of Calgary's Uptown Theatre after the end of their show there, when the band decided on the spur of the moment to run out and play an extra encore for the fans as they left the venue.[3]
The Hip's live album Live Between Us, released the same year, documents a show for which Rheostatics were the opening band. Gordon Downie acknowledges and thanks Rheostatics at the beginning of that album.
It was the second-biggest selling album of the band's entire career, behind only their major label debut Melville, and was the #1 album of the entire year on Canada's campus radio charts.[4]
- ^ Sean Carruthers, "Rheostatics: Double Live". Allmusic.
- ^ Tom Harrison, "CD Reviews: Rheostatics, Double Live". The Province, April 23, 1998.
- ^ a b Nick Krewen, "Rheostatics like to keep busy". Waterloo Region Record, December 18, 1997.
- ^ Michael Barclay, "Rheostatics: Blame Canada". Exclaim!, November 1, 2001.