1998, on an airplane flying to the Edmonton Folk Festival. Kate and Anna McGarrigle were seated near me. Couldn’t help it, went over to tell Anna how much I liked […]

Bob Dylan’s Lay Lady Lay is probably based around the fun visual of playing the bar chords like a children’s game  A C#- G F#-   :      5th […]

I attended a Toronto film party and gabbed with people about what their doing and what I’m doing, gave out business cards, mine feature the Warner Brothers logo reversed. Sometimes […]

1987, in the studio with Terry Brown and Juno award winning engineer Mike Jones, Bruce Hornsby’s song That’s The Way It Is comes over the air waves during a break. […]

The mainstream absorbs revolutionary ideas then sells them back as non-threatening. Can you imagine punk rockers in the 70s with fuchsia mohawks and ripped jeans? If you weren’t there it […]

I would love to play a gesture for 10 or 15 minutes at the start of performance and let waves of repetition wash over the ears of everyone. The purpose […]

Many times I was standing on stage and the leader of the band started screaming at a guy in the crew who was underpaid to do the heavy lifting and […]

Freud: Can you teach me how to play Bohemian Rhapsody?   Wiseman: Probably   Freud: How will you do it?   Wiseman: We’ll do small parts then incrementally you’ll know […]

When someone hires me to play on their music, try my best, follow my instincts and check whether they feel it hit the mark. If they’re happy, end of story. […]