{"id":3046,"date":"2014-01-11T05:24:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T05:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2014-01-11T23:22:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T23:22:14","slug":"canada-day-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3046","title":{"rendered":"Canada Day Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/liz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"liz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/liz.jpg\" width=\"643\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometime 20 years ago my band the Binder Specialists played Canada Day in Winnipeg. The band was named after a used car which belonged to a company called The Binder Specialists (which made us look amazing when we pulled into town with a fancy logo across the truck &#8211; the bindermobile).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/83732865\">This excerpt in Winnipeg<\/a> was one of 25 dates we did that summer. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selinamartin.com\/\">Selina Martin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/madmushroomcap\">Liz Murray<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/davezedlee\">Dave Lee<\/a> were awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Being from Winnipeg it was very strange that we had a room or two at our disposal at the bar known to Winnipegers as The Zoo. I can&#8217;t imagine we could survive sleeping a night there but I can&#8217;t remember now if we did or made a better escape.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever filmed us starts and stops. It&#8217;s kind of interesting. These two songs slamspliced are Real Thing &#8211; which Ron Sexsmith once told me could be a hit, (why doesn&#8217;t anyone listen to Ron? and Stay Untraceable which in upcoming months had unique movements choreographed by Liz ad Selina. I&#8217;ll post that after I digitize the Kiel, Germany performance, the one when we scraped the top of the rental van.<\/p>\n<p>Tip for future bands: try not to scrape a rental vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime 20 years ago my band the Binder Specialists played Canada Day in Winnipeg. The band was named after a used car which belonged to a company called The Binder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3046\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[240],"tags":[463,462,461,465,466],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-3046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-performing","tag-bob-wiseman-and-dave-lee","tag-bob-wiseman-and-liz-murray","tag-bob-wiseman-and-selina-martin","tag-bob-wiseman-and-the-binder-specialists","tag-the-binder-specialists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}