{"id":3625,"date":"2015-02-10T04:55:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T04:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2015-02-10T06:14:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T06:14:47","slug":"city-of-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3625","title":{"rendered":"City Of Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CJSR_2012_v3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Someone who had a radio show in Edmonton once told me campus radio station CJSR received a complaint about City Of Wood when they broadcast it in 1993. Not too surprising because the lyrics to the first verse were comprised of a lot of swearing about men that\u00a0raped.\u00a0When I wrote it, I was partly trying to figure out how one might write a song like that. I thought since it’s shocking the song should be shocking<\/p>\n

. \"MendelsonJoeWomen\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The cover was a painting of 14 empty chairs in the snow by\u00a0Mendelson Joe<\/a>\u00a0 commemorating the murdered women from the Polytechnique<\/a>\u00a0massacre. What he painted got to me like this Alex Coleville painting.\"Colville-Horse-and-Train-660\"<\/a>\u00a0A few years after that record was released I\u00a0stopped playing it, moved on to newer songs plus there was\u00a0weirdness in a room when I played it, drama time. But I remember the last time I played it – at Clintons in Toronto 6 or 7 years ago at a comedy show<\/p>\n

.\"catxh232\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I was the musical guest and one of the hosts asked me to play the song so I did and they all laughed which was\u00a0confusing. They laughed as though that was my intention all along. I wasn’t sure if the meaning changed over time or if certain audiences are programmed to receive information in only one way. Maybe the joke’s on me.<\/p>\n

Starts at 39:38<\/p>\n