Biography:
Rheostatics are a Canadian indie rock band. Although they had only one Top 40 hit (Claire in 1995), they were simultaneously one of Canada's most influential and most unconventional rock bands in the 1990s, a band whose defiantly quirky, yet compelling, take on pop and rock music has been described both as iconic and iconoclastic.
They played their farewell concert to a sold-out house at Toronto's Massey Hall on March 30, 2007. Sound board recordings of that and many other shows are available (with permission) at http://rheostaticslive.
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Other songs:
- Aliens Christmas 1988
- Bad Time To Be Poor
- California Dreamline
- Claire
- Dead Is The Drunkest You Can Get
- Dope Fiends And Boozehounds
- Horses
- Introducing Happiness
- It
- King Of The Past
- Legal Age Life At Variety Store
- Lyings Wrong
- Making Progress
- Mumbletypeg
- My First Rock Concert
- Northern Wish
- Queer
- Record Body Count
- Saskatchewan
- Self Serve Gas Station
- Take Me In Your Hand
- The Ballad Of Wendel Clark
- The Harmelodian Anthem
- We Went West
- When Winter Comes
- You Are A Treasure
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CALIFORNIA DREAMLINE
Written by: Martin Tielli
On the album "Whale Music"
Transcribed by Mike Kaplan
D
California dreamline.
Bm B A/B G Gm
Surfing on the big wave... It's quiet underwater. oooooo
D Bm
As high as high can swing to... Carbonated tide pools.
B A/B G
It's quiet underwater.
F#7
Questionable things like:
G
1. Dolphins helping people to swim.
D
2. Everything peculiar to me.
F#7
3. The people living under the sea
G Gm D
(Alone with their heartbeats, in love with each other).
D Bm
Disillusioned porpoise... playing with the tourists.
B A/Bm G Gm
Drinking beer and coffee...oooooo
D Bm
Sand in my tequila... Senza mea scarpe.
B A/Bm G Gm D
Me and my friend Pablo... walk the beach... incognito.
F#7 G
... And don't say that we've got nothing to hide,
D
'Cause the law's got a rap on me...
F#7
There isn't a gun in Escondido.
G Gm D
... But I feel like I'm swimming, and things will work out anyway.
D Bm B A/B G Gm
All the naked ladies... covered up by nothing. oooooo
D
Californication.
Bm
Spooning in the dry sand.
B G Gm
The sand that gets in everything
D
While men are pum-pum-ping iron.
Bm
Pom-pom-pom-pom-ping Aarron.
A/Bm G Gm
Sitting on the big fault.
Written by: Martin Tielli
On the album "Whale Music"
Transcribed by Mike Kaplan
D
California dreamline.
Bm B A/B G Gm
Surfing on the big wave... It's quiet underwater. oooooo
D Bm
As high as high can swing to... Carbonated tide pools.
B A/B G
It's quiet underwater.
F#7
Questionable things like:
G
1. Dolphins helping people to swim.
D
2. Everything peculiar to me.
F#7
3. The people living under the sea
G Gm D
(Alone with their heartbeats, in love with each other).
D Bm
Disillusioned porpoise... playing with the tourists.
B A/Bm G Gm
Drinking beer and coffee...oooooo
D Bm
Sand in my tequila... Senza mea scarpe.
B A/Bm G Gm D
Me and my friend Pablo... walk the beach... incognito.
F#7 G
... And don't say that we've got nothing to hide,
D
'Cause the law's got a rap on me...
F#7
There isn't a gun in Escondido.
G Gm D
... But I feel like I'm swimming, and things will work out anyway.
D Bm B A/B G Gm
All the naked ladies... covered up by nothing. oooooo
D
Californication.
Bm
Spooning in the dry sand.
B G Gm
The sand that gets in everything
D
While men are pum-pum-ping iron.
Bm
Pom-pom-pom-pom-ping Aarron.
A/Bm G Gm
Sitting on the big fault.
Rhii
Rhoma Irama
Rhonda Vincent
Rhose
Rhyman