Chris Wardman

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Chris Wardman
OriginCanada
Occupation(s)Music producer, musician, songwriter
Instrument(s) Guitar
Website chriswardman.com

Chris Wardman is a Canadian music producer, musician and songwriter. Wardman was a founding member of Blue Peter, and was their lead guitarist and main contributing songwriter. Wardman was also a member of Breeding Ground in the late 1980s. [1] Wardman has been actively producing albums for many Canadian acts, including Chalk Circle, [2] Leslie Spit Treeo, [3] Randy Bachman [4] and Emm Gryner. Wardman produced two albums for Art Bergmann, including Sexual Roulette in 1990. [5] [6] Meryn Cadell's most recent new release, 1997's 6 Blocks, was produced by Wardman, for which he hired, among others, former bandmate Jason Sniderman, and he performed on the album as well. [7] The Watchmen credit Wardman with discovering them while playing at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto, and he produced their debut album, McLaren Furnace Room , which was certified gold in Canada in 1996. [8] [9] In his review of the album on Allmusic, Roch Parisien complimented Wardman's mix of the album for how he balanced lead singer Danny Greaves' vocals with the music production. [10]

Wardman played on tour with Emm Gryner in 2011. [1] [11]

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  2. ↑ "Album info". Chalk Circle – The Great Lake. Billboard.com. Retrieved 10 January 2011.[ permanent dead link ]
  3. ↑ "Don't Cry Too Hard". Leslie Spit Treeo Discography. Discogs. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
  4. ↑ "Randy Bachman / Guess Who". Artist Index. Maple Music. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
  5. ↑ Barclay, Michael; Jack, Ian A.D.; Schneider, Jason (1 January 2011). Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance, 1985–1995. ECW Press. p. 138. ISBN   978-1550229929 . Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  6. ↑ "Moi, je chante avec Blue Peter". Emm's Journal. EmmGryner.com. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
  7. ↑ LeBlanc, Larry (10 May 1997). "Cadell Ditches 'Kooky' Image; Handsome Boy Bows Radio-Friendly 'Blocks 6'". Billboard. p. 50. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  8. ↑ "Biography". The Watchmen official site. Archived from the original on 6 July 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  9. ↑ "Gold/Platinum – The Watchmen". Music Canada. Archived from the original on 26 July 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  10. ↑ Parisien, Roch. "The Watchmen, McLaren Furnace Room". Allmusic. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  11. ↑ "Tour Dates". Tour. EmmGryner.com. Archived from the original on 14 May 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2011.

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