Chris Wardman | |
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Origin | Canada |
Occupation(s) | Music producer, musician, songwriter |
Instrument | Guitar |
Website | chriswardman |
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]