Dale Morningstar from the Dinner is Ruined is here to discuss the band’s first new album in 21 years, Like A Tree,Heroic, the first time I saw Dinner is Ruined in 1996 opening an intimate Toronto show for Beck, leaving Toronto for Hamilton, encountering inspiring trees and people, the story behind the making of Gord Downie’s Coke Machine Glow, startling Dave Clark/Don Kerr connections, writing songs about Downie and Dale’s Bobby Orr interactions, recording Downie’s son Lou’s band, the story of the final, yet-to-be-released but fully completely finished album by Gord Downie and the Dinner is Ruined, why exactly it hasn’t been released yet, horse words and Jim Morrison and the Doors, trying to reach and work with Neil Young, a Dinner is Ruined archival project, upcoming shows, other future plans, and much more.

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