Career
As well, he has appeared as a guest musician on albums by Barenaked Ladies, Kevin Hearn, The Waltons, Jane Siberry, Ashley MacIsaac, Meryn Cadell and Mia Sheard. He is also a painter, and created most of the album covers for the Rheostatics. Tielli"s younger brothers are Doug Tielli and John Tielli.
Martin co-produced People From Earth"s 1997 album, Luvskull, with the band and Don Kerr.
Rheostatics Circo (1995, re-release 2002) Arnold Schoenberg and the Berlin Cabaret (2003) Kick at the Darkness (1991), "A Long Time Love Song" (with Jane Siberry) More Large Than Earth (We Will Warn the Stars) (2005), "Our Keepers" Live in Toronto (2006), "If You Go Away (Ne Maine Quitte Pas)", "Modest Lover (Der Genugsame Liebehaber)" and "Gigerlette" (with Art of Time Ensemble) Tielli sang the lead vocal on the opening track, "The Prisoner" from Ryan Granville-Martin"s album Mouthparts and Wings (2013) which features a different vocalist on each song.The song also features a guitar solo by Kurt Swinghammer. Instruments Encore arch-top electric guitar Fender 8-string pedal steel guitar Ibanez double-necked 6/12-string electric guitar Steinberger General Practice-2T electric guitar Takamine Communist Party-132S classical guitar Effects Alesis Quadraverb Boss Companies of Honour-1 chorus with EQ Boss CS-2 Compressor Boss General Electric-7 Equalizer Boss OC-2 Octaver Department Of Defense FX25 envelope filter Ernie Ball volume pedal PSK Doctor of Divinity 2000 digital delay Rat Pro Company distortion Roland On/Office switch Tielli painted his Ibanez guitar with a "never quite presented idea" for the new Canadian flag, designed by A.Y. Jackson.
This design is often mistaken for one originally championed by Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson to be the Canadian flag (nicknamed "the Pearson Pennant"). This guitar appears on the cover for the Rheostatics album, Double Live.
Tielli"s Steinberger guitar is nicknamed "Steiny".