Dale Morningstar is a Canadian rock musician and recording engineer and producer, originally from Chippawa, Ontario.
Morningstar is the founding member of The Dinner Is Ruined, an avant-garde rock band based in Toronto in the early 1990s.
The band is known for an unconventional approach to music, Morningstar once even playing the stationary bicycle live at Massey Hall.
Morningstar, however, is perhaps best known for co-founding The Gas Station Recording studio, which has been called "the hub of the Canadian indie rock sound"[1] with Don Kerr in 1990.
[2] Morningstar has provided record production, mixing, and engineering for countless musicians over the years including Gordon Downie, Julie Doiron, Neko Case, Thrush Hermit, Tristan Psionic, Cowboy Junkies, Yat-Kha, Barenaked Ladies, hHead, The Inbreds and Kyp Harness.