The first of what will hopefully be many memories from a life of both rock and roll, not to mention radio, television, drinking, and debauchery. Shall we begin?
Archive for the music Category
TIME MACHINE TUESDAY NUMBER 1
Posted in life, music, Opinion with tags All the Young Dudes, Bemelmans, Bob Segarini, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elton Rohn, Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson, music, Segarini Band, Toronto on January 28, 2020 by segariniSegarini – Q: Are we not Men? A: We are Demo, D-E-M-O …PLUS – Another Format Free Music Mix
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags April Wine, Bob Segarini, Cats and Dogs, DBAWIS, Demos, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Family Tree, music, Roxy, Segarini Band, Toronto, Wackers on January 24, 2020 by segarini
In the housing industry, DEMO is shorthand for DEMOLISH, the procedure used by renovators and construction workers to tear down that which is to be replaced in order to upgrade a property and increase its value
In the recording industry, DEMO is shorthand for DEMONSTRATION, the procedure used by artists, labels, producers, and songwriters to preview a song or musical project in order to choose what to record or continue to tweak before committing the time and money to realize a finished product or artistic statement.
There are other definitions of DEMO aside from these two, but when it comes to music, the definitions can oft-times be interchangeable …in, and out, of order.
Pat Blythe – Eyes on the prize….Speak Music….and music
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Beverly Kreller, cataracts, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Interocular Lenses, IOLs, Julian Taylor, Ken Yoshioka, Kim Doolittle, Pat Blythe, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera, So Long Seven, Speak Music Be Kind Festival, The Barrel Boys, Tranzac Club on January 22, 2020 by segarini
The eyes are windows to the soul. A rather romantic and idealized thought. Whether that’s true or not, at the moment mine are not…..at least temporarily. No matter how hard we work at it and struggle, our bodies, inside and out, begin to crumble as the years pile on. On the whole, we (as in all of you and me) exercise (okay somewhat), we try and feed our body good stuff (jujubes and chocolate don’t count!), we drink in relative moderation (I’m outta ice cubes and mint again!) and, well, the air we breathe…..that’s out of our control and so is the aging process.
Bob Shares 2 Hours of Format Free Music
Posted in music, Opinion with tags Bob Segarini, Cherry Cola's, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, music, Toronto on January 17, 2020 by segarini
My first actual column of 2020 will run this coming Monday.
In the meantime, this is a recently re-discovered 2 hour program of music I put together for Cherry Cola’s Rock and Rolla Cabaret and Lounge a decade ago to play when bands or DJs wanted to take a break. I don’t think they ever used it, but it represents one way a radio station could sound if they threw the idea of ‘format’ out the door and just played some energy music the DJ felt like playing …which is exactly what I did.
Pat Blythe – 2020 and beyond….HERE WE COME!!!!….and lots of music…..
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Altamont, Andy Kim, Bob Segarini, CBC, Choir Choir Choir, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Drop Top Alibi, Fabergé, Hot Lips, Indie Week, Jain McMillan, Jeremy Hector, Julian Taylor Band, Kelly Fraser, Killer Virgins, Little Magic Sam, LP, luvthemusic, monowhales, Nikki's Wives, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera, Pterodactyl Problems, Rival Sons, Secret Broadcast, Sesame Street, Suzi Kory, The Crooked, The Distillers, Tribe Royal, Woodstock on January 15, 2020 by segarini
A new decade! A new year! Purging, changing, modifying, exploring, new beginnings and some endings, recounting and remembering, wondering, searching, discovering, assessing…..all these and more as a new decade begins.
GARY PIG GOLD with TEN YOU MAY HAVE MISSED In 2019
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags Alan Clayson, Alex Chilton, Bob Segarini, Chris Wilson, Cyril Jordan, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Flamin’ Groovies, Gary Pig Gold, John Lennon, Johnny Thunders, Kimberley Rew, Lee Cave-Berry, Librarians With Hickeys, Rock And Roll Circus, Rolling Stones, Sex Clark Five, Squires Of The Subterrain, Yoko Ono on January 13, 2020 by segarini
So even though Tarantino’s latest failed to put Paul Revere or his Raiders back up at the Toppermost of the Poppermost, and American Funnyman Neil Hamburger’s long-too-awaited Still Dwelling seems to have passed totally under the fryer, the Pig Player this past year was kept busy as always spinning, alphabetically as always…
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Roxanne Tellier – Ho Ho Holiday Memories
Posted in Family, life, music, Opinion, Review with tags .Army and Navy Stores, Band Aid, Big Day, Bob Geldof, Bob Segarini, Christmas, Christmas and Snowbound in the Treasured Past, DBAWIS, Festivus, George Michael, Hanukah, Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas, Jolly Ol' Saint Nick, Kwanza, Max Factor, Midge Ure, Rankin Bass, Roxanne Tellier, Santa, Saturnalia, Slade, Sophisticat, Spirit of Christmas, Wham, Wizzard on December 15, 2019 by segarini 
“Rockin’ around the Christmas tree, at the Christmas party hop.” “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!” Oh NOes! Must be getting close to the holidays – the earworms are out in full force!
This will be the last DBAWIS column for 2019. Next time you see us, it will be a bright and shiny new 2020! Let’s hope that 2020 applies to our vision, rather than to our hindsight.
I’ve got a holiday gathering to go to this afternoon, and every year, it takes me a little longer to get ready to be serially hugged. But one of the perks of having written a weekly column for many years is that, now and again, we can reach back into those past ponderings and re-release them into the present, dusted off, re-edited, and ready to be digested anew.
For your Christmas reading, wonderment and wandering …. a few morsels from my past holiday tables … Continue reading
