There’s been much written about the vibrancy of Yonge Street, particularly beginning in the late 50s to its eventual winding down during the mid to late 80s. Clubs like the Brown Derby, The Colonial Tavern, Club Blue Note, Town Tavern, Le Coq d’Or, Steeles Tavern, Friars Tavern, Hawk’s Nest, The Zanzibar, Silver Rail…..graduating to The Gasworks, Piccadilly Tube, Nickelodeon, Hard Rock Cafe and many others. All gone, except the memories. The jazz and blues, the beginning of the Toronto Sound, rock, disco and punk invasions, the Yonge St. Mall…..
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Pat Blythe – Sounds Like Toronto…..and music
Posted in Interview, life, music, Opinion, Review with tags Archie Alleyne, Bob Segarini, Canada Council of the Arts, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Ed Sullivan, Jazz, Kensington Market, Kollage, luvthemusic, Pat Blythe, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera, podcast, The Beatles, The Colonial Tavern, The Pandemic Interviews, The Underground Railroad Soul Food Restaurant, Toronto, Toronto Heritage, Toronto Jazz Festival, Town Tavern, yonge street, Yorkville on February 10, 2021 by segariniGWNtertainment #5 by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in COVID 19, life, music, Opinion, Review with tags Ashaan Rori Allwood, Bob Segarini, Bona Fide Scoundrels, BucksInDaCut, Canadian Music, Caravan of Music, Dan Hill, Dave King, Dave Rave and the Second Responders, DBAWIS, Deanna Faye, Denise Leslie, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Dr. Minz And The Chronic Harmonic, Drake, Faouzia, Festival du Voyageur, Garage Baby, GWNtertainment, If I Look Strong You Look Strong, Jaimie Vernon, Jeff Woods, Kevin Breit, Kyp Harness, Light of Day Canada Music Festival, Mark Kelso, Maya Malkin, Men Without Hats, Nadine Anyan, Noah Michael, Oscar Peterson, Rapid Transit, Sean Krause, Sounds Like Toronto, Tanya Charles Iveniuk, The Bel-Vistas, The Chairmen of the Boards, The Kings, Valentine's Day Virtual House Party, William Franklyn, Winter Arts Collective on February 8, 2021 by segariniBuckle up kids, the winter is going to make itself very apparent this week throughout most of the already frozen tundra. Polar dippers were greeted with very stiff…water…on Lake Michigan last weekend. Even without a pandemic, this is the perfect time to put on the footie pajamas and snuggle with the fur babies, human babies, and man-babies to listen to some great Canadian music courtesy GWN’s sonic radar.
Chef Tom – Wangs!
Posted in Food, music, Opinion, Recipe, Review with tags Bob Segarini, Chef Tom, chicken wings, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, San Francisco, The Dead South on February 6, 2021 by segarini
Super Bowl Sunday. No Buffalo (wings or team – sorry Bill’s fans). I know this is late in the game, so to speak, but if you can pull one or two of these finger-lickin’ recipes together before the kick-off, go for it.
Your fans will rush the field. Continue reading
Pat Blythe – Momma can you hear me? …..and music
Posted in Interview, music, Opinion, Review with tags Bob Segarini, DBAWIS, Domenic Troiano, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Jack Richardson, luvthemusic, mixing engineer, Pat Blythe, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera, Podbean, podcast, podcasting, producer, recording engineer, recording studio, sound engineer, Studio One, The Pandemic Interviews – Conversations in a changing time on February 3, 2021 by segariniHere I am, Tuesday afternoon and I’m not sure what to write about. I usually have a thousand ideas racing through my brain leading up to today. But as I sit in my usual spot on the couch I’m drawing a blank!
GWNtertainment #4 by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags 54.40, Al Qahwa, Alfie Zappacosta, Alison Solo, Alysha Brilla, Arapacis, Arson, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Bent Roads Tavern, Beverly Kreller, Bob Segarini, Brian Vollmer, BTO, Burton Cummings, Canadian Music, Chris Murphy, Chris Scerri, Claude Kent, Communism, Connor Price, Courtney Cox, David Stone, DBAWIS, Desirée Dawson, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eight Seconds, Emilyn Stam & John David Williams, From Home Music Series, Glamatron, GWNtertainment, Idris Elba, Jaimie Vernon, Jessa, Jim Hurcomb, JV's Boogaloo Squad, Mike Heron, Mimi O'Bonsawin, Nick Sherman, OKAN, Ottawa Music, Paul Manchin, randy bachman, Rude Van Steenes, Sloan, Sonny Boy Mick, Speak Music Be Kind Festival, Todd Miller, Tristan Roby, Vis-A-Vis, World News on February 1, 2021 by segarini
We’ve moved into February on the cold back end of January now – commemorating the 44th anniversary of the Blizzard of ’77 (uphill, both ways, with no mitts or boots or common sense). Thankfully, we still have music to listen to, and help get us through this opening lap of 2021. Hunker down with a hot cocoa, some Bailey’s, and dig the latest from the GWNtertainment action blotter.
Chef Tom’s Char Sui
Posted in Food, music, Recipe with tags Bob Segarini, Char Sui, Chef Tom, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, San Francisco, The HU on January 30, 2021 by segariniThis might look complicated, but it isn’t. The marinade comes together easily, is nicely complex, and the oven/broiler combo means you don’t need a grill. Steam up some fluffy rice and sauté a mess of your favorite (Chinese) greens, and you have a delicious, warming meal. The key is in the pre-scoring. Make deep slashes with your knife (not all the way through) to create lots and lots of surfaces to get the pork crispy and caramelized. Continue reading
Pat Blythe – The Pandemic Interviews – Conversations in a changing time…..and music
Posted in COVID 19, life, music, Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Bob Segarini, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eddie Bullen, Frank Zirone, Lisa MacIntosh, Live Music, luvthemusic, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera, Paul DeLong, Podbean, podcast, Quincy Bullen, Studio One 5, The Pandemic Interviews, Tracy Brett on January 27, 2021 by segariniTuesday, January 26 at 6:01am my first podcast was posted on Podbean. It’s been a work in progress since last May….well technically last August/September. Let me ‘splain…..
GARY PIG GOLD’s SENIOR 65 GREATEST HITS!
Posted in life, music, Opinion with tags Bob Segarini, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Gary Pig Gold, music, Music List on January 26, 2021 by segariniThat cockamamie Covid, among many other things, certainly allowed us the time and quarantined spaces within which to reflect, rewind, and apply a 2020 rear-view as it were to things gone real by. And me being me, with a turntable or two never more than a tone-arm away, took said opportunity to listen then list straight through my particular Life in Music – in all its strictly “SEVEN” and TWELVE -inch varieties, that is.
So then, Here’s what I hear first when I look loud and clearly back upon… Continue reading
Pat Blythe – Book report, food porn…..and music
Posted in COVID 19, Food, Health, life, music, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Bob Segarini, cookbooks, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, food porn, Inauguration, luvthemusic, Marion Hilliard, Pat Blythe, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera, President Biden, Vice President Harris on January 20, 2021 by segariniI’m finding more tidbits of material and articles of interest as I go through files, newsfeeds and a rather stocked bookcase in my kitchen. Primarily a home for my many cookbooks, there are odds and sods of non food-related novels, appliance directions, clippings, etc. I find myself, over the years, spending more time dusting them off than actually using them. I confess I am a huge lover of food porn.