The real world news is mostly depressing and self-defeating so we won’t dwell on it right now. Instead, let’s get to all the great new Canadian music that’s filling up our ear holes this week.
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GWNtertainment #12 by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in Opinion with tags 54.40, Aieysha Haws, Andrew Cash, BigMotorGasoline, Bob Segarini, Caardia, Canadian Music, Church of Trees, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Crown Lands, CW & The Motormen, Dani Nash, Daniel Lanois, DBAWIS, Deanna Faye, Don Norman, Don't Believe A Word I Say, Douglas Von Irvin's Carnival, Empire de Mu, Frank Patrick, Gary Kendall, GWNtertainment, Harmonium, Howard Lee Naylor, Infinite-Lane Highway, Jaimie Vernon, Kevin Ker, Lense, Maurice Weeks, Megan Minty, Mike Field, Mike Plume, Neil Young, Paul Kuzbik, Paul Saunders, Robert Priest, Ronney Abramson, Sarah Neufeld, Serge Fiori, Shelley Lynch, Simon Leclerc, SNFU, Steve Paul Simms, Swifty McVay, Tamara Williams, The Canadian Celtic Choir, The Farewell Stanleys, THe LYONZ, TOVI, Tuns, WolfGrove, Zenesoul on April 5, 2021 by segariniGWNtertainment #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.
Frank Gutch Jr: These Are People I’ve Known (But Who Try to Keep It a Secret); Plus Notes
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 54.40, Angharad Drake, Arlon Bennett, Bow Thayer, C-Leb & The Kettle Black, Corner Lounge, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Indie Artists, Indie Music, John John Brown, Joseph LeMay, King Wilkie, Lighthouse, Louder Than Words, michael fennelly, Mick Hornbuckle, Mist & Mast, music, music videos, Nylon Union, OAMI, Powder Blues, radio, Randy Burns & The Morning, Records, Sarah White, segarini, Shayne Thomas Byrne, Skip Prokop, Skyboys, Son of Man, Sweet Home Oregon, Ted Pitney, The Fugs, The Heatley, The Life, The Living Sisters, The Paupers, Trees Organic Coffee & Roasting House on June 6, 2017 by segarini
The past week I have been revisiting some of my earlier DBAWIS columns and am shocked at how few people (as far as I can tell) know about them, even now. When I write about musicians, it is usually personal, both the person or people and the music, and I feel that sometimes they are more water under the bridge than anything. No one sends notes asking about someone I wrote about in 2012 unless something has happened since and there are so many truly talented people who deserve recognition. So this week, I am going to point toward artists you may have missed whom I think are above the norm in terms of talent and/or personality. And maybe I owe a few of them money, but that is neither here nor there.
JAIMIE VERNON – MUSIC BUCKET CHALLENGE
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 10cc, 54.40, 999, Andrew Wyeth, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Chalk Circle, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elvis, Forgotten Rebels, Godley & Creme, hipster, Hybrid Kids, Jaimie Vernon, Men Without Hats, microdot, Morgan Fisher, Mott the Hoople, Music Bucket Challenge, Orson, Rational Youth, THE ALARM, The Clash, The Crickets, The Enemy, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Tonio K., tribal, Vital Sines on February 27, 2016 by segarini
There’s a new Facebook challenge going around that asks people to choose the 12 albums that have “stayed with you” over the years. I’m not sure what they mean by that exactly. “Stayed with you” like your dog does when you’ve got a half-eaten bean burrito sitting unattended on your plate while you remote control your way through 177 channels on your TV set looking for a Season 9 marathon of the ‘Simpsons’? Or “Stayed with you” like a bad one-night stand that turned into a three-year commitment, a shared bank account and pink throw pillows on the bed you’ve had since Middle School?
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Frank Gutch Jr: Thank You, Vancouver! We Love You! Be Sure To Tip Your Waitress!
Posted in Opinion with tags 54.40, Bob Segarini, Bobby Bazini, Chilliwack, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Farley Mowat, Frank Gutch Jr., hometown band, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Joelle May, Lighthouse, New Canadian Library, Powder Blues Band, Records, segarini, Skip Prokop, Templeton's Diner, The Collectors, The Paupers, Vancouver B.C., W.P. Kinsella on September 1, 2015 by segarini
My brother-in-law kept telling me about New York but all I could see was the tall buildings popping out of the ground of downtown Vancouver. It wasn’t the massiveness of the city. It was the feel! And make no mistake, Vancouver is a city. A big one with a big downtown and all of the pluses and minuses which go with it. Sirens all night, a large homeless contingent, people walking with rolling suitcases everywhere. Restaurants— my God, there were so many restaurants— every kind of food you could possibly imagine.
JAIMIE VERNON – TOM HOOPER & THE UNEXPLORED COSMOS
Posted in Opinion with tags 2002, 54.40, Bob Segarini, Brutus, Bullseye Records, Canadian Music, Cardboard Man, Dan Nullmeyer, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, George Harrison, Goddo, Grapes of Wrath, Greg Simpson, Hamilton, Jaimie Vernon, Jeff Jones, Kitchener, KOCH, Lava Hay, Lisa Millar, London, Much Music, Ottawa, Ranbach Music, randy bachman, Same Old Me, Suzanne Little, Takin' Care of Christmas, Taste of The Danforth, The Kings, The Unexplored Cosmos, Tom Hooper, Toronto on April 25, 2015 by segarini
excerpted from the forthcoming book Bullsography: The Bullseye Records Story 1985-2010
JAIMIE VERNON – OH! CANADA? THE OTHER SONGS OF MY PEOPLE
Posted in Opinion with tags 54.40, alice cooper, April Wine, Birthday, Bob Dylan, Bob Segarini, Buffy Sainte Marie, Canada Day, Canadian Music, Chicago, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eddie Schwartz, folk movement, Frank Sinatra, Gordon Peterson, Greenwich Village, Guess Who, Hootie & The Blowfish, Hudson's Bay, I Go Blind, Ian & Sylia Tyson, Ian Thomas, Indio, Jaimie Vernon, Joe Cocker, Joni Mitchell, Manfred Mann, Marc Jordan, My Way, Neil Young, Paul Anka, protest songs, Rhythm of My Heart. Tillsonburg, Rod Stewart, Rolf Kempf, Santana, The Tonight Show, Universal Soldier, Yorkville on June 28, 2014 by segarini
Tuesday marks the 147th birthday of this great Dominion known as Canada. Though we’re not quite as old as our brother to the south, our European lineage dates back to May 2, 1670 when the Dread Pirate Ernie Hudson got his ship stranded in the northern waters of the arctic looking for a direct passage to Santa’s Workshop. He and the crew survived on nothing but Her Queen’s Own Biscuits, Tea 
Candles and striped blankets knitted from the wool of extinct mammoths. The native population had already been here 11,000 years longer and resented the idea that you now had to trade 10 beaver pelts to get a birch bark canoe. We’ve come a long way since then but still pride ourselves on our cultural diversity, beavers, hockey and fornicating while watching hockey. Oh, and we seem to be able to write a mean ditty (not “diddy” you internet meme idiots).
Cameron Carpenter: The ABC’s Of Rock’n’Roll – A is for Aircheck
Posted in Opinion with tags 54.40, Blue Peter, Bob Mackowycz, Cameron Carpenter, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elvis Costello, Handsome Furs, Indie 88.1, music, music videos, Patti Smith, Queens Of The Stone Age, radio, Rock Lobster, The Bovine, The Clash, The Ramones, The Selector, Tiki Bar, Toronto, Wall Of Voodoo on August 30, 2013 by segarini
During the last few months I have been listening to a lot more radio than normal. Working at home, and with no TV, I hate the silence so the radio goes on. I need noise in the background to work. Tired of CFNY, Q-107 and news radio I started listening to sports radio in the morning and soon found myself listening to Macko and Cauz on TSN 1050 (which still doesn’t look right after growing up on 1050 Chum). Macko is Bob Mackowycz Jr. (son of Q-107 legend Bob Mackowycz) and Matthew Cauz. My first dealings with Bob were when he was in the band Glueleg and they were looking for a record deal.
JAIMIE VERNON: There Are No Words…But There Is Music
Posted in Opinion with tags 54.40, Alan Parsons, Bob Segarini, Boston, Boston Marathon, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fastball, Foreigner, Goddo, Greg Godovitz, Heart, Jaimie Vernon, love, Mike Previti., music, Orson, Paul McCartney, Records, Seal, soul, Style Council, therapy on April 20, 2013 by segarini
I’ve been wracking my brain for the last 48 hours wondering how I was going to make a suitable contribution to this blog without looking frivolous or uncaring about the reality of what happened in Boston this week. There are no words for the massive shock, sadness and anger that has engrossed us all; The killing of 20 children in Newtown left me feeling just as helpless and lost…as did 9/11 so long before it.
I don’t know that humans have developed a coping mechanism that allows us to naturally process tragedies on an apocalyptic scale. How do you survive and process a Tsunami? Earthquakes? Tornados? The people of 
Pompeii were the lucky ones – they died instantly; the people of the Nazi death camps, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Chernobyl and other unimaginable atrocities, not so much. And as empathetic beings we feel most outraged when confronted with the savagery of human error or human-on-human carnage. We cannot process this kind of trauma.
Cameron Carpenter: The ABC’s Of Rock – #
Posted in Opinion with tags 1000Homo Djs, 10cc, 20/20, 54.40, 999, Amos the Transparent, Cameron Carpenter, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Morgan Cameron Ross, Shanghai Cowgirl, The 101ers on April 12, 2012 by segarini
No it’s not a hashtag; it’s the number sign (or pound sign). Since we have gone A-Z over the last 26 weeks I thought I would end this round with numbers. Speaking of numbers, thanks to everyone who has been reading us. Latest reports had us over 50,000 unique hits. Pretty impressive and we all appreciate it.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 