The second 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?
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TIME MACHINE TUESDAY NUMBER 2
Posted in life, music, Opinion with tags alice cooper, Bob Segarini, DBAWIS, London Ontario, music, Shep Gordon, Time Machine Tuesday, Toronto, Touring, Wackers on February 5, 2020 by segariniDOUG THOMPSON – RISING TO THE TOP AT MOTOWN
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags alice cooper, Aretha Franklin, Barney Ales, Berry Gordy, Bill Withers, Brian Holland, Carl Wilson, Carly Simon, Carpenters, Carvin Winans, Chicago, Daryl Hall, David Foster, DBAWIS, Deke Richards, Dennis Coffey, Diana Ross, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Doug Thompson, Earth, Eddie Holland, Eric Clapton, Frank Wilson, Gary Brooker, George Harrison, James Dean, Jimmy Ruffin, Joe Messina, John Oates, Lamont Dozier, Luther Vandross, Martha Reeves, Martina McBride, marvin gaye, Marvin Winans, Michael McDonald, Motley Crue, music, Norman Whitfield, Pam Sawyer, Paul Anka, Paul Riser, Phil Collins, Procol Harum, Quincy Jones, R. Dean Taylor, R. Kelly, radio, Records, Roger Desjardin, Rupert Holmes, segarini, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Tami Terrell, The Beach Boys, THE TEMPTATIONS, The Winans, Tommy Lee, Toronto, Was Not Was, William Witherspoon, Wind & Fire on September 15, 2017 by segarini
Sometimes meeting your heroes can be very disappointing. They could just be having a bad day or had a fight with their significant other or their manager, or recently received bad news about a pet project…or as is sometimes the case, they could just be an asshole.
On the other hand, some heroes exceed your expectations and then some.
JAIMIE VERNON – CODGER WARS
Posted in Opinion with tags AC/DC, Aerosmith, alice cooper, Bob Dylan, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Chuck Berry, coachella, Coldplay, Cuba, DBAWIS, Desert Trip, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Hollywood Vampires, Jaimie Vernon, Joe Perry, John Lennon, Johnny Depp, Kiss, Nobel Prize, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Roger Waters, Rolling Stones, Silly Love Songs, Sloan, Steven Tyler, The Band, The Who, Toto on October 15, 2016 by segarini
It was touch and go in the early part of 2016 for Classic Rock. Half the people that have ever made music in my lifetime died in the first 6 months. That’s an exaggeration, of course, but it looked like it was going to be up to The Rolling Stones to save the planet. Well, since the release of The Beatles documentary “Eight Days A Week” the geezers are rallying.
Cameron Carpenter – 10 CC – Vinyl Season One
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags alice cooper, Andrew Dice Clay, Big Star, Billy Preston, Blues Image, Bobby Cannavale, Bowie, Cameron Carpenter, Conway Twitty, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Focus, Grandmaster Flash, Hurricane Smith, Kool Herc, Mott the Hoople, music, music videos, Nigel Grainge, Patti Smith, Peter Grant, Ray Romano, Records, Robert Goulet, Robert Plant, Rock Lobster, segarini, Television, The Bovine, The Edgar Winter Group, The Good Rats, The Nasty Bits, The Troggs, Tiki Bar, Toronto, vinyl, Zeppelin on June 23, 2016 by segarini
Well I had to wait for the DVD to be released but I have finally seen Season One of Vinyl. I first heard about the HBO series a couple of years ago as Nigel Grainge and I grabbed lunch at the Imperial Pub after his keynote address at Indie Week. We were catching up on each other’s careers as we had not seen each other or worked together for years. At MCA I was the Marketing Manager for Nigel’s label Ensign and looked after everyone from The Waterboys and World Party to Sinead O’Connor, The Blue Aeroplanes and Stump. I immediately liked Nigel on first meeting and he taught me a lot about marketing and the music industry (as well as Arsenal). Before he started Ensign Records he worked at Phonogram in London and signed Thin Lizzy, 10 CC and The Boomtown Rats. He is a true music man.
Cameron Carpenter – 10 CC – Faceoff
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags alice cooper, Bowie, Cameron Carpenter, Clash, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elvis Costello, Mott the Hoople, music, music videos, New York Dolls, Patti Smith, Ramones, Records, Rock Lobster, segarini, Sparks, Television, The Bovine, Tiki Bar, Toronto on March 24, 2016 by segarini
My god Facebook can be an ugly little sandbox to play in. It seems populated by narcissistic bullies who feel it is their right to yell as loudly as possible about what their beliefs are and try to shame you into seeing things their way. There is no compromise, there is no fear of repercussions, and there is little or no consideration of other’s feelings. If it was a bar I walked in to I wouldn’t even order a drink.
JAIMIE VERNON – The Top 10 Ghoulest Songs of All Time
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Addams Family, Alfred Hitchcock, alice cooper, Bernard Hermann, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music Great Halloween Songs, Christina Ricci, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Five Man Electric Band, Frankenstein, Halloween, Invisible Man, Jaimie Vernon, Jaws, Johann Sebastian Bach, Lon Chaney, Mike Oldfield, Morticia, Movies, music, Nosferatu, Pinhead, Psycho, Rob Zombie, Scary, Scary Pictures, Steven Spielberg, Television, The Buoys, The Exorcist., Tubular Bells, Twilight Zone, Vincent Price, Werewolf, X-Files on October 30, 2015 by segarini
Well, it’s that time of year again, folks. Leaves fall from the trees, skies turn grey and the Toronto Maple Leafs pretend they’re going to play hockey. But amongst the fall classics comes Halloween where we celebrate the spooky, the haunting, the unnerving, the fun, and yet chilling Halloween tuneage.
Frank Gutch Jr: Majors Creek (Australia) Music Fest Carries On Without Founder Peter Gillespie, Memories of the Eugene Pop Festival of 1969, and E.J. Simpson— The Most Base of Bassists… Plus the Ever-Wondrous Notes…..
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 10cc, alice cooper, Angharad Drake, Band Who Knew Too Much, Colleen Brown, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, E.J. Simpson, Eugene Pop Festival, Frank Gutch Jr., Gary Pig Gold, Greg Shaw, Gris de Lin, hannah gillespie, hymn for her, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jeff Ellis, John Hartford, kate & ruth, Lugh Damen, maggi pierce & ej, Majors Creek Festival, music videos, Peter Gillespie, Records, Rockin Foo, segarini, Shelley Fraley, Terry Tufts, Toiling Midgets, Undergrunnen on October 13, 2015 by segarini
If you live in the States or Canada, you can be forgiven for not knowing about Majors Creek, for there are plenty of people who live in Australia who know little or nothing about it. Here is a DBAWIS primer for those in the dark.
Cam Carpenter: Rock’n’Roll Rewind – High School Confidential
Posted in Opinion with tags A&M Records, alice cooper, BeBop Deluxe, Cameron Carpenter, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, FM, Malvern Collegiate, music, Nash the Slash, Records, Rock Lobster, segarini, The Bovine, The Kensington Lodge, Tiki Bar, Toronto on August 20, 2015 by segarini
This week we rewind to high school in more ways than one. Buried deep in a box of rock memorabilia I stumbled upon a collection of my high school newspapers. Calling them a newspaper is a bit of a stretch as most of them are four or five sheets of mimeographed white or green paper and almost faded into obscurity.
Roxanne Tellier: Music- Like A Prayer
Posted in Opinion with tags alice cooper, Anne Archer, astrology, ‘Queen of Bondage’, “glamour photography, ” evangelical, Bettie Page, black culture, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bob Segariani, Born Again Christian, Buddhism, Canada, Cat Stevens, Catholic, Chef” Comedy Central, Chick Corea, Christian Science, Dawud Wharnsby, DBAWIS, Doug E. Fresh, dreadlocks, Eddie Cantor, Elizabeth Taylor, folk masses, Haywood Nelson, Immigration, Isaac Hayes, Jehovah’s Witness, Jermaine Jackson, Jewish ‘joual.’ Religious Right, Joe Tex, Joey Buttafuoco, John Lennon, Judaism, Kabbalah, Katie Holmes, King of Pop, Kool and the Gang, Larry Graham; Morpheus, Madonna, Matt Stone, Michael Jackson, Mike Todd, Montreal, Nashville, near death, Neo, New York City, Phillip Bubal, pin-up girl, Pope John Paul II, Prince, Protestants, Qur’an, Rakim, Rastafarianism, reggae, religious intolerance, religious themes, Robert “Kool” Bell, Roxanne Tellier, Sammy Davis Jr., Saturday Night Live, scandalizing Christians, Scientology, Sinead O'Connor, South Park, the I Ching and Zen, The Matrix, Tom Cruise, Trey Parker, United States on April 19, 2015 by segarini
In Montreal in the sixties, growing up in a Catholic family, we were always encouraged to use our talents in religious gatherings. Even my Aunt Pat, blissfully unaware that she was tone-deaf, would raise her voice loudly and proudly in song. I sang at mass, first in Latin as the organ wheezed, and later in folk masses, where the guitar was the instrument of choice.
Pat Blythe: Women of Rock – Part Two
Posted in Opinion with tags Akron, album, alice cooper, America, Arlene Quatro, Austin, Australia, Bass Guitar, BBC, Billboard, Billboard 200, Bob Segar, Brain Confusion, Brass in Pocket, Bravo Otta Award, Bruce Springsteen, Buzzsaw, Calfornia, Can the Can, Chain Gang, Cherry Bomb, Chris Norman, Chrissie Hynde, Christopher Blythe, Cleveland, contralto, Cradle, Dave Hill, David Wild, DBAWIS, Detroit, Diane Baker, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Don't Get Me Wrong, Drastic Fantastic, drumming, drums, Elvis Presley, England, English Disco, Esquire, Europe, Extended Play, Farndon, Fender Precision Bass, Frank Sinatra, Frank Soda and the Imps, Gas Street, Gena Rowlands, German, Glorious Results of a Misspent YOuth, Goddo, Godmother of Punk, Grace Slick, Grammy, GTA, Happy Days, Hellfield, Honeyman-Scott, I Hate Myself for Loving You, I Love Rock 'n Roll, If Luck Be A Lady, Janis Joplin, Japan, Joan Jett, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, John McEnroe, jukebox, K.T. Tunstall, Karen Carpenter, Keith Richards, Kent State University, keyboards, Kim Fowley, Leather Tuscadero, Light of Day, London, Marc Bolan, Mary Lou Ball, massacre, MEOW, Mickie Most, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheelers, music videos, Musicians for Equal Opportunities for Women, Nancy Ball, National Guard, Neil Young, New Musical Express, Nirvana, Ohio, Original Riot Grrrl, Pat Blythe, Patti Quatro, Patti Smith, percussionist, pineapple upside down cake, Plateau, punk rock, Queen of British Pop, radio, RAK Records, Real Records, Records, rock 'n roll, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rodney Bingenheimer, Roger Ebert, Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone Magazine, Sam Cooke, segarini, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Smokie, Stockholm, Stumblin 'in, Suzi Quatro, T-Rex, Talking Heads, Ted Nugent, Television, Texas, The Barbusters, The Beatles, The Clash, The Damned, The Fonz, The Great Pretender, The Picture Taker, The Pleasure Seekers, The Pretenders, The Runaways, The Sex Pistols, This Is Your LIfe, Tina Weymouth, TMI, Tom Petty, U.K., Unvarnished, Unzipped, West End, Woman of Valor Award, You Or No One on April 1, 2015 by segarini
Ch-ch-ch-cha-changes
I have been slowly getting to know my fellow writers, conversing with them through Facebook, email and over the phone. A what! Yep, a real live telephone. You know, those devices that allow you to actually hear what the other person sounds like while enjoying honest-to-goodness dialogue. Fingers seem to do more walking and mouths less talking these days. We are no longer an oral society. The world of banter, tete-a-tetes and nattering have gone the way of such foods as pineapple upside down cake. (remember those) Mmmmmm……
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 