With apologies to Al Franken, I am utterly sick of Lies and the Lying Liars That Tell Them. Sick to death of the posturing, the gaslighting, the sneaky grins that escape their mouths when they think we can’t see them.
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Roxanne Tellier – Stop LYING To ME!
Posted in Books, COVID 19, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Amazon, America, Apple, Big Lie, Bob Lefsetz, Canada, Civil War, Covid, DBAWIS, Democratic, Donald Trump, Facebook, gaslighting, GoFundMe, GOP, Instagram, January 6th, Journalism, lefsetz.com, Lies and the Lying Liars That Tell Them, Mark Zuckerberg, media, NATO, Ottawa, Putin, Roxanne Tellier, Russian, segarini, Social Media, Spotify, Supreme Court Justice, TikTok, Ukraine, YouTube on January 30, 2022 by segariniJAIMIE VERNON – IT DICES, IT SLICES, YOU CAN WEAR IT AS A PARTY HAT
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 22 Original Hits, 22 Original Stars, Adrienne Clarkson, Amazon, Apple, artists, Beyonce, BMG Music Club, Bob Segarini, Bobby Hebb, Boomer, Bottle Cutter, Canadian content, Canadian Gold, Canadian Music, CanCon, Columbia House Record Club, DBAWIS, Don Francks, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fantastic, Fun Skis, hipster, Jaimie Vernon, James Carroll, K-Tel, Madelaine Sherwood, Magic Brush, Millennial, Mood Ring, Netflix, Patty-Stacker, Philip Kives, Pocket Fisherman, Prince, Ronco, royalties, Steve Jobs, Super Slider Snow Skates, TeeVee International, Veg-O-Matic, Wal-Mart, Winnipeg on April 30, 2016 by segarini
The world of Boomer pop culture continues to die off in epidemic proportions. It’s now officially becoming depressing. Aside from the shocking – and still reverberating – passing of Prince we’ve lost Canadian actor/singer Don Francks, actor James Carroll, beloved ‘The Flying Nun’ matriarch Madelaine Sherwood (also Canadian) and now the master of the original infomercial Philip Kives – the King of K-Tel – at the age of 87.
JAIMIE VERNON – SO MUCH MUSIC, SO LITTLE TIME
Posted in Opinion with tags Apple, Bay City Rollers, Bob Segarini, Canadian content, Canadian Music, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elvis Presley, fanclubs, Feist, Garage Band, Hillside Singers, iPad, ipod, iPod Nano, Jaimie Vernon, Jet, Lee's Palace, music fans, music format, music listeners, music lovers, New Seekers, Red Wanting Blue, sam the record man, The Beatles, The Trews, U2, Vintage Trouble on October 4, 2014 by segarini
Back at the turn of the Millennium (which was 14 years ago!) I worked at Sam The Record Man’s flagship store at 347 Yonge Street on the third floor. I was the content editor of their fledgling on-line shopping store. It was my job to review the newest releases coming in from the record labels – most specifically Canadian content. I had been hired to deal with CanCon due to my online presence with the Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia. It was usually kept to a few dozen albums. It was a dream job.
JAIMIE VERNON – FREE TO BE U2 AND ME
Posted in Opinion with tags 7" singles, Apple, Bait and Switch, Beethoven, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, CD Baby, CD singles, CDs, Classic Rock Magazine, Columbia House, con game, DBAWIS, devalue music, distribution, Don't Believe A Word I Saw, independent artists, iPhone, Jaimie Vernon, Major Labels, Molsons, monetizing music, Mozart, music retail, napster, on-demand, patrons, Prince, Queen Elizabeth, Ray Davies, shell game, The Orchard, The Trews, Thriller, TuneCore, U2, vinyl on September 27, 2014 by segarini
Justin Smallbridge: iTunes infected with Irish marketing virus or This crummy album got into my iTunes. Oh, U2?
Posted in Opinion with tags Apple, Bob Segarini, Bono, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, iPhone 6, music, music videos, U2 on September 22, 2014 by segarini
Are you grooving to your mandatory U2 record? In case you missed it (hard to miss, given how much it was hyped), U2’s 13th record, “Songs Of Innocence” (title stolen from long-dead English poet William Blake) is now in your iTunes collection. How is that possible, you ask. You didn’t buy it. Or want it. Regardless, you own 11 variations on advertising jingles to soundtrack the selling of Apple’s iPhone 6 and impending iWatch as well as possibly to let you know Apple can do whatever the hell it wants its devices, which we naively think we “own.” It probably says that in the long Terms and Conditions text everybody clicks “Agree” on without reading. Apple paid $100 million for this the marketing campaign. Nobody’s saying how much of that U2 is getting.
Segarini: The Kids Are Alright – Updated!
Posted in Opinion with tags Apple, Darryl Hurs, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Indie Music, Indie Week, music, Musical Dreamers, Records, segarini, Toronto on February 22, 2014 by segarini
Editor’s Note: The overworked and dedicated Jaimie Vernon gets a rare day off today and rightly so. Enjoy the respite, my friend, it’s back to the grind next week.
In place of Jaimie’s well written weekly column, I offer up this article from October 11th, 2011. It touches on today’s generation, Indie week, Musical Dreamers, and a rather spirited debate 
about Apple products in the comments section. For those of you who are new readers, enjoy, For the rest of you, either enjoy it again or maybe your memory is going and it will seem new to you too. Roxanne’s column appears tomorrow in it’s usual place. YAY! Roxanne! Pictured: Jaimie Vernon
Roxanne Tellier: Will You Still Need Me? Will You Still Feed Me? When I’m 64.
Posted in Opinion with tags Ageing, Aldous Huxley, Amazon, Apple, Baby Boomers, Bette Davis, Cher, Colleen Shields, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, eBay, Etsy, Facebook, Geritol, Jocelyn Wildenstein, Kim Lumsdon, Maurice Chevalier, Millennials, Mitch Seavey, music, Olga Kotelko, Paul McCartney, Roxanne Tellier, sex toys, Shopbot, Silly Putty, The Rolling Stones, Toronto on October 27, 2013 by segarini
Tick tock, Tick tock. Time is marching on for everyone, but oh so very visibly for the Baby Boomers. And most particularly for those of us who chose careers that put us in the public’s eye. If you are lucky enough to stay on the right side of the grass, you are going to get old, and if you have a scrap book full of photos, you are going to have proof positive that aging in our society is not for the weak of heart or stomach.
JAIMIE VERNON – I AM NOT THE DROID YOU ARE LOOKING FOR
Posted in Opinion with tags Apple, asshats, Big Mac, Blackberry, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Classic Rock, Cone of Silence, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Get Smart, IBM, Jaimie Vernon, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Knife Sharpener, Led Zeppelin, McDonalds, mousetrap, Netflix, on-demand, Q107, salesmen on October 19, 2013 by segarini
I work with a guy who is a monster Classic Rock fan – he has Zeppelin’s ZOSO symbols tattooed on his arm. He genuinely loves the music on Toronto’s Classic Rock leaders Q107-FM without judgment or cynicism (unlike little ole me). But he seems entirely clueless about anything related to the genre. Without a hint of irony he seemed taken aback to find out that “Let It Be” wasn’t just a Beatles or an album but also a MOVIE….or that Spinal Tap was made up of actors 
when I gave him a lift home from work last weekend. He was flabbergasted. It was like I just told him that Rosebud was a sled. [Oops…’Citizen Kane’ spoiler alert!] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4mQqVqRB7I
JAIMIE VERNON: I’VE LOOKED AT CLOUDS FROM BOTH SIDES NOW
Posted in Opinion with tags Apple, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, downloading, EMI, File sharing, iCloud, iTunes, iWhore, Jaimie Vernon, MP3, MP4, music, Pandora, Records, Spotify, Universal Music on December 1, 2012 by segarini
Before we get rolling I just wanted to let everyone know that I will be on CFRB’s “In the Studio” show with hosts Bob Reid and Blair Packham tonight at 8PM EST and Sunday night at 10PM EST. We’ll be discussing my Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia books.
You can listen live here: http://www.newstalk1010.com
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 