Hands up if the music you fell in love with and defined your teen musical awakening is still in your music rotation 40 years later? Hands up if the last piece of new music you acquired was in 1987? Hands up if you think all modern music sucks or that there’s no good music to be found out there?
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BINKIES, BLANKETS, AND TEDDY BEARS by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags Berner Trail, Betty Moon, binkies, blankets, Bob Segarini, Dark Side of the Moon, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fergus Hambleton, Harem Scarem, Hermitage Green, Jaimie Vernon, Kris and Dee, Mark Malibu & The Wasagas, MTV, Music Therapy, music videos, Peter Foldy, Records, teddy bears, The Pozers, Toronto, W3APONS on March 2, 2020 by segariniJAIMIE VERNON – 40 SUMMERS AGO
Posted in Opinion with tags Bay City Rollers, Berner Trail, Bob Segarini, Camping, Canadian Music 1976, CHUM, cousin, DBAWIS, Deja Vu, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Dorothy Moore, girl next door, high school, Jaimie Vernon, RPM Magazine, school, Stampeders, Summer Holiday on June 11, 2016 by segarini
The end of the school year is fast approaching. As I take my son back and forth on what will be his final year in high school, I find myself drifting back in time to when we looked forward to summer break. My childhood was filled with great ones. In 1975 I took a two week trip west across Canada with my grandmother in her 1972 Skylark which changed my life, and my world view, for the better. That was almost completely undone when my parents attempted to take my sister and I on a similar trip to Canada’s East Coast in 1977. It was a study in stark contrasts on how not to travel with one’s family.
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Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 