After ending this last year cranking out two long columns about musicians we lost, I feel the need to counterbalance. While I know that death is a part of life (indeed, life = death according to the laws of nature), it was not all that much fun to dig through the past year searching for musicians recently passed. It was, in fact, a bit of a downer. Reliving the news that I knew was not half as bad as discovering the news I had missed. All too many musicians I admire tripped off this mortal coil without so much as a thank you, Frank, it’s been fun, and I was more than a little unsettled with each discovery. But the past is the past, whether we like it or not, and it was not all bad.
Archive for Best of 2013
Frank Gutch Jr: 2013— A Look at the Best, plus Notes You Can Take To the Bank…..
Posted in Opinion with tags Arborea, Best of 2013, Churchwood, DBAWIS, dirtmusic, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Erin & the Wildfire, Filligar, Frank Gutch Jr., gary minkler, hymn for her, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jim Allchin, Laurie Biagini, Lisbee Stainton, Maxi Dunn, Morning Ritual, Nick Holmes, No Small Children, Records, Rita Hosking, Sera Smolen, Sheldon Gomberg, Sweet Relief III, Tamikrest, The Abramson Singers, The Big Bright, the curtis mayflower, the fearless kin, The Incurables, The Toniks, Tom Mank on January 28, 2014 by segariniDoug Thompson: WHAT, IS IT NEW YEARS ALREADY?
Posted in Opinion with tags Angelo Bruno, Best of 2013, Bob Segarini, Bones Howe, Brian Epstein, Carol Kaye, Carpenters, Catherine O’Hara, Cher, CHUM Radio, Dave Hull, David Wayne, DBAWIS, Dean Martin, Denny Tedesco, Dick Clark, Don Randi, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Doug Thompson, Frank Sinatra, Freda Kelly, Gerald Posner, Glen Campbell, Grammy Awards, Hal Blaine, Henry Rushkin, Herb Alpert, Jerry Blavat, John Candy, John F. Kennedy, John Lennon, Johnny Carson, Joni Mitchell, Kanye West, Ken Levine, KHJ, Kim Kardashian, KRLA, Larry Knectel, Lee Harvey Oswald, Leon Russell, Lou Adler, Mark Lewisohn, music, Nancy Sinatra, Nino Tempo, Petula Clark, radio, Records, Richard Belzer, Rolling Stone, Sammy Davis Jr., Stan Cornyn, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Byrds, The Fugs, The Grateful Dead, The Monkees, The Real Don Steele, Tommy Tedesco, Vincent Bugliosi, X Prime on January 15, 2014 by segarini
John Lennon said it best in one of my all time favourite songs of his: “So this is Christmas and what have you done. Another year over, a new one just begun.” I do so wish that Lennon was still here to continue with his amazing talent. But some self-centered asshole with a hand gun and a diseased brain (or a mind-controlled one, for all of you conspiracy buffs) silenced that legendary voice forever 33 years ago.
JAIMIE VERNON – The Best 2013 I’ve Ever Had
Posted in Opinion with tags Best of 2013, Bieber, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia, Chris Hadfield, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, excited, jaded, Jaimie Vernon, Kardashian, Life's A Canadian Blog, Michael Kundu, Miley Cyrus, Nelson Mandela, Nik Wallenda, Paul Walker, Pop Culture, Red Square, Spare Parts, Tired, trends on December 15, 2013 by segarini
Our editor-in-chief, Bob Segarini, mandated a year end 2013 ‘Best and Worst’ list from the Don’t Believe A Word I Say scribes for this week. For me lists like this are an eternal yawn. I mean do you really, truly care what someone else thinks about stuff – particularly when we’ve all lived through the same year as everyone else?
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 