Lindsey Buckingham got kicked out of Fleetwood Mac (again), The Monkees made their first-ever Christmas album (!), and I am still waiting for that big Turtles Battle of the Bands Commemorative Special Anniversary Collectors Edition. In the meantime though, I remained happily pigging along beneath headphones to (in strictly Alphabetical order)…
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GARY PIG GOLD with TEN YOU MAY HAVE MISSED In 2018
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Andy Reed, Andy Warhol, Beau Brummels, Big Star, Brandon Schott, Cait Brennan, Chris Richards, Colina Phillips, Craig Dorfman, Davenports, David Grahame, DBAWIS, Dick Cavett, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eddie Kramer, Edgar Breau, Flamin’ Groovies, Fred Astaire, Gary Pig Gold, Generation X, George Harrison, Glen Matlock, Irwin Chusid, Jack Nicholson, Jack Palance, Jimi Hendrix, Jingyu Yao, John Lennon, Kim Deschamps, Lane Steinberg, Miles Davis, music, NRBQ, Paul Williams, Phil Spector, R. Stevie Moore, Records, Rich Kids, segarini, Sex Clark Five, Sex Pistols, Simply Saucer, Sitcom Neighbor, Subtractions, Todd and Jingyu, Todd Lerner, Tot Taylor, X Ray Spex, XNYMFO, Yoko Ono on January 28, 2019 by segariniFrank Gutch Jr: Thoughts on Big Star, The Little Band That Wasn’t Until One Day, Forty Years Later, It Was; Plus Updates and Voluminous Notes of a Lugubrious Nature
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags #1 Record, Alex Chilton, Andy Hummel, ardent records, Big Star, Cargoe, Christopher Bell, Courtney Barnett, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elouise, Frank Gutch Jr., Green Pajamas, I'm With Her, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jody Stephens, John Fry, Joni Nichols, Julie Cain, Kurt Vile, Little Lonely, Memphis, monowhales, music, music videos, Nothing Can Hurt Me, Pi Jacobs, radio, Radio City, Randy Weeks & Stonehoney, Records, Rock City, segarini, September Gurls, Stax Records, Sweet Home Oregon, Tania Stavreva, Terry Manning, The Burning Hell, The Legendary Shack Shakers, Wallis Bird on October 3, 2017 by segarini
It was a epiphanal moment, one where an aura engulfs something or someone with angelic choir background. In this case, it engulfed the first two albums released by new and tiny Ardent Records: Cargoe‘s self-titled classic and Big Star‘s #1 Record. I held them up and asked Gary Haller, co-owner of Eugene’s now famed House of Records if they were any good. They looked good, the slick glossy covers showing artsy pictures of the bands, the neon Big Star sign classy in an Andy Warhol sort of way. “Dunno,” Gary replied. “Nice artwork, though.” I brooded over them for the next hour or so, pulling other records from the racks to read liner notes I had already read numerous times, hoping that this time I would find inspiration. To buy. To listen. To covet.
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.
Frank Gutch Jr: Product Placement and the Things We Sometimes Miss, Plus Notes…..
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Big Star, Breaking Amish, Carolyn Arends, Daniel Martin Moore, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Hand of Glory, hem, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Joan of Arcadia, Joan Osborne, Joe Doerr, music, music videos, Nick Drake, radio, Records, rich mcculley, Richard & The Young Lions, Rumer, segarini, That 70s Show, Todd Herfindal on December 15, 2015 by segarini
You’re sitting there watching television and all of a sudden music starts seeping into your subconsciousness and you think what the hell, because some elephant has entered the room but you can’t see it, but it dawns on you that you can hear it. You think.
Frank Gutch Jr: The Music That Made Me Who I Am…..
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Andy Guzie, Ardent nRecords, Barry Glovsky, Big Star, Bolo Seafair, Brian Cullman, Cargoe, Cowboy, Dave McGraw & Mandy Fer, dave pyles, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Ellen Ogilvy, Frank Gutch Jr., Gabrielle Gewirtz, Indie Artists, Indie Music, jess Pillmore, Jim Dawson, Jimmie Spheeris, Larry Kosslyn, Melissa Payne, music, music videos, New American Farmers, Nick Holmes, Picture The Ocean, Research Turtles, segarini, Space Opera, The Fair Children, The Incurables, Tom Ogilvy on September 29, 2015 by segarini
It was my birthday last week. I’m not saying it because it matters much to me— less and less as each year passes. I mention it because of the things friends tell me, most of which reminds me of who I am and the paths I have taken to get here. I mean, none of us plan to be who we are— it just evolves.
Frank Gutch Jr: Sometimes the Past Is the Future (and Sometimes the Past Is Just the Past)— Revisiting Items Which Beg Revisiting…..
Posted in Opinion with tags Big Star, bill jackson, Brian Cullman, Byron Isaacs, Charlie Faye, Claire Holley, David Getz, DBAWIS, dixie bee-liners, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fearless Kin, Frank Gutch Jr., Garth Brooks, Gold Heart, Heartsfield, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Karl Fredrick Anderson, Lost Leaders, Madisons, music, Music Radio, No Small Children, Ophelia Hope, radio, Records, Runaways, segarini, Stu Nunnery, susan james, The OF on June 9, 2015 by segarini
Lots going on in music these days— Apple announcing their foray into streaming (I love the headlines such as “Apple May Save the Recording Industry”— I mean, what idiot thought that one up?) and the Brian Wilson biopic (My buddy Stan Twist says that if you are either a Brian Wilson or a Beach Boys fan, you won’t want to miss it) and there are lots of new albums to go over. And, as always, old ones too. But…
Frank Gutch Jr: Ardent Studios/Records Founder John Fry Passes – A Look Back
Posted in Opinion with tags ardent records, Big Star, Cargoe, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Green Pajamas, Indie Artists, Indie Music, John Fry, John Fry Passes, music, Records, Stax Records, Terry Manning, The Hot Dogs on December 22, 2014 by segarini
Tulsa/Memphis radio disc jockey Robert Walker just a few moments ago posted on Facebook that Memphis legend John Fry passed away of a heart attack today (Thursday, Dec. 18). His passing is the proverbial ton of bricks people always say they get hit by only the reality is much worse than the saying. Fry was one of the good guys.
This one is personal. Fry allowed me an interview years ago in which I asked him about the studio, the record label (which had at that time folded) and his thoughts on the business. It was an eye-opening talk and provided the basis for what I wrote years later, The Story of Cargoe, an in-depth look at the band and the label, Ardent Records. (Read the story here) I will forever be grateful for the interview and the insights he provided, but more importantly, the music, for without Fry, both Cargoe and Big Star very well would have taken very different paths.
You will be hearing a lot about Fry and his accomplishments over the next few days, as well you should. I only wish he had been able to grab the brass ring he so richly deserved.
The following is a reposting of a column I wrote about Fry many moons ago. Read and learn.
JAIMIE VERNON – THE POWER OF POP
Posted in Opinion with tags American music, Amplifier Magazine, Badfinger, Beatles, Big Star, Big Takeover, Bob Segarini, British Invasion, Britpop, Buddy Holly, Canadian Music, Cheap Trick, Chuck Berry, crooners, Dana Countryman, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, doo-wop, Elvis, Enuff Z'nuff, Fastball, Fountains of Wayne, International Pop Overthrow Festival, Jaimie Vernon, Jam Recordings, Jellyfish, Jerry Lee Lewis, Kool Kat Music, Little Richard, Material Issue, Matthew Sweet, Monkees, Not Lame Recordings, paul revere, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Permanent Press Recordings, Pop music, Power Pop, Spongetones, Terry Melcher., The Association, The Beach Boys, The Beau Brummels, The Byrds, The Jackson 5, The Knack, The Masticators, The Osmonds, The Raspberries, The Rolling Stones, The Shoes, The Turtles, The Ventures, The Who, Tommy Keene, Viet Nam War, Wackers, Weezer on October 11, 2014 by segarini
This week Paul Revere of 1960s pop band Paul Revere & The Raiders passed away at the age of 76. He and his band were one of the second generation of pop stars who took the post-Elvis world by storm on the back of Beatlemania.
Frank Gutch Jr: From Africa With Love: Dirtmusic, Tamikrest and Gary Heffern; Pandora vs. Pink Floyd: The Digital Distribution Debate Continues; Music History 101; and Notes…..
Posted in Opinion with tags Arborea, Berkeley House Concerts, Big Star, Buck Curran, Chris Brokaw, chris eckman, DBAWIS, dirtmusic, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., gary heffern, George Bunnell, Hugo Race, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jeff Zentner, Michelle Malone, music, Pandora, Pink Floyd, Records, Tamikrest on July 10, 2013 by segarini
I’m going back to school. I’ve been going to school since I graduated, in fact, because if there is one truth in the world it is that as much as we know, we know too little. About people. About science. About truth. And about music, among a few thousand other subjects. We are a defective lot which is to say in vinyl terms that we are warped or scratched or that we skip. Us humans are, in effect, not the top but the bottom of the food chain as far as I can tell because we are the only species who think we know it all.Frank Gutch Jr: Music On Film— Documentaries For The Music Fanatic, Plus Notes…..
Posted in Opinion with tags Big Star, cowsills, DBAWIS, devo, dirtmusic, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., gary heffern, grande ballroom, immediate records, Indie Artists, Indie Music, it's everything and then it's gone, Jaimie Vernon, jim colegrove, mc5, Mike Marino, Movies, No Small Children, nothing can hurt us, Paige Anderson, pere ubu, Peter Blecha, Records, robbie basho, rubber city rebels, Teen A-Go-Go, the bizarros, The Cellar, the fearless kin, tin huey, we didn't get famous, yonge street on May 14, 2013 by segarini
Before I dive into this, I have to take a moment to point you towards one of the best “up” songs I have heard in some time: No Small Children‘s Might Get Up Slow. If radio had the impact that it did even 20 years ago, this would be blasting out of stereo and car speakers everywhere. iThings too, if they had them (my brain is so numb, I couldn’t come close to a year those damn things took over 
our lives— I can hardly remember a kid without one). The more I hear these ladies, the more I want to hear more. Turn it up! Like they said in the old days— Recorded loud to be played LOUD! Listen to this!!!
Now, back to our regular programming.
