I’m In lunch bag let-down mode. Had too much fun in May, what with all the activities and gigs, and June has so far been one of the worst clunkers of the year, weather wise. I even apparently missed the biggest (ooh!) sports news this week when LeBron James accidentally flashed 18.5 million viewers during the NBA Finals.
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Roxanne Tellier: Bits and Pieces
Posted in Opinion with tags Allvays, American Bandstand, Amy Winehouse, Analogue Gallery, banana Zombie apocalypse, Blondie, Bob Segarini, Brave Shores, Busty and the Bass, Cam Carpenter, CMW, DBAWIS, Dirty Loops, Doomsquad, Dundas Square, Henrik Linder, Ivory Hours, Jaclyn and Allie Blumas, Janet Jackson, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, LeBron James, Lee's Palace, Leon Bridges, London Music Hall, Marianne Faithful, McGill University, Molly Rankin, Montreal, NBA Finals, NPR, NXNE, Osheaga Music Festival, Pat Blythe, Pope Francis, Roxanne Tellier, Sam Cooke, Silver Dollar Room, Sneaky Dees, social inequality, Sook Yin Lee, Swiss Guards, SXSW, Tiny Danza, Toronto, Trevor, Vintage Trouble, Way Home Festival, Women in Rock, Xprime on June 14, 2015 by segariniPat Blythe: The Women of Rock – Part Four
Posted in Opinion with tags A Night to Remember, A Rose By Any Name, About.com, Alanis Morissette, Alien, All Music, Amanda Jones, American Gigolo, Andy Summers, Angel and the Snakes, Autoamerican, avant-garde, Backfired, ballad, BBC Radio, Billboard, Billboard Hot 100, Blondie, Blondie 4(0) Ever, Blue Angel, blues, Bones, BPI, Britney Spears, Broadway., Brooklyn, Call Me, Camelot, Capital Records, CBGB, Change of Heart, Chris Stein, chutzpah, Clement Burke, DBAWIS, Debbie Harry, Deborah Harry, Def Dumb and Blonde, Di haut, Disco, Djini Judy, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Don’t You Go Away mad, Eat to the Beat, Elda Gentile, Elvis Costello, Emmy, Europe, Florida, Follow Me, funk, gay pride, German heavy metal, Ghosts of Download, Gillian G. Gaar, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, go-go dancer, gold, Grammys, Greatest Hits Deluxe Redux, H.R. Giger, Hairspray, Heart of Glass, I Drove All Night, Jazz, Jewel, John Turi, Julie Andrews, Kate Bush, Katy Perry, Kinky Boots, KooKoo, Lady GaGa, LGBT, Life with Mikey, Lindsay Planer, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Mad About You, Marilyn Monroe, marvin gaye, Max’s, Max’s Kansas City, Maybe He’ll Know, Mickael J. Fox, Moments Spent, Movies, music, music videos, My First Night Without You, New Jersey, New Wave, New York, New York Times, Nigel Harrison, No Doubt, North America, Now I Know You Know, One Way or Another, Parallel Lines, Pat Blythe, Paul Reiser, pink, platinum, Playboy Bunny, Polydor Records, Pop, Pride Toronto, Punk, radio, Rapture, Raven, Reagan, Records, reggae, Richard Burton, Robert Hazard, Rock, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rockbird, Rodney Bingenheimer, Rolling Stone Magazine, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, segarini, Sex Offender, She Bop, She’s a Rebel The History of Women in Rock & Roll, She’s So Unusual, ska, Slant Magazine, Sonny Bono, Steve Peake, Stillettoes, Talking Heads, Tegan and Sara, Television, The Jam Was Moving, The Jazz Passengers, The Muppet Show, The Wind in the Willows, Time After Time, Tony, Toronto, True Colors, U.S., Vibes, Videodrome, Vogue, Wayne Kirby, What’s Going On, Wiseguy, X Offender on April 15, 2015 by segariniHello everyone. Let’s give a warm welcome to Debbie and Cyndi. Two unique women who dance to their own drummers and whose talents encompass a variety of musical fields in two decidedly different decades. These ladies can pop and rock, disco down or jazz it up, sing the blues, or pour their soul into a ballad. Their many talents run the full gamut and they have led the way for a new kind of woman in music, adding their own twist and turns to rock and roll. Quirky, outrageous, individualistic, sexy, ballsy, entertaining, exuberant, clever, brilliant, artistic and really, really smart.
Pat Blythe: K-Pop and other stories
Posted in Opinion with tags 2014 KPop Girl Group Ranking (Top 22), 2NE1, A Pink, Baby One More Time, Barry Gibb, Billboard, Billboard Current Box Score, Blondie, Bobby Sherman, Boney M, Britney Spears, BSB, Bubble Pop, Captain Beyond, Christina Aguilera, Club 120, Come Back Home, cream, Crush, dance, Danny DiVito, Dave Clarke Five, David Cassidy, DBAWIS, Deep Purple, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Donna Summer, electronic, Gangnam Style, Gee, Girls Generation, hanteo, Herman's Hermits, Hip Hop, Hyuna, I Don't Need A Man, K-Pop, KC and the Sunshine Band, KPop, KPop Canada, Little Woman, metal, music, No No No, NSync, One Direction, Pop, Pop! Goes theWorld!, Psy, Pussycat Dolls, Queen, Rap, Risk, Rock, Sailor Moon, Santana, segarini, Simon Cowell, South Korea, Spirit, Sports Chosun, Stayin' Alive, Steal My Girl, The Beatles, The Bee Gees, The Monkees, TIGER beat, Time Magazine, Top 25 KPop Boy Groups of 2014, Yes, YouTube, YouTube Music Awards, Zappa on March 4, 2015 by segariniDuring a recent conversation on writing and music I was asked if I had ever heard of K-Pop. My answer was “no” although I was tempted to say “of course” me being a music junky and all. I’ve been told I don’t get out enough so I’m working on that. In the meantime…
JAIMIE VERNON – FANTASY BANDS AND SUPERGROUPS
Posted in Opinion with tags Al Kooper, Anger Brothers, Big Dirty Band, Bill Graham, Blondie, Blood Sweat & Tears, Bob Segarini, Burton Cummings, Canadian Music, Chequered Past, Chicago Transit Authority, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Electric Circus, Electric Flag, Elliot Easton, Empty Hearts, Fantasy Band, Fast Forward, Fillmore West, Grateful Dead, Greg Godovitz, Ian Lloyd, Jaimie Vernon, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Led Zeppelin, Lighthouse, Lords of the New Church, Michael des Barres, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Paul McCartney, Rockstar Supernova, Rush, Skip Prokop, Stiv Bators, Super Jam, Super Session, Supergroups, The Carpet Frogs, The New Cars, Todd Rundgren on November 29, 2014 by segariniThere’s a great time wasting pub game on social media quite popular with my music friends whereby you assemble the ultimate supergroup featuring your favourite musicians past and present.
Justin Smallbridge: New York City Noise
Posted in Opinion with tags Blondie, CBGB's, DBAWIS, Disco, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Justin Smallbridge, Kool Herc, music, New York, New York Dolls, Nicky Siano, Origins of Disco, Origins of Punk, Punk, Ramones, Records, Studio 54 on August 19, 2013 by segariniAll the sins blamed on “disco” (such as it was at the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s) — cocaine, amyl nitrate, sexually transmitted disease, The Ritchie Family, Andy Gibb — are nothing compared to the ugliness of “Disco Sucks.” The stigma’s so powerful that even now, nobody would dare call it disco. It was “house” for a while, and these days people call it “EDM,” a clumsy catch-all acronym that stands for “electronic dance music,” although it sounds more like another disco-era sexually transmitted disease. (“I’m sorry, but the only remedy for EDM is a series of painful injections, taking this foul-smelling tincture six times a day and applying this stinky salve to the affected area…”)
Cameron Carpenter: The ABC’s Of Rock’n’Roll- Start Spreading The News
Posted in Opinion with tags Blondie, Cameron Carpenter, CBGB's, Chrissy Amphlett, Darryl Vickers, DBAWIS, Divinyls, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five MC’s, Great New York Bars, Jill Sobule, music, Patti Smith, Records, Shanghai Cowgirl, Television, The Beastie Boys, the Bovine Tiki Bar, The New York Dolls, The Ramones, The Strokes, The Talking Heads, The Velvet Underground on April 25, 2013 by segariniBe it in Canada, or while visiting our neighbours to the south, I have always been an east coast type of guy. Give me Halifax over Vancouver, St. John’s over Victoria and, most definitely New York over Los Angeles. In the past I spent a lot of time in both New York and L.A. as back in the good old days these were the two epicentres of the record biz. L.A. can have its charms in the short term, what with the weather and the ocean, but it is strange to be in a town where nobody walks. I walk everywhere and think nothing of a quick jaunt from the Beach in Toronto to downtown. People in New York walk. Manhattan streets are an obstacle course of fast moving people, yellow cabs, constant honking and ever present sirens. There is an energy and attitude in NYC that is sadly lacking in L.A..