I first met Fergus Hambleton in person while I was performing with my trio, Graye featuring Todd Miller and Lawrie Ingles, at a small club on Yonge Street in Toronto called Rocky Raccoons. It was a mid-week jam night and we were going to do a few songs when I looked up and Fergus was sitting in the front row taking in what can only be described as a “loose” performance of one of my original songs.
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JAIMIE VERNON – THE FERGUS CONVERGENCE
Posted in Opinion with tags A Passing Fancy, Ault Sisters, Bob Bryden, Bob Segarini, Bobby Curtola, Bobby Darrin, Bobby Vee, Bobby Vinton, Canadian Music Hugh's Room, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia, Cleave Anderson, David Macmillan, Davide DiRenzo, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fergus Hambleton, George Koller, Gerry Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Graye, Hermina George, Ice On the Road, Jaimie Vernon, Jane Harbury, Jeff Jones, John Deehan, Lawrie Ingles, Linus Entertainment, Pete Otis, reggae, Rob Whalen, Rocky Raccoons, Sattalites, Snap Shots, Terry Brown, Terry Draper, The Basics, The Black Swan, Tim Bovaconti, Todd Miller, True North, Written On the Wind, yonge street on May 9, 2015 by segariniDoug Thompson: DON’T MESS WITH THE WRECKING CREW!
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So, what project in your life has taken you the longest to complete? Has anything you’ve really wanted to do ever taken you 18 years? Most likely not, but that’s how long it took director Denny Tedesco to complete his documentary on a small group of musicians in Los Angeles who, from the late 1950’s through to the 1970’s, supplied the rhythm section (drums, bass, guitar, keyboards, percussion, saxophone) for hundreds, if not thousands of hit records.
Frank Gutch Jr: Jim Colegrove, The Early Years; Small Label Magic; plus the oh so magnificent Notes…..
Posted in Opinion with tags Bailiff, Bob Holliday, Bobby Vee, Bow Thayer, Chess Records, David Bullock, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fort Worth, Frank Gutch Jr., Gene "By Golly" Barry, Highlight Bomb, Indie Artists, Indie Music, jim colegrove, Jim Smith, Jimmie Vaughan, King Records, music, No Small Children, Records, Sons of Champlin, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ted Grills, Teddy & the Rough Riders, The Moonglows, Tilt Records, WING Radio, ZOE MUTH & THE LOST HIGH ROLLERS on April 15, 2014 by segarini
His name is Jim Colegrove but I know him by his AKA, Coolgroove, because that is how I want to know him. He’s no youngster, a few years older than myself (I’m a fossil), and has been a guitar playing fool all of his adult life and most of his childhood. If I asked him if he thought when he was young that he would be still playing today, I am sure he would say no. It was a dream back in the fifties when he got his first guitar. He has relived that dream every day since because when he isn’t playing music, he’s thinking it. He got the bug early and the reason I’m telling you is that I got the bug too. I had a chance to live it but in those days you had to be a special breed to stick it out. I had the talent. I just didn’t have the discipline. Jim had (has) plenty of both.
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