With my ‘True Tales From a Cemetery Cop’ being released October 3 I’ve finally returned to finish writing the book I promised a year ago – the history of Bullseye Records of Canada.
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JAIMIE VERNON – BULLSOGRAPHY: Sneak Peek #1
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Aqua Duck, B-Girls, Bakersfield, Bigger Than Bowling, Bob Segarini, Brian Gagnon, Canadian Music, Cynthia Ross, DBAWIS, Deadlier Than Darts, Doc Rock & The Wild Bunch, Don't Believe a Word I Say, El Mocambo, Front 54, Gilmore's, Goddo, Gulf War, Hamilton, Haywire, Jaimie Vernon, Killer Dwarfs, Lee Aaron, Lee's Palace, Lundy's Lane, M.T. Head Express, Mike Thorne, Mort Ross, Moving Targetz, Mysonics, Niagara Falls, Oshawa, Players' Studio, Purple Onion, Russell Graham, Saga, The Kings, Toronto, Tragically Hip, Trooper on September 24, 2016 by segariniFrank Gutch Jr: Perspectives… Music— Does the Past Control Our Future? Music Snobbery. Lyricists, Take Note. Nightmare @ 20,000 Watts. And Information You Can Eat For Breakfast (Meaning, Notes…..).
Posted in Opinion with tags 000 Watts, Amy Helms, Bob Segarini, Brian Gagnon, Bullseye Canada, Byron Isaacs, Chloe Albert, Chris and Gileah, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Graham Nash, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Inside Pop- The Rock Revolution, John Fahey, Lawrence Ingles, Leonard Bernstein, Lost Leaders, Lyrics, music, music videos, Nightmare @ 20, Norrish Reaction, Palestinian Israel-Jones, Peter Cole, Peter Noone, Petunia & The Vipers, radio, Records, Sam Morrow Tina & The B-Sides, Sydney Wayser, The Carolines, The Gentle Soul, The Sidewalk Scene, The UFO's, Todd Miller, Zoe Muth on April 22, 2014 by segarini
Here I go on one of my cerebral journeys, most of which run into a brick wall and consign themselves to the ash heap. I, like most of the world, have a very short attention span, it seems, and while I have bursts of genius (I swear!) little of it makes it to the outside world. This time, the message(s) is(are) spurred by a link posted by friend Greg Phipps, with whom I worked at Peaches Records in Seattle in the 80s (Phipps, btw, records under the name Palestinian Israel-Jones, should you desire to visit his planet), who has been on a roll finding and posting or reposting questions and videos worth my, if not your, attention. For instance, a couple of weeks ago, he asked about the negativity toward celebrities “selling out,” whoring their wares for profit.
JAIMIE VERNON – Life’s a Canadian Rock: Book 2, Chapter 4
Posted in Opinion with tags 1989, 1990, Agnostic, Bob Segarini, Brian Gagnon, Bullseye Records, Christopher Ward, Cynthia Ross, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eddie Schwartz, El Mocambo, Faith, Gasworks, God, Jaimie Vernon, Jerry Love, jingles, Moe Berg, Mort Ross, Moving Targetz, music, New Music Seminar, New York, Rich Dodson, Rik Emmett, Rock on August 4, 2013 by segarini
Read Chapter 1 here:
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Read Chapter 3 here:
PHASE II, MACH III – PHOENIX RISING
Having spent the better part of 5 years taking my band Moving Targetz from a suburban Scarborough, Ontario basement (a trend later to be repeated by the Barenaked Ladies), burning up the Queen Street circuit, forming a record label and releasing not one, but two, 12” slabs of polyvinyl chloride only to have the band self-destruct on the eve of global domination, I did some soul searching and decided that I really didn’t want the musical ideology of Targetz to die.
JAIMIE VERNON – Life’s a Canadian Rock: Book 2, Chapter 3
Posted in Opinion with tags 7" single, Alabama, album, Bob Segarini, Brian Gagnon, Calvin Reynolds, Canadian Music, Carey Gurden, Certain Circles, Creedance Clearwater Revival, Dave Tedd, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Watt, Gary Brown, Indiana Jones, Jaimie Vernon, James Rogers, Moving Targetz, Redneck, Simon Bedford-James, Swedish Fish, Vic Kennedy, Vinyl Performance, William C. Smith, Wolfman Jack, Zepology on June 9, 2013 by segarini
JAIMIE VERNON – EVERYTIME I SEE YOUR PICTURE I CRY
Posted in Opinion with tags Band Photographs. The Enemy, Brian Gagnon, David Bash, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, International Pop Overthrow, Jaimie Vernon, Michael Carpenter, music, Robby Rist, Swedish Fish, Your Favourite Train Wreck on July 14, 2012 by segarini
I’ve been around this music thing a loooong time. Three quarters of my life in fact. I started in bands when I was 17, I started my own label when I was 22 and have had a roller coaster ride of sweet success and monumental failures. But in all that time I never lost sight of being professional in every aspect of promoting my career. There was always attention paid to improving production, songwriting, musicianship and, especially, presentation (WEA Records once offered me a job to put press kits together for them after one of mine wound up on an exec’s desk). The public visage of my image and that of my music projects was toiled over, debated and deliberately calculated. Not all of it worked (see Crime Exhibit #1 above), but all of it was done with the aid of like minded people who had similar goals of putting our best face foreword.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 