Have a safe and happy Canada Day…I love you all. And yes…this IS the Greatest Country in the World…even if some of us don’t know it.
Portions of this column originally appeared in FYIMusic, Cashbox Canada, and DBAWIS.
Archive for Canadian Music
Segarini: Canadian, Eh? Happy 150th Canada Day!
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags BB Gabor, Blue Shadows, Cadence, Cameo Blues Band, Canadian Music, Cherry Cola's, Courage My Love, Dala, David Celia, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, july talk, Junkhouse, Moxy Fruvous, music, Pagliaro, Records, Sam Taylor, segarini, The Respectables, The Wackers, Tom Wilson, Toronto on July 1, 2017 by segariniJAIMIE VERNON – INDEPENDENCE IS OUR FUTURE
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Alex Radeff & Donkey, Barenaked Ladies, Bob Segarini, Bullseye Records, Canadian Music, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Donkey, Great White Noise Magazine, HMV Superstore, independent, Jaimie Vernon, Tent City, Toronto music, Tribute to the Beatles, Yellow Tape on January 28, 2017 by segarini
As I type this music retailer HMV is either in receivership or heading into it after one of the chain’s creditors called in their chips. The retail giant has been floundering for years and managed to escape an industry crash that took out the likes of Sam The Record Man and Tower Records stateside a decade ago. HMV’s position as one of the last giants standing (Sunrise has rallied to fill in the hole left by Sam’s), was only delaying the inevitable.
Roxanne Tellier – Is It That Time Again?
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Babbette, Canadian Music, Carrole Pope, Christmas 2016, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, heymacs, music, music videos, Records, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, Toronto, Trump on December 4, 2016 by segarini
Three weeks from today is Christmas Day. We’ll have gotten past all the rushing about, the frantic shopping, and the boozy parties, and hopefully be lounging about in our new flannel pjs, sipping on liquored up egg nog, and looking forward to a feast of turkey and all the trimmings.
Hopefully.
JAIMIE VERNON – CEMETERY COP 2 – Chapter 6 (excerpt)
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags burial, Canadian Music, Cemetery Cop, crematorium, crypts, DBAWIS, dead, death, Desert Storm, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Family, fences, funeral, Ghosts, GPS, grave yards, gravestones, Gulf War, hearse, iPad, iPhone, Jaimie Vernon, mausoleum, patrol car, Security Guard, segarini, superstition, vestry, visitation centre, wrought iron on December 3, 2016 by segarini
BILLY GOAT GRUFF
Billy was the security guard that trained me. I got to know him, not in person, but through his legend. When I worked, he was off, and vice versa, so we rarely ever crossed paths. Occasionally, he’d pop by on his day off to say hello to the staff, and would come around to see how I was doing. I was the newbie, and he wanted to make sure that a) the staff was treating me well, and b) that I wasn’t fucking anything up.
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JAIMIE VERNON – YOU SAY IT’S MY BIRTHDAY
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Area 51, Ben Casey, Biff Tannen, Birthday, blood clots, Bob Segarini, Bruce Hendrick, Canada, Canadian Music, Cavern Club, Crawford Anglin, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, fifty-three, George McFly, George Takei, Grand Canyon, HMCS Haida, Hockey, Jaimie Vernon, Marcus Welby, Moose, Prime Minister Joe Clark, punk band, Queen Mary, Red Rose Tea Cards, Sick Children's Hospital, Sick Kids, Spruce Goose, submarines, Tinder, United States on November 19, 2016 by segarini
As you read this I’m either on or about to go on stage for what is most certainly my 1,000th live musical appearance as the final act on the final night of David Bash’s long-running Toronto International Pop Overthrow Festival (this is year #10). I’ve been humiliating myself and faking musical talent in public since September 1980. Thirty-six years of looking for affirmation in all the wrong places.
JAIMIE VERNON – THE BLURST OF TIMES
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Back To The Future, Biff Tannen, Blurst of Times, Bob Segarini, Canadian, Canadian Music, candidate, cronie, DBAWIS, democracy, Democrat, DNC, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Donald Trump, Election, fiddle, Hillary Clinton, horse, Idiocracy, Jaimie Vernon, Kentucky Derby, McCarthy, monkeys, Montgomery Burns, Nero, Oompa Loompa, Republican, Richie Rich, RNC, The Donald, The Simpsons, Willy Wonka on November 12, 2016 by segarini
I’ve got nothing left. I’m spent. This week has been the tightrope shit-show from hell. As Montgomery Burns found out on ‘The Simpsons’ when he tried to get monkeys to type out the greatest novel of all time: “It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.”
JAIMIE VERNON – CLEVER HAS A NAME: JAMES CLARK INSTITUTE
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Badfinger, Beatles, Blair Packham, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Cheap Trick, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fastball, Garry Flint, Jaimie Vernon, James Clark Institute, John Dinsmore, Moe Berg, Power Pop, Raspberries, Smithereens, Squeeze, The Byrds, The Kinks, The Odds, The Pursuit of Happiness, The Who, Todd Rundgren on October 23, 2016 by segariniWe’re in an interesting transitional period with music. Not the industry part that I’ve frequently beaten up and kicked to the curb time and time again. No, I’m talking about musical direction. I had hoped upon hope that post-9/11 the singer-songwriter would make a massive mainstream comeback to usher in the silver age of thinking man’s music. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement. The simpletons in charge of what we listen to doubled down on the stupid with the vacant tap dancing and lip-syncing of nubile females, effeminate boy bands and reality stars-turned-prime-time-embarrassments. ‘American Idol’ was the new A & R department for the future of music.
