I’ve been slowly re-imbedding myself into the Dante’s Inferno that is the current music industry with a focus on promoting good, new music [see some of my previous blogs for my recommendations] cause, let’s face it, talking about the mistakes the labels made over the last decade is like discussing that guy at Decca Records that passed on The Beatles [his name was Dick Rowe and he made up for the faux pas by later signing the Rolling Stones].
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JAIMIE VERNON – MUSICAL VALUE VILLAGE
Posted in Opinion with tags advances, artistic freedom, Beatles, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, CDs, DBAWIS, Decca, Dick Rowe, Don't Believe a Word I Say, entertainment, fart apps, independent music, Indie Artists, iTunes, Jaimie Vernon, Major Labels, Movies, napster, radio, Rape the Music Fan, Rolling Stones, Sports, TV, unrecouped, Vince Gill, vinyl on October 10, 2015 by segariniJAIMIE VERNON – FREE TO BE U2 AND ME
Posted in Opinion with tags 7" singles, Apple, Bait and Switch, Beethoven, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, CD Baby, CD singles, CDs, Classic Rock Magazine, Columbia House, con game, DBAWIS, devalue music, distribution, Don't Believe A Word I Saw, independent artists, iPhone, Jaimie Vernon, Major Labels, Molsons, monetizing music, Mozart, music retail, napster, on-demand, patrons, Prince, Queen Elizabeth, Ray Davies, shell game, The Orchard, The Trews, Thriller, TuneCore, U2, vinyl on September 27, 2014 by segarini
JAIMIE VERNON – ADVENTURES IN NEW MUSIC
Posted in Opinion with tags Adele, BMV Books, Bob Segarini, Books, Canadian Brass, Canadian Music, CDs, Chatter Records, Chris and Gileah, Current Records, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Dublin Corporation, Emilia, Fan Expo, Gerry Young, Guardians of the Galaxy, HALO, Jaimie Vernon, Kongos, Martha & The Muffins, Metal On Ice, Morse Code Transmission, MTCC, Parachute Club, Sean Kelly, sore feet, Tristan Thompson, TTC, vinyl, Xbox 360 on August 30, 2014 by segarini
I spent a bit of of time in downtown Toronto this week having avoided going anywhere near it since 2012 because, well, CONSTRUCTION. The annual FanExpo extravaganza began Thursday at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and I took my son down on transit – not to see the actors and actresses hawking their photos and autographs (which we have enjoyed in years past), but to check out the new offerings in the video gaming world.
JAIMIE VERNON – ALL YOU NEED IS CASH
Posted in Opinion with tags Avengers, Beatles, Blu-Ray, box set, CDs, DBAWIS, Dexter, Don't Believe a Word I Say, DVDs, guitars, Jaimie Vernon, Justin Beiber, K-Tel, Marvel, Movies, music, Records, Ron Popeil, Ronco, Star Trek, Twilight Zone, vinyl on November 17, 2012 by segarini
This week Apple Records/Capitol Records released the 14 album/16 LP Beatles vinyl boxed set. It’s the band’s entire in situ output while they were together (and alive) housed in a monolithic cardboard time capsule that is not unlike a black hole version of the Tesseract cosmic cube seen in the movie ‘The Avengers’. So what’s so amazing about this latest ad nauseam repackaging of the same material previously released as re-mastered CDs in 2009 and 2010? Well, it has bigger pictures…and, um, it’s on 180 gram vinyl…and um…the audio has been tweaked once again to compensate for the limitations of black PVC…and um….that’s it. In other word there is no difference.
Cameron Carpenter: The ABC’s Of Rock – iCame, iSaw, iPod
Posted in Opinion with tags Cameron Carpenter, CDs, DATman, DBAWIS, Discman, Don't Believe a Word I Say, ipod, jambox, mp3s, music, Shanghai Cowgirl on July 12, 2012 by segarini
I don’t remember exactly the first time I heard a compact disc but I imagine it was in the offices of Quality Records on Birchmount Road. I have vague recollections of a boardroom meeting where we saw and heard what the compact disc was all about. I was easily impressed. We were told the sound was pristine, they would last forever and they would never skip. Ultimately none of this was true but it still felt like a giant leap in to the future.
JAIMIE VERNON – SUPPLY AND (LACK OF) DEMAND
Posted in Opinion with tags CDs, Cinram, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Indie Music, J. David Band, Jaimie Vernon, Major Labels, music, Records, The Well Wishers on July 8, 2012 by segarini
As the line between art and commerce continues being eroded by divested corporate interests in the form of major record labels (BMG, EMI, SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER) that control that art, word came last week that digital media manufacturing giants CINRAM have filed for bankruptcy. To the layman the immediate reaction is “Who?”. To those in the music industry this announcement is more ominous portents of an inevitable music apocalypse.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 