I feel sorry for kids these days. They do not know the pleasure of the 45 RPM record. They do not understand the thrill of buying a hit and finding a song on the flip side that gets as much or more play time as the hit. They do not know, in this day of pay-per-track that they should be getting two songs for the price of the one. It’s the law. Or should be. I am sure that asshats at corporate chuckle every time us idiots order a song, knowing that they are shortchanging us. Yep, we used to get two songs. Like I said, it was the law. Labels and distributors, though, write their own laws these days. I know I’m a dinosaur, but anything less than two is a fuck you to us music junkies. Well, fuck them.
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Frank Gutch Jr: BC’s Laurie Biagini In Song and Words; Bullseye Canada Reactivated; Vinnie Zummo and The Beatles Reunion; and Notes…..
Posted in Opinion with tags A Far-Out Place, Bullseye Records Canada, chris eckman, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Glitterbeat, Go-Go Girl In a Modern World, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jaimie Vernon, Kim Grant, Laurie Biagini, Radio That Doesn't Suck, Ridin' a Wave, Rod Melancon, Sanctuary of Sound, Star Anna, The Far West, Tracer Flare, Vinnie Zummo on December 4, 2013 by segarini
The first time I ever heard The Beach Boys was at a birthday party for a friend of mine. She received the album and a new stereo. She put the album on and I was listening to it and by the time it got to “Catch a Wave”, the third track on the first side, I was freaking out. I didn’t want to have anything to do with the birthday party anymore. I just wanted to sit with my ears glued to the speakers, listening to this great music. I saved up my allowance and that was the first album I ever bought.
— Laurie Biagini
Frank Gutch Jr: From Africa With Love: Dirtmusic, Tamikrest and Gary Heffern; Pandora vs. Pink Floyd: The Digital Distribution Debate Continues; Music History 101; and Notes…..
Posted in Opinion with tags Arborea, Berkeley House Concerts, Big Star, Buck Curran, Chris Brokaw, chris eckman, DBAWIS, dirtmusic, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., gary heffern, George Bunnell, Hugo Race, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jeff Zentner, Michelle Malone, music, Pandora, Pink Floyd, Records, Tamikrest on July 10, 2013 by segariniI’m going back to school. I’ve been going to school since I graduated, in fact, because if there is one truth in the world it is that as much as we know, we know too little. About people. About science. About truth. And about music, among a few thousand other subjects. We are a defective lot which is to say in vinyl terms that we are warped or scratched or that we skip. Us humans are, in effect, not the top but the bottom of the food chain as far as I can tell because we are the only species who think we know it all.Frank Gutch Jr: Notary Sojac: The Band and the Legend, Plus Notes…..
Posted in Opinion with tags bob koski, chris bliss, chris eckman, DBAWIS, dirtmusic, Don't Believe a Word I Say, doug ness, drippy moon, Frank Gutch Jr., gary heffern, gary minkler, hannah miller, Indie Artists, Indie Music, jim lowry, little trailer ruby, music, Notary Sojac, Providence, rainier sunbust, Records, red dress, Sand, Skyboys, steve koski, terri moeller, Terri Tarantula, The Pacific Northwest, the quirks, the weeds, tioga sessions, tom kell, tom mckmeekan, weeden, will herold on May 28, 2013 by segariniThese guys crack me up. Even forty years later. Even after having been separated four decades, these guys are still brothers under the skin, and they are brothers. They lived as brothers and fought as brothers and even had various “heads of state” treat them as brothers whilst trying to keep them from getting screwed as a band. You look at the films and read the books of bands back in the late sixties and early seventies, you might think that life was all getting stoned and getting laid and flowers-in-your-hair, but that’s all surface.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 