Archive for Christopher Ward
Pat Blythe – Much Music, Pics and Other Stories…..
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags AndersonCreative, BlackDog Ballroom, Camp Oochigeas, Canon, Cherry Cola's, Christopher Ward, City Limits, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Downtown Camera, Is This Live, Jace Traz, Joel Goldberg, John Martin, Jon Nye, Karl Anderson, Kim Clarke Champniss and Denise Donlon, Laurie Brown, Little Foot Long Foot, Master T, Matt Groopie, Matt's band The King Beez, Michael Williams, Moses Znaimer, MuchMusic, Nick Forret, Queen Victoria Pub, Random House, Robbie Lane, Royal Theatre, Sam Taylor and the East End Love, segarini, Stone Cottage, Susan O'Quinn, The Charlie Jacobson Band, The MIchael Schatte Band, The Rockin' Winter Blues Series, Ziggy on November 10, 2016 by segarini
Baby’s got a new camera!!!! Chris’s camera finally bit the dust….shutter is stuck in the closed position, the “motherboard” is cooked. Ahhh….the digital age. ….and yet, his two 31-year-old “analogue” Nikons are in perfect working order. Complete with two motor drives, three lenses and a flash. Pop in a film canister and away we go. Planned obsolescence? Good question. Same goes for cars, major and minor appliances….just about everything we use today is all run by computer, and yes, computers run out of gas. That brain we call the motherboard, well….she just stops firing on all cylinders, or maybe, shoots off the wrong command. Her synapses aren’t synapsing (so to speak). I then found out today (being Tuesday) that digital cameras actually have an internal “odometer”. There are only so many pics that can (or should) be taken, then….sputter, sputter….you’re shooting on a wing and a prayer. Those aforementioned Nikons? Odometer? I think not. There is truly something to be said for analogue, vinyl, cassettes, 45s, my mom’s wash machine, stuff that was made to last a lifetime…..literally.
JAIMIE VERNON – YOUTUBE KILLED THE VIDEO STAR
Posted in Opinion with tags Amanda Palmer, Bell Media, Beyonce, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Christopher Ward, CTV, DBAWIS, Die Antwoord, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Donny Osmond, Dream Warriors, Duran Duran, Eric Ehm, eTalk, Hip Hop, J.D. Roberts, Jacksoul, Jaimie Vernon, Jay-Z, Julia Nunes, k-os, Lana Del Ray, Leah Miller, Madonna, Maestro Fresh Wes, Michael Jackson, Michael Williams, MTV, MTV Canada, Much More Music, Much Music, napster, Rammstein, Rap, Space, Television, Urban Music, VCR, VH1, VHS, video, Vimeo, Weird Al Yankovic, White & Nerdy, YouTube on July 26, 2014 by segarini
A week ago Bell Media Megolithic Oligarchy Inc. gutted many of their TV channel networks including CTV, E!, Space, and the formerly music oriented MTV Canada, MuchMoreMusic and MuchMusic by laying off 91 people.
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.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 