I know, I know … it’s too early to be listening to Christmas and holiday music. But on Thursday I spent my birthday serenading senior citizens at their seasonal parties, and I haven’t stopped feeling a little festive ever since.
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Roxanne Tellier – But It’s Too EARLY!
Posted in Opinion with tags A Charlie Brown Christmas, Betty Garrett, Bing Crosby, Bob Dylan, Bob Segarini, Charles M. Schulz, Chris Rea, Christmas, David Bowie, DBAWIS, Doctor Who, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Esther Williams, Frank Pooler., Greg Lake, John C. Reilly, Joni Mitchell, Karen Carpenter, Mrs Claus, Paul McCartney, Peanuts, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalban, Richard Carpenter, Roxanne Tellier, Santa Claus, Slade, Top of the Pops, Vince Guaraldi, Will Ferrell, Wings, Wizzard on December 7, 2014 by segariniJAIMIE VERNON – THIS IS 1984
Posted in Opinion with tags 1984., Aretha Franklin, Beat It, Billie Jean, Black Stations/White Stations, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Cooling The Medium, Current Records, Daniel Lanois, David Bowie, DBAWIS, Diana Ross, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Echo Beach, Emulator, Ensoniq Mirage, Gerry Young, Jaimie Vernon, Jocelyne Lanois, Last Pogo, M + M, Mark Gane, Martha & The Muffins, Martha Johnson, Martha Ladly, Michael Jackson, MTV, Much Music, Mystery Walk, New Wave, Nick Kent, Off The Wall, Ontario College of Art, Peter Gabriel, Power Station, Queen Street, racism, synth-pop, Tears For Fears, This Is The Ice Age, Thriller, Toronto, Trance And Dance, Walter Yetnikoff, Yogi Horton on December 6, 2014 by segarini
George Orwell references aside, 1984 marked a substantial turning point for pop music in Canada. The most significant of those was the launch of our answer to MTV – which we lovingly, un-ironically, called Much Music.
JAIMIE VERNON – NINE LIVES
Posted in Opinion with tags American Psycho, Billy Joel, Bob Segarini, Bondi Junction, Brothers Gibb, Canadian Music, change, Classic Rock, David Bowie, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, driving, Elton John, Eric Clapton, graveyard sex, graveyard shift, grunge, Hip To Be Square, Huey Lewis, Jaimie Vernon, Kiss, Mall Cop, Melvins, Michael Buble, Motley Crue, nine lives, Nirvana, Paul Blart, Paul McCartney, Peter Foldy, Robin Gibb, Security Guard, soundgarden, The Bee Gees on September 20, 2014 by segarini
I find myself at the front end of yet another re-invention of myself. When last I spoke of my day job I was driving automobiles for a subcontractor to one of Canada’s only two railroads. It wasn’t CN. The job nearly killed me. It was so labour intensive and the hours were so long that I actually don’t remember getting to or from work some days.
Roxanne Tellier: 20 Feet from Stardom
Posted in Opinion with tags 20 Feet From Stardom, Avatar? Growing Pains, Bad Girls, Berry Gordy, Betty Everett, Bob Segarini, Bobby Darin, Brown Sugar, Burt Bacharach, Carole King, Chaka Khan, Claudia Lennear, Darlene Love, David Bowie, David Letterman, DBAWIS, Delaney and Bonnie, Dionne Warwick, Disney, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Donna Summer, Elton John, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, George Harrison, Gimme Shelter, Gregg Allman, Humble Pie, Ike and Tina Turner, Jo Lawry, Joe Cocker, Josh Groban, Judith Hill, Leon Russell, Lethal Weapon, Lisa Fischer, Lou Rawls, Luther Vandross, Lynyrd Skynrd, Madonna, Merry Clayton, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, Motown, Neil Young, Nine Inch Nails, Patti LaBelle, Pearl Bailey, Phil Ochs, Phil Spector, Ray Charles, Robbie Williams, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rod Stewart, Roxanne Tellier, Sam Cooke, Sonny and Cher, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Tata Vega, Taylor Hicks, The Beach Boys, The Blossoms, The Crystals, The Lion King, The Raelettes, The Rolling Stones, The Ronettes, The Voice, Thriller, Tina Turner, Tom Jones, Waters Family on August 17, 2014 by segarini
I’d been longing to see the Academy Award winning documentary film “20 Feet from Stardom” since it first came out in 2013, but it was only recently that I actually had the chance.
Cameron Carpenter: The ABC’s Of Rock’n’Roll – V is for Various
Posted in Opinion with tags Bovine Tiki Bar, Cameron Carpenter, David Bowie, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Greg Kihn, Mink DeVille, Mott the Hoople, music, music videos, NXNE Hot Docs, Records, Slaughter, Stereophonics, Television, The Fabulous Poodles, The Kinks, Toronto, Violent Kin, Weakerthans on March 13, 2014 by segarini
Nadia’s column yesterday started a beehive of activity on Facebook as she mused in her writing about music that she currently hates. It is amusing to read the comments and the passion that music can evoke. For the majority of my writing career I have always tried to stay on the positive side of the fence and write about bands and music that moves me and, by doing so, hopefully turn some people on to something new, or, something old and great. At the same time there is nothing I enjoy more than a good band thrashing in print. Continue reading
JAIMIE VERNON: ARE YOU THE NEW JOHNNY BRAVO?
Posted in Opinion with tags Barenaked Ladies, Bay City Rollers, Bob Segarini, Brady Bunch, Canadian Music, David Bowie, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, entitled, Jackson 5, Jaimie Vernon, Johnny Bravo, Justin Bieber, making it, Michael Buble, Monkees, One Direction, publishing deal., record deal, Selena Gomez, Spice Girls, teen idol, The Beatles, The Guess Who, whiners on March 1, 2014 by segarini
In recent weeks I’ve been contacted by various music artists through various social medias (funny how the telephone is no longer one of them) to pick my brain for the millionth time on how to sell their wares/songs/nubile posteriors up the music industry food chain in the guise of a record deal or publishing deal or both.
It’s always in the form of sickly whining and the fetid scent of desperation wafts across the social media chasm with every single key stroke. “Why won’t anyone notice me?”
JAIMIE VERNON – DON’T TRY (CAREER) SUICIDE
Posted in Opinion with tags Billy Bob Thornton, Billy Ray Cyrus, Bob Segarini, Danny Bonaduce, David Bowie, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Drake, Gallagher Brothers, Jaimie Vernon, Joaquin Phoenix, Marlon Brando, Michael Bay, Miley Cyrus, Neil Young, Nymphomaniac, Oasis, Prince, Robert Downey Jr., Shia LaBeouf, Star Trek, Transformers., William Shatner on February 15, 2014 by segarini
Not since Marlon Brando and his moo moo ate their way through Hollywood on the back of non-returnable advances for movies he did everything possible to avoid making has there been so many entertainment types hell bent on changing career paths by killing off their meal tickets.
Thursday it came to light that Canadian rapper Drake was being a social mediot by bad mouthing Rolling Stone magazine for bumping his cover story in favour of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. News flash, Degrassi Boy: Hoffman has more cache dead than you will ever have alive. A simple “I’m disappointed in the turn of events, but understand Rolling Stone’s editorial decision. 
Respect PSH” would have sufficed. Instead, he show-boated. And like fellow rap asshat Kanye West, Drake will attempt to deflect now that people have taken to hating him more than they do already. He’ll mea culpa and return to his life shilling for the Toronto Raptors basketball team.
JAIMIE VERNON – MY LIFE WAS SAVED BY ROCK AND ROLL
Posted in Opinion with tags alternative rock, Andy Warhol, Bob Segarini, Brian Eno, Canadian Music, College radio, David Bowie, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Iggy Pop, Jaimie Vernon, John Cale, Lou Bega, Lou Reed, Mo Tucker, Moving Targetz, Nico, Pickwick, Rolling Stone Magazine, Simon Bedford-James, Sterling Morrison, Tara Reid, U2, Velvet Underground, Walk On the Wildside on November 2, 2013 by segarini
This week legendary musical curmudgeon Lou Reed died at the age of 71 following complications related to a liver transplant this past May. Within minutes of the initial announcement by Rolling Stone magazine the InstaFaceTwitterverse was abuzz with condolences and skepticism that it might possibly be a hoax. But after a few hours of confirmation and critical mass the news became ever too real. The King of Kool, the Dean of Dark, the Earl of Emo, had indeed died.
Cameron Carpenter: The ABC’s Of Rock’n’Roll – I is for Iggy and Lou
Posted in Opinion with tags Cameron Carpenter, David Bowie, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Iggy, lester bangs, Lou Reed, Mark Gibson, Mick Rock photos, music, Records, Sparks, Templar Hotel Toronto, Tiki Bar, Toronto on October 31, 2013 by segariniIt was probably this 1972 Mick Rock photo (Pictured below) that first alerted me to Lou Reed. I would have been 13 at the time and I imagine it appeared in Rock Scene or Creem! magazine. It may have been my first real impression of Iggy Pop as well, just being in the company of David Bowie made them both cool in my eyes. At that point I didn’t know who the Velvet Underground was and I didn’t own a Stooges record. Like any great artist Bowie led me to many others.
Darrell Vickers: A Tale of Two Shities
Posted in Opinion with tags Bulagaria, CBS, Darrell Vickers, David Bowie, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Laura Jansen, napster, Partricia Vonne, Patricia Vonne, Radio Vickers, RIAA, Scouting for Girls, Television, the Kardashian Sisters, Time-Warner Cable on August 26, 2013 by segarini
Corporate greed can be a very comical thing at times. Not when these soulless, maniacal money whores’ allow their unquenchable lust for gold to transmogrify into evil incarnate, of course. Certainly not when these insatiable, insensate, vulturine feeding machines get so avariciously engorged that all bonds of human decency snap like Walmart chair legs and they vomit blood and misery over everyone in their path. Recent history is replete with insidious incidences of these greenback gorgons happily committing acts of unmitigated commercial barbarism for the sake of expediency.
