Dear Drake,
You and I have never met so I hesitate to call you by your given name, Aubrey, but it’s times like these where it’s important to talk to the man your Mama raised, and not the superstar visage the world has grown to know.
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JAIMIE VERNON – AN OPEN LETTER TO DRAKE
Posted in Opinion with tags Ariela Navarro-Fenoy, Batman, Bob Segarini, Bruce Wayne, Canadian Music, canadian national exhibition, Christopher Husband, Danzig Street, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Drake, Duvel Hibbert, Eaton Centre, Jaimie Vernon, Joe Warmington, Justin Bieber, Maestro Fresh Wes, Maple Leaf Sports And Entertainment, Mark Saunders, Meek Mill, Melissa Nathan, Michael Buble, Muzik Nightclub, Snow, Summer of the Gun, The Raptors, The Six, the Toronto Sun, thug life, Toronto, Toronto the Good on August 15, 2015 by segariniGARY PIG GOLD Celebrates MOTHERS DAY
Posted in Opinion with tags Are You Hung Up?, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eaton Centre, Frank Zappa, Gary Pig Gold, Mother's Day, music, Records, segarini, The Monkees, The Mothers of Invention on March 16, 2015 by segarini
I may be a couple of months early, but it came to me that one of my all-time favourite recordings celebrated a birthday just short of 2 weeks ago. And in the midst of this sonic revelry I was reminded that during the first Friday of most every month throughout 1967 and into ‘68, I was formally excused from school so that my mother could take me all the way to Toronto for special orthodontic appointments.
Roxanne Tellier: My Toronto – Part Two
Posted in Opinion with tags alice cooper, Ben Bergmann., Black Sabbath, Bob Segarini, Bomb Records, Brutus, Burton Cummings, Carole Pope, CHUM FM, CITY TV, Coney Hatch, Crowbar, DBAWIS, Divine, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eaton Centre, El Mocambo, England Dan and John Ford Coley, Foot in Cold Water, Frank Soda, Garwood Wallace, Gary Cormier, Gary Topp, geoff pevere, Goddo, Hap Roderman, Hard Rock Café, Harlequin, Hellfield, Hotel California, Jackson Hawke, JoAnn Brooks, Kenny Shields, Kevan Staples, Killing Joke, Larry's Hideaway, Lou Reed, Maple Leaf Gardens, Max Webster, Mike Myers, Moxy, Nickelodeon, Nico, Ozzy Osbourne, Performer, Piccadilly Tube, Prakash John, Rough Trade, Roxanne Tellier, Rush, Saga, Steve Ambrose, Streetheart, Sun Ra, Teenage Head, The Bobcast, the Chimney, The Cramps, The Edge, The Forge, The Garys Martha and the Muffins, The Gasworks, The Lincolns, The Police, The Rolling Stones, The Viletones, Tim Curry, Tommy Ambrose, Toronto, True North, Twitch, Wayne/Jayne County, XTC on April 13, 2014 by segarini
Toronto was a different place in the late 1970’s and early eighties. Although it’s easy to look back with rose coloured glasses, it was, in fact, a watershed time for Toronto musicians. Everywhere you turned, you were surrounded by outstanding music, made by dedicated and very talented players, who enjoyed the freedom to create their art, and make a living at the same time.
JAIMIE VERNON – Toronto the Good?
Posted in Opinion with tags Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Dundas Square, East York, Eaton Centre, Ed Mirvish, Jaimie Vernon, Massey Hall, mayor, music, North York, restaurants, Rob Ford, Scarborough, Theatre, Toronto, Vintage Toronto, York on November 17, 2013 by segarini
I am a Torontonian. I was born in East York at East General Hospital 50 years ago this coming Tuesday and raised in Scarborough – both originally neighbouring boroughs of Toronto. I’ve always considered these places suburbs of Toronto anyway and it was made official when they were amalgamated into the new City of Toronto in 1998. I worked for the City of Scarborough for 12 years leading up to the annexing of all the Metropolitan Toronto territories (which also 
included North York, York, and Etobicoke). 44 out of my 50 years have been spent living here. I’ve lived in the shadows both Yorkdale and Cedarbrae malls, on the eastern leg of The Danforth, and in the belly of Malvern when it was still radioactive but before it became a hideout for drug gangs and a haven for grow-ops. I’ve communed at the wolf den on the outskirts of the Metro Toronto Zoo and gone swimming in Lake Ontario at the foot of the Rouge River.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 