In recent weeks I’ve seen many artists on social media whining for the millionth time about 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 not unexpected given the recent wholesale destruction of the live music scene globally due to the pandemic. Artists are finally starting to look under the couch cushions or Mom’s purse for loose change as a means of survival.
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LEARN TO WEAR THE SUIT by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags Arista, Beach Boys, Beatles, Beyonce, Bob Segarini, Bowie, Bro Country, BTS, Colonel Tom Parker, David Bowie, DBAWIS, Demi Lovato, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elvis, Jackson 5, Jaimie Vernon, Lou Pearlman, Michael Buble, Osmonds, Paul Anka, Pink Adele, Rollermania, Selena Gomez, Shania, Tam Paton, The Bay City Rollers, The Guess Who, The Monkees, The Rubettes, The Shaggs, The Sweet, The Sylvers on October 26, 2020 by segariniTIME MACHINE TUESDAY NUMBER 5 – Earth or Urth?
Posted in Fiction, life, music, Opinion with tags Beatles, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elvis, music, Otis Redding, Radio Zombie, segarini, Tuesday Time Machine, Urth on March 31, 2020 by segarini
The fifth of what will hopefully be many memories from a life of both rock and roll, not to mention radio, television, drinking, and debauchery. Shall we begin?
Roxanne Tellier – The Trappings of Fame
Posted in Opinion, politics, Review with tags 'tall poppy syndrome' William Shatner, camp followers, DBAWIS, Elvis, Fame, Gates Foundation, Genie. Oscars, Graceland, Grammy, Juno, Leaving Neverland, Michael Jackson, MTV, Roxanne Tellier, royalty, segarini, Surviving R. Kelly, Walter Ostanek on March 10, 2019 by segarini
“Fame … makes a man take things over …. puts you there where things are hollow”
If you were a baby boomer in the sixties, you most likely never knew anyone who was ‘really really’ rich. There was a kid in my school whose dad was a famous football player, but I didn’t know her well. And there was another friend who came from Texas; they had a big house, and even had a maid, who let us make chilli and mess up the kitchen.
I had relatives who had oil patch money – they didn’t come around to many family parties, though. They likely got tired of being hit up for loans that would never get repaid.
When you think about it, one of the most famous, and presumably wealthiest, person with a high profile, back in those days, was Elvis. And by today’s standards, Graceland isn’t exactly the Taj Mahal. Not with all that shag carpeting. But for the time, it was high glam.
Roxanne Tellier – Managing A Blue Christmas
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Artists' Health Centre, Blue Christmas, Bob Segarini, C-SARN, Canadian, Danes, DBAWIS, Depression, Elvis, holiday stress, hooga, hygge, light therapy lamps, Roxanne Tellier, SAD, Scandinavian, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Tim Hortons, Toronto Public Library. Toronto Reference Library. Canada, volunteering on December 23, 2018 by segarini
Man, I cannot stand Elvis‘ song, “Blue Christmas.” And I’ll bet you have a couple of holiday tunes you could gladly live without for the rest of your life … enough’s enough on the “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer,” amirite?
And no .. we’re not discussing the ‘controversy’ over “Baby It’s Cold Outside.” No, we are not.
But.
Gary Pig Gold – ELVIS PRESLEY DIES FOR YOUR SINS
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elvis, Elvis 2017, Elvis Presley, Gary Pig Gold, music, radio, Records, segarini on August 14, 2017 by segarini
Yes. August 16th, 2017.
It’s that time of year again. To which many, many out there will cry…
Why Elvis?
I mean, Why should anybody, ANYWHERE care anymore?
Well, in a word or 984 I believe, here’s Why. Ready?
JAIMIE VERNON – MUSIC BUCKET CHALLENGE
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 10cc, 54.40, 999, Andrew Wyeth, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Chalk Circle, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elvis, Forgotten Rebels, Godley & Creme, hipster, Hybrid Kids, Jaimie Vernon, Men Without Hats, microdot, Morgan Fisher, Mott the Hoople, Music Bucket Challenge, Orson, Rational Youth, THE ALARM, The Clash, The Crickets, The Enemy, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Tonio K., tribal, Vital Sines on February 27, 2016 by segarini
There’s a new Facebook challenge going around that asks people to choose the 12 albums that have “stayed with you” over the years. I’m not sure what they mean by that exactly. “Stayed with you” like your dog does when you’ve got a half-eaten bean burrito sitting unattended on your plate while you remote control your way through 177 channels on your TV set looking for a Season 9 marathon of the ‘Simpsons’? Or “Stayed with you” like a bad one-night stand that turned into a three-year commitment, a shared bank account and pink throw pillows on the bed you’ve had since Middle School?
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JAIMIE VERNON – POP HAS EATEN ITSELF
Posted in Opinion with tags Barbara Bach, Bob Segarini, Charles Manson, DBAWIS auctions, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elvis, George Harrison, hedge funds., investment, Jaimie Vernon, Janis Joplin, John Lennon, Judy Garland, Martin guitar, Martin Shkreli, Medici, Michaelangelo, millionaires, Museum of Modern Art, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, Picasso, psychedelic Porsche, Ringo Starr, ruby slippers, Switzerland castle, The Beatles, the Louvre, the Manson Family, the White Album, Van Gogh, Wall Street, Wizard of Oz, Wu-Tang Clan on December 12, 2015 by segarini
We’ve crossed the threshold, folks. We’ve moved from living through the age of modern pop culture to turning it into precious gallery art by way of hedge funds. We’re cynics looking for the next tulip bulb market to turn bullish and are willing to strip mine our own nostalgia to do it. It’s Boomers with money to burn wanting to freeze-dry their childhood memories – and be the envy of nerd culture everywhere. It’s the ultimate revenge by people who got beaten up at school for wearing bell bottom pants and locking themselves in their rooms, donning headphones, and spinning a fresh-out-of-shrink-wrap copy of ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ until Mom & Dad called for them to come to dinner.
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Pat Blythe: So Much To See, So Much To Do and Listen To….
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Angelo Giammattolo, Bob Segarini, Brooklynn Bar, Bryan Fligg, Cam Carpenter, Cherie Currie, Cherry Cola's, Cherry Cola's Rock 'n Rolla Cabaret and Lounge, Chris Hummel, Common, Darryl Hurs, DBAWIS, Devon & Khalid, Dirty Loops, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Doug Elliot, Elvis, Frank Zirone, Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Graham Daniel Gaudreault, Indie Week 2015, Into The Wild, Jack Daniels, John Bower, Kabir Paul, Kate Lexington, Katia Montesano (Kat), Lenny Chiasson, Lilly Wolf, Lisa MacIntosh, Little Richard, Marco Argiro, Maria Muldaur, Mark Alberici, Matt Best, Maybe Refuge, Mike Joyce, Mill Street, My Hollow, Nadia Elkharadly, Oliver Alberici, Paddock, Pat Blythe, Ray Charles, Rend, Richard Flohil, Richie Valens, Ricky Muzik, Roxanne Tellier, Runaways, Simon Goddard, Star Baby, The Beatles, The Bootlegs, The Burroughes, The Dreamboats, The Mike BlackDog Ballroom, The Modern Hearts, The Rock 94.9, The Smiths Q Magazine on October 22, 2015 by segarini
I have so much to write about I don’t know where to begin. Clubs, pubs, bars and halls, from one end of the city to the other. Late nights, early mornings, a thousand pictures, private functions, VIP soirees, opening night galas and closing festivities. It’s been a whirlwind of activity and will be impossible to cover in a single column. Lots of sharing to do….
IT’S INDIE WEEK!!!!
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Segarini: Strange Bedfellows Redux
Posted in Opinion with tags Bono, Chad Kroeger, Cherry Cola's, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Dylan, Elvis, George Harrison, Gerald Ford, Gorby and the Scorpions, JFK, John Lennon, music, Nixon, Pierre Trudeau, segarini, Sinatra, Stephen Harper, The Pope, Yoko on August 14, 2015 by segarini
The column due today, “Stopping the Stupid”, will be here next Friday. In the meantime, here’s a rerun from 2011 about politics, rock stars and the silliness that is part of the political landscape despite its incredibly loopy connection. With the exception of President Obama, there don’t seem to be any politicians worthy of a decent song for their campaign or party or office. The Republicans, however, are looking pretty good for “Get Out of Compton…and Everywhere Else”. Stephen Harper could go with “I’m a Loser”, but I don’t think the Beatles know who he is. I just wish WE didn’t….
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