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GARY PIG GOLD with TEN YOU MAY HAVE MISSED In 2015

Posted in Opinion, Review with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 8, 2016 by segarini

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Just on the off chance you’ve already made it through all 18 discs, 20 hours, and/or 379 tracks of Bob Dylan’s Cutting Edge Collector’s Edition, then may I suggest you now turn both ears immediately towards…
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Frank Gutch Jr: Fish Don’t Know They’re Underwater… Music and Psychedelia 101

Posted in Opinion with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 19, 2013 by segarini

FrankJr2So you think you know something about music, huh?  I thought I did too until I started writing this column and getting schooled by people not only more aware of psych than myself but more knowledgeable.  Why, some of my past columns spawned related columns (not mine) at least as long, disputing my claims.  Okay, not quite.  But almost.  Let us just say that, like many of us, the more I know, the less I know.

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GARY PIG GOLD: TWELVE YOU MAY HAVE MISSED IN 2012

Posted in Opinion with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 1, 2013 by segarini

MissingPigThose Beach Boys and Rolling Stones weren’t the only septuagenarian rockers celebrating 50th (give or take) Anniversaries over the past twelve-or-so months, absolutely not. Just about each and every singer/songwriter/guitarist still standing – well, those with lucratively deep catalogues ripe and ready for recycling, that is – had multiple multi-media packages (and, in the Stones’ case, four-figure-plus concert tickets) competing for what remained of a loyal boomer’s nest egg throughout 2012.

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Frank Gutch Jr: Psych: Then and Now….

Posted in Opinion with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 9, 2012 by segarini

The Strawberry Alarm Clock just recorded and released a new album.  What’s that, you say?  The who?  No, not The WhoThe Strawberry Alarm Clock!  You know…  Incense and PeppermintsSit With the Guru?  The boys from Santa Barbara?  Loose fitting Nehru shirts and white pantaloons?  Paisley gone wild?  Sigh.  Sometimes I think I’ve lived too long.

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