Here we are with Issue #3 of GWNtertainment magazine. How do you like us so far? We’re catching and reporting all the Canadian music ephemera that may have evaded your gaze in the last week. Here’s the stuff that caught our attention on this, the 50th anniversary week of Canadian content on radio!
Archive for Harem Scarem
MUSIC IS DYING 2 – LIFE’S WHAT YOU MAKE IT by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags 1980s, B-level, Bob Segarini, Danny K, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, first gig, Great Depression, Harem Scarem, Haywire, Jaimie Vernon, Killer Dwarfs, live performer, lockdown, Moving Targetz, music, no compromise, Shakers, Spare Parts, Swindled, Syntha-Light Sound, The Swindle, Trooper on September 28, 2020 by segarini
The very first live gig I ever played was 40 years ago this month – September 19, 1980 – with a band called The Swindle (we’d switch drummers and become SWindleD a year later). We were a bunch of barely passable punk rockers from Scarborough who were too young to play clubs. What does one do when you’re underage and need to get your rock on?
BINKIES, BLANKETS, AND TEDDY BEARS by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags Berner Trail, Betty Moon, binkies, blankets, Bob Segarini, Dark Side of the Moon, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fergus Hambleton, Harem Scarem, Hermitage Green, Jaimie Vernon, Kris and Dee, Mark Malibu & The Wasagas, MTV, Music Therapy, music videos, Peter Foldy, Records, teddy bears, The Pozers, Toronto, W3APONS on March 2, 2020 by segarini
Hands up if the music you fell in love with and defined your teen musical awakening is still in your music rotation 40 years later? Hands up if the last piece of new music you acquired was in 1987? Hands up if you think all modern music sucks or that there’s no good music to be found out there?
JAIMIE VERNON – 29 WITH A BULLET
Posted in Opinion with tags Anger Brothers, Bay City Rollers, Bob Segarini, Brave Belt, Brutus, Bullseye Records, Canada Music Week, Canadian Music, Cats & Dogs, CMW, Creighton Doane, Dave Rave, David Quinton, DBAWIS, Dee Long, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eight Seconds, Figures at Dawn, Geoff Gibbons, Glen Foster, Goddo, Greg Godovitz, Guess Who, Harem Scarem, Honeymoon Suite, International Pop Overthrow Festival, Jaimie Vernon, Jeff Healey, Jeff Jones, John Boswell, Killer Dwarfs, Klaatu, Maureen Leeson, Michael White & The White, Moxy, Santers, Silverlode, Soap Opera, Terry Draper, That Canadian Guy, The Beatles, The Brunswick House, The Dishes, The First Time, The Florida Razors, The Kings, The Shakers, The Sweet, Tom Hooper, Tom Wilson, Wild T & The Spirit on May 10, 2014 by segarini
A major anniversary passed surreptitiously on April 20th. It was the 29th anniversary of my long-suffering record label Bullseye Records. Normally I’d have shouted from the rooftops and run some kind of anniversary commemoration on Facebook or with musicians I know or privately, silently weeping, into my morning orange juice. But, I actually forgot about it.
So far removed am I from the music world now, and my own legacy, and exhausted from the grind that is my paycheck shackles that it slipped under my radar.
JAIMIE VERNON: DO THE FAN DANGLE-O
Posted in Opinion with tags Bullseye Records, Canadian Music, David Bradley, David Macmillan, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, EMI Music, fans, Goddo, Harem Scarem, Jaimie Vernon, JUNO Awards, Justin Bieber, Klaatu, Lady GaGa, Madonna, music, Pop Detective Records, Stompin' Tom Connors, The Bay City Rollers, The Beatles on March 9, 2013 by segarini
On Wednesday March 6th Canadian music legend Stompin’ Tom Connors passed away peacefully at the age of 77 from natural causes. Tom was a folk & country fixture around Canada for nearly six decades. He might very well be the last of the Canadian troubadours following in the footsteps of Wilf Carter (aka Montana Slim), Hank Snow, and the Canadian Sweethearts: Bob Regan and Lucille Starr. Connors walked amongst the rarified air of Canadian country Gods. He was a fixture at the legendary Horseshoe 
Tavern during its inception where his rousing songs and foot stomping put a hole in the stage – which the venue wanted him to pay for. On subsequent visits he resorted to stomping on a piece of wood to save the stage further injury – and Tom Connors became Stompin’ Tom Connors.
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JAIMIE VERNON: IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR
Posted in Opinion with tags Anna Gutsmanis, Bob Segarini, Brad Lovett, Canadian Music, Cats & Dogs, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Greg Godovitz, Harem Scarem, Inashton, independent music, Jaimie Vernon, Jessica Tyler, John Derringer, Klaatu, Q107, Sirius XM, The Anger Brothers, The Joint, The Kings, The Trews on December 15, 2012 by segarini
It’s been a really long year; one of my most productive years since about 2006 which will make it memorable in a good way rather than the last five years which I’d just as soon forget (and have taken to mentally block). My beautiful wife and I celebrated 16 years together. My son and daughter graduated middle school and high school respectively and have moved on to both high school and University in turn. I was given a great opportunity by a new Facebook friend, Todd Childerhose, to work a social media job at his company UpCountry.com – which I will forever be grateful for. I had one of my best friends in the world pay for my career retraining in the security industry.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 