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Frank Gutch Jr: Answering the Questions, Where Do Houseflies Socialize; You Only Believe Me When I’m Lying; Rolling Stones Magazine’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All-Time? Seriously?; Plus Notes

Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Alan Holdsworth, Aldous Harding, Chris Middaugh, david spinozza, DBAWIS, Dean Parks, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Drake Levin, Eric Lichter, Frank Gutch Jr., Green Pajamas, Hugh McCracken, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jeff Kelly, Jerry Donahue, Jim Allchin, Jim Bredouw, Joe Gideon, Larry Coryell, Lost High Rollers, Mick Rogers, music, music videos, Paul Curreri, Phil Keaggy, radio, Randy Burns & Morning, Records, Rolling Stone Magazine, Scott Fraser, segarini, Skyboys, Space Opera, Spirit Alley, Steve Young, Sweet Home Oregon, The Soundcarriers, tom kell, Tommy Emmanuel, Tommy Richard, Townes Van Zandt, Zoe Muth on July 11, 2017 by segarini

The world doesn’t always go my way and sometimes I get so pissed about that that I have to vent. GodDAMN if the world isn’t going the way of idiots and psychopaths as the Trump Generation attempts to destroy everything good, but I will be damned if I will let it happen to my music. That’s right. My music! Sure, you have your music— The Beatles and Floyd and Queen and even Beyonce and Kanye and whoever the hell else. YOU don’t have to worry. YOU can find that music and plenty of people who still love that music just walking down the street. Me, I have to work for it. I have to scrounge and search and listen and question at every turn. You think that’s easy?

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JAIMIE VERNON – The Dream Never Dies…Just the Dreamer

Posted in Opinion with tags Arnold Robinson, Bob Segarini, Buddy Holly, Canadian Music, Cats & Dogs, Crawdaddy, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Edsel., Ford, Hugh McCracken, Jaimie Vernon, Jay Smith, Matt Mays & El Torpedo, music, Paul Williams, Richie Valens, Rick Gunn, Rock and Roll, Sabian, The Big Bopper, The Nylons, Zildjian on March 30, 2013 by segarini

I had every intention of starting up the long and windy story about the band I was in following my stint with Swindled in the early 1980s as a teenage punk rocker. Moving Targetz lasted 9 years, released two albums and five EPs, and robbed 50+ musicians of their will to live. It’s going to take the better part of this year to tell the tale. The story will have to wait.

This week a musical associate, whom I’ve known casually for about a decade, passed away after a seemingly abbreviated battle with cancer. His name was Rick Gunn.