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Pat Blythe – Toronto’s Mixed Grill – A Scrapbook

Posted in Opinion with tags 120Diner, adult contemporary, All Sides Facing Out, alternative, artists, Asphalt Sex & Rock 'N' Roll, Austin Clarke, Barbershop, Bemelmans, Bemmy's, Birthday, Bloor, Bubble Pop, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Club120, Comedy, Cumberland, David Bowie, David Marsden, dawgs, DBAWIS, deelish, Deep Buddha, devo, Dirty Loops, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Driving Away, Dundas Square, Dylan, eargasm, Facebook, FB, Flight Deck, Forward Gaze, Gerald Belanger, Ghosts, Goodbye, Half, Hard Rock Café, Here We Are, indie, Issacs Gallery, Jake Koffman, Jazz, Jonathan Barrie, Julie Christie, K-Pop, karaoke, KPop, Lascivious, Latin Live!, Latin music, Lightfoot, Living More, London Baby, Marcus Kihn, Mental, Middle, Miss the Morning, Musicians, My Fair Lady, Niagara Falls, Peter Gabriel, Pop, RCAF, Rivoli, Robbie Robertson, Rock, Running to the Light, Sang Thip, Sax, segarini, Sexy Girls, shaking hips at my fingertips, She Came Back, Sinners of Saint Avenue, Slave, Slave to the Squarewave, Spadina Eleven, sparkling lips, St. Germain, stand-up bass, sticky buds, streetcar, Tablita Suah, Talking Heads, tapas, techno, Thailand, The Album, The Hawks, The Pilot, The Pilot Grill, The Way She Moves Me, thumpa, todo hecho, Together, Toronto, VJ Gee, voy a volver, whiskey, WOMAD '95, World War II, writers, Xprime, yonge street on March 18, 2015 by segarini

It’s 4am on Sunday morning, March 8, and I’ve just arrived home from a long day and night of music hopping….and the damn Queen streetcar short-turned again….and the clocks went forward one hour (OMG it’s really 5am!!)….and I’ve decided to change my tune (so to speak)….and tell you about my “day in the life of….” rather than have our esteemed editor post the article I’ve already filed.

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JAIMIE VERNON – AN OPEN LETTER TO MUSICAL NEWBIES

Posted in Opinion with tags A & R department, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, DBAWIS, DIY, Don't Believe a Word I Say, indie, Jaimie Vernon, record label, record label weasel, self-promotion, Social Media, The Beatles, widgets, working musiciasns on October 5, 2013 by segarini

[Jaimie is currently exhausted and unable to form a cogent original thought…so here’s a rerun of a fan favourite blog from 2011]

I used to run a lucrative record label full-time. I now run it occasionally when I find artists who have the desire and drive to help themselves and who only lean on me to sort out mindless applications for grants, pointers on increasing their social media exposure or answering manufacturing queries. I charge a fee to do this because my 30 years of experience deserves more than a ‘let’s go out for lunch so I can pick your brain’ remuneration. It’s like asking a prostitute to give you a happy ending in exchange for a coffee. And, yes, I do equate being in the music business with prostitution.