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Pat Blythe: Ruminations

Posted in Opinion, Review with tags A Black Dog Grin, Alan Frew, Assault, Barry Connor, Billboard Hot 100, Black Forest Riders, Blair Thornton, Bob Segarini, Bryan Adams, BTO, Charles Towers, Chilliwack, CHUM FM, Cony Hatch, Cottingham Sound, Daniel Bourne, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Soda, Gary LaLonde, Genesis, Get It On Credit, Girls Night Out, Glen Gratto, GTA, Heart, Honeymoon Suite, Howard Froese, Jeff Beck, Jim Vallance, Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page, Jon Lechesseur, Jon Mikl, Jumping Bad, Klaatu, Lawrence Gowan, Live In The Tube, Madame Malabar, Madcats, Northwest Battle of the Bands, Oversexed, Pacemaker Records, Pacific Songwriters Association, Pat Blythe, Pat Bourke, Peter Crolly, Peter Kadar, Piccadilly Tube, Plateau, Prism, Quality Records, Queen, Rhinegold, Robert Connelly, Rush, Seeds of Time, Soda Pop, Styx, Supertramp, Take My Picture Please, The Canadian Ballet, The Collectors, The Imps, The Instructions, Thor, Triumph, Trooper, Two Faces, What About Love, Winter's Green, Your Daddy Don't Know on December 2, 2015 by segarini

It’s Tuesday night, November 17. My renovations are nearing completion, the house is dead quiet as I sit here, stretched out on the couch, looking around at this home we lived in together for 18 years. Remembering all the wonderful celebrations, dinners, Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners, TV watching, companionable “book reading”, and just quietly being, soaking up each other’s presence.

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JAIMIE VERNON – THE ORIGIN OF SONG

Posted in Opinion with tags Antônio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, Bacharach & David, Bernie Taupin, Bob Segarini, Brazil, Brill Building, Bryan Adams, Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, Canadian Music, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Closing Time, Dan Wilson, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elton John, fatherhood, Flying Saucer Reader, Goffin & King, Helo Penheiro, inspiration, Jaimie Vernon, Jim Vallance, John Woloschuk, Klaatu, Leiber & Stoller, Mann & Weil, Muse, Playboy, Rio de Janeiro, robin thicke, Semisonic, songwriters, Stan Getz, Star Wars, Terry Draper, The Carpenters, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Girl From Ipanema, Tin Pan Alley, Vinícius de Moraes, World Contact Day on February 21, 2015 by segarini

Songwriters are a gifted breed. They’re poets that think in three dimensions. It isn’t enough to be able to put pen to paper and Chaucer their ideas onto papyrus. They have to lift those words from this black and white template and insert them into music from which a melody rises and falls.