Throughout that wild and wacky A.D. 2020, one disc seemed to somehow find itself repeatedly, and most happily so, upon the ol’ Pig Player. A disc which via a mere 21 tracks in under 69 minutes presents an ideal, not to mention idyllic picture of two musical careers which, cannily overlapping more often than not, displays all that was/is unfailingly, musically sound; all that’s, in actual fact, proper with Pop.
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GARY PIG GOLD and those SUNSHINE WALKERS
Posted in Interview, music, Opinion, Review with tags AC/DC, Beatles, Chuck Berry, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Gary Pig Gold, Ivan Carling, Jimi Hendrix, Katrina and the Waves, Kimberley Rew, Lee Cave-Berry, segarini, Soft Boys, Status Quo, Sunshine Walkers, Troggs on March 17, 2021 by segariniGary Pig Gold with AXES: BOLD As JIMI’S
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags Beach Boys, Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly, Carl Wilson, Crickets, Dave Davies, DBAWIS, Dexter Romweber, Elvis Presley, Flat Duo Jets, Gary Pig Gold, Glen Campbell, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Ramone, Kinks, Link Wray, Ramones, Scotty Moore, segarini on November 23, 2020 by segarini
On what could have been – should have been – James Marshall Hendrix’s 78th Birthday on the 27th we pay, and play, due tribute to he …and these other supreme six-stringers:
SUNNY DAYS: THE SKIP PROKOP STORY (PART 6) by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in Interview, music, Opinion, Serialized Book with tags albert Grossman, Bernie Finkelstein, Bob Segarini, Brian Jones, Canadian Music, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eric Burden & The Animals, Fillmore West, Grateful Dead, Jaimie Vernon, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Martha & The Vandellas, MGM, Monterey Pop Festival, Papa John Phillips, Records, Skip Prokop, The Association, The Paupers, Toronto on April 27, 2020 by segarini
In our previous installment, Yorkville Village heroes The Paupers had effectively ambushed New York City and taken the American music business by storm following their gigs at the Café Au-Go-Go. It landed them both a U.S. record deal with MGM/Verve-Folkways and a deal with Uber-manager Albert Grossman (Bob Dylan, The Band, Odetta, Peter Paul & Mary, Paul Butterfield, Janis Joplin). The wheels were in motion for The Paupers to conquer America. The band did a promotional tour across the U.S. to radio stations in preparation for the release of their debut album ‘Magic People’ and live dates to follow. Skip Prokop continues the story…
Two Wheeler Peter
Posted in Family, life, music, Opinion with tags ""Bully Proof Vest", "Heavy Metal Baby", "My Little Town", "Take It All In Stride", "The Narrows", 4th Orillia Cub Pack, Bob Segarini, Brandon Gregory, CCM, David H Church School, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Drop Top Alibi, Franklin Street, Functional Check Flight, Harris Boat Livery, James Street, Jeff McCann, Jimi Hendrix, Main Street, Mark Twain, Matilda, Mushy Callahan, Orillia, Peter Montreuil, Puff the Magic Dragon, Simon and Garfunkel, Simpson's Bicycle Shop on February 27, 2020 by segarini
Having progressed from crawling to walking to being regally conveyed in a carriage to riding a tricycle to running, I began to have to address new and more relevant ways of personal transportation as I grew older. I was able to occasionally borrow, however briefly, a bicycle from an understanding friend. Late in August one year, I was riding on the sidewalk in front of Robertson’s house, when I lost my balance and fell to my right. I threw my right arm out to “break” my fall.
Pat Blythe – The Blues and Jazz Brothers….instruments….and music….
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags BB King. Robert Johnson, Billy Cobham, blues, Buddy Miles, Buddy Rich, DBAWIS, Don’t Believe A Words I Say, Ella Fitzgerald, Encyclopedia Britannica, Eric Clapton, Gene Krupa, Jack DeJohnette, Jazz, Jimi Hendrix, luvthemusic, Mick Fleetwood, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera, Sonny Boy Williamson, T-Bone Walker, The Music Studio, Willie Dixon on February 19, 2020 by segarini
Trying to touch on as many things as possible without boring you or losing everyone’s attention is challenging. Hitting the highlights, giving you a flavour without overloading everyone on the nitty gritty details is what I’m aiming for. There are musicians, the instruments that intermingle across all the genres and the endless music…. I am finding it fascinating to learn about how both blues and jazz evolved through the years. Every facet of music today has been touched and influenced by these two genres without many young musicians even realizing it. They don’t realize how lucky they are!
BOB PROUDLY PRESENTS THE UNTOLD STORIES OF ROCK!
Posted in life, Opinion, Review with tags Bob Segarini, Cherry Cola's, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, holidays, Jimi Hendrix, John Travolta, Mick Jagger, The American Music Awards, Untold Stories of Rock on December 6, 2019 by segarini
These are the stories
The Untold Stories of Rock.
The stories they dare not share, dare not print, dare not tell
These are the legendary stories of the legendary music and the legendary stars of the legendary decades, the legendary 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s, when legendary music and artists did legendary things, and legendary stories were told and became legendary. …but not THESE stories! These stories are not legendary yet. These stories are still to be told …because right now …right this moment …these stories are about to become legendary because they will no longer be UNTOLD STORIES OF ROCK! They will henceforth become TOLD STORIES OF ROCK! And that means these stories are about to be LEGENDARY!
Gary Pig Gold – My Jimi Hendrix Experience
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags 1969, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Electric Ladyland, Gary Pig Gold, Headquarters, Jimi Hendrix, music, radio, Records, Robert Segarini, The Monkees on May 13, 2019 by segarini
If I can just get my mind together, the first “real” concert I ever attended as a wee young Canucklehead was The Jimi Hendrix Experience at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens, May 3, 1969.
I’d already been a fervent fan for a couple of years, having spent most of my Grade 8 art class making swirly sketches of Jimi in charcoal. Plus the Are You Experienced album was right up there – almost – with Monkees Headquarters on my 1967 Most-Played List.
Roxanne Tellier – Britney Spears Scares Pirates
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags Australia, Birds, Bob Segarini, Bohemian Rhapsody, brain chemistry, British Royal Navy, Britney Spears, classical music, courtship, cows, Creedence Clearwater Revival, DBAWIS, Dogs, Don’t Believe A Word I Said, dopamine, Easter, grammar nazi, Jimi Hendrix, Jingle Bells, Joe Cocker, lip sync, Mime Through Time, mondegreen, Nostalgia, repetition, Roxanne Tellier, sex, SketchShe, Somali pirates, soundtrack, spitting image, Stairway to Heaven, topless, whales, YouTube on April 28, 2019 by segarini
“If music be the food of love, play on!” Like food, music can be comforting. It can also be stimulating, annoying, or cloying. Music releases dopamine, the ‘feel good’ hormone, just like sex and actual food. Music can arouse feelings of euphoria and craving. Dopamine release is at “peak emotional arousal” during music listening, so you really ARE getting a bang for your musical buck.
GARY PIG GOLD with TEN YOU MAY HAVE MISSED In 2018
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Andy Reed, Andy Warhol, Beau Brummels, Big Star, Brandon Schott, Cait Brennan, Chris Richards, Colina Phillips, Craig Dorfman, Davenports, David Grahame, DBAWIS, Dick Cavett, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eddie Kramer, Edgar Breau, Flamin’ Groovies, Fred Astaire, Gary Pig Gold, Generation X, George Harrison, Glen Matlock, Irwin Chusid, Jack Nicholson, Jack Palance, Jimi Hendrix, Jingyu Yao, John Lennon, Kim Deschamps, Lane Steinberg, Miles Davis, music, NRBQ, Paul Williams, Phil Spector, R. Stevie Moore, Records, Rich Kids, segarini, Sex Clark Five, Sex Pistols, Simply Saucer, Sitcom Neighbor, Subtractions, Todd and Jingyu, Todd Lerner, Tot Taylor, X Ray Spex, XNYMFO, Yoko Ono on January 28, 2019 by segarini
Lindsey Buckingham got kicked out of Fleetwood Mac (again), The Monkees made their first-ever Christmas album (!), and I am still waiting for that big Turtles Battle of the Bands Commemorative Special Anniversary Collectors Edition. In the meantime though, I remained happily pigging along beneath headphones to (in strictly Alphabetical order)…
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Roxanne Tellier – Britney Spears Scares Pirates
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Australia, Birds, Bob Segarini, Bohemian Rhapsody, brain chemistry, British Royal Navy, Britney Spears, classical music, courtship, cows, Creedence Clearwater Revival, DBAWIS, Dogs, Don’t Believe A Word I Said, dopamine, Easter, grammar nazi, Jimi Hendrix, Jingle Bells, Joe Cocker, lip sync, Mime Through Time, mondegreen, Nostalgia, repetition, Roxanne Tellier, sex, SketchShe, Somali pirates, soundtrack, spitting image, Stairway to Heaven, topless, whales, YouTube on February 18, 2018 by segarini
“If music be the food of love, play on!” Like food, music can be comforting. It can also be stimulating, annoying, or cloying. Music releases dopamine, the ‘feel good’ hormone, just like sex and actual food. Music can arouse feelings of euphoria and craving. Dopamine release is at “peak emotional arousal” during music listening, so you really ARE getting a bang for your musical buck.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 