For as long as there have been people with talent to share, there have been people waiting impatiently to exploit it. P.T. Barnum was the first to realize that a) you could make people pay a nickel to see a woman who couldn’t afford a Lady Bic razor on her face and b) you could pay the woman herself a penny if she would just stop shaving her beard off. Barnum was shameless in using any perceived talent (sword swallowing, knife throwing, anvil lifting) or any physical infirmity to sell tickets. He became massively rich and his ‘performers’ became slaves to the grind. Some were smart enough to negotiate riches in partnership with Barnum, others were just glad to have a few square meals a week and a place to sleep every night. It beat the alternatives.
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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.
Pat Blythe: K-Pop and other stories
Posted in Opinion with tags 2014 KPop Girl Group Ranking (Top 22), 2NE1, A Pink, Baby One More Time, Barry Gibb, Billboard, Billboard Current Box Score, Blondie, Bobby Sherman, Boney M, Britney Spears, BSB, Bubble Pop, Captain Beyond, Christina Aguilera, Club 120, Come Back Home, cream, Crush, dance, Danny DiVito, Dave Clarke Five, David Cassidy, DBAWIS, Deep Purple, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Donna Summer, electronic, Gangnam Style, Gee, Girls Generation, hanteo, Herman's Hermits, Hip Hop, Hyuna, I Don't Need A Man, K-Pop, KC and the Sunshine Band, KPop, KPop Canada, Little Woman, metal, music, No No No, NSync, One Direction, Pop, Pop! Goes theWorld!, Psy, Pussycat Dolls, Queen, Rap, Risk, Rock, Sailor Moon, Santana, segarini, Simon Cowell, South Korea, Spirit, Sports Chosun, Stayin' Alive, Steal My Girl, The Beatles, The Bee Gees, The Monkees, TIGER beat, Time Magazine, Top 25 KPop Boy Groups of 2014, Yes, YouTube, YouTube Music Awards, Zappa on March 4, 2015 by segarini
During a recent conversation on writing and music I was asked if I had ever heard of K-Pop. My answer was “no” although I was tempted to say “of course” me being a music junky and all. I’ve been told I don’t get out enough so I’m working on that. In the meantime…
Segarini: The BobChart – Week 8
Posted in Opinion with tags 94.9 The Rock, Bob Segarini, Cherry Cola's, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Indie Artists, K-Pop, music, music videos, radio, Records, The BobChart, Toronto on June 13, 2014 by segarini
This week’s BobChart is all about Summer and Respect. I didn’t plan it that way, but that’s how it turned out.
It is also made up almost entirely of older tracks and guilty pleasures along with a couple of new items that caught my interest while searching out the latest releases and hoping there was something I liked that I could pass on to you. I know a lot of you are into rock and I do what I can to find that which fits my criteria (great song, great performance, fun or thought provoking) and am thrilled when there is a new Rival Sons track, another local breakthrough, or a band that is completely new to me.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 