It only makes sense that every year more and more of the musicians I grew up with pass away. Last year, and especially the last few months, we lost a lot of greats. This is just the tip of the 2015 iceberg but here are ten that will be missed.
Archive for Kim Fowley
Pat Blythe: Cherie Currie….The One and Only Cherry Bomb
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Adaptive Reaction, Beauty's Only Skin Deep, Becky Walker, Bob Segarini, Bri Lue-Kim, Cherie Curry, Cherish Stevenson, Cherry Bomb, Cherry Cola's Rock 'n Rolla Cabaret and Lounge, Chris Alexander, CMW, Corpusse, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fangoria/Gorezone, Flaming Schoolgirls, Foxes, Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Horror-Rama, Iain Walsh, Jake Grimbrother, James Bialkowski, Joan Jett, Jodie Foster, Kim Fowley, Luis Ceriz, Marie Currie, Mercury Records, Messin' With the Boys, Miley Cyrus, Nathan Hill, Neon Angel, Pat Blythe, Polygram Records, Queens of Noise, Reverie, Roxanne Tellier, Roxy Roller, Shock Stock, Since You've Been Gone, Sprocket Damage, Sugar Shack, Suspect Video, The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, The Runaways, This Time on November 4, 2015 by segarini
Let’s go back to September 25 and a late night visit to Cherry Cola’s Rock ‘n Rolla Cabaret and Lounge. With my sisters in tow, we ducked into the club so I could introduce them to the exquisite Cherish Stevenson, the club’s owner and gracious hostess, and give them a small taste of the nightlife in Toronto. Cherish pulled me aside to let me know Cherie Currie was playing the club and would I be interested in shooting the event. It took me a nanosecond to say yes, I’d love to.
Pat Blythe: Women of Rock – Part Two
Posted in Opinion with tags Akron, album, alice cooper, America, Arlene Quatro, Austin, Australia, Bass Guitar, BBC, Billboard, Billboard 200, Bob Segar, Brain Confusion, Brass in Pocket, Bravo Otta Award, Bruce Springsteen, Buzzsaw, Calfornia, Can the Can, Chain Gang, Cherry Bomb, Chris Norman, Chrissie Hynde, Christopher Blythe, Cleveland, contralto, Cradle, Dave Hill, David Wild, DBAWIS, Detroit, Diane Baker, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Don't Get Me Wrong, Drastic Fantastic, drumming, drums, Elvis Presley, England, English Disco, Esquire, Europe, Extended Play, Farndon, Fender Precision Bass, Frank Sinatra, Frank Soda and the Imps, Gas Street, Gena Rowlands, German, Glorious Results of a Misspent YOuth, Goddo, Godmother of Punk, Grace Slick, Grammy, GTA, Happy Days, Hellfield, Honeyman-Scott, I Hate Myself for Loving You, I Love Rock 'n Roll, If Luck Be A Lady, Janis Joplin, Japan, Joan Jett, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, John McEnroe, jukebox, K.T. Tunstall, Karen Carpenter, Keith Richards, Kent State University, keyboards, Kim Fowley, Leather Tuscadero, Light of Day, London, Marc Bolan, Mary Lou Ball, massacre, MEOW, Mickie Most, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheelers, music videos, Musicians for Equal Opportunities for Women, Nancy Ball, National Guard, Neil Young, New Musical Express, Nirvana, Ohio, Original Riot Grrrl, Pat Blythe, Patti Quatro, Patti Smith, percussionist, pineapple upside down cake, Plateau, punk rock, Queen of British Pop, radio, RAK Records, Real Records, Records, rock 'n roll, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rodney Bingenheimer, Roger Ebert, Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone Magazine, Sam Cooke, segarini, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Smokie, Stockholm, Stumblin 'in, Suzi Quatro, T-Rex, Talking Heads, Ted Nugent, Television, Texas, The Barbusters, The Beatles, The Clash, The Damned, The Fonz, The Great Pretender, The Picture Taker, The Pleasure Seekers, The Pretenders, The Runaways, The Sex Pistols, This Is Your LIfe, Tina Weymouth, TMI, Tom Petty, U.K., Unvarnished, Unzipped, West End, Woman of Valor Award, You Or No One on April 1, 2015 by segarini
Ch-ch-ch-cha-changes
I have been slowly getting to know my fellow writers, conversing with them through Facebook, email and over the phone. A what! Yep, a real live telephone. You know, those devices that allow you to actually hear what the other person sounds like while enjoying honest-to-goodness dialogue. Fingers seem to do more walking and mouths less talking these days. We are no longer an oral society. The world of banter, tete-a-tetes and nattering have gone the way of such foods as pineapple upside down cake. (remember those) Mmmmmm……
Guest Columnist: John Brower – Kim Fowley’s BIGGEST Contribution to Pop Culture
Posted in Opinion with tags Cherry Cola's, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, John Brower, John Lennon, Kim Fowley, music, Ritchie Yorke, segarini, The Plastic Ono Band, Toronto, Toronto Rock and Roll Revival on February 7, 2015 by segarini
(Editor’s Note – Not wanting to make yesterday’s Kim Fowley Tribute any larger than it already was, I left this out, but realized today what a fine remembrance it is, and how absolutely essential Kim was to our musical history and culture. This addendum is an eyewitness account of Kim’s magic from another madman, my good friend and slightly crazed pop culture icon himself, John Brower….)
Kim Fowley left us this past week but he will always live on in the hearts and minds of so many millions who were the beneficiaries of his talent and generosity. I am proud and honored to be among them.
Segarini: Kim Fowley Part Two – The King of Hollyweird
Posted in Opinion with tags All the Young Dudes, CBS, Cherry Cola's, CHUM FM, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Gary S Paxton, Hollywood, Ian Hunter, Kim Fowley, L.A, Mars Bonfire, Montreal, music, music videos, radio, Records, segarini, skip and Flip, Stockton California, The Ritz Carlton, The Runaways, Titan, Toronto on February 6, 2015 by segarini
Part One “A Hick in Hollywood” Can be found here.
America has always had a place in its fickle little heart for novelty songs.
Songs like (I’m) Henry the Eighth (I am) , Who Let the Dogs Out, and Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer are just a few you may be aware of, However, novelty songs go back a lot further than those three.
Segarini: Kim Fowley Part One – A Hick in Hollywood
Posted in Opinion with tags Cherry Cola's, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Gary S Paxton, Highway 99, Hollywood, Kim Fowley, L.A, music, music videos, radio, Records, segarini, skip and Flip, Stockton California on January 29, 2015 by segarini
All the world loves an Oddball. The history of Pop Culture is full of creative iconoclasts and nutcases, drama queens and bad boys, deviant dilettantes and dangerous dreamers. Taken at face value, they more often than not get a chuckle and derogatory and sarcastic evaluation from most of us, and then end up affording us the pleasure of unique viewpoints and out-of-step entertainments that not only catch our attention, but alter both the creators and consumers of popular diversions.
On January 15th, 2015, we lost one of the last, great, madmen of music. A boy in a man suit that was such a freak, even Frank Zappa didn’t want him in the Mothers of Invention.
…but he performed on the Freak Out album anyway.
What the Freak wants, the Freak gets.
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Frank Gutch Jr: No Small Children, More Fun With 45s, Notes and Maybe A Few Other Things… Maybe
Posted in Opinion with tags alejandro escovedo, babe ruth, Barclay James Harvest, Big Star, cold satellite, damnation of adam blessing, danny schmidt, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., hometown band, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Javier Escovedo, jeffrey foucault, kicks books, Kim Fowley, manhattan transfer, music, No Small Children, Norton Records, pazop. kathy smith, Sydney Wayser, t. g. sheppard, true believers, turtles, yukon pete on February 27, 2013 by segarini
A couple of years ago— well, maybe a few now— I spent a summer reading and hearing about how this Sheryl Crow track (I can’t think of the title at the moment) was the anthem of the summer and captured everything good about the season. When I finally heard it, my mental jaw dropped. I could not believe that anyone could hear anything inspiring about the song or the performance. It was decent enough, I suppose, but it didn’t make me want to sing or dance or hit the freeway with the top down and sing along at the top of my voice. That’s what an anthem is supposed to do, right? Inspire?
Frank Gutch Jr: HEARTSFIELD—The Party That Wasn’t….
Posted in Opinion with tags Al Kooper, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Foolish Pleasures, Frank Gutch Jr., Heartfield, Kim Fowley, Runaways, The Troubadour on October 26, 2011 by segarini
It wasn’t “What if they threw a party and nobody came” but it was as close as I’ve ever seen it. I could have the story all wrong because there were only a few record label people I listened to in those days and they were not always in the know themselves (a standard paradigm for major labels worldwide, I do believe), but through a series of happenstances I actually got invited to a party (probably by mistake) and went.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 