Yesterday I went through all of the private messages I’d shared with Frank Gutch Jr, since I’d first encountered him. It was in 2013, just after I’d begun writing this weekly column, and right from that first message, it was as though we were separated at birth.
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Roxanne Tellier – We All Loved You, Frank Gutch Jr – Tributes, Tales, and Tears
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Adam Dawson, annabel (lee), Art, Astrid Guldenmann, Australia, Baby Boomers, bill jackson, blogging, bobby gottesman, Canadiana, Cargo, Chris Laterzo, Christian Anger, Cindy Lee Berryhill, Daisy House, Darrell Vickers, Dave Coker, David Graves, Davina Jackson, DBAWIS, Devon Sproule, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Drew Gibson, elliott randall, Eric Rife, Eulogies for Frank Gutch Jr, Frank Gutch Jr., friendship, frustrated boomers, gary heffern, Green Monkey, Green Pyjamas, hannah gillespie, Howie Wahlen, Indie Artists, Indie Music, internet, Ireland, Jeff LeGore, Jen Morris, Jim Gratton, Jim Parrett, Johnny Hicks, Julian Taylor, Julie Cain, Justin Smith, Keith Morris, Ken Stringfellow, Kevin Casey, Kim Grant, Laurie Biagini, life, Little Lonely, loss, Mad Anthony, Mark Strong, Maurizio Michelino, Maxine Dunn, McKendree Spring, michael fennelly, Michael Marino, Mimi Schell, mourning, music, Musicians, No Depression, No Small Children, Notary Sojac, Old California, Oregon, Patricia Davis, Phoebe Bridgers, radio, Ray Brandes, Records, Rich Krueger, rich mcculley, Richard E Further Out, Ringo Jones, Roxanne Tellier, Rue Hazel, Ryan Collins, Salton Sea, Sam Taylor, segarini, Sheila Ellis, Space Opera, Stephen Marcus, Suzi Stark Brubaker, Sweet Home Oregon, Terry Varner, Thane Tierney, The Adventurist, The Bobcast, The Minnows, The Posies, The Real Shade, The Survivors, Thomas Shelton House, Toby Schwartz Demain, Tom Braam, Tom Dyer, tom kell, Tom Smith, Witherwolf, Writing on April 29, 2018 by segariniFrank Gutch Jr: On the Road With The Lisa Parade and Maxine Dunn (Plus Them All-Important Notes)
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 7Horse, Alternate Roots Magazine, Bob Marlette, Carolyn Arends, Courtney Marie Andrews, Daisy House, DBAWIS, Delta Saints, Don't Believe a Word I Say, edmund & leo, Finding Flora, Frank Gutch Jr., George Clark, Green Monkey Records, Green Pajamas, Heidi, Howie Wahlen, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jeff Kelly, Jilly Blackstone, Jimmie Spheeris, Joe Lee, Laurie Biagini, Leah Flanagan, Lisa Parade, Liz Stringer, Maxi Dunn, monowhales, music, No Small Children, Old Californio, Paige Anderson & the Fearless Kin, Peace River, Peter Hackett, Records, Rurin Brakes, Sarah Belkner, Sea of Glass, segarini, Seth Lakeman, Sneakers, Soundcarriers, susan james, Sweet Home Oregon, The Siulver Lake Chorus, Tommy Talton, Undergrunnen, Wayne Proctor, We the People, Wilderado on July 19, 2016 by segariniI took a drive yesterday. I had been sitting in front of the computer screen too long and accomplishing little of anything at all and I needed a break. Usually when I hit the road I take music I need to hear for writing reasons but this time I needed time to myself. I grabbed one I had the urge to review by Town Mountain which when I pulled open the CD cover discovered was minus the disc. I had left it in my computer player at home. I have lost more than one disc that way. The other two were there though and I had heard neither all the way through for over a year: Lisa Parade‘s Finding Flora and Maxi Dunn‘s Edmund & Leo. I couldn’t wait.
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Frank Gutch Jr: ‘Til Death Do Us Part… A Nod To Musicians Who Left Us In 2015, But First…; Plus Notes!
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Brian Berg, Brian Cullman, Carleigh Nesbit, Cilla Black, Dala, David Bullock, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., George Romansic, Halie & The Moon, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jeff Ellis, Keith Morris & The Crooked Numbers, Lasko & Pun, Laurie Biagini, Maxine Dunn, Monster Atlantic, music, music videos, Norrish Reaction, radio, Records, Ron Asheton, segarini, Stu Nunnery, Sweet Relief, Tom Mank on January 12, 2016 by segariniThis is not my favorite column to write. In my youth, death was death, something which happened to everyone else. As a young man, I looked upon it as simply draining the talent pool because by then I was consumed with music— immersed in it to the point that life beyond it was a blur. In middle-age, it began becoming personal— friends and favorites taking the dive either stunningly quick or in dire circumstances.
Frank Gutch Jr: The Grammys: The Decline of the Major Labels (and Civilization) Continues; When Three Bands (Don’t) Collide; Michael Fennelly— On Vinyl; For the Tots at Christmas— Goodnight Songs; Plus N-n-n-notes…..
Posted in Opinion with tags Bow Thayer, C-Leb & The Kettle Black, Crabby Appleton, DBAWIS, Devon Sproule, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Dublin Bottling Works, Dublin Dr. Pepper, Emily Gary, Frank Gutch Jr., Goodnight Songs, Grammys, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Laurie Biagini, Margaret Wise Brown, michael fennelly, Mist and Mast, Munro Melano, music, music videos, nocona, Nylon Union, OAMI, Paul Curreri, radio, Records, the curtis mayflower, The Living Sisters, The Millennium, Tom Proutt on December 9, 2014 by segariniEvery year I get my hopes up and every year the so called experts behind the Grammy’s dash them against the rocks like fishkill, blood and brain cells covering the entire music industry with fresh stench in the form of what they claim to be “the best”— their words, not mine.
Frank Gutch Jr: O Canada: A Nod to The Great White North— (and more of them goddamn notes)
Posted in Opinion with tags bill jackson, Bob Segarini, bobby gottesman, Caitlin Canty, Chloe Albert, Darrell Vickers, Dave Bidini, David Olney, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Gowan, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jaimie Vernon, Jane Gowan, Jubal Lee Young, Laurie Biagini, music videos, On a Cold Road, Pete Fidler, Pursuit of Happiness, Records, Rheostatics, Roxanne Tellier, Sergio Webb, Shade, Sloan, South of Bloor, Steve Young, The Extras, Thor, Tim Vesely, Toby Swann, Tragically Hip, Violet Archers on September 2, 2014 by segariniI am a lost Son of Canada. I must be. I love Canadian bacon, though bacon it not really be (except maybe technically). I love Jennifer Dale, an actor who deserved much more than she has been afforded, respect-wise (I reveled in her work on Canadian TV and film during Comcast’s all-too-short span of including CTV and CBC on their cable lineups in the ’80s). I love Due South, one of the most creative and funny-on-so-many-levels series TV has ever created (the transition of Ray to Ray— David Marciano to Callum Keith Rennie— a work of pure writing craftmanship).
Frank and Bobert Tag Team the Monday DBAWIS
Posted in Opinion with tags Bob Segarini, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., George Christie, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jade "Pie" Dunlop, Jaimie Vernon, Laurie Biagini, music, My Socks, radio, Records, SIRIUS on May 26, 2014 by segariniEither I misplaced today’s column from one of our Monday Revolving Door contributers, (Darrell Vickers, Doug Thompson, Justin Smallbridge, or Gary Pig Gold), or the fridge magnet holding their schedules to their Kelvinator’s freezer door lost it’s power and dropped out of sight.
In any case, this column comes to you all because Jaimie Vernon made an amazing album, Frank reviewed it in another blog, and Laurie Biagini (we has similar names) re-posted it in her ALSO amazing Indie Pop Musician’s Daily online magazine. When I asked Frank’s permission to re-repost it here for your dining and dancing pleasure, the following exchange occured using the much maligned Facebook Message service.
Frank Gutch Jr: 2013— A Look at the Best, plus Notes You Can Take To the Bank…..
Posted in Opinion with tags Arborea, Best of 2013, Churchwood, DBAWIS, dirtmusic, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Erin & the Wildfire, Filligar, Frank Gutch Jr., gary minkler, hymn for her, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jim Allchin, Laurie Biagini, Lisbee Stainton, Maxi Dunn, Morning Ritual, Nick Holmes, No Small Children, Records, Rita Hosking, Sera Smolen, Sheldon Gomberg, Sweet Relief III, Tamikrest, The Abramson Singers, The Big Bright, the curtis mayflower, the fearless kin, The Incurables, The Toniks, Tom Mank on January 28, 2014 by segariniAfter ending this last year cranking out two long columns about musicians we lost, I feel the need to counterbalance. While I know that death is a part of life (indeed, life = death according to the laws of nature), it was not all that much fun to dig through the past year searching for musicians recently passed. It was, in fact, a bit of a downer. Reliving the news that I knew was not half as bad as discovering the news I had missed. All too many musicians I admire tripped off this mortal coil without so much as a thank you, Frank, it’s been fun, and I was more than a little unsettled with each discovery. But the past is the past, whether we like it or not, and it was not all bad.
GARY PIG GOLD has TEN YOU MAY HAVE MISSED In 2013
Posted in Opinion with tags Al Staehely, Alexander Khodchenko, Bee Gees, Big Boy Pete, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Explosives, Gary Pig Gold, Harry Nilsson, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Johnny Dowd, Lane Steinberg, Laurie Biagini, Mop Tops, music, Records, Richard X Heyman, Sex Clark Five on January 27, 2014 by segariniFrank Gutch Jr: BC’s Laurie Biagini In Song and Words; Bullseye Canada Reactivated; Vinnie Zummo and The Beatles Reunion; and Notes…..
Posted in Opinion with tags A Far-Out Place, Bullseye Records Canada, chris eckman, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Glitterbeat, Go-Go Girl In a Modern World, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jaimie Vernon, Kim Grant, Laurie Biagini, Radio That Doesn't Suck, Ridin' a Wave, Rod Melancon, Sanctuary of Sound, Star Anna, The Far West, Tracer Flare, Vinnie Zummo on December 4, 2013 by segariniThe first time I ever heard The Beach Boys was at a birthday party for a friend of mine. She received the album and a new stereo. She put the album on and I was listening to it and by the time it got to “Catch a Wave”, the third track on the first side, I was freaking out. I didn’t want to have anything to do with the birthday party anymore. I just wanted to sit with my ears glued to the speakers, listening to this great music. I saved up my allowance and that was the first album I ever bought.
— Laurie Biagini