This week, in Ontario, the government decided to put the brakes on their re-integration plan to have us return to normal because the pandemic has decided to return for a victory lap. They shut down public spaces and gathering places like bars and restaurants because despite being told not to act like selfish jackasses scoring hookers and turning their livers in alcohol-filled swimming pools on the last night before their wedding day, idiots be idioting. Couple that with people marching in parades demanding that they have the right to be jackasses and endangering the health of everyone else and it seems our dear leaders had no choice.
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NOTHING WAS EVER NORMAL by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in COVID 19, music, Opinion, politics, Review with tags and The Lion King: The Musical, banks, Bob Segarini, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Ford Econoline, Hockey Night In Canada, Idiots, IKEA, Jaimie Vernon, Les Paul, marching, music, Musicians, normal, pandemic, PSWs, real job, Schitt’s Creek, songs, songwriters, The Rolling Stones, Toronto, unemployment, Zeppelin on October 19, 2020 by segariniRoxanne Tellier – Is That You, Rona?
Posted in Family, Food, life, Opinion with tags Amazon, artists, Basic Income, climate change, Coronavirus, COVID 19, creatives, creativity, DBAWIS, Food, Greatest Generation, internet, internet access, isolation, money, music, Musicians, Nature, Randy Rainbow, Rogers, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, social distance, social distancing, stock market, UberEats, United Nations, YouTube on March 22, 2020 by segarini
Funny, I always thought that I’d get so much more done. Whenever I felt like I just couldn’t keep up with all of the richness and offerings of modern life, I’d mutter to myself…
“If only time would stop – just for a day or two – and let me catch up on all of this watching, reading, and writing!”
So here it is, and guess what I’ve been doing? Lying on my bed, watching YouTube, playing games on the tablet, and spending quality time with the cats. Between naps.
I have 24 library books here to be read and used for the three major projects I’m working on, but I’ve not opened one of them. Instead I’m storming through my stack of paperback novels, the pulpier the better. Occasionally I feel guilty about not working on those weighty projects, but then I tell myself that I just can’t possibly start yet, not without that one other book that was on its way before the library so abruptly closed.
I keep busy, no question. And I spend a lot of time wondering if I’m sneezing because of allergies, or because of the coronavirus.
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 segarini
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.
Peter Montreuil – Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Bob Segarini, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, federal government, Live Music, Musicians, Peter Montreuil, photographers, plastic aircraft modeling, promoters, Toronto on August 24, 2017 by segarini
Editor’s Note: Peter is a good friend to all of us at DBAWIS. He has graciously consented to join us here and be a contributing writer as often as he can. Please welcome Peter to Don’t Believe a Word I say….
It was an honour to be asked to contribute a weekly column to “Don’t Believe A Word I Say”, and I hope to match the standards set by the rest of the writing team. Here’s a little about me, as well as things that I will, or won’t, write about.
Roxanne Tellier – Musical Friends Are Making Me Happy
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 80s music, aging, Bands, Bob Segarini, DBAWIS, Foreign Affairs, friendship, Ice Age, Lady, music, Musicians, Performer, rock chicks, Roxanne Tellier, Sharon Kaid, Toronto on August 7, 2016 by segarini
No matter how you’ve lived your life … saintly, and with a whiff of heaven in your aura, Dora, or a little naughtily, with a more checkered past than you’d care to admit … you want to be rounding third base and heading into home plate with a fine group of worthy team mates, and a cheering section that still likes you, whether because of, or despite, your resume and reputation.
I must have done something right, because I’m blessed with a lot of wonderful people in my corner.And so many of us share a musical background.
Cameron Carpenter – The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Aetist Relations, Cameron Carpenter, Dana Strum, David Grohl, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Indie week 2016, Lou Dawgs, Mark Slaughter, music, Music Journalists, Music Promotion, Musicians, Puff Daddy, Records, Rock Lobster, segarini, The Bovine, The Proclaimers, Tiki Bar, Toronto, vanity, Vinnie Vincent on February 25, 2016 by segarini
When someone finds out what my profession is, one of the first questions they ask is who is/was your favourite artist to work with. This is usually followed by asking who was the most difficult. A couple of names always come to mind.
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.
JAIMIE VERNON – THE WAGONS ARE CIRCLING…THE DRAIN
Posted in Opinion with tags 19 Entertainment, 1972, Adam Lambert, American Idol, ASCAP, BMI, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Carrie Underwood, class action lawsuit, DBAWIS, desert island, Don Henley, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fantasia, Flo & Eddie, Happy Together, I Won't Back Down, independent artist, Irving Azoff, Jaimie Vernon, Jeff Lynne, Kelly Clarkson, lawyers, Musicians, performing rights, Phillip Phillips, Sam Smith, Simon Cowell, Sirius XM, SOCAN, songwriters, Stay With Me, The Eagles, The Turtles, Tom Petty on January 31, 2015 by segarini
WARNING: This blog features the oral history of wallpaper drying and pertains to music that’s less than a decade old. Reading it might very well put you in a coma and cause your family to call emergency services.
It’s been a very interesting week in the music business as the wintery cobwebs get dusted away and we start seeing the industry awaken from its post-2014 slumber. There’s something amiss in Muzoid Land and it appears to be the long tail of sins of the past coming back to eat itself.
JAIMIE VERNON – CV’s ‘R’ Us
Posted in Opinion with tags accounting, added value, alcohol sales, Bob Segarini, business plan, Canadian Music, captive audience, chef, chicken wings, club owners, crowds, DBAWIS, doctors, Don't Believe a Word I Say, El Mocambo, exposure, hipster, How to Succeed In the Music Business with Zero Talent, Jaimie Vernon, janitor, Jägermeister, lawyers, merch, Millennials, motivational speaker, Musicians, neon palms, P.T. Barnum, partners, plumbers, Sell out, strategy, swag, Two For The Show, wait staff, waiter, wallet on November 1, 2014 by segarini
I’ve written previously about the things that whining and impatient hipster millennials need to do to increase their cache and brand in the music business – particularly in this new Wild West music biz. I collected all that sage advice and sarcastic commentary in a new eBook called “How To Succeed In The Music Business With Zero Talent”.
Roxanne Tellier: The Rainbow Connection
Posted in Opinion with tags artists, Bob Segarini, creativity, DBAWIS, Jaron Lanier, Kermit, middle class, Musicians, Rainbow Connection, Roxanne Tellier, The Muppets, Who Owns The Future, working class, writers on March 23, 2014 by segarini
I love the synchronicity in all life, and in my life in particular. Each day, I wake to the new thoughts and ideas that are being generated by the people I have chosen to surround myself with. That I stay positive and cheerful is no accident – the family, friends, and acquaintances I spend time with have proven themselves to be the influences that shape how I perceive the world around me.
Since the majority of the people with whom I consort are creatives, you would think there would be more whining and gnashing of teeth over our lack of material goodies. But in fact, despite our relatively low contribution to the gross national product of wherever we’ve chosen to reside, our thoughts do not revolve around the latest gadget or tech goodie.
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