I was digging through my tape drawer this week (yes, I still have cassettes) and while not bemoaning the death of tape, did bemoan the lack of success of a handful of incredible treasures which I have only on tape. To my knowledge, they have never been available on any other format, though I am not sure. Three of them— the only three commercially available— may have suffered because of that. More than one person had made reference to cassette as a non-format in their world— to paraphrase them,“better to miss the music than have it on tape.”
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A Frank Gutch Jr. Flashback from April 25th 2012: Opportunities Missed (Damn It!) Makes For Tomorrow’s Treasures….
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Allies, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Emma Peel, Frank Gutch Jr., Indie Artists, Indie Music, Lost Musical Treasures, music, Music on Cassette only, music videos, New Artists, Pacific Northwest Bands, radio, Records, Sweet Home Oregon on April 17, 2018 by segariniFrank Gutch Jr: The Pac Northwest— Redux….. In the Way of Explanation
Posted in Opinion with tags city zu, DBAWIS, Don & The Goodtimes, Don Gallucci, Don't Believe a Word I Say, EJD Enterprises, Eugene Pop Festival, fats domino, Frank Gutch Jr., Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jack Ely & The Courtmen, Merrilee & The Turnabouts, Merrilee Rush, music, music videos, Pacific Northwest Bands, Peter Blecha, Records, The Dominions, The Kingsmen, Tiny Tony & The Statics, touch on June 27, 2014 by segarini
When I wrote this past week’s column about the Pacific Northwest music scene (read it here), I left it feeling as if it wasn’t quite done. You may have gotten an idea of what it was like but unless you lived it, you don’t. I knew my little corner of the Willamette Valley and I am sure that Seattle people my age knew Seattle and Portland people knew Portland, but if you weren’t there it was a different planet. I came to that realization while re-watching the documentary which highlighted the aforementioned column— the one laying out EJD Enterprises and the part Ed Daugherty played in the lives of so many musicians and teens back in the sixties’ Willamette Valley of Oregon.
Frank Gutch Jr: Opportunities Missed (Damn It!) Makes For Tomorrow’s Treasures….
Posted in Opinion with tags Allies, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Emma Peel, Frank Gutch Jr., Indie Music, Lost Musical Treasures, Music on Cassette only, New Artists, Pacific Northwest Bands on April 25, 2012 by segariniI was digging through my tape drawer this week (yes, I still have cassettes) and while not bemoaning the death of tape, did bemoan the lack of success of a handful of incredible treasures which I have only on tape. To my knowledge, they have never been available on any other format, though I am not sure. Three of them— the only three commercially available— may have suffered because of that. More than one person had made reference to cassette as a non-format in their world— to paraphrase them, “better to miss the music than have it on tape.”
Frank Gutch Jr: The Wailers VS The Sonics: Two Legends from the Land of Louie Louie
Posted in Opinion with tags DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Pacific Northwest Bands, The Sonics, The Wailers on December 14, 2011 by segarini
I am cheating. I am so far behind I am overwhelmed and forced to recreate a column I wrote for my Indie Musicology pages back in April of this year and, as much as I hate to duplicate, if I have written anything worth duplicating, this is it. Kent Morrill, keyboardist and showman for The Fabulous Wailers, had just passed away and the memories were nothing short of an avalanche of emotions and thoughts as an important part of my youth was lost yet refound.
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