… and I’m looking for trouble because that’s just what you have to do sometimes. Tributes and covers are sucking the soul right out of me and probably out of the goddamn entire world but you soulless bastards have no clue! This whole I-got-to-see-the-best-bands and there-ain’t-no-good-music-anymore attitude is killing the listening floor (screw the dance floor) and I’ve had it up to my neck with the I-don’t-like-today’s-music-so-fuck-you memes on the social media and threads in the forums to the point that I’m thinking hell could not be a worse place to live— at least compared to this musical rotgut of a world we live in today.
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Frank Gutch Jr: I Got Blistuhs on Muh Finguhs!!! (Plus Notes)
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags bobby gottesman, Brian Cullman, Cam Newton, colosseum, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Drew Gibson, Emitt Rhodes, Frank Gutch Jr., Gabrielle Gewirtz, glass harp, grass roots, Haroula Rose, hymn for her, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jimmy Martin. Gigi Shibawbaw, Jinko Vilova, Lisa Parade, Mark Isham, Mark Lindsay, Merry-Go-Round, music, Music Radio, music videos, Nick Holmes, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Pure Prairie League, Records, Richard Rodgers, segarini, tom kell, van der graaf generator, Victory At Sea, Wishbone Ash on February 9, 2016 by segariniGARY PIG GOLD’s ALL-TIME TOP TEN POWER POP PEOPLE
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags ABBA, Bill Lloyd, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, DBAWIS, Del Shannon, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Gary Pig Gold, Justin Fielding, music, music videos, Paul Revere and the Raiders, radio, Raspberries, Records, segarini, the Dave Clark Five, The Power Pop Movie, The Ramones, The Who on December 7, 2015 by segariniI very recently had the immense pleasure, and honor – as did my fellow DBAWISayers Jaimie Vernon and Our Leader Bob – to be interviewed by the esteemed Bosstown (or Boston, to you cats in Squaresville) director/producer Justin Fielding for his up-coming Power Pop Movie.
Which got me to thinking, as it quite often does:
Just what exactly is, or should I say who, IS “Power Pop” ??
Well, for a start: (in strictly Chronological Order, that is)….
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