Lindsey Buckingham got kicked out of Fleetwood Mac (again), The Monkees made their first-ever Christmas album (!), and I am still waiting for that big Turtles Battle of the Bands Commemorative Special Anniversary Collectors Edition. In the meantime though, I remained happily pigging along beneath headphones to (in strictly Alphabetical order)…
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GARY PIG GOLD with TEN YOU MAY HAVE MISSED In 2018
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Andy Reed, Andy Warhol, Beau Brummels, Big Star, Brandon Schott, Cait Brennan, Chris Richards, Colina Phillips, Craig Dorfman, Davenports, David Grahame, DBAWIS, Dick Cavett, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eddie Kramer, Edgar Breau, Flamin’ Groovies, Fred Astaire, Gary Pig Gold, Generation X, George Harrison, Glen Matlock, Irwin Chusid, Jack Nicholson, Jack Palance, Jimi Hendrix, Jingyu Yao, John Lennon, Kim Deschamps, Lane Steinberg, Miles Davis, music, NRBQ, Paul Williams, Phil Spector, R. Stevie Moore, Records, Rich Kids, segarini, Sex Clark Five, Sex Pistols, Simply Saucer, Sitcom Neighbor, Subtractions, Todd and Jingyu, Todd Lerner, Tot Taylor, X Ray Spex, XNYMFO, Yoko Ono on January 28, 2019 by segariniRoxanne Tellier – The Sound Of Music
Posted in Opinion with tags ( Michael Pare, A Hard Day’s Night, Alan Parker, Antonio Salieri, Audrey Hepburn, Barbie, Barry Dennen, Beatlemania, Bob Segarini, carl anderson, Darling Lili, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Donna Pescow, Ed Sullivan, Eddie and The Cruisers, Ellen Barkin, Elvis Presley, F. Murray Abraham, Help!, Jessica Harper, Jesus Christ Superstar, John Travolta, Josh Mostel, Julie Andrews, Karen Lynn Gorney, Ken, Mary Poppins, Morris Day, Nik Cohn, Norman Jewison, Paul Williams, Phantom of the Paradise, Prince, Purple Rain, Robert Arkins, Rod Serling, Roddy Doyle, Roxanne Tellier, Saturday Night Fever, Spinal Tap, Star, Superstar – The Karen Carpenter Story, Ted Neely, The Beatles, The Blues Brothers, The Commitments, The Corrs, The Marx Brothers, The Monkees, The Sound of Music, The Time, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Todd Haynes, Tom Hulce, Tommy Steele, Velvet Goldmine, Walt Disney, William Finley, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yvonne Elliman, Zero Mostel on November 30, 2014 by segarini
I grew up in the days when musicals were as or more popular than any other form of cinema, and the stars of musicals on stage and screen were huge draws on Sunday night’s Ed Sullivan.
Roxanne Tellier: MonkeeMania!
Posted in Opinion with tags Bert Schneider, Bob Rafelson, Bobby Hart, Carol Kaye, Charles Manson, Circus Boy, Danny Hutton, David Gates, Davy Jones, DBAWIS, Don Kirschner, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Ed Sullivan, Glen Campbell, Hal Blaine, Harry Nilsson, James Burton, Jim Gordon, John Sebastian, Leon Russell, Marx Brothers, Micky Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, music, Oliver!, Paul Williams, Peter Tork, Records, Rodney Bingenheimer, Roxanne Tellier, Stephen Stills, Steve Stills, Television, The Beatles, The Monkees, Three Stooges, Tommy Boyce, Van Dyke Parks on February 2, 2014 by segarini
Ramping up to the 50th anniversary of The Beatles February 9, 1964 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, it’s easy to forget that one of the other acts on that same show, on that same evening, featured a slight, young “Artful Dodger” – one David Jones, aged 19, belting out a song from the hit Broadway play Oliver! During that performance Jones sang “I’d Do Anything” with the entire cast.
JAIMIE VERNON – The Dream Never Dies…Just the Dreamer
Posted in Opinion with tags Arnold Robinson, Bob Segarini, Buddy Holly, Canadian Music, Cats & Dogs, Crawdaddy, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Edsel., Ford, Hugh McCracken, Jaimie Vernon, Jay Smith, Matt Mays & El Torpedo, music, Paul Williams, Richie Valens, Rick Gunn, Rock and Roll, Sabian, The Big Bopper, The Nylons, Zildjian on March 30, 2013 by segarini
I had every intention of starting up the long and windy story about the band I was in following my stint with Swindled in the early 1980s as a teenage punk rocker. Moving Targetz lasted 9 years, released two albums and five EPs, and robbed 50+ musicians of their will to live. It’s going to take the better part of this year to tell the tale. The story will have to wait.
This week a musical associate, whom I’ve known casually for about a decade, passed away after a seemingly abbreviated battle with cancer. His name was Rick Gunn.
GARY PIG GOLD finds PAUL WILLIAMS: STILL ALIVE
Posted in Opinion with tags DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Gary Pig Gold, music, Paul Williams, Still Alive Documentary on March 1, 2013 by segarini
I first became aware of the man in 1970, as composer of what to this very day remains my absolute favorite Three Dog Night tune, “Out In The Country.”
Then, in the years to follow, that same man would somehow become downright ubiquitous upon the 25 living-color inches of the family RCA XL-100. On variety and game shows galore, on The Tonight Show of course (forty-eight times!), even trying to murder Police Woman Angie Dickinson. All as some form of mutant, leisure-suited hybrid of David Cassidy and adorable Cousin Oliver.
Segarini: Magic VS Science and Two Quick Stories
Posted in Opinion with tags Cherry Cola's, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Melinda Clarke, Paul Williams, segarini on September 19, 2011 by segarini
We are all of us, creatures of habit. True, we all have different habits, and we march to our own drummers after a while, because the lure of mass popularity favoured in our youth fades and is replaced by the things we have always loved or have newly discovered and become enamored with. Sometimes, following your own nose instead of whatever taste maker currently holding sway over the masses and whose nose generally leads them all to the perceived latest and greatest popular entertainments, will lead you to new and wondrous discoveries. Discoveries you can hardly wait to share with your friends, hoping they hear what you hear, see what you see, and join your crusade to spread the word. Other times, you end up looking like an obsessive dope with peculiar taste and a penchant for staying out too late trying to kill your liver.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 