This week marked two important memorial milestones in Rock and Roll History. It was 51 years ago on February 9th that the Beatles walked into the homes of America –and the world – via ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’. The other was the 56th anniversary of the Day the Music Died – with Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper perishing in a plane crash on February 3, 1959 [in a sad coincidence, Holly’s bassist in The Crickets, Joe B. Mauldin passed away on February 7th this year]. I’m of the generation that neither event was contemporaneous to me. I can only measure their importance by the impact crater they left on pop culture…and music specifically.
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JAIMIE VERNON – MEMORIES FADE
Posted in Opinion with tags 10cc, 1959, 1964, 78 RPM, Andrew Gold, Billboard Top 40, Bob Segarini, BOMP Records, Brian Williams, Buddy Holly, Canadian Music, Capitol Records, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, George Harrison, Greg Shaw, Jaimie Vernon, Joe Jackson, Joel Whitburn, John Lennon, lacquers, Lol & Creme, memories, misremembering, Paul McCartney, Peggy Sue, Pop Culture, Power Pop, Richie Valens, Ringo Starr, singles, That'll Be The Day, The Beatles, The Big Bopper, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Romantics, Twist and Shout on February 14, 2015 by segariniSegarini: Rival Sons – Finally leading Rock into the 21st Century Part One
Posted in Opinion with tags Bob Segarini, Cherry Cola's, Classic Rock, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, music, Music Radio, Pop Culture, radio, Records, Rival Sons on July 8, 2014 by segarini
For the past several months, I have had difficulty finishing anything I start. I don’t know why, exactly, but it has been an ongoing problem that bothers me not because it makes me think that maybe I am running out of steam, but rather because I’m afraid it may mean that I am something I have never been, nor want to be.
Bored.
JAIMIE VERNON – The Best 2013 I’ve Ever Had
Posted in Opinion with tags Best of 2013, Bieber, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia, Chris Hadfield, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, excited, jaded, Jaimie Vernon, Kardashian, Life's A Canadian Blog, Michael Kundu, Miley Cyrus, Nelson Mandela, Nik Wallenda, Paul Walker, Pop Culture, Red Square, Spare Parts, Tired, trends on December 15, 2013 by segarini
Our editor-in-chief, Bob Segarini, mandated a year end 2013 ‘Best and Worst’ list from the Don’t Believe A Word I Say scribes for this week. For me lists like this are an eternal yawn. I mean do you really, truly care what someone else thinks about stuff – particularly when we’ve all lived through the same year as everyone else?
Geoff Pevere: Welcome to Geezerville. Population: Us.
Posted in Opinion with tags Ageing Population, Baby Boomers over 65, Canada's ageing population, Canadian Census, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, geoff pevere, Pop Culture, Youth in Pop Culture on June 1, 2012 by segarini
The confirmation provided by this week’s Canadian census data that the country’s gone geezer – more Canadians than ever before are over 65 – provided an opportunity to consider a paradox. If so many of us are old, I was asked to ponder, how come there are so few codgers in pop culture? As a question, it’s more interesting than good, but in that it’s perfectly apt, as most popular culture itself is more interesting than good.
JAIMIE VERNON: The Further Decline Of Western Civilization
Posted in Opinion with tags DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Jaimie Vernon, James Cameron, Nickelback, Pop Culture, TANT, The Further Decline of Western Civilization, TMNT on April 7, 2012 by segarini
This week I came to the startling revelation (at least for me) that the human race, as a species, has reached evolutionary saturation. We are now at the tipping point of depravity, debauchery, and hedonistic self-pursuit where Rome and Greece collapsed as empires. Aside from the fighting and political upheavals – which are the cornerstone of all megologarchies since we learned to beat each other with clubs – our descent as a species rises and falls on what we spend our time doing between wars.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 