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Peter Picks the Local Music YOU Need to Hear

Posted in Opinion, Review with tags "Last Bullet", "The Hazytones", 94.( "The Rock", Black Absinthe, BlackDog Ballroom, Classic Rock Magazine, Crown Lands, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fat Mob, Frank Gutch Jr., Indie 88, Ivory Hours, James Blonde, Jim Dan Dee, Mushy Callahan, Pat Blythe, Robert Plant, Robert Segarini, Second Pass, Secret Broadcast, Social Strife, The Anti Queens, The Reed Effect, Unidentified Funk Object, Vajra on December 9, 2017 by segarini

In a recent interview with Classic Rock Magazine, Robert Plant was very frank about a number of things, including the possibility of writing his memoirs (nope) and the possibility of a Led Zeppelin reunion tour (not happening). When it was asked, he used the latter question to segue into something which I believe very strongly. “It shows you that people have nothing else to write about, obviously. And that’s kind of sad. All these magazines and internet platforms should be supporting new music and helping new musicians to find an audience, instead of dwelling on the old crap all the time. It’s like there is nothing new and exciting out there any more, when in fact there is. So stop living in the past. Open your ears and your eyes. It’s not that difficult, is it?” (The full interview can be read here.)

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Cameron Carpenter – 10 CC – Vinyl Season One

Posted in Opinion, Review with tags alice cooper, Andrew Dice Clay, Big Star, Billy Preston, Blues Image, Bobby Cannavale, Bowie, Cameron Carpenter, Conway Twitty, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Focus, Grandmaster Flash, Hurricane Smith, Kool Herc, Mott the Hoople, music, music videos, Nigel Grainge, Patti Smith, Peter Grant, Ray Romano, Records, Robert Goulet, Robert Plant, Rock Lobster, segarini, Television, The Bovine, The Edgar Winter Group, The Good Rats, The Nasty Bits, The Troggs, Tiki Bar, Toronto, vinyl, Zeppelin on June 23, 2016 by segarini

Well I had to wait for the DVD to be released but I have finally seen Season One of Vinyl. I first heard about the HBO series a couple of years ago as Nigel Grainge and I grabbed lunch at the Imperial Pub after his keynote address at Indie Week. We were catching up on each other’s careers as we had not seen each other or worked together for years. At MCA I was the Marketing Manager for Nigel’s label Ensign and looked after everyone from The Waterboys and World Party to Sinead O’Connor, The Blue Aeroplanes and Stump. I immediately liked Nigel on first meeting and he taught me a lot about marketing and the music industry (as well as Arsenal). Before he started Ensign Records he worked at Phonogram in London and signed Thin Lizzy, 10 CC and The Boomtown Rats. He is a true music man.

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Pat Blythe: The Women of Rock – Part 3

Posted in Opinion with tags 20/20, A Fool In Love, Al Green American Bandstand, American Music Awards, Ann, Ann Wilson, Anna Mae Bullock, Art Lassiter, Auntie Entity, Australia, B.C, Baptist, Barracuda, bash and strut, Between A Heart and A Rock Place, Billboard, Billboard's Hot Rock Songs, blues, Box Top, Brownsville, Bryan Adams, Buddhism Buzzsaw, Buddhist, Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man, Can-Base Studios, Canada, Capital Records, Catch A Rising Star, Christopher Blythe, classical, coloratura, Come Together, Coxon's Army, Creedence Clearwater Revival, David Bowie, DBAWIS, Dog and Butterfly, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Dreamboat Annie, England, Eric Clapton, Erwin Bach, Europe, Fanatic, Four Acres Club, Frank Soda and the Imps, Freddie Mercury, Goodbye So Long, History of Rock, Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Hollywood A Go-Go, Hot 100, Hot R&B Sides, Hunter S. Thompson, I'll Be Doggone, Ike and Tina Turner Review, Ike Turner, iTunes, Jake Brown, Jason Bonham, Jazz, Juggy Murray, Julie Andrews, Kennedy Center Honors, key of J demolished, Knoxville, Kurt Loder, Let's Stay Together, Little Ann, Little Queen, lounge act, Love Is A Battlefield, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Magic Man, Manhattan Club, marvin gaye, Mick Jagger, Mike Fisher, Missouri, Mistral Wind, Montreal, Mountain High, Mushroom Studios, Nancy, Nancy Wilson, Neil Giraldo, New York, Nichiren Buddhism, Nutbush, NYC, opera, Pat Benatar, Pat Blythe, Paul McCartney, Phil Spector, Philles, Plateau, Portrait Records, Private Dancer, Promises in the Dark, Proud Mary, Queen, Queen of Rock, Ray Charles, Richmond, River Deep Mountain High, Robert Plant, rock 'n roll, Rock and Roll, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rod Stewart, Roger Davies, Roger Fisher, Rolling Stone Magazine, Rolling Stones, seattle, segarini, Sheena, Shindig, Sir Mick, St. Louis, Stairway to Heaven, Steve Fossen, Sue Records, Swiss, Switzerland, Tennessee, The Andy Willams Show, The Big T.N.T. Show, The Kings of Rhythm, The PictureTaker, The Who, Tina Tina Turner, Tinkerbell, Tommy, U.K., U.S., United Kingdom, Vancouver, Virginia, We Belong, What About Love, What'd I Say, What's Love Got To Do With It, You Or on April 8, 2015 by segarini

March 2 was the 10th anniversary of Hunter S. Thompson’s death and a picture of one of his quotes was making the rounds in Facebook. I found the subject matter rather timely! Many of us will find both the truth and the irony in what he had to say.

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Segarini: Music or Nostalgia…Which is It?

Posted in Opinion with tags Cherry Cola's, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Led Zeppelin, music, Music Radio, Nostalgia, radio, Records, Robert Plant, segarini, Sensational Shape Shifters, Toronto on December 12, 2014 by segarini

This is Part One of a column I have had to completely rewrite because I could not post the original for some reason I still can’t figure out. Part Two will be posted next week.

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