Editor’s Note – Originally posted on January 21st 2015, this column bears repeating. Proud to say our track record is pretty good for sniffing out greatness in a sea of popular, financially successful mediocrity, but the continued confusion regarding the differences in worthiness and rose-coloured glasses steeped in nostalgia, needs to be addressed. When it comes to Greatness, consider the majority of what you hear on terrestrial radio as nothing more than Alternative Fact.
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Segarini Rerun: Music or Nostalgia…Which is It? – Going Back to Find the Future. Sons, Bones, and Loops….
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Cherry Cola's, Country, Courage My Love, DBAWIS, Dirty Loops, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Dustin Lynch, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Influences, Jordan John, july talk, Maddie and Tae, music, Music Radio, music videos, Nostalgia, Pop, Pop Fusion, radio, Records, Rival Sons, Rock, Saint Paul and the Broken Bones, samantha martin, Secret Broadcast, segarini, The Beatles, The Berklee College of Music, The Future of Music, Toronto, Xprime on January 23, 2017 by segariniGARY PIG GOLD SEZ “JOHN ENTWISTLE: TOO LATE THE HERO”
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Gary Pig Gold, John Entwistle, music, Ox, radio, Records, Rock, Rock and Roll, segarini, The Pig Paper, The Who, Toronto on June 27, 2016 by segarini“What I feel inside I can’t explain. That John Entwistle should die in his late fifties is totally unthinkable. He was the indestructible one. He was the rock. He was the island. He was the fulcrum on which it all hinged.” – Mick Farren
“John was the best. He made “My Generation,” along with the other lads, one of the greatest records of all time.” – Peter Noone
“I think John was the pivotal member of the most exciting rock band to emerge on the British music scene in the Sixties.” – Brian Auger
GARY PIG GOLD ON BOB DYLAN, A YONGE STREET BAR BAND, AND THE DEATH, 50 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH, OF ROCK AND ROLL
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 1966, Bob Dylan, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Dylan Live, Gary Pig Gold, Mnchester Free Trade Hall, music, radio, Records, Rock, Rock and Roll, segarini, The Band, The Hawks, The Pig Paper, Toronto on May 9, 2016 by segarini
As most pretty-pointedly shown throughout Martin Scorsese’s remarkable No Direction Home, the ’66-model Bob Dylan was an American idol at the indisputable peak of his powers as the [insert your own convenient pigeonhole here] Poet/Laureate of a Generation, Crown Prince of the (Thinking Man’s) Hit Parade, or – my personal favorite – Snot-headed, Venom-spewing Anti-Rockstar of All Time.
Gary Pig Gold Most Fondly Remembers Our Pal Joey
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 1977, Crash and Burn, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Ed Sullivan, Gary Pig Gold, music, radio, Ramones, Records, Rock, Rock and Roll, segarini, Stive Bators, The New Yorker, The Pig Paper, Toronto on April 11, 2016 by segarini
Late one night in very late 1976, a singer acquaintance of mine burst into the (condemned) house I was then sharing with the neighbourhood bar band, shouting “You will never believe what I just saw in Toronto tonight! These four guys with Brian Jones haircuts wearing drainpipe Levis, singing all these really fast, short songs. Lots of ’em, too! And the best part? NO GUITAR SOLOS!”
GARY PIG GOLD GOES DEEP IN THE PURPLE CATALOGUE
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags DBAWIS, Deep Purple, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Gary Pig Gold, music, radio, Records, Rock, segarini on March 7, 2016 by segarini
What with the recent Blackmore brew-ha-ha all over his old pals’ induction – Finally! – into that so-called Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I was reminded to dig out three vintage CD’s from my by-far favorite, as in Mark I version of Deep Purple.
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JAIMIE VERNON – A PIECE OF THE ROCK
Posted in Opinion with tags Anna Ruddick, Axel Rose, Bob Segarini, BTO, Canadian music Randy Bachman, cream, Dale Anne Brendon, DBAWIS, Deep Purple, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Gene Simmons, Heavy Blues, Jaimie Vernon, Jeff Healey, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Bonamassa, Kurt Cobain, Led Zeppelin, London Blues Explosion, Long John Baldry, Louis Armstrong., Luke Doucet, Neil Young, Peter Frampton, Robert Randolph, Rock, Scott Holiday, Steppenwolf, The Guess Who, UK, Yardbirds, ZZ Top on May 23, 2015 by segariniThe demise of Rock And Roll has been greatly exaggerated by the likes of Gene ‘I don’t know how to work an iPad‘ Simmons. That’s not to say we shouldn’t have it on suicide watch and coax it back from the ledge where its been hanging by its finger tips since Axel Rose delivered ‘Chinese Grafitti‘ and not ‘Appetite For Destruction 2‘.
Pat Blythe: Toronto Scrapbook – Chapter Two
Posted in Opinion with tags A Primitive Evolution, Annette Shaffer, Australia, Bad Medicine, bass, Beatles, Blue Rodeo, Bob Segarini, Bombay Sapphire, Brett Carruthers, Calgary, Canada, Canadian, Canadian Music Week, Care Failure, Caroline Kawa, Counting Flowers, Country Roots n’ Rockabilly Music Tavern, Curtis Harding, Dakota Tavern, DBAWIS, Decca, Die Mannequin, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Drake Underground CMW, drums, EMI, England, Ennismore, Epsom, Etta James, Filthy Souls, FINO + BLEED, Frank Gutch Jr., Frank Soda, G&T, Greg Keelor, guitar, Guns 'n' Roses, Hellfield, High and Dry, HMV, Hogtown, Honest Ed’s, Horseshoe Tavern, Hugh Oliver, Hugh Oliver and the Twists, I Feel It All, I’m Just A Girl, J.C. Sandoval, Keith Heppler, Kevvy Mental, Kim Carnes, Kurt Cobain, Lord of Reason, Marilyn Manson, Matt Lightstone, Melissa Payne, money, mosh pit, Muddy York, Nazareth, Neon Zero, New Zealand, Nirvana, OISE, Orbit Room, Oregon, Pat Blythe, Plateau, Punk, Reba McEntire, Rock, Rock and Roll, Roxanne Tellier, seattle, Secret Broadcast, Seventh Fire Records, Sheraton Centre, Stand by Me, Stephany Seki, Stu Dead, Sucker Punch, Sum 41, swaggering stomp, Talking Heads, Tdot, The ‘Shoe, The Big Smoke, The Foolish Things, The Picture Taker, The Police, The Ramones, The Stones, Toronto, Tranzac, Will Bennett, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, You Know You’re Right, YouTube on April 22, 2015 by segariniWell…. This was supposed to be Part Five of The Women of Rock. However, I’m going to take a break and fill you in on some of the sights and sounds of this dynamic city I call home….Toronto…. Hogtown… Muddy York…. The Big Smoke…. Tdot…. where I’ve been going, who I’ve been seeing, what I’ve been drinking (G&T w/lemon if you must know. Bombay Sapphire is the chosen one.) AND update you about an exciting event that’s coming to Toronto. Yep….it’s another Toronto Scrapbook!