See what I did there? I made it seem like you might learn something. Jeez, the hoops we writers have to go through to make you pay attention. I was thinking I might have to revert go porn, but maybe explaining the fun side of the record biz might help. As Ron Davies wrote and Long John Baldry made famous, it ain’t easy.
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Frank Gutch Jr: For Vinyl Newbies: A Primer On Cutouts and Promos; 5 Seconds of Summer (Is 5 Seconds Too Long); Plus Aural and Visual Gems (Otherwise Known As Notes)
Posted in Opinion with tags 5 Seconds of Summer, Alistair Greene, bill carter, cutouts, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jerry Dennon, music videos, radio, Records, segarini, SHEL, Sideline, Sweet Home Oregon, The Division Men, The Minnows, Tony Richland, white label promo on March 20, 2018 by segariniFrank Gutch Jr: Rain Perry, Mark Hallman (The Shopkeeper), and Congress House Studio; Spotify Once Again; and Notes Hitting the Spot
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Ani DiFranco, arnold grizzley, Brad Byrd, Bradley Kopp, Carole King, Charlie Faye, Congress House Studio, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eliza Gilkyson, Frank Gutch Jr., Hamilton Pool, Iain Matthews, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jen Cloher, Jon Dee Graham, Lilly Hiatt, Lydia Lunch, Mark Hallman, music, music videos, radio, Rain Perry, Records, rich mcculley, Ruston Kelly, Sarah Hickman, segarini, Selwyn Birchwood, SHEL, Sweet Home Oregon, The Dementians, The Green Pajamas, The Shopkeeper, The Spinto Band, Tom Russell, Trent Gentry, Wolf Creek Boys on June 27, 2017 by segariniYou can file this one under “and I thought I knew something.” I just watched a documentary which starts “When I was a kid, music was everything,” a statement as acute to me as author Scott Turow‘s line “It suddenly hit me how much I missed music for which I once felt a yearning as keen as hunger.” It struck a note so deep in me that I watched all one-hour-and-thirty-one minutes feeling a kinship with the narrator (and, as it turns out, producer of the film), almost relieved that I was not alone.
Frank Gutch Jr: 2017? Bring It On!
Posted in Opinion with tags 2017, Burns &Kristy, carl anderson, Clara-Nova, Daisy House, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fearless Kin, Frank Gutch Jr., Hardin Burns, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Lost Leaders, Monster Atlantic, Paige Anderson, Pledgemusic, Risk of Loss, segarini, SHEL, Sinking Creek, Sweet Home Oregon, Sydney Wayser, Tallisker, Tamikrest, The Burns Sisters on January 10, 2017 by segariniJesus Christ, but 2016 was a tough year! The musicians (and people) we lost! The impending doom of a Trump-inspired government! The division of what was in some ways a country, a world even. Ideals crushed beneath the boot heels of hate, news warped beyond any rational thought, a world based upon a semblance of logic now an anarchy of thought and emotion.
Frank Gutch Jr: Meet The Duck (and Other Tales of Woe); A Node to Billy Miller (RIP);
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Billy Miller, Cassie & Maggie MacDonald, Cathy Burke, Courtney Marie Andrews, DBAWIS, Dearly Beloved, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Freddie Cannon, glenn patscha, Greenslade, House of Records, Indie Artists, Indie Music, James Williamson & Maia, Miriam Linna, music, Music Millennium, music videos, Norton Records, Records, segarini, SHEL, Steve Suhadolnik, Svengoolie, Sweet Home Oregon, Wondercap Records on November 29, 2016 by segarini
His real name is Steve Suhadolnik but they called him The Duck after a weekend in Seattle with his buddies Newman Newman and Dahlgreen left all three of them practically penniless because of Newman Newman’s hours-long call to his girl back in Indiana while the Duck and Dahlgreen took in a double-feature and (I am sure) trolled Pike Street for hookers. See, The Duck had this thing for hookers, having spent a year in Bangkok living with one. Number One, in fact. He always told me, you ever make it to Bangkok go down to the Thermay Lounge and ask for Number One. Then he would smile, just like in this picture, and smack his lips.