Archive for Swedish Fish
ONLY WOMEN BLEED by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in Family, Health, life, Opinion, Review with tags Ann Wilson, Bob Segarini, Bonnie Tyler, Breast Cancer Awareness, Chriss Hynde, Chrissy Amphlett, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Grace Jones, Grace Slick, Heart, I Run for Life, I Touch Myself, Jaimie Vernon, Jane Siberry, Janis Joplin, Kate Bush, Lee Aaron, Lisa Dal Bello, Marianne Faithful, Martha Bouchier, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Maureen Leeson, Nancy Wilson, Olivia Newton-John, Only Women Bleed, Poly Styrene, Run for the Cure, Sharon Judd, Swedish Fish, The Divinyls, The Runaways, Velvet Hammer on October 5, 2020 by segariniJAIMIE VERNON – THE BOOK GOES ON
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Advent, Barry McVicker, Bob Segarini, Bolero Lava, Bullseye Records, Bullsography, Canadian Music, cassette, CD, Daughaus, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elyse Thorpe, Great White Noise Magazine, Jaimie Vernon, Life's A Canadian Punk, Montclair Studio, Moving Targetz, Mr. Science, Saga, Shawn Gardner, Simon Truth & The Last Band, Skip Prokop, Sunny Days, Swedish Fish, Swindled, Terry Draper, The Barking Boys, The Id, This "Blue Piano", Unsigned Sealed & Delivered, vinyl on February 13, 2016 by segarini
I’m desperately trying to finish writing my 6th book. It should have been released in December but things like re-launching my record label have had me in meetings for the better part of 4 months. The new book should actually be my seventh, but that book – ‘Sunny Days – The Skip Prokop Story’ – is taking a very long time to transcribe and edit though we do expect it to be completed in coming months.
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JAIMIE VERNON – SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
Posted in Opinion with tags Alan Parsons, Bay City Rollers, Bob Segarini, Brutus, Bullseye Records, Canadian Music, Cheaper Than Therapy, crowdfunding, Dave Rave, David Quinton, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Encore Records, folk label, independent artists, Jaimie Vernon, Klaatu, Lisa Millar, Luke & The Apostles, Mainline, Mark Logan, Maureen Leeson, Moving Targetz, Moxy, Rush, Skip Prokop, Soap Opera, Swedish Fish, Swindled, The Beatles, The First Time, The Guess Who, The Kings, Twitch, Unsigned Sealed & Delivered on September 19, 2015 by segarini
24 hours ago a crowdfunding campaign to bring my old record label, Bullseye, back from the dead ended successfully with over $20,000 in donations from people who passionately believe in not only me and the label but music in general. I’m overwhelmed by the generosity and well wishes. I am truly humbled.
JAIMIE VERNON – WHERE HAVE ALL THE SOUNDTRACKS GONE
Posted in Opinion with tags American Graffiti, Bee Gees, Bob Segarini, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, Canadian Music, Dazed & Confused, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elvis Presley, Ennio, Grease, Haunter, Help!, Hunger Games, Jaimie Vernon, James Newton Howard, John Debney, John Williams, musicals, Purple Rain, Quentin Tarantino, Saturday Night Fever, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Soundtracks, Spinal Tap, Swedish Fish, The Beatles, The Big Chill, The Bodyguard, The Graduate, The Rutles, West Side Story on November 23, 2013 by segarini
By the time you read this, the latest Tween wallet milking franchise, The Hunger Games: Catching Syphillis, will have opened in Octoogleplexes the world over to record breaking box office glory for a second time. Not since someone glued a lightning 
bolt to Radcliffe’s forehead or sparkles to Pattinson’s nipples has there been such a nauseating ballyhoo from teenaged girls and creepy middle-aged women. Every aspect of the movie has been gleaned, dissected and analyzed by the fodder feeding media including the outrage by fans of the books that inspired the franchise who were shocked to find out that the black characters were portrayed on screen by…black actors!
JAIMIE VERNON – Life’s a Canadian Rock: Book 2, Chapter 3
Posted in Opinion with tags 7" single, Alabama, album, Bob Segarini, Brian Gagnon, Calvin Reynolds, Canadian Music, Carey Gurden, Certain Circles, Creedance Clearwater Revival, Dave Tedd, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Watt, Gary Brown, Indiana Jones, Jaimie Vernon, James Rogers, Moving Targetz, Redneck, Simon Bedford-James, Swedish Fish, Vic Kennedy, Vinyl Performance, William C. Smith, Wolfman Jack, Zepology on June 9, 2013 by segarini
JAIMIE VERNON – Bomb the Vaults and Free the Tapes!
Posted in Opinion with tags Bomb the Vaults - Release the Tapes, Brutus, Bullseye Records, Coyote, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Goddo, Jaimie Vernon, Milkwood, Moving Targetz, music, Nick Warburton, Pacemaker Records, Swedish Fish, The Wackers, Tranquility Base on July 28, 2012 by segarini
During ten of the twenty-five years I ran Bullseye Records we focused on licensing and re-issuing Classic Rock and pop releases from the past. Generally it was a focus on albums that the public had loved and wanted re-mastered on CD. I approached the musicians that I knew who owned their own recordings (which is a rarity in Canada) starting with Greg Godovitz and Goddo. The band was able to enjoy a large resurgence and reconnection with their fan base as we rolled out and carefully marketed their 1977 self-titled debut, 1978’s “Who Cares?” and 1979’s “An Act of Goddo” plus their 1990s ‘King of Broken Hearts’ comeback record at the turn of the millennium. It wasn’t long before the fans were asking for a live record and a new studio album.
JAIMIE VERNON – EVERYTIME I SEE YOUR PICTURE I CRY
Posted in Opinion with tags Band Photographs. The Enemy, Brian Gagnon, David Bash, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, International Pop Overthrow, Jaimie Vernon, Michael Carpenter, music, Robby Rist, Swedish Fish, Your Favourite Train Wreck on July 14, 2012 by segarini
I’ve been around this music thing a loooong time. Three quarters of my life in fact. I started in bands when I was 17, I started my own label when I was 22 and have had a roller coaster ride of sweet success and monumental failures. But in all that time I never lost sight of being professional in every aspect of promoting my career. There was always attention paid to improving production, songwriting, musicianship and, especially, presentation (WEA Records once offered me a job to put press kits together for them after one of mine wound up on an exec’s desk). The public visage of my image and that of my music projects was toiled over, debated and deliberately calculated. Not all of it worked (see Crime Exhibit #1 above), but all of it was done with the aid of like minded people who had similar goals of putting our best face foreword.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 