Someone once told me I was eccentric. I laughed out loud because I am the least eccentric of any people I know. I am, in fact, so normal and middle-of-the-road that I occasionally label myself boring. I am. Boring, that is. I am a puddle of mediocrity in a pool of ordinary. The jack of all trades and master of none. Neither the dimmest bulb nor the brightest. Plain yogurt. A one dollar bill. I am as exciting as baseball in the off-season and Christmas in July. I have been the second choice of too many girls to recount (Gosh, Frank, if it wasn’t for— insert name here— it would be you) and the tenth choice on a team of nine. I write because I have no other talent. I am the sponge which lives vicariously. Even the kids who love me abandon me when they are old enough to realize…
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Frank Gutch Jr: My Morbid Yet Sanguine World
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags ACM Awards, Audrey Martells, Carrousel, DBAWIS, Devon Sproule, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eric Corne, Five Man Electrical Band, Frank Gutch Jr., Green Pajamas, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Keith Morris, Keith Whitley, Kink Ador, Lester Quitzau, Louis Chirillo, Mad Anthony, music, music videos, Ollabelle, Pete Seeger, Phoebe Bridgers, radio, Records, Seattle Hockey, segarini, Sweet Home Oregon, Sydney Wayser, The Dementians, The Tamborines, The Weaver Twins, tommy womack on November 21, 2017 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: John ‘Buck’ Ormsby: Maybe Out of His Tree, But Never Out of His League; Plus, Artists Who Should Have Made It (A Musical Roundup)
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags DBAWIS, Dead Horses, Devon Sproule, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Five Man Electrical Band, Frank Gutch Jr., Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jim Post, Joe Lee, John 'Buck' Ormsby, John Hicks, Jr. Cadillac, Kink Ador, Lisa Joy Pimentel, Lisa O'Neill, music, music videos, New Method Blasters, No Small Children, Paul Curreri, radio, randy burns, River Rouge, Rusty Willoughby, Sage Run, segarini, Shaun Cromwell, Steve Young, The Dementians, The Fire Tapes, The Lisa Parade, The Sonics, The Wailers, Ticktockman, Toronto on November 1, 2016 by segariniThis morning was cold and wet with a chill that went to the bone, the clouds threatening, the rain off and on but somehow consistent. I knew it would be. Yesterday, my friend John Hicks had posted a message that Buck Ormsby had died. No way, I thought, because I had had contact only a few days previous— just a note, but contact. When I approached Hicks, he said that he had found out from Ormsby’s son’s page. He sent me the link and there it was. We are sorry to report… and the words became a blur. While it hardly seemed possible, Buck was gone. Is gone, for none of us will hear from him again and that is truly a sad thing.
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Frank Gutch Jr: M-M-M-Metal Is All You Ever Play, Get Research Turtles’ Mankiller Pt. 1 of 2 While You Can— Free! and Notes, Notes and More Notes!!!!!
Posted in Opinion with tags Annabell Lee, Arkells, Cyndi Dawson, DBAWIS, Dissonati, Don't Believe a Word I Say, First Circuit, Frank Gutch Jr., Freedom Hawk, Henry Seiz, House of Ghosts., Hundred Visions, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jon Gomm, Mankiller, music, Records, Research Turtles, Robert Fripp, Sandrider, Steve Hoffman Forums, Steve Turnidge, The Cynz, The Dementians, The Minnows, Thomas Hunter, Tom McMeekan, Winterpills on September 12, 2012 by segariniWith apologies to The Records (that’s the band, sports fans) and their song Teenarama. I was sitting here plowing my way through one of my more favorite albums of the past few weeks by one Sandrider and wondering what it is that makes us turn right or left when mood strikes us— to bang heads with Freedom Hawk and Sandrider and then slither into the sixties and early seventies pop garden with The Records and The Shoes. It’s a hell of a jump from “Cut down these heathens” to “C-c-c-c-c-cola is all you ever drink,” from “Hold not your blades to our sad thirsty throats” to “Teenarama/All that melodrama/Gimme gimme gimme gimme/Teenarama” but it is a jump I make all the time. It’s no wonder I’m screwed up. I can’t walk a straight line. Hell, sometimes I can barely walk!