This week we re-wind to October 15, 2008.
It was a very sad day for Canadian rock’n’roll and especially those of us who grew up in the Ontario punk rock scene, Frankie Venom had died.
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Cameron Carpenter: The ABC’s Of Rock’n’Roll – Quality Control
Posted in Opinion with tags Andrew Matheson, Cameron Carpenter, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, George Struth, Japan, John Driscoll, Larry MacCrae, music, Quality Records, Records, Rick James, The Models, The Spoons, Toronto on May 17, 2013 by segarini
Quality Records was my training ground. Back in the seventies there were no school courses teaching the music business. If you wanted to work in a studio you hung around studios and hopefully someone would ask you to pick up a broom or maybe get the engineer a coffee. If you wanted to work at a record company you needed to know who to talk to and where they might hang out. A good in was getting to know the label publicists and the easiest way to do that was by writing album and live reviews for your school newspaper. I starting doing this in high school and by the time I reached college I had a couple of good ins at the labels (as well as lots of free albums and concert tickets).
