In recent weeks I’ve seen many artists on social media whining for the millionth time about how to sell their wares/songs/nubile posteriors up the music industry food chain in the guise of a record deal or publishing deal or both. It’s not unexpected given the recent wholesale destruction of the live music scene globally due to the pandemic. Artists are finally starting to look under the couch cushions or Mom’s purse for loose change as a means of survival.
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LEARN TO WEAR THE SUIT by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags Arista, Beach Boys, Beatles, Beyonce, Bob Segarini, Bowie, Bro Country, BTS, Colonel Tom Parker, David Bowie, DBAWIS, Demi Lovato, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elvis, Jackson 5, Jaimie Vernon, Lou Pearlman, Michael Buble, Osmonds, Paul Anka, Pink Adele, Rollermania, Selena Gomez, Shania, Tam Paton, The Bay City Rollers, The Guess Who, The Monkees, The Rubettes, The Shaggs, The Sweet, The Sylvers on October 26, 2020 by segariniGary Pig Gold on THE PHILOSOPHY Of FIFTY YEARS
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Gary Pig Gold, music, NRBQ, Peter Tork, radio, Records, segarini, The Shaggs, Zappa on April 15, 2019 by segarini
On an even damper than usual Spring afternoon in 1969, three guitar-and-drum-beating sisters from tiny Fremont, New Hampshire entered an even tinier recording studio and emerged, just a few hours later, with a dozen original rock ‘n’ roll songs on some quarter-inch tape. These twelve songs were then pressed onto one thousand vinyl records, nine hundred copies of which immediately vanished forever off the face of the Earth. Within a year however, no less an authority than Frank Zappa declared that this album, prophetically entitled Philosophy Of The World, was “better than the Beatles,” and a decade after that the similarly inclined visionaries in NRBQ re-pressed Philosophy briefly on their own Red Rooster label.
Roxanne Tellier – Pet Sounds Revisited
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Annie Lennox, Barbette Kensington, Big Mama Thornton, Cat Stevens, David Bowie, DBAWIS, Dundas Euclid Animal Hospital, Elvis Presley, Freddie Mercury, Gilbert O’Sullivan, Harry Nilsson, Henry Gross, Iggy Pop, Jane Siberry, Joe Cocker, Johnny Cash, KittyPants, Led Zeppelin, Lobo, Nelly Furtado, Norah Jones, Patti Page, Patty Griffin, Pink Floyd, Roxanne Tellier, Rufus Thomas, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Shaggs, The Stooges, Tom Waits on November 5, 2017 by segarini
“The Internet is a lot like ancient Egypt: people writing on walls and worshipping cats.”
Roxanne Tellier: Pet Sounds
Posted in Opinion with tags Annie Lennox, Big Mama Thornton, Cat Stevens, Cats, David Bowie, DBAWIS, Dogs, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elvis Presley, Freddie Mercury, Gilbert O’Sullivan, Harry Nilsson, Henry Gross, Iggy Pop, Jane Siberry, Joe Cocker, Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin, Lobo, music, Nelly Furtado, Norah Jones, Patti Page, Patty Griffin, Pets, Pink Floyd, Records, Roxanne Tellier, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Shaggs, The Stooges, Tom Waits on March 24, 2013 by segarini
“The Internet is a lot like ancient Egypt: people writing on walls and worshipping cats.” Cats, kittens, dogs, puppies, horses, hedgehogs … you name it. The supply of animal pictures seems to be limitless. And nothing can draw an “awww” out of even the most hardened grouch’s mouth quicker than the sight of a tiny, helpless, pink-mouthed baby anything. We are helpless before their innocent charms.
