The first time I heard John Mayall, Eric Clapton completely blew me away, his guitar edgy and new to my ears. I knew Clapton from the Five Live Yardbirds album and that band’s smokin’ hot version of Smokestack Lightnin’, a track I will never hear without stopping to listen (unless drivin’ down the road a hundred miles an hour). After hearing The Yardbirds, it seemed a safe bet to give Mayall a chance and I have to confess that John Mayall With Eric Clapton was pure steroid for what would become a lifelong appreciation of the rockin’ side of the blues.
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Frank Gutch Jr: Majors Creek (Australia) Music Fest Carries On Without Founder Peter Gillespie, Memories of the Eugene Pop Festival of 1969, and E.J. Simpson— The Most Base of Bassists… Plus the Ever-Wondrous Notes…..
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 10cc, alice cooper, Angharad Drake, Band Who Knew Too Much, Colleen Brown, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, E.J. Simpson, Eugene Pop Festival, Frank Gutch Jr., Gary Pig Gold, Greg Shaw, Gris de Lin, hannah gillespie, hymn for her, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jeff Ellis, John Hartford, kate & ruth, Lugh Damen, maggi pierce & ej, Majors Creek Festival, music videos, Peter Gillespie, Records, Rockin Foo, segarini, Shelley Fraley, Terry Tufts, Toiling Midgets, Undergrunnen on October 13, 2015 by segariniIf you live in the States or Canada, you can be forgiven for not knowing about Majors Creek, for there are plenty of people who live in Australia who know little or nothing about it. Here is a DBAWIS primer for those in the dark.
Frank Gutch Jr: Darth Radar? The Dirty Gospel? Bragging Rights? Music Is Even Better Than I Thought!… Plus Notes
Posted in Opinion with tags Anna Cordell, bill jackson, Chris Ashworth, DBAWIS, Don't Be Afraid to Pogo, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Fur For Fairies, Green Monkey Records, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jay Pun, Jeff Kelly, Jim Basnight, John Wicks, Jon Stickley Trio, Kate Burke, Keith Morris, Kip Boardman, Lawrence Bray, Lisbee Stainton, Madisons, Moberlys, Morwenna Lasko, music, Music Radio, music videos, Nelson Bragg, Paul Hood, Records, Ruth Hazleton, segarini, Steel Derrick Records, Susannah Espie. Liz Springer, Susanne Kelly, The Crooked Numbers, The Gears, The Meyce, The Sonics, Toiling Midgets, Wondercap Records on August 18, 2015 by segariniNew and impressive albums are piling up on me and I have been on a listening tear. I cannot even imagine how far you are behind. Way behind, if you’re still giving time to The Beatles and Led Zeppelin. I would have thought you had memorized those by now. Like our fearless leader Bob Segarini is always saying, there’s more great music out there than ever, whether you choose to believe it or not. Set yourself. This column skims what I think are the best and most overlooked over the recent months. Starting with…..
Frank Gutch Jr: The Saga of a Rock Pioneer: Jim Colegrove— Chapter Five
Posted in Opinion with tags Ames, Amy Kuney, Atlantic Recording Studios, CafeWha?, Chris Houston, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eddie Mottau, Felix Pappalardi, Filligar, Frank Gutch Jr., hannah miller, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jim Basnight, jim colegrove, Joe Hutchinson, Kettle of Fish, Little Mickeys, Moberlys, music, Music Radio, music videos, N.D. Smart II, Paul Hood, radio, Records, Steve Young, Talentmaster Studios, The Bowery, The Gaslight Cafe, The Honeycutters, The Meyce, The Penetrators, Toiling Midgets, Tom Dowd, Two Guys From Boston on May 19, 2015 by segariniThe music business has always been such that the stars become super and the rest pretty much stay in the background. A case in point would be The Funk Brothers and The Wrecking Crew and the many session men (and women) who do the grunt work while the headliners reaps the profits. Not that the stars want it that way. That is just the way it is. And maybe that’s the way it is supposed to be. The people within the music industry sure know the supporting cast by name, if the public doesn’t: the session men and the opening acts and the bands which didn’t get the chance or got the chance and didn’t make it for one odd reason or another.
Frank Gutch Jr: Sonics Boom! Seattle’s Peter Blecha Writes (Not Rewrites) Pac NW Music History!, Pac NW Labels— In Fact, It’s the Great Pac NW Rundown, Part One! (plus Notes?)…..
Posted in Opinion with tags Burdette, By Divine Right, Cabin, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Ellen Ogilvy, Finding the Funk., Frank Gutch Jr., Great American Music Company, Great American Record Company, Greg Laswell, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jerden, Jerry Dennon, Jim Page, Jimmy Hanna, Joe Boles, Jr. Cadillac, Kidd Afrika, Main Attraction, music, Ned Neltner, New Tweedy Brothers, Paul Hood, Peter Blecha, Picadilly, Records, seafair bolo records, Sonic Boom!, the curtis mayflower, The Delta Saints, The Dynamics, Tim Noah, Toiling Midgets, Tom Ogilvy on February 12, 2014 by segariniYou may not know or know of Peter Blecha, but I do. Peter and I have been acquaintances if not friends for a number of years and I have watched his growth as a writer and music historian with great interest. We share an intense interest in the Pacific Northwest music scene, past and present, and we both revered the music and the bands which inhabited the various periods in the Pac NW music saga. We know that the rest of the world, if not for The Sonics and Paul Revere & The Raiders, would consider the music scene minor league at best, but have always considered the rest of the world ignorant of the music and artists who seemingly have and have had to struggle for respect beyond the borders of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.