Historic, and hysterically stereotypical, visions of Canada usually consist of Eskimos, dog sleds, igloos, Mounties, and clear tracts of land filled with snow-capped mountains and evergreen forests. Oh, and people going over Niagara Falls in barrels. Monty Python also made a huge deal out of our lumberjacks as well.
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GRAN’S CANADA HIGHWAY – EPISODE 2: THE FIR TREES AND BEYOND by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in Family, life, Opinion, Review with tags Bob Segarini, Buffalo, Canada, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Farley Mowat, Jaimie Vernon, Lillian Gish, Louis B. Mayer, Mary Pickford, Mounties, Never Cry Wolf, New Brunswick, New York, Niagara Falls, Nipigon Trail, Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, Sgt. Preston of the Yukon, Trans-Canada Highway, traveling, Vancouver, Victoria, Warren G. Harding on July 6, 2020 by segariniRoxanne Tellier – My City Was Gone
Posted in Opinion, politics, Review with tags Big City. tent cities, DBAWIS, digital world, elite., gentrification, globablization, high tech, Living for the City, Montreal, New York, San Francisco, segarini, Tellier, Toronto, Vancouver on November 25, 2018 by segarini
“Living just enough, just enough, for the city.”
The Big Cities of the past weren’t for everyone. In the hardscrabble days when I was growing up in Montreal or in Toronto, a city rat could always make ends meet, somehow, some way. There was always that neighbourhood where you could find a deal, that part of town where, while it might not be pretty, but, be it ever so humble, you could find a place to crash if you were short of dough. Or a place to score if you wanted to get high. You might not have a Rolex, but you could find a knockoff for a couple of bucks.
Roxanne Tellier – 2 Dogs, 2 Cats, 1 House Chicken ….
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags BC, Bob Segarini, Coqquitlam, DBAWIS, Family, Grandchildren, Granville Island, Greg Simpson, Jenson Ackles, love, Roxanne Tellier, Supernatural, Toronto, Vancouver, White Rock on September 24, 2017 by segarini
Greetings from the westiest coast, where the weather just ‘is,’ no matter what’s predicted. Will it rain or shine? Be sunny and warm or chilly and damp? Stay tuned, weather fans – we’ll have your sun after this brief rain shower!
Last Monday I stepped out of the Abbotsford airport into an almost Floridian heat and haze. But by the time we’d driven out of the airport, the day had settled into a damper, greyer miasma, and has mainly stayed that way, with brief and wholly unpredictable flirtations with the sun sprinkled in for good measure.
The Segarini Band vs The World
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Bomb Records, CBS, Cherry Cola's, Clay Harding, DBAWIS, Demmis Taylor, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Hurricane McLean, Maple Leaf Gardens, music, music videos, Ontario Place, Records, segarini, Teenage Head, The Segarini Band, Toronto, Vancouver on August 7, 2017 by segariniOriginally posted April 3rd, 2011….
Being in a rock band can be fun, rewarding, stimulating and an adventure. It can also be tedious, frightening, life threatening, and rife with danger. No matter how well you plan, no matter how prepared you are, there are forces at work which will occasionally just fuck you up. Sometimes, it can be someone who is a stranger, or worse, someone in the support system of the band who causes the problems. Sometimes…it can be you…and when I say you, I mean me.
Frank Gutch Jr: Canada! Drake Is Coming! (Angharad Drake, That Is); The Omniverous Trailers;
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Angharad Drake, Blindfaller, Capability Brown, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eric Corne, Fiction Nation, Frank Gutch Jr., Indie Artists, Indie Music, Kevin Prchal, Lester Quitzau, Mandolin Orange, music, Music Radio, music videos, Nanaimo, Omnivore Records, Picture The Ocean, radio, Records, segarini, Sheldon Gomberg, Sweet Home Oregon, Vancouver on May 30, 2017 by segarini
There are musicians who are outstanding and there are musicians who are unique but seldom do you find one who is both. I have found maybe a small bucketful during my lifetime who rise to the fly (as fly fisherman are wont to say) and most of those would be under your radar but they are there, regardless of cynics’ belief that music is dead. My problem is that when they do come along, I am so like Chicken Little that few believe it. Most take my loud cries of ecstasy as another of my many elaborate hoaxes, though I wonder how they know because they haven’t heeded my advice anyway. You want to know what discouragement is? Discouragement is posting a video or audio track, getting 17 “likes” but only three more views or listens than when you posted it. I guess it is most times easier to click a button than to actually listen.
JAIMIE VERNON – TO THE BOOKMOBILE
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags A-Channel, Abbeyfield, Al Joynes, Anger Brothers, Bill Belfontaine, Blues on Bellair, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, CHOM FM, CITI-FM, Cori Ferguson, Darryl Sterdan, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fludd, Fort Garry, Gary MacLean, Globe And Mail, Goddo, Graeme Bishop, Greg Godovitz, Howard Mandsheim, Hushion House, Intuitive Design, Jaimie Vernon, Jane Hawtin, Jerry Doucette, John Cody, Michael Lansberg, Montreal, Neptoon Records, Paul Dean, Paul Rodgers, Q107, Ragna Stam'mler, Ralph Alfonso, Richard Branson, Tom Lavin, Tommy James, Toronto, Toronto Star, Toronto Sun, Travels With My Amp, Vancouver, Winnipeg on April 2, 2016 by segarini
Last week I wrote about working on Skip Prokop’s upcoming biography project and how we’re attempting to raise funds to get the thing written and published. https://kapipal.com/projects/skip-prokop-biography-project/
Pat Blythe: The Women of Rock – Part 3
Posted in Opinion with tags 20/20, A Fool In Love, Al Green American Bandstand, American Music Awards, Ann, Ann Wilson, Anna Mae Bullock, Art Lassiter, Auntie Entity, Australia, B.C, Baptist, Barracuda, bash and strut, Between A Heart and A Rock Place, Billboard, Billboard's Hot Rock Songs, blues, Box Top, Brownsville, Bryan Adams, Buddhism Buzzsaw, Buddhist, Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man, Can-Base Studios, Canada, Capital Records, Catch A Rising Star, Christopher Blythe, classical, coloratura, Come Together, Coxon's Army, Creedence Clearwater Revival, David Bowie, DBAWIS, Dog and Butterfly, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Dreamboat Annie, England, Eric Clapton, Erwin Bach, Europe, Fanatic, Four Acres Club, Frank Soda and the Imps, Freddie Mercury, Goodbye So Long, History of Rock, Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Hollywood A Go-Go, Hot 100, Hot R&B Sides, Hunter S. Thompson, I'll Be Doggone, Ike and Tina Turner Review, Ike Turner, iTunes, Jake Brown, Jason Bonham, Jazz, Juggy Murray, Julie Andrews, Kennedy Center Honors, key of J demolished, Knoxville, Kurt Loder, Let's Stay Together, Little Ann, Little Queen, lounge act, Love Is A Battlefield, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Magic Man, Manhattan Club, marvin gaye, Mick Jagger, Mike Fisher, Missouri, Mistral Wind, Montreal, Mountain High, Mushroom Studios, Nancy, Nancy Wilson, Neil Giraldo, New York, Nichiren Buddhism, Nutbush, NYC, opera, Pat Benatar, Pat Blythe, Paul McCartney, Phil Spector, Philles, Plateau, Portrait Records, Private Dancer, Promises in the Dark, Proud Mary, Queen, Queen of Rock, Ray Charles, Richmond, River Deep Mountain High, Robert Plant, rock 'n roll, Rock and Roll, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rod Stewart, Roger Davies, Roger Fisher, Rolling Stone Magazine, Rolling Stones, seattle, segarini, Sheena, Shindig, Sir Mick, St. Louis, Stairway to Heaven, Steve Fossen, Sue Records, Swiss, Switzerland, Tennessee, The Andy Willams Show, The Big T.N.T. Show, The Kings of Rhythm, The PictureTaker, The Who, Tina Tina Turner, Tinkerbell, Tommy, U.K., U.S., United Kingdom, Vancouver, Virginia, We Belong, What About Love, What'd I Say, What's Love Got To Do With It, You Or on April 8, 2015 by segarini
March 2 was the 10th anniversary of Hunter S. Thompson’s death and a picture of one of his quotes was making the rounds in Facebook. I found the subject matter rather timely! Many of us will find both the truth and the irony in what he had to say.
The Segarini Band vs The World
Posted in Opinion with tags Bomb Records, CBS, Cherry Cola's, Clay Harding, DBAWIS, Demmis Taylor, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Hurricane McLean, Maple Leaf Gardens, music, music videos, Ontario Place, Records, segarini, Teenage Head, The Segarini Band, Toronto, Vancouver on April 3, 2011 by segarini
Being in a rock band can be fun, rewarding, stimulating and an adventure. It can also be tedious, frightening, life threatening, and rife with danger. No matter how well you plan, no matter how prepared you are, there are forces at work which will occasionally just fuck you up. Sometimes, it can be someone who is a stranger, or worse, someone in the support system of the band who causes the problems. Sometimes…it can be you…and when I say you, I mean me.
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Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 