On the surface, what the Canadian truckers hoped to accomplish during their protracted occupation of the Nation’s capital was comprehensible. In the beginning, we, the audience, and they, the truckers and their camp followers, could take as the stated purpose of the convoy and protest a common ennui and a genuine wish to end the most onerous and rigorous of the precautions levied during the last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Roxanne Tellier – The Right’s Woodstock Moment
Posted in COVID 19, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags anti vaxxers. Canada Unity. Parliament, BizarroWorld, Bob Rae, Canada, Canadian, Confederate, convoy, coup, COVID-19 pandemic, DBAWIS, democracy, Don’t Tread on Me, Emergencies Act, Festivus, Governor General, Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, Nazi, Ottawa, People’s Party of Canada, PM Trudeau, Religious Right, Right Wing, segarini, Tellier, Tin Foil Hat Brigade, truckers, Ukraine, United Nations, Woodstock on February 27, 2022 by segariniPat Blythe – Women of Rock Redux – The First Five – Part One…..and music
Posted in Opinion with tags Bib Mama Thornton, Big Brother and Holding Company, Bob Segarini, Brandon Gregory, Chrissie Hynde, Coxon’s Army, DBAWIS, Don’t Believe A Word I Say, Drop Top Alibi, Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Joan Jett, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, luvthemusic, Monterey Pop Festival, Nirvana, Pat Benatar, Pat Blythe, podcast, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The Pandemic Conversations, The Pretenders, The Runaways, Women in Rock, Woodstock on April 28, 2021 by segariniAnother piece from 2015. I loved writing these series and my research quests have only increased over time. I’ve also rearranged things a bit but kept the same general format the original column was in. Six years later there are more names to add. Originally a five-part series, I may just add one or two more “parts” to it down the road. So in all its 2015 glory, I present to you some of the women who rock.
Continue readingPat Blythe – 2020 and beyond….HERE WE COME!!!!….and lots of music…..
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Altamont, Andy Kim, Bob Segarini, CBC, Choir Choir Choir, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Drop Top Alibi, Fabergé, Hot Lips, Indie Week, Jain McMillan, Jeremy Hector, Julian Taylor Band, Kelly Fraser, Killer Virgins, Little Magic Sam, LP, luvthemusic, monowhales, Nikki's Wives, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera, Pterodactyl Problems, Rival Sons, Secret Broadcast, Sesame Street, Suzi Kory, The Crooked, The Distillers, Tribe Royal, Woodstock on January 15, 2020 by segariniA new decade! A new year! Purging, changing, modifying, exploring, new beginnings and some endings, recounting and remembering, wondering, searching, discovering, assessing…..all these and more as a new decade begins.
Pat Blythe – The Women of Blues Revisited – Part IV – Maggie & Janis
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Albert Collins, Alex Harvey, Archie Hind, Aretha Franklin, Atlantic Records, Austin, Big Brother and the Holding Compan, Bob Segarini, Chris Helms, Colin Allen, Courtaney, David Kelly, DBAWIS, Dennistoun Palais Band, Dick Cavett, Dionne Warwick, Discovering the Vulnerable Woman Behind Janis Joplin’s Legend, Dusty Springfield, Fillmore West, Frankie Vaughan, Freedom Road, Graeme Noble, Greg Simpson, Hold Me, It Ain't Easy, James Dewar, Janis Joplin, Jerry Wexler, Joe Cocker, John McGinnis, Kinning Park Ramblers, La Cave, Led Zeppelin, Leslie Harvey, Lightning Hopkins, Live At Montreaux, Locarno Ballroom, Long John Baldry, Mad Dogs & Englishmen, Maggie Bell, Mark London, Maryhill Estate, Mecca Band, Melody Maker, Mike Moran, Miles Davis, Monterey Pop Festival, New Musical Express, Nina Simone, No Mean City, NYC, Oh My! My!, Pat Blythe, Patsy Cline, Pearl, Peter Grant, Polydor, Port Arthur, Queen of the Night Midnight Flyers, Ray Charles, Ringo Starr, Ron Leahy, San Francisco, Sheila Weller, Shirley Bassey, Southern Comfort, Steve Thompson, Stone the Crows, Suicide Sal, Swan Song, Taggart, Taj Mahal, Teenage Licks, Texas, The Alex Harvey Soul Band, The British Blues Quintet, The Dear Green Place, The Easterhouse Project, The Full Tilt Boogie Band, The Kozmic Blues, The Power, The Power of Music, The Queen of Psychedelic Soul, The Who, University of Texas, Vancouver Island Musicfest, Vanity Fair, Woodstock, Yardbirds, Young Rascals, Zoot Money on August 17, 2017 by segariniI have “moved” Janis Joplin from my Women in Rock series to this one. When I started the “Women of ……” series, I felt she had a foot in both camps. However, the more I listen to Joplin the more I realize her feet were far more firmly planted in the blues as her voice alone attests. There have been comparisons over the years between Maggie Bell and Janis Joplin. They are reminiscent of each other and that starts with the hair. Scotland is steeped in the blues (just listen to the pipes and some of the Celtic music) but the seeds were planted, and the roots run to the core of the earth, in the U.S.’s “deep south”. Keep in mind, much of the southern U.S. became home to the Scots fleeing the oppressive English in the late 1700’s. Combine that with the African “slave” songs….mix with oppressive heat and stir….so, sometimes I wonder, who exactly influenced whom?