This week, in Ontario, the government decided to put the brakes on their re-integration plan to have us return to normal because the pandemic has decided to return for a victory lap. They shut down public spaces and gathering places like bars and restaurants because despite being told not to act like selfish jackasses scoring hookers and turning their livers in alcohol-filled swimming pools on the last night before their wedding day, idiots be idioting. Couple that with people marching in parades demanding that they have the right to be jackasses and endangering the health of everyone else and it seems our dear leaders had no choice.
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NOTHING WAS EVER NORMAL by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in COVID 19, music, Opinion, politics, Review with tags and The Lion King: The Musical, banks, Bob Segarini, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Ford Econoline, Hockey Night In Canada, Idiots, IKEA, Jaimie Vernon, Les Paul, marching, music, Musicians, normal, pandemic, PSWs, real job, Schitt’s Creek, songs, songwriters, The Rolling Stones, Toronto, unemployment, Zeppelin on October 19, 2020 by segariniCameron Carpenter – 10 CC – Vinyl Season One
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags alice cooper, Andrew Dice Clay, Big Star, Billy Preston, Blues Image, Bobby Cannavale, Bowie, Cameron Carpenter, Conway Twitty, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Focus, Grandmaster Flash, Hurricane Smith, Kool Herc, Mott the Hoople, music, music videos, Nigel Grainge, Patti Smith, Peter Grant, Ray Romano, Records, Robert Goulet, Robert Plant, Rock Lobster, segarini, Television, The Bovine, The Edgar Winter Group, The Good Rats, The Nasty Bits, The Troggs, Tiki Bar, Toronto, vinyl, Zeppelin on June 23, 2016 by segarini
Well I had to wait for the DVD to be released but I have finally seen Season One of Vinyl. I first heard about the HBO series a couple of years ago as Nigel Grainge and I grabbed lunch at the Imperial Pub after his keynote address at Indie Week. We were catching up on each other’s careers as we had not seen each other or worked together for years. At MCA I was the Marketing Manager for Nigel’s label Ensign and looked after everyone from The Waterboys and World Party to Sinead O’Connor, The Blue Aeroplanes and Stump. I immediately liked Nigel on first meeting and he taught me a lot about marketing and the music industry (as well as Arsenal). Before he started Ensign Records he worked at Phonogram in London and signed Thin Lizzy, 10 CC and The Boomtown Rats. He is a true music man.
Nadia Elkharadly: Driving Songs
Posted in Opinion with tags Band of Skulls, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, driving, golden earring, Head of the Herd, Japandroids, music, Nadia Elkharadly, radar, Records, songs, soundgarden, Them Crooked Vultures, Toronto, Vampire Weekend, Zeppelin on July 18, 2013 by segarini
What did drivers do before car radio was invented? There’s nothing more torturous to me than absolute silence while driving. I spend a lot of time in the car. My daily commute ranges from about thirty minutes each way (on a very very good day) to one to two hours each way (on very very VERY bad days). Accidents, the slightest hint of inclement weather, and events like sports games, Molson Amphitheatre concerts and disasters like the Hondy/Molson/whatever it’s called now Indy are catastrophic to my sanity in proportion to how much time they add to my already painful commute. Sometimes, the only thing that keeps me from screaming in frustration is singing.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 