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| From | Hersh Forman <hiforman@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Songs of Toronto |
| Date | Mon, 31 Mar 2003 04:49:49 -0800 (PST) |
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In continuing the proof that "you mileage may vary",
of all the songs on Mr. Segarini's classic "Gotta Have
Pop" he picks my least favourite from the album. To
me, the title track is the clear choice, although my
favourite remains Bob's cover of the Slade tune "When
The Lights Are Out".
Whenever I hear "Gotta Have Pop" it always reminds me
of the "Live At The Palais Royale" show simulcast by
City-TV and CHUM-FM which I taped off the radio. Does
a video of this show exist somewhere?
--- Jaimie Vernon <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> wrote:
> In today's Toronto Star there was a feature article
> on the front page of the
> Metropolis section written by author Dave Bidini
> ("On A Cold Road") and
> renowned guitarist for The Rheostatics. The premise
> of the piece is the '50
> Songs of Toronto' by way of Dave's personal
> experience. No criteria. Just
> personal picks of classic songs that remind him of
> Hogtown.
>
> The #1 song, ironically, was London, Ontario's The
> Demics and their
> somewhere-over-the-rainbow-inspired "New York City".
>
> Bullseye Records has three of its artists in this
> Top 50:
> Goddo, Bob Segarini and The Kings.
>
> Indirectly we have another three:
> Dave Rave (as a member of Teenage Head), Walter Zwol
> (who was the leader of
> Brutus) and The Diodes (whose third album we plan to
> release this year).
>
> Here are the quotes:
>
> #40. "(SO) WALK ON" - GODDO
> Goddo had a management team that handled Long John
> Baldry, Angela Bowie, and
> Cathy MacDonald. One night we were playing at Uncle
> Sam's in Niagara Falls,
> and they tried to get Clive Davis, head of Arista
> Records, to come to see
> us. The place was jam-packed; Goddo was in its
> heyday. All night we kept
> looking out into the crowd, thinking, "Where are
> they? Where are they?" What
> had happened was, they picked up Clive in New York
> and flew him to Buffalo
> on the night of the worst snowstorm of the year. The
> plane sat on the tarmac
> for three hours where Clive fought with his
> boyfriend. What the management
> should have done was take Clive and his boyfriend to
> the hotel and say.
> "Let's do this another night." But instead they
> drove them to our gig. When
> they got to the club, the boyfriend got out and came
> in and the place was
> going gaga. We were in the middle of an encore,
> people were going nuts.
> Clive David refused to get out of the car. He sat
> there and wouldn't sign us
> on the principal that the band had ruined his
> evening. [excerpted from Greg
> Godovitz's book 'Travels With My Amp'].
>
> #37 "DON'T BELIEVE A WORD I SAY" - SEGARINI
> On marble vinyl, from 'Gotta Have Pop'. In the '80s,
> Toronto had some great
> radio shows: The Edge of Night, The Iceman, The Six
> O'Clock Rock Report, The
> Eclectic Spirit. (Bob) Segarini, I believe, was on
> all of them!
>
> #28 "NEW YORK (I LOVE MY CITY)" - ZWOL
> One in a series of tributes to the Big Apple, back
> when musicians were too
> frightened and wary to sing about home. Of the
> second Rheostatics demo,
> (Walter) Zwol once advised: "It's good, but it's all
> wrong!!"
>
> #9 "THIS BEAT GOES ON/SWITCHIN' TO GLIDE" - THE
> KINGS
> Like Max Webster, The Kings walked the suspension
> bridge between CHUM's Hard
> Rock and CFNY's New Wave. This delicious pop
> triptych ("This Beat Goes On"
> was grafted by producer Bob Ezrin) arrived in the
> summer of '79 when The
> Kings played HEATWAVE, the New Wave's Woodstock,
> taking the stage after
> Costello and the Talking Heads, playing to a sea of
> backward denim. That
> day, Nick Lowe of Rockpile told the crowd: "There's
> been three babies born
> here today and they'll all be named 'Heatwave'!".
>
> #5 "TIRED OF WAKING UP TIRED" - THE DIODES
> The Beatles of Toronto New Wave, but what happened?
> Lots of bands born too
> early were required to throw themselves across the
> highway so that Matthew
> Good could make a living. Such is the nature of
> progress, I suppose, in
> industry as in rock and roll. But, in 1979 there was
> no industry. Just clubs
> and a few people. And music like a meat hook.
>
> #3 "LET'S SHAKE" - TEENAGE HEAD
> In 1978 they sounded like THE GREATEST BAND IN THE
> WORLD. And then: the
> accident. This hippy shaker came post-Ontario Place
> riot, drawn from an
> album named for a place that wasn't: 'Frantic City'.
> Still, the band and its
> fans emerged at a time when a huddle of 300 kept the
> threat of rock and roll
> alive in the face of Bay Street Orange Toronto.
> "Let's Shake" was more
> apropos of its time than "Kissin' The Carpet" but
> both are great tunes.
>
>
> Jaimie Vernon,
> President,
> http://www.bullseyecanada.com
> #1 West Hill Dr., Toronto, ON
> M1E 3T4 Canada (416) 284-7067
>
>
>
>
>
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