The Monday Morning Mailbag for September 28th, 2009
In today’s Mailbag, comments on The 100th DBAWIS, Art and Bourbon, the Eternal Rolling Stones, lots of Hash, and much more…
Just a quick shout-out to the good folks at XM, The Verge, Steam Whistle Beer, and the Mod Club, for showing Pie and I, (and several hundred other musos), such a good time last week at the Verge Awards. Good to see Maritimer Mike Campbell, tastemakers Todd Arkell and Cam Carpenter, a couple of the boys from Anvil, and share the good company of Amos the Transparent and Isle of Thieves. Kudos too, to the staff and managers of The Mod Club. Great sound and a good time all night.
I have to admit, this city has fantastic venues, great music, and fine hospitality. I cannot think of a better time for music, or a better place to hear so much of it.
Here’s this week’s Mailbag…
Randy Nichols: I finally decided to write a comment on your blog. I just wanted to say good job. I really enjoy reading your posts.
SEG SAYS: Thank you, Randy. Stick with us.
Keith Fraser: “If not for the loyalty of drummer Mark Bronson, I don’t think I would have pursued this idea any further.”
Drummers are the best! Very loyal. And all we ask is a little attention, some food, water and exercise.
SEG SAYS: It would be nice if we didn’t have to walk you during the winter, or have to give you your annual flea bath…
Jim Chisholm: Fine Montreal Hash. Aaaahhhhh!
Bob…Happy 100th! I used to want to interview you to find out about all the juicy details behind your bands and career. Now I can do it reclining on the couch with a cold beer. All I need is some FMH. LOL. Thank YOU!
Pete Kashur: Sigh…I remember hair!…If you flip yours like that at this years 
IPO, your head’ll fall off and roll across the stage…now that’ll be showbiz! Happy 100, and thanks for the kind words. my solo show will be in about a year…and…the box’o wine is for the normals…there’ll always be bourbon in my green room…tho’ it’ll be Woodford this time around…and triple cream Rondelles…and good pate…in fact, I’m headed off to the lakeshore with a bucket of cornmeal as we speak…here goosey, goosey, here goosey
Jaimie Vernon: They had 9-1-1 back in the Preozoic Period?
SEG SAYS: Yup, in fact one of the first places 9-1-1 (although it was 999 at the time), was put in service was in Manitoba. Check this out…the history is actually quite interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-1-1
Gary: Do you still have your SG, Bob? They’re worth a fortune now!
Cheers from California.
SEG SAYS: Unfortunately, no. It was stolen out of the back of a van in Westport Connecticut back in ’73. I hope it found a good home…and the guy that stole it had his hand bitten off by a rabid groupie…
Toni: Bob, Congrats on the 100th! Another cliff hanger
& Cheers from Nevada. It would be fun if everyone said their location.
SEG SAYS: Yes it would be, Toni. What say the rest of you? Wanna include your whereabouts when you write in?
Ralph Alphonso: Wow! Thanks Bob!! Appreciate the Fraze Gang shout-out! Thank you!! FYI – I’m taking the label on tour over the next 3 months, old school style: http://www.bongobeat.com/index3.php loading up the car full o’ cds, books, shirts & stuff and taking it all direct to the people….
SEG SAYS: My pleasure, Ralph. Keep up the great work.
Paul Ellis: I was born without the -watching- sports gene. I enjoyed playing, but sitting down and concentrating on others playing, memorizing players stats, Getting excited about watching it? nah. I saved the collecting stats geekiness for music. Glad to see you publicly admit this. Also mattress/pillow tags and tofu suck. You speak truth.
SEG SAYS: It’s kinda sad, not being able to enjoy sports, but I cannot bring myself to jump up and scream “We did it!!!”, and high-5 a bunch of strangers when ‘my team’ does something good, or wins, because all “I” did was watch, drink beer, and get loud in public. “They did it!!!”, would be much more apropos.
=Ae=: Gotta hand it to the Stones, stamina-wise, unless the most recent tours prove to be an exercise in cutting edge Japanese robotics. I feel like a hero every time I walk all the way to the waterfront to feed the ducks. ~And what is this ‘getting laid’ of which he speaks?~
SEG SAYS: Getting laid is a lot like walking to the waterfront to feed the ducks, except that after you ‘feed’ the ‘duck’, you get to have a beer and a smoke, and sometimes, the ‘duck’ will make you a sandwich.
Richard Flohil: I heard young Ms. Ali at a totally unsuitable bar in Brandon last weekend. Dunno how the hell she focuses in a room full of loogans, but she deserves – needs – an audience to listen. You can’t always shut up a crowd of yahoos, but you can capture a handful – and she plays to them with intensity and passion. Down the line, the drunks will never know they saw a “star” (whatever that is these days), but the listeners WILL remember.
SEG SAYS: Ms. Milner will be thrilled that you enjoy her as much as I do. She needs a night at Hugh’s Room with some of the other great artists you thankfully turn us all on to, and play to a room full of people that are there for the music. Thanks for commenting on her, Richard, it means a lot.
Bo Kuruk: Hey Bob I need a T-shirt 2xx I’ll pay you for it!
Mark Vukovich: Bob…I want and need a button…T shirt…how about a baseball cap. Pastry…pussy…same, same brother..! Congrats Robert on your 100th…by the by you could pass for a preacher…nice touch…!
SEG SAYS: I hope I don’t come off as some money grubbing douche by making some merchandise available here, and I hope you all will forgive me for doing this, but winter’s coming and I need some socks and a case of Sterno. Hopefully the DBAWIS swag will be ready to go by the end of October. Stay tuned…
Denise Keirstead: Love this weather too! So much better. Too hard to deal 
with the heat in my condition, lol. More clothes, suit jackets and yes I agree, men do look dorky in the summer with their ankle socks and shorts.
Looking forward to the new Fringe Thurs and House tonite!!
Aww…nice kitty, so cute! Congrats on 100 posts well done Bob/The Pope, (now I know where you get that from), at least I should after 100 post here and 37500 or more now on CCR
Greg Todd: That photo could make a cat lover outta the least likely suspects…. 
. Congrats on your band…. and your wisdom that all bands are a snapshot in time….
Joel Allen: Reminds me of another infamous cat in the Segarini biosphere…Yogurt anyone?
SEG SAYS: The story of the Cat, the Yogurt, and the Wardrobe, will be told here before Christmas…
Cherie Blackwell: Hey, guys, it’s the Devil’s music. They will probably be 
alive forever, in some kind of “goblins from Lord of the Rings” form.
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But don’t misunderstand me, they are still my all time most intense live performance experience and Ronnie Wood is still the funniest person I have ever known.
Carla Lockhart: Every time I see photos of Mick and Keith, I can’t help myself, I have to go look in the mirror.
I have no doubt that they will put on the most electric, exciting performance ever done by a band performing with walkers. Now I don’t expect that to happen for oh, 20 or 30 years from now . . . Cheers Mick, but shame on you (you know what you did).
SEG SAYS: Cherie…Carla…when are YOU going to start sharing some of your stories here?
Thanks to all of you who wrote and shared your stories with us. That’s why we’re here. See you all on Wednesday…
That’s enough for now. Email me at segarini@fyimusic.ca with your comments, complaints, and thoughts, and remember…don’t believe a word I say.
Bob “The Iceman” Segarini was in the bands The Family Tree, Roxy, The Wackers, The Dudes, The Segarini Band, and Cats And Dogs, and nominated for a Juno for production in 1978. He also hosted “Late Great Movies” on CITY TV, was a producer of Much Music, and an on-air personality on CHUM FM, Q107, SIRIUS Sat/Rad’s Iceberg 95, (now 85), and now provides content for radiothatdoesntsuck.com with RadioZombie, The Iceage, and PsychShack. Along with the love of his life, Jade (Pie) Dunlop, (who hosts and writes “I’ve Heard That Song Before” on RTDS), continues to write, make music, and record.
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Bob..No problems on the doe re mei..just let me know and funds will be forthcoming..! Vuke
Ok, I want one of those tee shirts! White with pink lettering??? What are you going to put on the back??? Best tee I ever had said on the back “Makes getting clean, as much fun as getting dirty” … People were always walking fast to get in front of me, to see what was on the front of the tee. Front said “Mr. Bubble bubble bath”.
Bob..just wanted to add..if your really good the “duck” will give you a pickle with your sandwich. Vuke is in Lodi, California and Las Vegas too…!
…the sg/less paul prototype you used in the segarini band (the video clip) was stolen out of pat arnot’s truck in 1980, along with mikey’s ‘what used to be a’ strat….the strat was ‘modified’ with a jigsaw and worth absolutely nothing…..except in mikey’s hands!