Bloodied but…
Bloodied But Unbowed is the brief story of the development of punk rock in Vancouver told in an even briefer 75 minutes by film maker Susanne Tabata. What follows isn’t necessarily a review of that film, but more a few impressions of its showing, Thursday, May...Kerplunk
Saturday morning, the CD on the player was Walk On by The Kerplunks. The kid’s music band from Nanaimo? Isn’t there something else more profound and having more substance? There probably is, something profoundly and substantially boring. Walk On is more...Music Books one
During the past few years, I’ve turned into an avid reader. It figures that most of the books I read are music autobiographies or bios, but music culture fascinates me, so my reading list has no political science nor spy thrillers nor murder mysteries on it, and...Just sing, damn it.
On the morning news, Jana Monashee was singing A Change Is Gonna Come, a track from her New Moon Blue album. The song was written by the late Sam Cooke. A plea for equal rights, A Change Is Gonna Come is Cooke’s most powerful song. It has utterly convincing...Whatever happened to BGM?
Entire essays could be written about different facets of Bruno Gerussi’s Medallion: How it got the name, humour, Canadiana, dealing with a major label, touring, the slight rise and inevitable fall, the album, the players…. But to answer the question of...WANT TO KNOW ABOUT VANCOUVER ROCK’S HISTORY?
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