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bs2006
Bob's Soundtrack 2006
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Almost a year ago during the Hard & Easy tour, shortly after the Winnipeg stop, I came down with the worst stomach flu I have ever endured. A tour bus is a poor place for such an affliction, and by the time we got to Saskatoon I was so weak there Read More
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It is not very fashionable to like Oasis, but an awful lot of people do. They have always been popular in Canada, and while they have flirted with the top a few times in the US, I think they just might be too British for American stardom. At the risk Read More
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It is hard to take songs about the music business very seriously. At the end of the day, it is difficult to feel sorry for rock stars. Too many people want to feel the heat of the spotlight for themselves, and would sacrifice an organ or two for a shot Read More
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For some reason, I have always rather enjoyed weddings. Newfoundland weddings, anyway.Newfoundland weddings, even the ‘small’ones, tend to feature huge crowds of mismatched people, a surplus of food, booze and tunes, and some really funny Read More
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Brimful of Asha is a classic one hit wonder.Actually, if it had not been for a remix by Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, chances are very few people would have heard of it al all.Cornershop come from Wolverhampton, England. The band is a partnership between Read More
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The first CD I ever bought was by the Irish band Altan, in 1993, just before Great Big Sea started. In those days, I was spending a lot of time at home in Barrie, where I lived at the time, playing around with music, and musical ideas, trying to Read More
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About this time last year, I spent a couple of weeks producing a record for a young New Brunswick fiddler named Janelle Dupuis. When I agreed to do the project, I was anticipating plenty of time to plan the project, and even more time to fine tune it Read More
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Due to some fairly lean university years, and general indifference, it wasn't until well into GBS's career that I ever owned a new car. Once or twice a year I would buy some shit heap, get it fixed to a level approaching ‘not really dangerous', Read More
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An awful lot of my friends got started in music thanks to the record collection of an older brother. I don't have any older brothers, and most of my cousins, (at least the ones who lived nearby), are younger. My parents' record collection, as Read More
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The La's came out of the fertile Liverpool art-rock scene of the mid-1980s, which produced bands like Echo & the Bunnymen and the Teardrop Explodes. Revolving around writer/singer Lee Mavers and bassist John Power, the La's are notably simpler and more stripped down then any of their contemporaries. Read More
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Songs stay with you for funny reasons. This one has no real personal meaning, but I will never forget the circumstances under which I first heard it.Some years a go a couple of friends and I spent a summer wandering around Ireland, searching out musicians Read More
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Steve Earle has had an odd career. Ostensibly a country artist, he has always been way too political for country radio in the US. Surprisingly, he has enjoyed a robust popularity in Canada. Albums like Guitar Town went multi-platinum in Canada, and he Read More
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Summer jobs were hard to come by when I was a teenager. The economy was in the toilet, and any jobs that were out there went to people who were older, more qualified, or more desperate. We spent the summers wandering around the streets, getting into trouble, Read More
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The St. John’s punk scene wasn’t very large in the mid 1980s, when I put in my time. A few hundred kids, who went to all the shows, and band membership was pretty interchangeable. Ken Tizzard, who played in the Watchmen & Thornley, was Read More
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I rarely listen to albums anyway. I always preferred the radio. I like songs, songs that have a beginning, middle, and end. Read More
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