Gooder'n Bad Vinyl

Gotta Have Pop
Hide Away
Afraid Of The Ocean
I Don't Want To Lose You
Don't Believe A Word I Say
Livin' In The Movies
Steady Eddie
Dressed In The Dark
When The Lights Are Out
Love Story


Considered the 'Nick Lowe' of Canada, singer/songwriter Bob Segarini was the king of pub rock. Originally from the west coast, Segarini first fronted The Ratz featuring Gary Duncan of Quicksilver Messenger Service.

He then moved on to the popular Family Tree with Michael Dure (aka Mike Olson, aka Lee Michaels). They put out one record, 1968's 'Miss Butters', before Segarini moved to California and onto Roxy who also released one eponymous album on Elektra in 1970 before they also packed it in.

The Wackers became Segarini's meal ticket as he came back to Canada and Montreal specifically to hook up with Roxy's Randy Bishop (bass, guitar, keyboards), Family Tree's Bill Trochim (bass, guitar, vocals) and Spencer Earnshaw (drums) in 1971 for the albums 'Wackering Heights', 'Hot Wacks (1972) and 'Shredder' (1973) at which time they begin having drummer problems and recruited Jerry Mercer of April Wine/Mashmakhan to fill in. A 1974 album, with just Bishop, Trochim and Segarini called 'Wack 'N' Roll' was never released and the group fell apart.

Segarini and Trochim next put together The Dudes with the founding members of April Wine (Ritchie and David Henman) and future April Wine guitarist Brian Greenway. They recorded one album called 'We're No Angels' spawning the single "I Just Wanna Dance" (Pacemaker Records would release a retrospective rarities collection in the '90's).

With the April Wine alumni otherwise occupied, Segarini managed to sign a solo deal with A&M, issuing a 4 song EP called 'Starlight' which went nowhere.

However, he was immediately picked up by fledgling cutting edge Toronto label Bomb Records and recorded his first and most successful album 'Gotta Have Pop' (1978) at Puck's Farm with keyboardist turned producer Michael Fonfara (Lou Reed. Segarini called out a dozen favours and had Toronto's popular musicians drop in for the record: David-Clayton Thomas ( Blood, Sweat & Tears), Greg Godovitz and Doug Inglis (Goddo), David Henman (April Wine), and future Hammerheard Records president Paul Irvine on saxophone.

Two more albums followed with 'Goodbye L.A.' (1980) and 'On The Radio' (1980 but poor distribution and the eventual dissolution of Bomb Records sabotaged any chances the albums may have had. Segarini then jumped over to Rush's Anthem Records for one more album 'Vox Populi' in 1981 but Segarini's brand of pub rock had fallen out of favour in light of the synth oriented New Wave of music sweeping North America forcing Segarini to bailed out of the artistic side of the music biz.

Instead, he became a disc jockey known as The Iceman on Toronto's Q107 FM for several years as well as producing some television and doing jingle voice-over work..

Segarini's 'Gotta Have Pop' first saw light of day on CD through Pacemaker Records in 1996 and contained 4 bonus tracks from the 1973-1977 era plus one newly recorded track, 'Groucho Marx', that had been intended for the original album but was never released.
(NOTE - This is a vinyl rip so none of these bonus songs are included here)

Segarini would later form the Rhythm 'N' Cues All Stars with Terry Draper (Klaatu) and David Henman (April Wine) in Oak Ridges, Ontario. This line-up would eventually mutate into a recording unit called Cats & Dogs and a self-titled CD was released independently in 1997.

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