Segarini would not allow strings to be overdubbed onto them).īy his early 20s he had enthusiastically embraced the drug culture of the era. He joined or formed regional bands including the Ratz (with Gary Duncan, later with Quicksilver Messenger Service) and the Us (who recorded two songs that were engineered by Sly Stone but not released because Mr. Segarini said his parents gave him much love, a crib and a bedside Emerson table radio, “which was the only thing that could shut me up and lull me to sleep.” His mother sent two birthday cards to her son (one for his birthdate, and another for his adoption date) every year until her death in 1997.Īs a child, he tap-danced at county fairs and, later, impressed friends and family with after-dinner performances of Lady of Spain on an accordion almost as big as he was.

They had turned to adoption after eight unsuccessful pregnancies. 28, 1945, Robert Joseph Segarini was adopted six months later by grocer Giovanni Segarini and Mercedes Segarini (née Walters), of Stockton, Calif. Segarini “lived the musician’s lifestyle,” which was true enough.īorn in San Francisco on Aug. Znaimer could not recall the final caper, but did say that Mr. confrontation that shouldn’t have happened, ended up with me being angry and escalating a misunderstanding into a standoff that resulted in me not coming back to work the next day.”

Segarini was relieved of his duties after multiple warnings and incidents involving yogurt, a cat and a rude gesture. “He seemed willing to do it for very little money, but, ultimately, he went too far.”

“He and his little gang of helpers seized control of the station and ran it with hijinks through the night,” said CITY-TV co-founder Moses Znaimer. He found the job boring, and was transferred to Toronto’s CITY-TV, where he was handed the reins to the all-night Late, Great Movies in the mid-1980s. Segarini landed his first of multiple gigs at the rival station Q107, which he left for a producer’s job at the new music-video station MuchMusic. “I’m not one of those people who puts a lot of thought into spontaneity.”Īfter CHUM, Mr. “It just happened, and I let it,” he said recently on the podcast Toronto Mike’d. Segarini, the Motörhead incident was the act of a free spirt operating in the moment.

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