Rock's Backpages - Gary Pig Gold

Ever since first encountering the RanDells’ immortal 'Martian Hop' as a child in his Aunt Jenny’s cottage, Gary has lead a life absolutely filled with writing, writing about, making, manufacturing, distributing, performing, championing-in-general and - oh yeah! - listening to music of all sorts, shapes, stripes and formats. These merry melodic adventures have carried him far from his home and native Toronto to, amongst many other people, places and things, the nascent London pub/punk rock scene, an historic record deal with the once Soviet state’s Melodiya label, a decade as founder-publisher of Canada’s first-ever music fanzine, a Maximum Rhythm and Bluegrass song in the second Brady Bunch movie (almost) and a happy home today running a virtual record company from high atop the Heights of Jersey City, USA.

Gary could’ve made it to Australia as Jan and Dean’s bass player once as well, but forgot his passport somewhere along the way. Nevertheless, with his infamous socio-musical "Pigshit" column passing its first quarter-century mark of faithful service, and many a note-worthy mission still to be done and sung, Gary continues to be, in the All Music Guide’s well-chosen words, "rock music's all-time hardest-working man ...with all apologies to James Brown."

GARY PIG GOLD
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

"Music Hound Rock: The Essential Album Guide"
(both Original and Revised editions)
edited by Gary Graff and Daniel Durchholz
(Visible Ink / Omnibus, 1996, 1999)

"Music Hound Country: The Essential Album Guide"
edited by Brian Mansfield and Gary Graff
(Visible Ink / Omnibus, 1997)

"Music Hound R & B: The Essential Album Guide"
edited by Gary Graff, Josh Freedom du Lac and Jim McFarlin
(Visible Ink / Omnibus, 1998)

"Music Hound Folk: The Essential Album Guide"
edited by Neal Walters and Brian Mansfield
(Visible Ink / Omnibus, 1998)

"Music Hound Lounge:
The Essential Album Guide to Martini Music and Easy Listening"
edited by Steve Knopper
(Visible Ink / Omnibus, 1998)

"On A Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock"
by Dave Bidini
(McClelland & Stewart, 1998)

"Music Hound Swing: The Essential Album Guide"
edited by Steve Knopper
(Visible Ink / Omnibus, 1999)

"Music Hound World: The Essential Album Guide"
edited by Adam McGovern
(Visible Ink / Omnibus, 2000)

"Encounters with Bob Dylan: If You See Him, Say Hello"
by Tracy Johnson
(Humble Press, 2000)

"Paul McCartney: I Saw Him Standing There"
by Jorie B. Gracen
(Billboard Books, 2000)

"Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth:
The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop,
from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears"
edited by Kim Cooper and David Smay
(Feral House, 2001)

"The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds:
The Greatest Album of the Twentieth Century"
by Kingsley Abbott
(Helter Skelter, 2001)

MAGAZINES, FANZINES and PERIODICALS
Where GARY PIG GOLD Work Has Appeared:

Flipside, FFanzeen, The Next Big Thing, Teenage News, Outer Shell, Mole, Inside Joke, Little Rhino Gazette, Buzz, Bad Meat Quarterly, What Wave, Pull My Wire, Choice Words, Great White Noise, Roctober, Sound Views, Cups, Zoom, Rocks Off, Music Corner, Original Cool, Twist and Shake, Rock Beat International, Poplust, New York Waste, Pallid Pilgrim, Pop Sunday, Angst and Daisies, Popin’ Up, Fishwrap, Last Hurrah, Sugar Shock, Pop Culture Club, Sonic Garden, Otono Cheyenne,

plus THE PIG PAPER,
which Gary has written, edited and published since 1975.

GARY PIG GOLD
DISCOGRAPHY:

Has worked as a musician, vocalist, writer, producer, annotator and/or arranger on a myriad of releases worldwide since 1978 with Simply Saucer, Endless Summer, Shane Faubert, Pat Boone, The Loved Ones, The Know Goods, The Dave Rave Conspiracy, The Wretches, Lauren Agnelli, Coyote Shivers, The Rooks, Alex Chilton, Don Covay, The Ghost Rockets, The Grip Weeds, Adam Marsland, The Masticators, Jack Pedler, Martin and the E-Chords.

plus many releases on TO M’LOU MUSIC, the label Gary has helped operate since 1998.

Click here for Gary Pig Gold's own site

Click here for the All Music Guide

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