FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH with Blake Melnick

Send us Fan Mail We are all acutely aware of the stark polarization in our world; We have begun to lose faith In our political, social and economic systems. Our belief that our democracy can provide adequately for our citizens, is fraying at the edges. We have lost the art of open minded discourse and it would seem that we no longer value perspectives different from our own - Cancel culture, negat...

Send us Fan Mail This week on #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick and our #ManyFacesofInnovation series, is part 2 of #EntrainmentandPowerofSound, with my guest @TomPowers.  In part one, Tom explained the Theory of Entrainment and his “aha!” moment when he realized that something in music had changed post 1995. We had inadvertently lost the natural  interpersonal musical entrainment, which occurs bet...

Send us Fan Mail This week on #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick, the next instalment of our #TheManyFacesofInnovation series, called #EntrainmentandthePowerofSound with my guest @TomPowers. In this episode, Tom explains the concept of #Entrainment - the natural synchronization that occurs in the mechanical world; the biological world; the social world and between musicians and their audience. Entra...

Send us Fan Mail This week on #ForWhatItsWorthwithBlakeMelnick, part of our Many Faces of Innovation series with my guest, Stephen Cohos from #EntuitiveEngineering in Calgary, Alberta.  In part one of our interview, Stephen and I discussed Entuitive's innovation ecosystem, their goals and objectives for trying to create a culture of innovation in their workplace. In this episode, Stephen and...

Send us Fan Mail This week on #ForWhatItsWorthwithBlakeMelnick, the next instalment in our series, #TheManyFacesofInnovation, we focus on innovation at the organizational level. For those of you new to the series, here's a bit of a recap. #TheManyFacesofInnovation Series is designed to make innovation more understandable, accessible, and actionable to both individuals and organizations alike....

Send us Fan Mail Well, Happy New Year and welcome to this week's episode of #ForWhatIt'sWorthwithBlakeMelnick. This is part two of our episode, #UnderstandingthMotivationtoInnovate with my guest, #Dr. TerrySoleas from #QueensUniversity. Dr. Soleas's seminal research on the factors which motivate people to innovate is key to making innovation more understandable, accessible, and acti...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick, the #MotivationstoInnovate, my guest is #DrTerrySoleas from #QueensUniversity in Kingston Ontario. Terry and I discuss #Innovation, Invention and the difference between the two. We share stories and insights about innovation with the collective goal of making innovation more understandable, accessible and actionable to individua...

Send us Fan Mail This week on #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick, the season 4 trailer for our series, #TheManyFacesofInnovation, #EmployeeLedWorkplaceInnovationand theQualityofWork, where we speak with innovators from across multiple fields of endeavour to hear about their innovation journey and through their stories, seek to better understand how to unlock  and support Innovation dynamic within yo...

Send us Fan Mail  This week on  #ForWhatItsWorthwithBlakeMelnick an episode of #TheSpaceinBetween  called #LittleFeatAG. As our listeners know, we've been doing a fairly deep dive into the music of Little Feat. I had a great interview with Mr. Bill Payne, co-founder and pianist for the band, and during that interview we  discussed the need to encourage new listeners to Little Feat. What came...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this week's episode of #ForWhatItsWorthwithBlakeMelnick, part 2 of my interview, #StraightfromtheHeart with my guest, the great #BillPayne from #LittleFeet. In part one, Bill and I discussed the recent tour, his early musical influences, the renewed power of music in our tumultuous times, and his short lived career as a drummer In this episode, Bill and I pick up f...

Send us Fan Mail This week on #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick, part 1 of #Straightfromthe Heart, my interview with the great #BillPayne, keyboardist and co-founder of #LittleFeat. I spent a lot of time listening  to interviews given by Bill over the years ,  looking for a different angle, something that we could talk about that perhaps nobody has talked about before. One of the comments Bill made...

Send us Fan Mail We're Back! Welcome to season 4 of #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick and #TheSpaceinBetween. We have a great season in store for you and we're kicking it off where we left off at the end of season 3 - our multipart episode featuring #LittleFeat and their 45th anniversary tour of #WaitingforColumbus. In this episode we also celebrate the accomplishments of our past guests...

Send us Fan Mail We have an exciting announcement for y’all! We are going to be having #BillPayne, Co-Founder and Pianist extraordinaire of #LittleFeat as a guest on #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick and #TheSpaceinbetween! This will be a multipart experience encompassing the journey from #VictoriaBC to #SeattleWa to see #LittleFeats 45 Anniversary Tour of their masterpiece live record, #Waitingfor...

Send us Fan Mail  This week's episode of #thespaceinbetween, #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick,#WhatwerelisteningtoWhatwereWatchingandWhatwereReading. This is the second last episode of season three of the show. We're going to be taking a bit of a hiatus to recharge our batteries and prep for next season. But for this episode, I'm bringing back my old co-host #CameronBrown, and we&ap...

Send us Fan Mail This week on #TheSpaceInbetween, #AnsweringTheStones another moment in time from Tom Locke's great new book by the same name In the late fifties and early sixties, music fans were introduced to answer records, songs that were sometimes a parody or a sequel to established hits. A few that come to mind are Jeanie Black's, "He'll have to Stay" in 1960. The an...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this week's episode of # forwhatitsworthwithBlakeMelnick,  #AManofaThousandFaces part of our #PasstheJam series.  This is part two of our interviewwith our new #ArtistinResidence #DouglasCameron. In part one  Douglas,  and I discussed his motivation for music, his career, his stories, and the bands he fronts and has played with over the years. In part two, we'...

Send us Fan Mail This week on #forwhatit'sworthwithBlakeMelnick. is the next instalment in our #PasstheJam series, called #ManofaThousandFaces. #PasstheJam, highlights the work of both experienced and emerging musicians. For the past month or so. We've been featuring the music of our current artist in residence, #HeatherGemmell for all the intros and outros to the show. It's now tim...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this week's episode of #thespaceinbetween. As we mentioned in our last episode, it's now getting time to pass the jam. For the past month or so, we’ve been playing songs from our current artist in residence, #HeatherGemmell for all the intros and outros to our episodes. Now we'll be playing all of these songs in their entirety, - and I get to play DJ. I h...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this week's episode of #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick called #TruthRegeneration&IndigenousWaysofKnowing with my guest Lee Jay Bamberry of the #YOUTheatreMovement My guest on #forwhatitsworth is a member of the #Micmac Band  His recent desire to probe more deeply into his #indigenousheritage has resulted in a remarkable personal journey of #discovery, #truth,...

Send us Fan Mail This week on #TheSpaceinBetween, another #MomentinTime from #TomLocke's new book by the same name. In this episode Tom pays tribute to Bubble Gum music with a 1969 hit single. According to an early 1969 article in #Cashbox Magazine, a Welsh newspaper called #MiningNews had mentioned the hard rock music of a group of coal miners who would dig by day and play rock and roll by n...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this week's episode of  #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick. This is part two of my interview with #TomLocke, author of a fantastic new book called #MomentsinTime, an interactive musical Odyssey that traces the history of rock and roll from the forties, right through to the end of the seventies. In our last episode, Tom discussed his career, his early influences and w...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this week's episode of #ForWhatIt'sWorthwithBlakeMelnick, called #MusicMan part 1, with my guest, @TomLocke, music fan, and author of an amazing new book called #MomentsinTime #MIT.  Click HERE for the blog post for this episode. Click HERE to purchase a signed copy of Moments in Time at a special price We have been featuring excerpts from Tom's book on #...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome this week's episode of #TheSpaceinbetween, another rock 'n roll memory from #TomLocke 's new book, #MomentsinTime. The time is 1968. Today's featured artist was born in British Guyana and moved to London in 1960. He formed a Jamaican / British rock/reggae quartet and had a massive hit in 1983 with #ElectricAvenue which made it to #2 on the UK and US pop...

Send us Fan Mail This week on #forwhatitsworthwithBlakeMelnick  we return to our story called#TheOldGuitar with guest #DouglasCameron, part of our new series  #InTheCompanyofReadersandWriters. This is chapter three  #TheInterview, Part Two . If you haven't done so already, please check out The Preface , Prologue , Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of the story. In this episode we are introducing #Shout...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this week's episode of #Thespaceinbetween I'm your host #BlakeMelnick, and I'm really excited to announce that in a few weeks time, we will have #TomLocke author of a new book called #MomentsinTime - stories about artists and songs from the fifties, sixties, and seventies, on our show. In #MomentsinTime, Tom will take us on a musical journey through the h...