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FTV: Bob Seger

  Michigan has been the home of numerous rock stars.  Near the top, if not on the top, of that list would have to be Bob Seger.  Detroit born, Ann Arbor raised, Seger went from the barrooms to arenas before he retired from touring in 2019 (at the conclusion of his Travelin’ Man Tour), but his […]

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FTV: Todd Rundgren

       “The Nazz Are Blue,” Lee said in reference to nothing in particular.  “Who are they and why are they blue?” I asked.  Lee was the bass player in my second band, Knockdown, and this discussion took place when I was dropping him by the IGA grocery store at the Marquette Mall.  Lee’s wife worked […]

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FTV: Rick Derringer

       ‘Derringer’ was probably the perfect stage name when nine year old Rick began playing Country & Western tunes in the bars around Fort Recovery, Ohio with his uncle Jim.  It was 1956 and he had only recently gotten a Harmony-type guitar model with one pickup and a copy of Mickey Baker’s Complete Course in […]

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