It has been a while since we did a quiz to shake up the old grey matter, and thanks to our friends at AARP magazine, we have another fun one to share.  We tacked on a few questions w…

       Over the first two weeks of September 2025, I took my third consecutive concert trip to the WOAS-FM West Coast Bureau in Eugene, Oregon.  This trip was a little different because I d…

     We begin this month’s observations with a term that was unfamiliar to me.  Maybe it has just slipped my mind as it only takes place every 18.6 years, but the event is known as ‘lunistic…

       When the St. Lawrence Seaway was constructed in the 1950s, it opened a whole new era of commerce stretching from the Atlantic coast all the way to Duluth, Minnesota.  It also rolled …

From the Vaults:  First Heard         In August of 2025, I was reading an interesting article by ‘Metal’ Tim Henderson.  He was interviewing Dave Meniketti from the band Y&T when …

     Our business cards actually said ‘Sledgehammer – we don’t do polkas’.  Sledgehammer was my third working band and when Barry Seymour and I started jamming together in the fall o…