Your Sound Choice
Bios and stories about the artists we feature
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 of 1974, he had some very definite ideas of where he wanted us to go. At first, it was just the two of us doing an […]
“Don’t Make Promises You Can’t Keep,” was written by Tim Harden and it became one of Gary Puckett and the Union Gap’s many hits. Technically, it was the B-side of Woman Woman, but it was still a great song and ended up on their Greatest Hits LP. The title is also a line I […]
When we left Part I, Mike Campbell was living his rock ‘n’ roll dream playing in the band Mudcrutch. Mike’s first band in Gainesville (Dead or Alive) had broken up when their lead singer / bass player quit and sailed to Hawaii to be a surfer dude. Mudcrutch had come to the farmhouse to […]
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers enjoyed the ride of a lifetime. There are only so many rock ‘n’ roll bands that can ascend into the rarified air of stardom as they did over their 41 year run. It all came to a screeching halt when Petty died in 2017 thus ending the long term partnership […]
To celebrate our 46th anniversary in mid-July 2025, my wife and I traveled to Crystal Falls, Michigan to see The Traveling Musical Hillbilly Hippie Commune Show (or TMHHC). Never heard of them? They have been around since 1971 so perhaps you knew them by one of their previous names: Family Tree? Burlap Socks? Emergency Band? […]
Over the years, I have found periodically updating the history of WOAS-FM is the best way to remind locals and newcomers that we are still ‘Your Sound Choice’ in Ontonagon. Since we began streaming video of our studio and our over the air broadcast signal, we have also become ‘Bad and World-Wide’ (if ZZ […]
No, that is not a typo. When I cracked open the July 2025 issue of Guitar World (Vol. 46, Issue No. 7), I initially read the headline as ‘Brian May’ and thought, “Wow, he has been getting a lot of press lately.” Upon closer inspection, I realized it actually said ‘McCartney’s Brian Ray’. It […]
The Doors were the hottest band in the summer of 1967. Like a lot of bands who record a massive breakout album, people assume they spontaneously appeared on the radio without really knowing their backstory. To me, a band’s backstory is key to how they get on the radio and become ‘the next big […]
Late in May, I got a sonic treat of epic proportions when Gary Tanin, our friend at Daystorm Music in Milwaukee, sent us an early copy of Peggy James’ new album. First the disclaimer – I have had the opportunity to preview several of Peggy’s albums. With each and every one of them, I […]
On February 28, 1980, AC/DC played the last date of the tour that introduced both their album Back in Black and their new singer, Brian Johnson, to the world. It had been one year and a day since they played their last show with singer Bon Scott. The concert a few nights earlier, (February […]