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What more can be said about the year 1971 that I have not already covered? As a 1971 Marquette Senior High School graduate, I remain fond of that particular year. It would take a full page of entries to catalogue the number of FTV’s that have mentioned happenings from one of my favorite years. Enter […]
At the end of Part 1, we found Steve Martin winding down a three year job at Knott’s Berry Farm where he performed in melodramas with a small troupe at the Bird Cage Theatre. He also worked on his magic/comedy act during the olio intermission segments. In his book, Steve Martin – Born Standing […]
From the Vaults: That Wild and Crazy Guy Elvis hit the nail on the head back in 1971. He told Steve Martin, “Son, you have an ob-leek sense of humor.” Oblique can be added to the long list of words used to describe Martin but the one at the top would undoubtedly have to […]
Way back when we first started posting FTV on the station web page and in the Ontonagon Herald, we ran a piece on the Australian keyboard wizard. We continue to spin the stuff we were able to get on download and even via snail mail! As with the rest of the world, Lachey has been […]
At Christmas of 1970, you could have held my accumulated knowledge of George Harrison in a thimble. My brother Ron came home from his first year teaching job in downstate Chesaning bearing a boxed set of cassettes and a music book for Harrison’s massive All Things Must Pass triple album. It would have been a […]
August 2021 look for the light when you come back again ~ look for the light at the end of the day look for the light when you come home again ~ we’ll keep a light burning to show you the way ‘Look for the […]
Black Sabbath have called it a day, but they won’t disappear anytime soon. Classic Rock radio and magazines will continue to play their music and talk about their legacy. The last time I visited Amoeba Music in Los Angeles in 2013 (just prior to the WOAS West Coast Bureau relocating to Oregon), I picked […]
“‘That’s some tale, old timer.’ Yeah, and it gets better everytime I tell it.” Where this conversation came from doesn’t pop to mind immediately, but I know that it has served me well for several decades. Not the part about ‘getting better every time I tell it’, mind you. I use it to remind myself […]
When their first record came out on January 29, 1968, the eponymously titled Steppenwolf album turned heads mostly because Born to be Wild became such a massive hit. The album as a whole was one of the greatest ‘first albums’ released in a period when bands were kicking out music that would become the […]
To my knowledge, Cheap Trick has performed in the Upper Peninsula several times during their storied career. I have managed to miss them each time. The concerts I can find records for (and there maybe more I am not aware of) were in Marquette and at the casino in Harris. The first show was at […]