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What ever happened to nicknames? When I was a kid, I heard enough cool nicknames on TV and in the movies, it just seemed like everyone should have one. In my neighborhood, the only nickname I remember anyone having one was the kid everyone called ‘Porky’. He wasn’t an overly large individual, but one day […]
How could anyone sing on more than 20,000 songs and yet not be recognized? Such was the hand that fate dealt to a trio of young singers from Detroit called The Andantes. Unless you have jumped into a time machine and escaped to the distant past before radio was invented, I am willing to bet […]
Another new year begins. Does anybody really want another reminder that time marches on? The Friday before last Thanksgiving, my phone rang early in the morning with the kind of news that reminds us all that we aren’t getting any younger. My old guitar playing buddy from Sledgehammer, Barry Seymour, called from L.A. to […]
For some reason, years ending in ‘0’ or ‘00’ carry some aura that make them more memorable than those bearing other year ending the digits like 1 – 9. With that said, looking back at 1974 through a 45 year historical perspective allows us to note how different things were before and after that […]
Having spent close to three years playing gigs at K.I.Sawyer Air Force Base, it only felt like I had done a tour of duty in the military. Perhaps that is why Pastor Jay’s sermons illustrated with anecdotes about his time wearing Air Force blues always conjure up memories of my college days. Back in […]
The year 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the release of The Fabulous Thunderbirds’ first album. The self-title record has become a cult classic and as cofounder Kim Wilson recalls, “Things were wide open back then. There were hundreds of stages where bands could show what they had.” If one remembers the days when […]
When former Boston Red Sox star Bill Buckner passed away in May of 2019, every news report I read or heard said something along the lines of, “Bill Buckher’s career should be remembered for a lot more things than the ground ball that rolled through his legs and lost the World Series for the […]
My sister had one of those cloth covered boxes with a hinged lid (the lid was red and the bottom was off white) that served as her record player. It had a lever so you could switch between 33 ? and 45 RPM records. The tone arm and needle weighed enough that it probably […]
As sometimes happens with these From The Vaults pieces, I like to go back and revisit a topic when there is something new to add to a story. If we didn’t already need to be reminded that ‘time flies when you are having fun’, I went back to find the first volume of FTV: Lake […]
I noticed an advertisement in Classic Rock Magazine not too long ago for some concert dates in England by Dave Bickler’s band. It was kind of nice to see that Bickler is still hanging around the music scene years after he became kind of a sad trivia answer when his promising career went […]