Announcements and reviews about new music
We have visited Uriah Heep twice in past FTV’s. There was a feature focusing on guitarist Mick Box back in 2017 (FTV: Uriah Heep 11-15-17) and another featuring drummer Lee Kerslake in 2019 (FTV: RIP Lee Kerslake 5-8-19). In the 2017 piece, Box talked about the challenges of being the last original band member […]
Warning: I like Styx. I have always liked Styx. What happened to make them fragment, reassemble, and separate again into two distinct ‘camps’ the way they did was never quite clear to me. The memory of where and when I first heard Lady on the radio, however, pops into my head everytime I hear […]
The Christmas Cards sent out this year included the usual ‘Season’s Greetings’ but an added sentiment there are no emojis for: ‘Here is to a brighter 2021.’ Peggy James seems to have an uncanny knack for writing music to fit my feelings – think ‘musical emoji on demand’. Gary Tanin at Daystorm Music sent […]
Back in the fall of 2019, the last round of touring by Creedence Clearwater Revisited (or CCR2 as we referred to them) was chronicled in this space (FTV: CCR 10-16-19). The article included the following description of their interview with the original CCR and CCR2 rhythm section: “When CCR’s Complete Studio Albums Deluxe Box Set […]
My annual ritual of summarizing the backstage events of the Porcupine Mountain Music Festival dates back more than a dozen years. I was organizing some of the articles that I keep filed chronologically, so naturally I started re-reading some of these ghosts of PMMFs past. With the COVID-19 pandemic scuttling our favorite local festival this […]
Quick: Which of these names does not sound like it belongs on this list of iconic rock musicians? Keith Moon, Leslie West, Jimi Hendrix, Felix Pappalardi, John Lennon, Jack Bruce, or Laurence Gordon Laing? If you guessed the last one, you get a gold star, but note that I did NOT say ‘does not belong’ […]
How are you doing? I have been contemplating the world and looking for something to post on the WOAS-FM.ORG website to provide hope for the future. I was thinking, “What we need is an anthem for 2020 – something that tells the story of these last strange months but leaves the door open a […]
Here is a brief, two question music quiz to get your mental gears turning: Question 1 – True or False: Stevie Nicks was invited to join Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Question 2 – Multiple Choice: So far in her career, multi-instrumentalist Celisse has worked with or on – A) Melissa Etheridge, B) Lizzo, […]
A few years ago, we had the pleasure of bringing the Ontonagon Area Schools student body down to see the Rusty Wright Band at the Ontonagon Theater for the Performing Arts. I do not know about the kids and the band, but I had a blast (truthfully, a great time was had by all). We […]
During the summer of 1967, I was making the transition from Jr. High to my freshman year in High School. Little did I know that events taking place across the pond in London during the first six months of that year would have such a profound effect on me. The wheels really started turning […]