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Musical ramblings from the manager
From the Vaults: Knockdown Gigs When my high school band, The Twig, broke up the summer after graduation, I made the conscious decision to not get into another band until after my freshman year at Northern Michigan University. After working at the Huron Mountain Club in the summer of 1971, I knew working there […]
The Bangles had a lot going for them when they broke into the big time in the 1980s. One burden they did not have to carry was that of being the first all female rock band (see Vixen, The Runaways, The Go-Gos, etc). Earlier all-female rock bands were viewed as a novelty and most […]
Just a couple of housekeeping updates before we get to the task at hand – namely installing our new tower bays so we can get back to broadcasting off our tower. We will still be posting on the website while off the air until the All-School Reunion at the end of July, but feel […]
For the record, I hate ‘no shows’. You know, when a band decides to cancel a show for some reason. I have no problem if it happens because someone falls ill or is having a family emergency. Canceling a show due to a hangnail or slow ticket sales is another thing altogether. While a […]
FYI to our listeners – we have our new tower elements tested and they will be in transit soon. We expect to have them installed ASAP in June so we can test them out. If all goes well (and I have confidence in Jim and Al that it will), we will return to the air […]
Back in 2021, I shared the story of the Chief Designer of the Soviet Union’s Manned Rocket program, Sergei Korolev, also known as ‘The King’. (FTV: The King, Part 1 (7-14-21) & Part 2 (7-21-21)). Korolev’s name was so top secret that there were very few people even in Russia who even knew about his […]
REO Speedwagon came charging out of Southern Illinois and made a national name for themselves in the 1970s and 1980s. With the band’s name pretty much retired as of December of 2024, it seems a fitting time to chart the ups and downs of the band. The REO story, from its inception in 1967 […]
Okay, if April showers bring May flowers, what do April snow showers bring? Enough – let spring begin in earnest!! A quick note of ‘thanks’ to those intrepid photographers who have been posting aurora photos on the ‘You Know You Are From Ontonagon’ Facebook page. Though I am not a Facebook subscriber, I do […]
Quick, when you think of the Rolling Stones, whose name(s) come to mind? Mick Jagger and Keith Richard(s), aka Mick and Keef or the Glimmer Twins, of course. The second ‘(s)’ is present for Keith because early on, Keef was just plain ‘Keith Richard’. Along the way, the adoring press and/or fans added […]
In the final run up to the first manned Moon landing in 1969, NASA was still working on the final configuration of the Apollo spacecraft. The orbiting Command Module (CM) was in fine shape but there were things that needed to be tweaked on the Lunar Module (LM) that would land on the surface. […]