Musical ramblings from the manager
By the end of the 1970s, Triumph (aka – The Rock and Roll Machine) were one of the biggest exports from the Great White North. There were better known bands at the time (see: The Guess Who and Rush) but for the record, Triumph were similar to, yet vastly different, than their Canadian compatriots. […]
Let us first clarify who Craig Frost isn’t. He is not related to Jack Frost. He also wasn’t a member of the Michigan band The Frost or the Swiss metal band from Zurich called Celtic Frost. At one juncture of his career, Craig Frost was a journeyman keyboard player on the Flint, Michigan bar […]
It was 1915 when tire manufacturer Harvey Firestone first coined the name ‘The Vagabonds’ for their little troupe of travelers. It was during that golden age when people were just beginning to see cross country travel by automobile as a new form of recreation. The nation’s roads were still a long way from the […]
The employee recreation building at the Huron Mountain Club wasn’t extravagant by any imagination. A couch, a chair or two, a TV with no reception, a small stereo system of unknown age, a fireplace no one ever built a fire in, and a ping pong table. The turntable on the stereo was not going to […]
Okay, I now have further proof that 1967 was a long time ago. When Doug Ingle passed away on May 25, 2024, I told one of the kids at school I was going to do an Iron Butterfly tribute. It should not have surprised me when they asked, “Who?” I went through all the […]
There has been a suggestion that I spend too much of my time ‘living in the past’. If one considers last week’s article about the Marquette band Walrus, then the verdict would have to be ‘guilty as charged’. My wife lets me know when I stray too deep into my musical history growing up […]
Just to recap a little of what has been going on in the realm of Meteorology in the Upper Peninsula, suffice to say we had a winter with the lowest snowfall totals since the early 1930s. About the time everyone began worrying about the effects of the low amount of snow melt on the […]
In several past From the Vaults I have talked about what a cool music town Marquette was to grow up in. Featured prominently in those memories was the band Walrus. I will come back to the mechanics of how guitarist Mike McKelvy and I reconnected in the next FTV. Mike sent me an extensive version […]
Okay future trivia players. The last live DJ heard on WOAS FM 88.5 was…the photo is a hint. Friday night DJ Lee ‘The Night flyer’ McCaffrey signed the station off at 10 p.m. on Friday June 14, 2024. The paper work for a new frequency is being filed at this time so we […]
With the results of the Upper Peninsula Track Finals in the books, let us say ‘congratulations’ to all of those who toil in the world of Track and Field. No other sport I can think of demands as much personal discipline as being a track athlete. Reading the results a couple of weeks ago […]