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Musical ramblings from the manager
Alrighty then. What do Britney Spears, Max Martin, Backstreet Boys, Denniz PoP, Kelly Clarkson, and N’Sync have in common? If you ignored my imaginative spelling in the title (done as an homage to Mr. PoP), then you probably already guessed ‘hits’ as in ‘hit records’. I could have tried to get you off track by […]
Having recently flip-flopped our clocks with the end of Daylight Saving Time, we will not have to hear the endless debates about ‘should we keep DST’ or ‘should we drop DST’ until the next ‘spring ahead’ on March 10, 2024. Having previously shared my biased opinion that I would just as soon stay on […]
Friday October 13, 2023 turned out to be our lucky day. Like the visit paid to us by John Carlisle and Ryan Garza from the Detroit Free Press back in April of 2023, we weren’t really at liberty to say much about NBC Nightly News visiting WOAS until our story aired. The Freep guys […]
We finally have a new server for the woas-fm.org website – our techie Preston is on paternity leave and my wife suffered a serious health issue on October 28 (she is recovering and thank you for your kind words and prayers) but for some strange reason, getting our Twitch feed back on line has seemed […]
Holly Knight’s rise from a wanna-be rock musician to a respected songwriter was addressed in this space in FTV: Holly the Songsmith (11-8-23). Telling her story only took us up to the first major hit she and her publisher, Mike Chapman, wrote for Pat Benatar in 1983, Love is a Battlefield. Digging further into […]
Holly Erlander was a struggling musician trying to catch a break with her band Siren. The New York City music scene, much like its counterpart in Los Angeles, had a lot of bands trying to get noticed so her story isn’t exactly unique for the late 1970s. Holly had a knack for getting to […]
AstroCal – November 2023 November will be a great month for those of you who like to see that bright gem of a planet Venus in the early morning hours. On the morning of November 9, it will be particularly interesting as our ‘twin planet’ will have a very close encounter with the Last […]
There are bands that simply play music. While some engage with their audiences, others are what are referred to as ‘shoegazers’. ‘SGs’ are bands that don’t make eye contact or go out of their way to make small talk with their fans – they just play. Rick Wakeman is a peg that does not […]
On June 3, 1964, The Beatles had a full schedule ahead of them. They were to spend the morning posing for a photographer from The Saturday Evening Post before they did an afternoon and evening recording session at EMI Studios. The next day, they would fly off to begin their first ever world tour […]
When I was a wee lad of maybe four, we visited my cousin Wally and his wife somewhere in Wisconsin or Minnesota. Being on the young side and a few years ahead of developing my fixation on maps and geography, the details are a bit fuzzy. The one thing that comes to mind with […]