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Musical ramblings from the manager
Greetings Great Lakes fans: I recently made contact with author Jerry Dennis about using a segment of his boot The Living Great Lakes in a future article. Dennis graduated from Northern Michigan University and now lives in Traverse City, MI. When he answered my inquiry (affirmatively I should add), he also mentioned that The Living Great […]
When Mother Nature serves up a particularly violent weather event, it will undoubtedly get the tag ‘100 year’ attached to it. In the summer of 2018, the Houghton / Hancock area experienced a 100 year flood that caused extensive damage all across Houghton County. The only reason the city of Hancock escaped worse damage was […]
Memories are those things that sometimes pop into one’s head in a seemingly random manner, but there is just something about music that tends to trigger very specific memories in my brain. When others refer to ‘the soundtrack of their life’, it makes me think of things that I associate with certain songs. For […]
Astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen stared out the aft window of the Space Shuttle Columbia as Crippen opened the two 60-foot-long payload doors. This was a necessary step designed to expose the aluminum honeycomb radiator panels that would help regulate the spacecraft’s temperature. Beyond the open doors they could see some dark areas on […]
Looking back, there were a lot of great teachers in my life who got me interested in a variety of things, many of which I am still interested in today. By far, one who added the greatest value to my education was my first band/music teacher, Joe Patterson. When we took our ‘band test’ in […]
One of my favorite pastimes is reading books and articles about drummers. Of particular interest to me are three basics bits of information: 1) How old were they when they became obsessed with drumming, 2) When and how did they acquire their first proper drum kit, and 3) What path did they follow before […]
WOAS-FM 88.5 will begin the new year with a Schwans Cares fundraising campaign to help replace some of our studio equipment. The WOAS EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT campaign will begin on January 1, 2019 and anyone who orders products from Schwans can donate to WOAS simply by including the campaign’s number 44259 . Schwans will donate […]
We left off Part 1 around 1997 with the newly remodeled WOAS-FM studio approaching the cusp of the new millennium with a new studio layout and all new electronic hardware. There were still things to be done but operating a radio station isn’t much different that owning a car or home: there is […]
If you are of a certain age, you probably remember when they used to predict what life would be like in the year 2000. The list of ‘gee whiz’ things would invariably include flying cars, personal jetpacks, or both. Nobody was predicting wristwatch communication devices (that was a little too Dick Tracey for most […]
The band that could be the next Beatles. This was never a good way for the press to introduce a band to the world. It has happened many times over, but it has never quite worked out that way. The pop band The Cyrcle were introduced on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand as “the band that […]