Your Sound Choice
Musical ramblings from the manager
Dewey Bunnell. Dan Peek. Gerry Beckley. A few of you may recognize these names. A greater number of people will recognize A Horse With No Name more readily even if they can’t place the names of the creators of this folk rock classic. They may not be the hit making machine they were back in […]
The continuing tale of the Doley Brothers! If you are keeping score. . . Lachy Doley had sent WOAS an email out of the blue in the spring of 2015 asking if we would be interested in previewing the new single off his new CD Conviction. Naturally, I said yes and we engaged in some […]
Anyone who spends any amount of time talking or writing about music will eventually bring ‘misheard lyrics’ into the discussion. I would not want to feel left out of this club. In fact, anyone who has had to figure out songs for a band to learn faces the task of unmasking mystical (and sometimes undecipherable) […]
I like Weird Al Yankovic. I like his parodies, his sense of humor, and his accordion playing. He seems to be the kind of guy you could sit down and talk to. With that said, I would really like to meet the guys in his band because they are able to take what Al does […]
Some time ago I mentioned one of our ‘golden nugget’ moments at WOAS-FM occurred when Australian Hammond B-3 wizard Lachy Doley dropped us a line announcing the release of his newest CD Conviction. Subsequent research lead to another happy accident when I discovered that Lachy has a keyboard playing brother named Clayton, a fact confirmed […]
Born on Long Island, NY on September 19, 1981, Scott Bradlee was the perfect age to be heavily influenced by the music produced in and around that decade. This leads one to believe that he may have been inspired by the post-disco period, the emerging hair metal scene, or even grunge. No, Bradlee fell […]
Wonderful! The new Rusty Wright Band CD Wonder Man is wonderful! When they last visited Upper Michigan for two performances at the Ontonagon Theater for the Performing Arts in March of 2014, they were promoting their last release This, That, and the Other Thing. A wonderful CD in its’ own right, TT&OT was recorded with […]
Robert Colclasure: aka Rouse. I knew Bob in passing the first couple of years I was in Ontonagon as he was subbing at OASD from time to time. I first realized what a funny, talented guy he really was when I hosted a little musical gathering in my basement for anyone who wanted to show […]
Okay music fans – complete the song lyric in the title – go ahead, I will wait. If you had ‘in perfect harmony’ pop in your head (where it is probably now stuck)(sorry), you win the grand prize. Now the bonus round: Who wrote it? This FTV isn’t actually about that commercial (yes, it was […]
Guitar World magazine has a Q & A feature in every issue that asks a famous guitar player about their first live gig. Monthly reading of this section spurred me to start thinking about my earliest gigs and it was fun remembering how enjoyable (and how much work) it was putting a band together. I […]