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‘The church bell chimed until it rang 29 times, for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.’ It hardly seems possible that Gordon Lightfoot’s ode to the Fitz turns 50 this year. Of the thousands of ships that have gone down in the Great Lakes, none are as universally known as the Edmund Fitzgerald. When […]
Okay music trivia fans, can you name the lead singers for the following one hit wonder bands from the early 1970s? We can hum a couple of bars of the Jeopardy waiting music while you search your memory banks: Edison Lighthouse…White Plains…Pipkins…Brotherhood of Man… First Class…okay, time is up! There is one little letter […]
R.I.P. Clem Burke (nee: Bozewski), the longtime drummer for the band Blondie. Born in Bayonne, New Jersey on November 24, 1954, Burke succumbed to cancer on April 6, 2025. Having read that he was finally getting around to finishing his biography (The Other SIde of the Dream – My Life In and Out of […]
When drummers get together, what do you think they talk about? Equipment? Technique? Cooking tips? Nah. Drummers like to talk about (wait for it….) other drummers! I am not casting false rumors here because I am as guilty of it as well. It turns out that talking about drummers with other drummers is easier […]
In the past, we have discussed songs that were banned from radio and TV broadcasts for various reasons. I have always maintained that there is no surer way to drive a record up the music charts than to give the artists a bunch of free publicity. These days, anything banned goes viral in the […]
Before 2006, I had no idea that there was a drum manufacturer called Canopus or that drummer Steve Murphy endorsed Canopus Drums. For that matter, I didn’t even know there was a drummer named Steve Murphy. All that ended when the Alan Parsons Live Project performed at Michigan Technological University’s Rozsa Center with the […]
What has more than 20 buildings, 100 plus exhibits, and two art galleries spread across nine acres of scenic Upper Peninsula parkland? The answer lies in the title of their Museum Guide book: “We tell it like it was at the Iron County Museum.” In July of 2025, my wife and I traveled to […]
If you read the title above and started thinking of your favorite bands from the 70s like America, Boston, Chicago, Doobie Brothers, Eagles, (fill in your favorites here), read it again. Three articles in the Summer 2026 issue of Classic Rock Magazine (Issue 355) got me thinking about the age of the musicians interviewed […]
Meet Anthony Badgero, the WOAS – FM STUDENT manager for 2026-27. Though he has big shoes to fill replacing last year’s SM, Jack Nelson, we are confident he will be up to the task. Like Jack, Anthony got his start as a Communications Class DJ as a sophomore. Both were not able to […]
Who is Bob Reitman? Until May of 2026, the answer for me was, “I do not have a clue.” Then I got an email from our old friend Gary Tanin at Daystorm Music in Milwaukee asking if I would have time to listen to an extended interview he had done with his dear friend […]