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“The Nazz Are Blue,” Lee said in reference to nothing in particular. “Who are they and why are they blue?” I asked. Lee was the bass player in my second band, Knockdown, and this discussion took place when I was dropping him by the IGA grocery store at the Marquette Mall. Lee’s wife worked […]
From the Vaults: Snow Day! No, not that kind of snow day. I am talking about something we hatched to help make the long stretch of winter weather (January to the end of March in the western Upper Peninsula) a little more bearable. It is no surprise that everyone in a school starts getting a […]
February 13, 2025 marked the kick off of the WOAS-FM 91.5 / Ontonagon Area Schools safe driving public service campaign. This state-wide initiative is called Strive 4 A Safer Drive (S4SD) and is funded by $1,000 grants from the Ford Motor Company and the Michigan Department of Transportation. This will be the tenth consecutive year […]
Reading Rik Emmitt’s biography Lay It On The Line (ECW Press – 2023), I especially enjoyed the tales he recounted from various bands he was in over more than fifty years in the music biz. I am not just talking about high profile shows with the band Triumph, but various anecdotes going all the way […]
Okay – now I sound like the Mandarin in Iron Man 3 – what I mean to say, is WOAS-FM has been granted a new home at 91.5 FM – unfortunately our old tower elements are tuned to our old frequency – and they are over forty years old. We COULD broadcast at 15 watts without […]
‘Derringer’ was probably the perfect stage name when nine year old Rick began playing Country & Western tunes in the bars around Fort Recovery, Ohio with his uncle Jim. It was 1956 and he had only recently gotten a Harmony-type guitar model with one pickup and a copy of Mickey Baker’s Complete Course in […]