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Monthly Archives: February 2025

FTV: Todd Rundgren

       “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 […]

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From the Vaults: Snow Day!

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 […]

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S4SD / DbD10 Begins

     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 […]

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FTV: Twig Gigs

     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 […]

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FTV: Rick Derringer

       ‘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 […]

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