A quick quiz: How many different types of mines have there been in Upper Michigan? This is a question I ask my sixth grade Geography – Earth Science students at the beginning …
Don’t go running for your old Latin textbook. The quasi-Latin phrase Vincebus Eruptum is supposed to mean “We control chaos” and if San Francisco psychedelic rockers Blue Cheer had any…
I called up my old Twig bandmate Mike (bass player and resident electronic wizard) and asked him to tell me everything that I would need to record a band live. Mike had done this in A…
In my archives, I have a old cassette tape dating back to early in my junior year of high school – somewhere around 1969. It isn’t much to listen to because there is a lot of background …
It was a toss up between ‘Fog Tap’ or ‘Spinal Hat’ so I flipped a coin to decide what to call this installment of FTV. The band Foghat was named years before the band even for…
Imagine 11,000 screaming fans, the majority of them girls between the ages of 13 and 17, crammed into a ballroom with a legal capacity of just 2,500. This crowd would be the equivalent of the …