FTV: Sledgehammer Gigs

     Our business cards actually said ‘Sledgehammer – we don’t do polkas’.  Sledgehammer was my third working band and when Barry Seymour and I started jamming together in the fall o…

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FTV: Papin Road

       One of my favorite Steve Earl songs is Copperhead Road.  If I had an ounce of song writing ability in me, I would put the Earl touch on a tune called Papin Road, but I don’t.  Eve…

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FTV: A Tower Tale – Part 1

       In the late spring of 2025, we ordered the last pieces of our puzzle.  The ‘puzzle’ was our four year quest to obtain a new frequency (91.5 FM) for WOAS-FM and the equipment we w…

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FTV: Steve Seymour Connections

            “Don’t Make Promises You Can’t Keep,” was written by Tim Harden and it became one of Gary Puckett and the Union Gap’s many hits.  Technically, it was the B-si…

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FTV: Ode to a Monarch

     In the summer of 2025, we said ‘good bye’ to a Monarch.  No, not the royal kind.  I am talking about our trusty Monarch wood burning furnace.  They discontinued making these amazing u…

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FTV: Heartbreaker – Part 2

       When we left Part I, Mike Campbell was living his rock ‘n’ roll dream playing in the band Mudcrutch.  Mike’s first band in Gainesville (Dead or Alive) had broken up when their …

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