Though they span decades and many genres, there is a connecting thread between the following list of guitar players:  Jeff Beck, Lindsey Buckingham, Ritchie Kotzen, Robbie Krieger, Albert C…

            After frequently using and citing references from Guitar World magazine, I was asked why a drummer would subscribe to a guitar magazine.  It was a valid question and my ton…

       In Part One, we looked at the tale of the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens up to and shortly after this cataclysmic event.  The Monday after the Sunday fireworks, fellow Geo…

     Do you need to be a little bit crazy to be a volcanologist?  I used to show a video to my Geography / Earth Science classes that featured a French couple named Katia and Maurice Krafft.  A…

       It has been a while since we did a quiz to shake up the old grey matter, and thanks to our friends at AARP magazine, we have another fun one to share.  We tacked on a few questions w…

       Over the first two weeks of September 2025, I took my third consecutive concert trip to the WOAS-FM West Coast Bureau in Eugene, Oregon.  This trip was a little different because I d…