In guitarist-speak, RR has become a shorthand reference for the late Randy Rhoads. Though Rhoads passed away when the small airplane he was a passenger in crashed (while on tour wit…
We last visited Levon Helm in a two part FTV back in April of 2020 (FTV: Mark L. Helm – Part 1 (4-15-20) and Part 2 (4-22-20)). Based on his autobiography This Wheel’s on …
The good news? Summer officially begins with the Summer Solstice on Tuesday June 21 at 5:14 a.m. EDT. The bad news? We won’t dwell on it because there will be weeks of long su…
We left Part 1 with Jimmy Hendrix newly discharged from the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army. As soon as his bass playing buddy, Billy Cox, was turned loose, they changed the name of their…
Johnny Allen Hendrix lived anything but a charmed life in his early years. He was born on November 27, 1942 at Seattle’s Harborview Hospital while his father, Al, was stationed at…
We have discussed some of the Saturday Night Live crew previously so it seemed high time to shine the light on some of the others players who revolutionized comedy in the 1980s. We …