WOAS news and history
As sometimes happens with these From The Vaults pieces, I like to go back and revisit a topic when there is something new to add to a story. If we didn’t already need to be reminded that ‘time flies when you are having fun’, I went back to find the first volume of FTV: Lake […]
I noticed an advertisement in Classic Rock Magazine not too long ago for some concert dates in England by Dave Bickler’s band. It was kind of nice to see that Bickler is still hanging around the music scene years after he became kind of a sad trivia answer when his promising career went […]
Prior to the 40th Annual JH Student Council Halloween Carnival, this space ran a history of how the whole affair began in the fall of 1979 (FTV – Halloween Carnival 10-31-18). While previewing the 2018 edition of the carnival, I realized that there were a lot of games that did not get mentioned in that […]
If the title of this FTV led you instantly to Creedence Clearwater Revival, you are two thirds correct. This CCR could be Creedence Clearwater Revisited (for the sake of both brevity and clarity, we shall refer to them as CCR2). One can’t really talk about CCR2 without talking about CCR, so it is probably wise […]
When John Mellencamp’s hit single Little Pink Houses shot up the record charts, I liked it immediately. Why? Like the lyrics suggest, I actually did grow up in a pink house. At the time it wasn’t my favorite color, especially when we did one of those elementary school art projects were we were asked to […]
Volunteering at the Porcupine Mountain Music Festival has become the highlight of my summer. I first got involved with PMMF #2 and now circle the PMMF weekend in my engagement calendar far enough in advance that the family plans on me disappearing for two days near the end of August. After a few years of […]
Ten years ago, my wife and son got me one of those birth year cards entitled, “1953 – Remember When . . . A Nostalgic Look Back in Time”. I rediscovered it in the summer of 2018 while rifling through miscellaneous files of cards and things that had been waiting for me to sort out […]
If you are of a certain age, you have seen it. The ubiquitous album cover for his groundbreaking double live album Frampton Comes Alive! The cover is festooned with an impossibly young looking Peter Frampton, signature black Gibson Les Paul in his hands, his curly halo of hair and gleaming smile beaming out over […]
Who is Burton Guibord and why haven’t we heard more about him? It turns out that he is a Native American musician with roots in northern Wisconsin. When our good friend Gary Tanin at Daystorm Records in Milwaukee sent us a preview of Guibord’s record, Are We Free?, I was eager to learn more about […]
My first two wheeler bike was a small green hand me down with training wheels. After a very short time watching me wobble along on the gravel street in front of our house, my dad pulled the old, “Let’s take off the training wheels and I will hold on to the seat until you […]