Bios and stories about the artists we feature
The November 2015 CLASSIC ROCK magazine made a passing reference to a group called Babymetal. A letter to their COMMUICATION BREAKDOWN page peaked my interest with the following statement: ” If Babymetal is the future of rock, I wanna be a neanderthal.” With that said, I checked around. My first thought was, “What if […]
There was a twenty year window that opened around 1965 when a lot of great, nationally known bands made their way to Marquette. Living as I did across the street from the Northern Michigan University campus and within sight of Hedgecock Fieldhouse (where most concerts were held before Lakeview Arena was built), all I had […]
The Fitzgerald went down my first year in Ontonagon – November 10, 1975 – I was in Marquette when the storm blew up and we went to the Presque Isle Harbor to watch the waves crash over the breakwall. Driving back to Ontonagon the weather didn’t seem as bad away from the lake, but it […]
It is a great philosophy: K.I.S.S. Engineers use it. Mechanics use it. Mathematicians use it. Even coaches use it. Keep It Simple, Stupid. It is a self admonishment to anyone trying to solve a complex problem or fix a broken widget that (usually) the simplest solution is (usually) the best solution. Oh, we […]
The more I think about the longevity of some bands, the list of those who would fit in this article gets longer and longer. The original idea was to talk about bands still playing after their early careers came and went. I put a band on my list if they carried on with at least […]
We started a discussion of bands that kept playing after their original line ups broke apart. The caveat here is that at least one original band member has to still be involved for them to enter the discussion. I am not sure if there is any significance in that all the bands in Part 2 […]
There are many examples of bands that have been around a lot longer than one would expect. Bands remind me a lot of machines: they are composed of multiple parts that need to work well together in order to function properly. The integral parts can be changed, but if they don’t mesh well with […]
Level 42 has always been one of my ‘guilty pleasure’ bands along with Howard Jones. Glad to see that they can still bring it live – Mark King’s name doesn’t often surface in the ‘great bass player / vocalist’ lists, but he can do both. Clip is taken from a Dutch television program. I ran […]
There are many sources of inspiration in the world of music – there are many different articles that have been writtne about Walter Trout’s brush with death while he waited for a liver transplant – the video speaks volumes about the human body and what it can endure and heal. Inspirational is the only word […]
Here are some photos taken from the Singing Hills stage (located up hill and to the west of the main stage in front of the chalet – the Peace Hill stage) taken on Friday August 28 and Saturday August 29, 2015.