Musical ramblings from the manager
Friday October 13, 2023 turned out to be our lucky day. Like the visit paid to us by John Carlisle and Ryan Garza from the Detroit Free Press back in April of 2023, we weren’t really at liberty to say much about NBC Nightly News visiting WOAS until our story aired. The Freep guys […]
We finally have a new server for the woas-fm.org website – our techie Preston is on paternity leave and my wife suffered a serious health issue on October 28 (she is recovering and thank you for your kind words and prayers) but for some strange reason, getting our Twitch feed back on line has seemed […]
Holly Knight’s rise from a wanna-be rock musician to a respected songwriter was addressed in this space in FTV: Holly the Songsmith (11-8-23). Telling her story only took us up to the first major hit she and her publisher, Mike Chapman, wrote for Pat Benatar in 1983, Love is a Battlefield. Digging further into […]
Holly Erlander was a struggling musician trying to catch a break with her band Siren. The New York City music scene, much like its counterpart in Los Angeles, had a lot of bands trying to get noticed so her story isn’t exactly unique for the late 1970s. Holly had a knack for getting to […]
AstroCal – November 2023 November will be a great month for those of you who like to see that bright gem of a planet Venus in the early morning hours. On the morning of November 9, it will be particularly interesting as our ‘twin planet’ will have a very close encounter with the Last […]
There are bands that simply play music. While some engage with their audiences, others are what are referred to as ‘shoegazers’. ‘SGs’ are bands that don’t make eye contact or go out of their way to make small talk with their fans – they just play. Rick Wakeman is a peg that does not […]
On June 3, 1964, The Beatles had a full schedule ahead of them. They were to spend the morning posing for a photographer from The Saturday Evening Post before they did an afternoon and evening recording session at EMI Studios. The next day, they would fly off to begin their first ever world tour […]
When I was a wee lad of maybe four, we visited my cousin Wally and his wife somewhere in Wisconsin or Minnesota. Being on the young side and a few years ahead of developing my fixation on maps and geography, the details are a bit fuzzy. The one thing that comes to mind with […]
Back in May of 2023, we covered the origins of Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band (5-3-23) a month before I had the opportunity to see the current version of the band in Eugene, Oregon. This FTV article explained how a thirty-year old promoter named David Fishof proposed an idea to Ringo. In 1989, Fishof asked […]
Greetings – things are taking shape – we are running our new transmitter at 88.5 at 50 watts until we get the new equipment bay here – due to arrive in Mid-October. Moving the electronics from the hard to reach upper shelf where they have been since our last remodel in 1998 will make things […]