Musical ramblings from the manager
In 1911, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden was fired from his own company. The Canadian born, largely self-educated scientist had finally exhausted the patience of his Pittsburgh based investors who had bankrolled his experiments in radiotelephony. The National Electrical Signalling Company (NESCO) had succeeded in demonstrating the concept of wireless radio broadcasting in December of 1906, […]
My mother has always loved to sing and even at age 93, she is unhappy when her Troubadour singing group fails to meet. The Troubadours are a group at her residence (Brookridge Heights in Marquette) that gather on Sundays to sing and on the occasions when they don’t meet, she is always disappointed. It […]
How does a Beatle stay undercover in New York City? Paul McCartney grew a beard, dressed down in a GI coat and jeans looking every bit “like just another junkie.” He and Linda had decamped from London to escape the legal wranglings and vitriol that resulted from his suit against his bandmates in order to […]
“I hit the bottle,” he admits. “I hit the substances.” He was eaten up with anger – at himself, at the outside world. He could describe it only as a barrelling, empty feeling rolling across his soul. The excerpt above could be applied to any number of people down on their luck. Paul McCartney […]
Time is a tricky subject and there are so many musical tie-ins that pop to mind, coming up with a catchy title got a little tricky. A title based on Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is (Chicago), Time is Tight (Booker T and the MGs), Time is on My Side (Rolling Stones), Time […]
Saturday at the Singing Hills Stage kicked off with an artist I was not familiar with. Reading Seth Walker’s biography was like a geography lesson: born in North Carolina, he has also spent time in Jacksonville, Florida, Austin, Texas, Nashville, Tennessee, and his current home port, New Orleans, Louisiana. His music is likewise from all […]
Our usual modus operandi for August is to dust off the broadcast board and spend the week before the Porcupine Mountain Music Festival cranking out tunes by past, present, and even possible future artists who have (or might) grace the PMMF stages. As a result, I end up with a pretty good working knowledge of […]
I managed to make it through a whole year of teaching before the field trip bug hit me. I had fond memories of visiting Marquette hotspots like the Burt Pioneer cabin and the Bunny Bread factory in elementary school, so I guess it was inevitable that I would end up looking into taking my students […]
Let me introduce the Jack Spann Band. If this sounds vaguely familiar, it is probably because Jack Spann’s first CD Time, Time,Time,Time, Time was reviewed in the space early in 2016 (specifically April 5, 2016). At that time, Daystorm Music guru Gary Tanin added Time X 5 to the growing list of CDs he […]
The full title of this FTV should actually be “They told me to sing loud!” It was the answer I to the question my dad had asked me right after I had made my sixth grade stage debut in the annual Whitman Elementary School Christmas play: “Why were you the only one we could […]