Bios and stories about the artists we feature
If you are old enough to remember Johnny Carson’s ‘Carnac the Magnificent’, you can skip the explanation. Carson, decked out with his cape and oversized headgear as Carnac, would hold a sealed envelope to his forehead and predict the answer to the question posed on a slip of paper inside. For example, Carnac would […]
A while back, we chronicled the life of Jimi Hendrix from his childhood in Seattle, Washington to the first meeting with his future manager and producer, Chas Chandler in New York City in 1966 (FTV: Johnny Allen Hendrix 5-25-22 and Johnny Allen Hendrix – Part 2 6-1-22). While musicians in the United States were just […]
The name might not be familiar, but I will lay odds that if you have seen any number of videos made by bands like Quiet Riot, Whitesnake, and Ozzy Osbourne’s Blizzard of Ozz in the 1980s, you have seen his face. Having seen many of the aforementioned videos, I knew who Rudy Sarzo was […]
Our friend and mentor at the Ontonagon Herald graciously provided us with the following account of Al Jacquez’s recent show at the Ontonagon Theater of Performing Arts. Thank you to HSR for his kind words about WOAS being involved in bring musical talent of Al’s caliber to the people (and especially the kids!) in Ontonagon. […]
There is no doubt that guitarist Eric Clapton is a complex soul. As a long time admirer of the band Cream, my mental image of that band was colored by what they did on record and on stage. I was a 14 year-old drummer in training when Sunshine of Your Love (from their second album […]
Browsing the books on sale at the local St. Vinnie’s, I came upon an interesting title. I never added it to my retirement book reading list because I couldn’t finish it. It was a collection of stories about the ways people remove themselves from the human race and are thus prevented from contributing their […]
When my issue of Classic Rock Magazine arrives, I always approach it like I do reading a newspaper. Dating back to the days when the Marquette Mining Journal ran their cartoons on the back page, I began a life-long habit of always starting on the back page of newspapers and magazines. The late Tom […]
Early in 2022, I started reminiscing about some of my favorite concerts (FTV: Live Shows Revisited – Part 1 2-23-22). Having asked for and received stories about some of your favorite shows as well, they were chronicled in Part 2 (5-11-22). In an article sandwiched in between Part 1 and Part 2, I added […]
Some weeks ago we concluded a two part series about bands doing cover versions of songs. A good number of bands continued the practice even after they became famous for their own compositions. The article was inspired by an issue of Classic Rock Magazine (Issue #298, March 2022) that devoted forty pages to the topic. […]
Yikes! As I scanned USA Today writer Melissa Ruggieri’s list in her article Timeless albums, tunes are turning 50 in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (published 6-13-22), all I could say was, “Yikes!” How could fifty years have gone by since some of my favorite albums first began climbing the record sales charts? While some […]