We were playing Euchre after dinner one evening when I told everyone my tale of the ‘giant sandhill crane’ that I briefly thought might carry me off like a pterodactyl swooping down on a h…

    Near the end of our unusually mild February of 2016, our old NASA buddy Ralph emailed from southern Wisconsin that he and his daughter had seen some sandhill cranes.  We went back and forth a…

         Although he was born in Iowa, Dick Wagner grew up in Saginaw, MI and became a Detroit music icon with his early bands The Bossmen and The Frost.  These bands may not have enjoyed …

In our FTV sometime ago concerning Rammstein, they were speculating if they would be touring again – fear not, as the clip included from the 2016 Pinkpop festival, they are still at it – s…

R.I.P. Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister.   I can only listen to Motorhead for so long and then I  have to hear something else, but that does not mean I don’t appreciate the house that Lemmy built…

  Call it “band musical chairs” if you wish or “out with the old, in with the new”,  but however you  label it, it is something that happens from the grassroots local scene…