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From the Vaults: The Power of Print

In December of 2016, I almost subscribed to Classic Rock Magazine. I found myself buying a copy whenever they weren’t sold out at the bookstore, so it seemed the logical thing to do…

FTV: Klaatu

Perhaps you have seen the cover of the album Goodnight Vienna. It pays homage to the 1951 Sci-fi classic movie The Day the Earth Stood Still. There in the doorway of the prototypica…

FTV: The Great Ballantine

Warning: If you are able to identify the person named in the title above, you are about to confront an age old conundrum. (or perhaps it is an old age conundrum). It goes like this: If y…

From the Vaults: Tatler 1971

We always equated the beginning of the next school year with the start up of marching band in August. The summer after my junior year, we had made plans to march in the Marquette Four…

FTV: Drum Solos

In the interest of brevity, I decided to not use “To solo or not to solo” as the title of this FTV. Reading Phil Collins’ memoir “Not Dead Yet” got me thinking about all the…

From the Vaults: ElonX.2

Rumor has it that Robert Downey, Jr. used Elon Musk as his template for the billionaire industrialist playboy Tony Stark (see Stan Lee’s Marvel Universe under ‘A’ for Avengers and…