One does not find themselves in a traffic jam in Ontonagon County very often, but there were two that occured on Day 2 of the 14th Annual Porcupine Mountain Music Festival.  I got caught up in the first one trying to cross the Ontonagon River bridge on the way to the festival. The line up […]

 The 14th Annual Porcupine Mountain Music Festival took place in late August of 2018, making this the 13th year that I have volunteered at the festival.  In the early days, a typical four hour shift involved a little emcee work and manning the sound board at a couple of workshops. By the fourth year, emceeing […]

  Here are three things I would not have normally associated with drummer Kenney Jones: the banjo, polo, or his donning an apron as a greengrocer.  The trick here is knowing exactly how these things fit into what would become a far reaching career playing the drums for some iconic bands stretching from the 1960s to […]

      My poor mother must have had worried what exactly we were up to.  The Twig decided to learn Hoyt Axton’s song The Pusher off the eponymous first album by Steppenwolf.  With us practicing in the basement at our normal volume (loud), there is no possible way she could have missed Mike singing the chorus. […]

We would like to take the opportunity to say ‘welcome back’ or just plain ‘welcome’ to our regular and/or new listeners.  WOAS-FM 88.5 went on the air in December of 1978 making this year the beginning of our 40th year on the air. It would be great to tell you there is a big party […]

    Foghorn Leghorn, the animated rooster, was given some of the pithiest lines in cartoondom.  Things like, “The boy’s got a mouth like a cannon, always shootin’ it off” regularly flowed from his beak.  His take on common sense was equally blunt: “The boy is about as sharp as a bowling ball” and “That boy is […]

Millions of records sold.  Stadium filling tours. How could a band like Def Leppard not be successful when one looks back at their storied career?  The truth be told, if one only remembers the high points, then they were a ‘can’t miss’ band, but when factoring in the low points, it is a wonder that […]

There are two schools of thought when it comes to actor William Shatner: people either love him or they hate him. There doesn’t seem to be any middle ground and I am not sure where this attitude comes from. He certainly isn’t shy about sharing his opinions on various subjects and he has never had […]

   “How would you like to try and play guitar with broken fingers?” was how Don Arden kept Steve Marriot in the band The Small Faces when he was asked to join a new band with Jimmy Page.  Don Arden (father of Sharon who these days is better know by her married name, Sharon Osbourne) had […]

      Parts 1 and 2 of this series covered how former Marquette educator Fred Rydholm came up with his theories as to the likely identity of the ancient copper miners and why I have been a disciple of this train of thought (a ‘Rydholmite’ if you will humor me here) since the early 1980s.  Even […]