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Flo & Eddie are actually four different people who co-existed in two different bands. There is an entire tail twisting story behind the name so I am going to do my best to unravel it for you. Two of the people known as Flo & Eddie are actually Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan from […]
When I saw the posting from the Calumet area on Friday, March 13, 2026, it reminded me that we were, indeed, having an old fashioned winter. The sign being held by a man next to a very large snowbank noted the Keweenaw Peninsula had been averaging 7.2 inches of snow per day. As of that […]
Growing up, one of my favorite sayings we applied to solving complex problems was, “Keep It Simple, Stupid.” In the best NASA tradition, we trimmed it down to the acronym, ‘KISS’. During the period where some people strived to be more politically correct, someone came up with the idea that it should be shortened […]
According to an article entitled The Class of 1986 in Guitar World magazine (Vol 47 Issue 3 March 2026), ‘86 was a pivotal year for iconic albums. In this issue, GW Editor-in-Chief Damian Fanelli recounted some of the recent losses (deaths) the music world has already had this year and then he cut to […]
I am guessing you will have to talk to Mother Nature. With our single bay temporary tower, we ran into icing problems with the recent warm, rainy weather – you know, just before we got another blizzard. We were online only March 11 & 12, then we had two snow days and were not on […]
S4SD NEWSBREAK – for the 11th consecutive year, WOAS-FM 91.5 has applied for and been awarded a $1000 grant to conduct a local safe driving program. This Public Service Project involves the students who staff the station during the day shift – through a combination of art work contests and the distribution of program wristbands […]
One of the boldest decisions made in the Apollo Moon landing program was the decision to send the Apollo 8 spacecraft to the Moon in December of 1968. Apollo 8 was originally supposed to be a shakedown flight of the integrated Command Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM, later shortened to […]
The Turtles almost didn’t happen. Call it fate or kismet or whatever, but one of the top selling bands of the late 1960s were DOA and then they weren’t (more on this in a bit). When vocalist Mark Voman passed away in September of 2025, it prompted me to find a copy of his […]
With all the kerfuffle about Greenland (the one associated with Denmark, not the one next to Mass City, Michigan), I decided to dig back in the FTV archives for a historical piece about an earlier tussle over this piece of North Atlantic real estate. People often mistake Greenland for the eighth continent because the […]
Let me set the record straight once and for all. Jethro Tull was a real person. He was an 18th Century agriculturist known for inventing the seed drill. Tull’s name was suggested to band leader Ian Anderson by their manager when they moved from the north of England to London. Gigs were hard to […]