Musical ramblings from the manager
Are Huey Lewis and the News a thing of the past? It depends on which source one looks at. One site proclaims “Huey Lewis and the News are on tour in 2023-2024,” while another states, “There are no concert dates for Huey Lewis scheduled in 2023.” In a November 2022 interview with U.K.’s Express, […]
On November 1 , 2022, an Earth orbiting probe ended its three and a half year mission with a firey plunge through the atmosphere. Amazingly, the mission was slated to last a year, so the sponsoring organization, The Planetary Society, got a lot more bang for their buck. Launched on June 25, 2019, the […]
When one thinks of bands from the United Kingdom, there are many that succeeded in conquering the American market. The Who, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Pink Floyd, and a host of other bands became household names on this side of the pond. As an avid reader of Classic Rock magazine, I am always fascinated […]
Let us start the month with the elephant in the room, or should we say in the western sky? Venus remains the star of the show, so to speak, dominating the western sky. After Venus and Jupiter had their very close encounter early in March, they began to drift apart until Jupiter dropped out of […]
The late Tom Hartzell and I were having a discussion about the Pacific Northwest in the lunchroom one day. Tom mentioned he and his wife would be vacationing there in the near future, so I took the opportunity to ask him a little favor. I said, “Well, if you happen to find an ashtray […]
You probably recognize the last name in the title and are thinking, “Hey bud, you got the wrong first name. Don’t you mean ‘Micky Dolenz’?” You are half right – I am talking about the former lead singer and drummer of The Monkees, but we will get to the ‘Michael’ part in a bit. […]
It was interesting to read how the guitar / amplifier company EVH founded by the late Eddie Van Halen has evolved since its inception. The roots of the venture go all the way back to 1990-1992 when the Peavey company began working with Eddie on a signature model amp (the EVH 5150). The company […]
Canadian guitarist Randy Bachman is probably best known as a founding member of both The Guess Who and Bachman Turner Overdrive. While most music fans are not as familiar with the band he formed between those two mega album selling groups, Brave Belt was a bridge between them. Bachman’s roots ran deep in all three […]
Cartoons have been one of my life-long obsessions. I don’t mean ‘obsession’ as in ‘I collect them’, I just love reading them. Since the first days I picked up the Marquette Mining Journal, my habit has been to start with the comic page. In the past, I have mentioned that the MMJ comics were […]
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