Bios and stories about the artists we feature
Don’t we all have our share of anxieties stemming from various things that come (or may come) our way? Be you a ‘Little Mary Sunshine’ or ‘Debbie Downer’, or a ‘Happy Sam’ or ‘Gloomy Gus’, there are times when it just gets to be all too much. With that said, before we even get […]
On the eve of the September 20, 2022 release of the book The Byrds 1964-67, band co-founder Roger McGuinn shared his thoughts on their career on Steve Hyden’s UPROXX indie mixtape series. The book is a collectable art book about the band with input from McGuinn and the other surviving members of the band, […]
I originally thought the title of this FTV was a ripoff of a Steve Martin book, but I was mixed up. Martin’s book was called Cruel Shoes (Steve Martin – 1980 – Grand Central Publishing ). If you have actually read the Sensible Shoes series by Sharon Garlough Brown and thought of those books […]
In 1999, the Wachowskis siblings launched a little multi-part film franchise called The Matrix. Although I have yet to see the fourth installment, the whole series revolves around the original film’s basic tenets. According to Wiki, “The Matrix depicts a dystopian future in which humanity is unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality called The Matrix. […]
There is gold in them there books! I stumbled upon a clip of Desi Arnaz on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson while surfing the internet. I didn’t catch the year, but a couple of things stood out. First, Johnny wore a hip white coat with a sparkly embroidered design on either side of […]
At the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2017, members of Journey had a weird family reunion of sorts. First there was the Gregg Rolle thing. The HOF wasn’t keen to invite the band’s original keyboard player and vocalist, so just two days before the big night, guitarist and band leader Neal Schon […]
What do you call it? Deja vu? Clairvoyance? Luck? Intuition? No doubt you have heard tales of mysterious events that defy simple, rational explanation. It is a pretty safe bet that many of you may have experienced these kinds of things. Whether one chooses to tell other people about these happenings is a rather […]
When my folks finally moved from their last home at the age 93 and 89, they had owned three different homes in Marquette over a fifty year span. They had toyed with the idea of downsizing to an apartment when both were in their late seventies, but we pointed out, a) they were doing fine […]
If you are old enough to remember Johnny Carson’s ‘Carnac the Magnificent’, you can skip the explanation. Carson, decked out with his cape and oversized headgear as Carnac, would hold a sealed envelope to his forehead and predict the answer to the question posed on a slip of paper inside. For example, Carnac would […]
A while back, we chronicled the life of Jimi Hendrix from his childhood in Seattle, Washington to the first meeting with his future manager and producer, Chas Chandler in New York City in 1966 (FTV: Johnny Allen Hendrix 5-25-22 and Johnny Allen Hendrix – Part 2 6-1-22). While musicians in the United States were just […]