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Musical ramblings from the manager
We begin this month’s observations with a term that was unfamiliar to me. Maybe it has just slipped my mind as it only takes place every 18.6 years, but the event is known as ‘lunistice’ (also called a ‘lunar standstill’). Lunistice is kind of like a ‘solstice’ only it involves the Moon and not the […]
When the St. Lawrence Seaway was constructed in the 1950s, it opened a whole new era of commerce stretching from the Atlantic coast all the way to Duluth, Minnesota. It also rolled out the red carpet for a host of invasive species. Some (like the sea lamprey) were already here by then while others […]
From the Vaults: First Heard In August of 2025, I was reading an interesting article by ‘Metal’ Tim Henderson. He was interviewing Dave Meniketti from the band Y&T when the subject of Ozzy Osbourne’s last performance with Black Sabbath came up. Meniketti told Henderson he missed the big show in Birmingham on July 5, […]
Our business cards actually said ‘Sledgehammer – we don’t do polkas’. Sledgehammer was my third working band and when Barry Seymour and I started jamming together in the fall of 1974, he had some very definite ideas of where he wanted us to go. At first, it was just the two of us doing an […]
One of my favorite Steve Earl songs is Copperhead Road. If I had an ounce of song writing ability in me, I would put the Earl touch on a tune called Papin Road, but I don’t. Everytime I drive down that stretch of gravel road, Earl’s song pops into my head. That name no […]
In the late spring of 2025, we ordered the last pieces of our puzzle. The ‘puzzle’ was our four year quest to obtain a new frequency (91.5 FM) for WOAS-FM and the equipment we would need to go forward. Losing the old frequency had been quite a shocking surprise back in 2021. In the […]
“Don’t Make Promises You Can’t Keep,” was written by Tim Harden and it became one of Gary Puckett and the Union Gap’s many hits. Technically, it was the B-side of Woman Woman, but it was still a great song and ended up on their Greatest Hits LP. The title is also a line I […]
In the summer of 2025, we said ‘good bye’ to a Monarch. No, not the royal kind. I am talking about our trusty Monarch wood burning furnace. They discontinued making these amazing units some time ago, but we were blessed to have had such a reliable workhorse of a heating unit for 46 winters. Perhaps […]
When we left Part I, Mike Campbell was living his rock ‘n’ roll dream playing in the band Mudcrutch. Mike’s first band in Gainesville (Dead or Alive) had broken up when their lead singer / bass player quit and sailed to Hawaii to be a surfer dude. Mudcrutch had come to the farmhouse to […]
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers enjoyed the ride of a lifetime. There are only so many rock ‘n’ roll bands that can ascend into the rarified air of stardom as they did over their 41 year run. It all came to a screeching halt when Petty died in 2017 thus ending the long term partnership […]