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The 1995 movie adaptation of Jim Lovell’s book Lost Moon spawned a catch phrase that took on a life of its own. In Apollo 13, Tom Hanks (who portrayed Lovell) repeated the famous, “Houston, we have a problem” after the explosion on board their Moon bound spacecraft was first called in by his fellow […]
There was a time when one could not escape Bob Welch on FM radio. Hardly an hour would pass without his late 1970s hits Ebony Eyes or Sentimental Lady flowing from the speakers. Welch, who passed away in June of 2012 at the age of 66, was a much more complicated human being than […]
Dave Mason was feeling anything but ‘alright’ in December of 1968. He was summoned to ‘another band meeting of Traffic’, the band he had cofounded with Steve Winwood, Chris Wood, and Jim Capaldi. The meeting was held at the home of their manager Chris Blackwell who was also the head of their record label, […]
Having done a couple of quizzes about songs and lyrics, I will take a different tact on this outing about Saturday Night Live. AARP – The Magazine ran a ‘test your knowledge of five decades of Saturday Night Live’ feature recently. Using their quiz, I am going to do a Johnny Carson ‘Carnac the […]
November will be an interesting month to watch the planets dance across the sky, especially Jupiter and Venus. On November 4, Jupiter will rise in the east just before Venus sets in the west. Both will be bright (magnitude -2.8 and -3.9 respectively) so they won’t be hard to see even though they will […]
Although there is no prohibition on revisiting past topics in these FTV chronicles, every once in a while a story comes up that is too good to leave in the past. With the fiftieth anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald only a year away, I felt compelled to revisit this historical event. In […]
Our good friend Gary Tanin at Daystorm Music in Milwaukee recently sent along Jim Eannelli’s first solo album Just Deserts which was released in both digital and physical formats on September 27, 2024. Yours truly was visiting Eugene, Oregon in late August to catch John Fogerty’s 56th Anniversary Celebration concert when the Just Deserts […]
I mourn the loss of brick and motar bookstores. Book World in downtown Houghton was my favorite because when we would stop by to browse, I always managed to find the newest issue of Classic Rock Magazine or Mojo to keep me in touch with the music scene. When the entire Book World franchise […]
The music world lost an icon when the Godfather of British blues, John Mayall, recently passed away at the age of 90. I can’t say that I knew that much about him, but in his lifetime (November 29, 1933 – July 22, 2024) he saw a lot of musicians pass through his bands. Listening […]
Comets do not always behave as advertised. Sometimes they are not as spectacular as predicted and sometimes they perform beyond what is expected. I will let our friends at Sky Calendar cover what may happen on the cometary front this month: “There’s a chance that Comet C/2023 A3 may surge in brightness around October […]