From the Vaults: That Wild and Crazy Guy Elvis hit the nail on the head back in 1971. He told Steve Martin, “Son, you have an ob-leek sense of humor.” Oblique can be added to the long list of words used to describe Martin but the one at the top would undoubtedly have to […]
Way back when we first started posting FTV on the station web page and in the Ontonagon Herald, we ran a piece on the Australian keyboard wizard. We continue to spin the stuff we were able to get on download and even via snail mail! As with the rest of the world, Lachey has been […]
Let’s begin this month’s AstroCal with the evening planets. Venus will be the star of the show near the western horizon shortly after sunset. Shining at magnitude -4.3 (remember, the lower the number, the brighter the object) will make it the brightest object in the fall sky after the Sun and the Moon. During […]
At Christmas of 1970, you could have held my accumulated knowledge of George Harrison in a thimble. My brother Ron came home from his first year teaching job in downstate Chesaning bearing a boxed set of cassettes and a music book for Harrison’s massive All Things Must Pass triple album. It would have been a […]
As sometimes happens when searching for a title for one of these From the Vaults articles, I am torn between telling readers too little or too much information from the get go. Such was the case with the title of this particular title. Truth be told, the whole title should be: Everything I learned […]
August 2021 look for the light when you come back again ~ look for the light at the end of the day look for the light when you come home again ~ we’ll keep a light burning to show you the way ‘Look for the […]
Black Sabbath have called it a day, but they won’t disappear anytime soon. Classic Rock radio and magazines will continue to play their music and talk about their legacy. The last time I visited Amoeba Music in Los Angeles in 2013 (just prior to the WOAS West Coast Bureau relocating to Oregon), I picked […]
While researching information about Woodstock, I hit upon a video of the Jefferson Airplane performing their song Volunteers. Like any good earworm chorus, the ‘Volunteers of America’ got stuck in my head. One thing led to another and the constant recycling of the lyric started touching off random memories connected with the word ‘volunteer’. […]