We last visited Levon Helm in a two part FTV back in April of 2020 (FTV: Mark L. Helm – Part 1 (4-15-20) and Part 2 (4-22-20)). Based on his autobiography This Wheel’s on Fire – Levon Helm and the Story of the Band (Levon Helm with Stephen Davis, updated 2013 for A Cappella […]
The good news? Summer officially begins with the Summer Solstice on Tuesday June 21 at 5:14 a.m. EDT. The bad news? We won’t dwell on it because there will be weeks of long summer days to enjoy before we actually notice, but our daylight hours will begin to slowly decrease from the SS until […]
We left Part 1 with Jimmy Hendrix newly discharged from the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army. As soon as his bass playing buddy, Billy Cox, was turned loose, they changed the name of their band from the Kasuals to the King Kasuals. As Jimmy’s hair returned, he styled it into a ‘conk’ (see […]
Johnny Allen Hendrix lived anything but a charmed life in his early years. He was born on November 27, 1942 at Seattle’s Harborview Hospital while his father, Al, was stationed at Fort Rucker, Alabama. The Army feared he would go AWOL to see his new son so they locked Al in the stockade just […]
We have discussed some of the Saturday Night Live crew previously so it seemed high time to shine the light on some of the others players who revolutionized comedy in the 1980s. We have already covered Dan Aykroyd (FTV: Dan Aykroyd 4-1-20) and Steve Martin (FTV: Wild & Crazy Guy Part 1 & 2; […]