You know you live in Wisconsin when.....
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58Bassman
Tele-Holic
In MKE or places like Omnibus?
CCK1
Tele-Afflicted
"You know you live in Wisconsin when"
You know at least 3-4 people that have frostbite.
You know at least 3-4 people that have frostbite.
imwjl
Doctor of Teleocity
Yes. People let fear manipulate their realities as far as crime, and same with having bad news and data habits. Many places that are considered nice have more crime incidents than reputation lets them believe. At same time they apply knowledge of crime in small areas to apply to large ones.
On Kringle, one more where I'm thankful and really spoiled. At work there are serious efforts to stock good stuff and at home it is something my wife will make occasionally. The big problems are my efforts to stay in size 32 or less pants.
FortyEight
Friend of Leo's
i like wisconsin. at least he didnt throw it on the ground. the radio stations are crap though. i assumed it was like that everywhere. repeating the latest dozen songs theyre pushin
Throttleneck
Tele-Afflicted
You know that you are in Wisconsin when the gas stations have a bigger cheese section then your grocery stores back home.
buster poser
Poster Extraordinaire
…you insist an Old Fashioned has brandy as its main spirit vs rye as god intended.
Empty cans in the bed will get you in a lot of trouble. My brother was driving my grandpa somewhere and hit a ditch. Cops came. Open containers, my brother and the cops. Bad mix. It was my grandpas truck and cans.
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bottlenecker
Poster Extraordinaire
I can't stand any commercial radio, but madison has 89.9 FM WORT, which is a great listener sponsored station. There aren't enough of these types of stations in the country. It's really a different kind of tlhing from a college station. Madison also has a college station with some good shows (91.7 wsum) and Monona now has their own community station (98.7 WVMO). I really don't have time to listen to that much radio. I keep 89.9 on when I do.
I don't know much about Milwaukee's 91.7 WMSE, but it hosts Paul Cebar's show, which is awesome.
Stevens Point has 90 FM , it's a student/community statio and also excellent
58Bassman
Tele-Holic
That station archives their shows, too. You can browse to your heart's content and they play a wide variety of music. It's all volunteer, other than the station manager and it's often anything but professional, although a couple of them have worked at commercial stations- if you like Prog, Planet Prog is on Sunday evenings at 9PM, hosted by Mark Krueger, who's a friend of mine
www.wmse.org
nvilletele
Friend of Leo's
You know you live in Wisconsin when …. You walk outside of your home and you’re in Wisconsin.
This was in late 90s-early 2000s in Milwaukee
Oh no, a whiskey old fashioned is also a popular drink here. But if someone hands you a free one for no reason, it will probably be brandy.
We booked Snopek all over the Midwest and on college campuses across the country. Siggy already had a working relationship with Steve Kastner at The Omnibus when I got involved, and to be honest I don’t remember if I issued those contracts or not. I don’t think that I did, but I booked a lot of other bands at The Omnibus. Short Stuff, Sweetbottom, Uncle Vinty, R&B Cadets, and others.
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I’m pretty happy to read that several people here are fans of Paul Cebar and his radio show, and my friend Mark Krueger’s radio show as well. Live music and radio are alive and well in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin music scene has always been great, and I was proud to be a part of it for many years.
WORT is a good community resource.
I have dozens of cassette tapes of Bill Malone playing country records and Chris Powers spinning bluegrass and fold wax platters.
I have dozens of cassette tapes of Bill Malone playing country records and Chris Powers spinning bluegrass and fold wax platters.
imwjl
Doctor of Teleocity
I will still listen to radio including when I travel. WORT and WMSE have content that is top ranking anywhere.
When you travel the state individual public radio stations have some independence. If in range of Rhinelander's public radio station on a Friday evening I have to listen to their blues show if only for a moment as memory of my father in law.
At this point some of the shows rattle me on the topic of age. Some of the volunteers and personalities must be at it 40 to near 50 years now.
It may seem silly, but my monaural 360 degree WONDERBOOM speaker has brought back or added listening pleasure for the old recordings the stations mentioned do and other old recordings. My old Tivoli radio finish got too far gone and same for its 2nd battery. That speaker travels with my unlike a nice old monaural table top radio.
Technically it's in UP too, but the good old radio stations are available when you are traveling where even Verizon doesn't have coverage. Many small radio stations just rebroadcast what their distant owners push but not the public, community and college stations.
After north and south temperature and what grows differences, the state is to me glacier poop or driftless. If you drill down into county demographics you will also see a lot of people have more in common or things are not so one sided as legislated boundaries make it. Something I feel is really important to remember.
58Bassman
Tele-Holic
I went to high school with the guitar player in Sweetbottom (post-Daryl) and the first time I saw them was the Summer after we graduated. Walked into the club and they were playing Inner Mounting Flame. I saw that band a lot because it was right at the beginning of me getting into Fusion and they really scratched that particular itch. I saw Duane at a club in Brookfield where he was doing some gigs with Warren and when I walked up to him during a break, he said "Wow! I haven't seen you in years!".
Short Stuff still gets together occasionally, Jim Liban sits in with Greg Koch, Steve Cohen (Leroy Airmaster), Junior Brantley and others get together and it's great. I still see Steve Cohen, Daryl Stuermer and others at various grocery stores- that's one of the cool things about them being from here- they don't act like movie stars.
Did yu ever hear about The Has Beens? They were originally called The Washed Up Has beens' and played on Sunday nights because they were all gigging and couldn't do it during the rest of the week. It was Sig, Pat McCurdy, Pete Balestreri on sax, Victor DeLorenzo on drums, Mike Seiger on bass with others filling in on drums and bass, like Joe Steil (Gypsy and other Scott Finch projects), Brian Ritchie, members of Bo Deans and many others. Lots of other sat in when they were in town, like Jon Paris & Jerry Harrison.
58Bassman
Tele-Holic
Maybe in some places, but in MKE, live music is on life support. Fortunately, Pete B is still booking as many shows as possible, but that was rough during COVID because of the isolation and people couldn't assemble in larger groups.
Is it time for a Suds reunion?
