The Backstage Explorer and The Audition Room are two shows on 90.1 WUCX FM (Delta College) in which the voice and show producer Rod Bieber can be heard from. An orchestra musician by trade, his violin can still be heard at Michigan shows as they have in the past with such artists as Smokey Robinson, Anne Murray, Doc Severinsen, Donny Osmond, John Denver, Dick Wagner and Mannheim Steamroller--to just name drop a few acts that have called upon his services.

Bieber usually is the one to interview others, but has had the tables turned on him this time and has told his music history to us here at the MMHP. He has given so much to the Michigan Music scene, it was high time he tell his story. The SSO, the FSO, and the small Bay City Bijou Orchestra are mere stops along his fiddling past. This one goes deep! Tune in NOW...

Don Hessell makes a return visit to the MMHP to give a rundown on all the music, shows & movies that are making noise in Bay City for the big 20th Anniversary weekend Sept. 24-27. If These Walls Could Rock, Marblehead Morning and Peeping Todd are some of his standout movies. Another movie kicking off the fest Thursday night will be Crystal Cross--director and bandleader Richie Follin will meet with a q&a AS WELL AS perform at Old City Hall right after with his band Guards.

Friday nights energy set will be at the Masonic Temple, courtesy of the band Megasound!

Saturday's lineup at the Jefferson Building that has hosted the Saturday night music going on three years now. Dogface, Snorkeler, and Ducks LTD. are the 2026 features. As Don suggests, "Propulsion Jangle pop!," will be heard!

Tune in to hear all about the choices, films and the party that Hells Half Mile delivers to Michigan, straight out of Bay City for a massive 20th Anniversary Celebration! Thank you Don for the update! See you there...

Telling us that "Iggy Pop said in his book that I was 'responsible for Dave's demise,' after the legendary Goose Lake Music Fest." Esther Korinsky Woodward puts those rumors to rest and gives up all the history on the formation of the Stooges and being close with both Lester Bangs and going to high school with Jaan Uhelszki of Creem magazine. As she navigates an upcoming book about the start of the Stooges and a relationship with bassist Dave Alexander and eventually being with guitarist/bassist Scott Asheton, Esther found her way to recovery, while realizing she saw an apex of Michigan Music History. And was part of it all!

Esther pieces together a graphic historical perspective of seeing the Stooges formation while befriending and sharing drugs with Lester Bangs. Esther eventually cleaned up and found her way to share the stories that she experienced at the start of the critical Michigan formation of the band that launched Iggy Pop and started an entire scene in itself. As well as being at the start of the magazine Creem, as Lester Bangs launched into the world. Her photos have been sought after and she keeps them for her eventual book. While unfortunately she ended up on the Creem Documentary cutting room floor during the taping, she is in two other documentaries, Ticket To Ride as well as Louder Than Love, two movies based on Detroit and Creem Magazine.

Esther enjoys sharing her story and hopes to give hope to others that think they can't get past their addictions. "They hear me and think, 'she should be dead!' This story is straight from the rock and roll parts of the 'D', TURN IT UP!