I was so lucky to be a teen in Detroit in the 60s. Motown, Beatles and Stones. Perfect.

[Faygo Kid]

You might enjoy this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FOUqQt3Kg0

[Justpat]

1. Long live the Queen. n/t

[abq e streeter]

2. And the one and only Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels

Probably the most powerful singer I have ever seen in person.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GqL94XRMvU

[Kat45]

5. I saw Mitch Ryder a few years ago at a Hippie Fest concert.

He was good. Also playing were the Zombies, Argent, Mountain, Country Joe...and I might be forgetting someone else.

[abq e streeter]

6. Just got home from a gig

with my drummer friend that used to play with Big Twist, Sugar Blue and others, and he was talking about playing in Cambridge in about 1979 with Eddie Clearwater. Couldn't remember the name of the club but said he'd remember if he heard it. Said it was near a highway that led to a bridge over the river or something like that....
And yeah, I bet Mitch Ryder is still good even if he's getting a little old and probably doesn't quite have the power in his voice that he used to.
And The Zombies ! How cool .

[Amerigo Vespucci]

17. Thanks for giving me a convenient excuse to post Detroit's version of "Gimme Shelter"...

The track is five minutes long...for some unknown reason, the person who posted this on YouTube has it play all the way through, with a couple of seconds silence at the end, then it plays completely through a second time!

http://youtu.be/u7iWRXH1crw

...featuring Mitch and Johnny (Johnny Bee) Badjanek from the Detroit Wheels and:

Steve Hunter (Alice Cooper, Lou Reed's "R&R Animal") - lead guitar(
Brett Tuggle - guitar
Harry Phillips - keyboards
W. R. (Ron) Cooke - bass, vocals
Ed "Dirty Ed" Okalski - congas, tambourine



:toast:

[MiddleFingerMom]

18. Dick Wagner was the OTHER half of that incredible guitar duet (with Steve Hunter)...

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...perhaps my favorite EVER dual lead -- from Lou Reed's "Intro/Sweet Jane" track
opening up my favorite album of his, "Rock n Roll Animal".
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Dick was from Saginaw and formed first "The Bossmen" and then "Frost". Frost's
debut album "Frost Music" was my very FIRST album purchased (right before the
only Zep album I've ever really liked -- their first).
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I never saw them live... though I did see SRC, The MC5 (incredible) and Bob Seger
(in between "The Bob Seger System" and "The Silver Bullet Band" and boy did he
SUCK).
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I went to high school with Brownsville Station's original bass player, Tony Driggins --
a Hendrix look-alike who wore bright silk paisley sportcoats as his school uniform.
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"Jenny Lee" The Frost
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xTcyi7aXEs
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(on edit) BTW, the call letters for the 1450 AM station I mentioned in my other post
here were WIBM.
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[Amerigo Vespucci]

19. I never saw Wagner live, but I did see Hunter...

...on Peter Gabriel's first solo tour after leaving Genesis. The other guitarist was Robert Fripp, who Gabriel introduced as "an obscure country guitar player, Dusty Rhodes," and Fripp sat on his stool, King Crimson-style, throughout the entire concert.

Hunter, on the other hand, thought he was still with Reed or Cooper. He was dressed in black leather and was doing all of the rock star, "my guitar is my dick" moves.

The audience knew who the real guitarist was, however, when Fripp hit one achingly sustained, bent, trademark Fripp note in "Here Comes The Flood." Some guy behind me bellowed "FRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP" and I thought "Fripp indeed." It was a "hair standing up on the back of the arms" moment.

I enjoyed Hunter with Cooper...with Reed...with Detroit...but on that Gabriel show, he was basically standing in Fripp's light.

:toast:

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. Grew up in Jackson in the 60's -- tuned in to CKLW (Detroit/Windsor) for music.

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About the only decent music around... EXCEPT...
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...for this little-bitty Jackson AM station (don't remember the call signal, but do remember 1450 on the dial) after
midnight, when they let Ron Hively out of his cage. The station was disgusting top 40 during the daytime, but he was
allowed to introduce us to previously unknown delicious treats -- like the British blues invasion and the San Francisco
scene (I think). He use to take live calls and I remember one stoner who couldn't stop saying "fuck". He'd apologize
profusely and continue on and say it again within a sentence or two -- then apologize profusely. To this DAY, I'm
convinced he was REALLY that stoned and REALLY that apologetic about his language. It was PAINFULLY funny and
Ron just let him go on and on and on.
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I am eternally grateful to him for introducing me to and opening my eyes and ears and mind to damn good music.
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Last I saw of Ron (he used to work days in the local indy record shop -- though they might ALL have been indy then),
he was MC at some big regional concert at the local Armory (in a retired 19th Century prison).
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He had introduced the final act (Brownsville Station?) and was humping... literally HUMPING... the stone wall at the
side of the stage with a passion rarely seen before or since.
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[kwassa]

4. CKLW, 20-20 News with Byron MacGreagor! They played everything.

I lived in northern Ohio, and it was the most powerful station we could get on our radios in the '60s.

I was born in Detroit, lived there until I was 8, Dad worked for GM.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

7. Me too

West sider. I also introduced people to Bob Seger's music whenever I could :toast:

[Faygo Kid]

8. East Sider. Eight Mile and Gratiot. Hung out in Harper Woods and the Pointes.

Shopped at Eastland before it was enclosed.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

9. Eight Mile and Evergreen

Lived near Edgewater Park, an amusement park, as a teenager. As a young boy we lived on the East side at Harper and Gratiot.........

[Faygo Kid]

10. Well then, I bet you will enjoy this. And the site generally. A full Sunday on hand for you.

http://keenerpodcast.com/?page_id=556

I bet the Edgewater Park ad is one you will enjoy.

All the best, and we're all behind our baseball team. Go Get 'Em, Tigers!

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

11. Wow!

I didn't know about this. I've already passed it to family back home who might not know. THANKS! :bounce:

[PassingFair]

13. I had a run-in with THIS monster at Eastland...

tried to jump over it, and ended up hitting
it WITH MY FACE.



Good thing the eye doctors were withing walking distance,
in the Eastland "Professional Building"!

[Faygo Kid]

15. LOL. Thanks for posting that.

[bif]

12. Me too!

Life long Grosse Pointer. What a great music scene we had. Frigid Pink, MC5, Savage Grace, SRC. Lot's of incredible bands. Too bad so few of them made it big. I think our music scene was second only to San Fran's.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. WABX, or was that the 70's?

I can't remember a bunch of those years.

But yes, earlier than that, "Paint it Black" from a car radio with tubes and a single speaker in the dash.

[jakeXT]

16. I watched "In the shadows of Motown" recently

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-457607153062514364# (still on google for a couple of days)