From Motown to The Stooges

[mrJim]

I just came across this one and thought it was great! Searched the forum but didn't find it posted so here you are.

Motor City's Burning Detroit from Motown to The Stooges 2008 DOCUMENTARY



Can't believe none came across this one before, so feel free to discard if it is out there.

There is some awesome footage from Motown MC5 The Stooges information about how the latter gave way to Alice Cooper. great piece of work IMO.

Jim

 

[rtbuck]

I'll check this out tomorrow but there was so much great music that came out of the Detroit area. I had even made up a playlist for my iPod of Detroit/Michigan area bands. Stuff like The Stooges, MC5, Ted Nugent, the Frost, Mitch Ryder, Grand Funk, Detroit, Rockets, Commander Cody, Brownsville Station, Bob Seger...etc. I did include Alice Cooper(he was born in Detroit...his band started in Arizona moved to L.A. and then moved back to Detroit. Plus my favorite Rock & Roll magazine started in Detroit....Creem Magazine!

 

[JimJam]

I'll check this out tomorrow but there was so much great music that came out of the Detroit area. I had even made up a playlist for my iPod of Detroit/Michigan area bands. Stuff like The Stooges, MC5, Ted Nugent, the Frost, Mitch Ryder, Grand Funk, Detroit, Rockets, Commander Cody, Brownsville Station, Bob Seger...etc. I did include Alice Cooper(he was born in Detroit...his band started in Arizona moved to L.A. and then moved back to Detroit. Plus my favorite Rock & Roll magazine started in Detroit....Creem Magazine!

I'm glad you mentioned Creem because i read it religiously in the '70s. That magazine was a riot, treated the music with seriousness but also with a high degree of fun and irreverance. The picture captions were always a hoot. i remember a picture of Paul McCartney in his awful '70s concert garb and mullet, with the caption "still prettier than Linda." Boy Howdy!

The bands you listed show what a raw and rockin' musical culture came from Detroit (i have no personal affiliation). Motown r&b from the '60s by itself would constitute a great legacy for the city, but that combined with the rockers is pretty damn impressive.

 

[rtbuck]

Hey JimJam a few years back they came out nice hardcover book on Creem with a bunch of articles from over the years. It's a pretty big book and it has a collage of every magazine cover which is fun to look at.

 

[mrJim]

Buck I have seen that Creem hardcover it was pretty cool.

In the Documentary I believe there is a very split second mention of another Detroit band that I like White Stripes. Talk about raw and blues punk rock influence. I enjoy Jack White. The thing with The White Stripes is they came around about 1997. Not typically a time that I myself think there was much good music being created.

Not in the same vain as the stooges and Cooper for sure, but good creativity none the less

Jim

 

[JimJam]

White Stripes are one of the very few outstanding bands (well, White and wife) to come along in the last 15+ years and Detroit should be proud.

I have not seen that Creem book but it sounds choice. They had exceptional writers in the '70s, most famously I suppose Lester Bangs and Dave Marsh, but Billy Altman was one who emerged later in the decade. I always enjoyed Altman's reviews, even when he foolishly gave a negative review of London Calling. I also recall an interview he did with Lou Reed (after Bangs had left the 'zine). In it, he admitted candidly to the reader that Reed was dismissing him as a no-nothing until he referenced a connection between Reed's rhythm guitar playing and that on Bobby Fuller's I Fought the Law; then, Reed lightened up towards him. Don't know why I remember this stuff!