Publisher Description

An indispensable guide for rock aficionados, this is the first book to survey the Detroit music scene of the 1960s and 70s - a pivotal era in rock music history, producing such legendary bands as The MC5, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, SRC, the Bob Seger System, Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes, and Grand Funk Railroad.

Author Biography

David Carson is a Royal Oak native, former Michigan disc jockey, and the author of Rockin' Down the Dial: The Detroit Sound of Radio. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Review

...a great blow-by-blow account of an exciting and still-legendary scene. - Marshall Crenshaw ""Carson reveals in rich and engaging detail exactly why the Motor City is world renowned as a musical mecca."" - Dennis ""Machine Gun"" Thompson, MC5 ""What the book does magnificently is provide the context and show the connections within a music scene filled with powerful DJs, club owners, label heads and - oh, yeah - an abundance of badass visionary musicians."" - Metro Times Detroit ""...[a] definitive history of Detroit's early rock scene.... Carson spends considerable space chronicling the rise of legendary bands such as the MC5, Iggy, and Alice Cooper, and he recounts the downfalls...."" - Detroit Free Press

Review Quote

"What the book does magnificently is provide the context and show the connections within a music scene filled with powerful DJs, club owners, label heads and--oh, yeah--an abundance of badass visionary musicians." -- Metro Times Detroit

Details