Podcast appearances and mentions of scott asheton

En este episodio, conversamos sobre "Raw Power" de Iggy And The Stooges, revisando aspectos como su sonido, la situación de la banda durante su creación, detalles de la producción, legado, entre muchos otros temas.

Testors with Sonny Vincent in conversation with David Eastaugh  American Rock musician. He has been active in music since the 60s and in particular the mid-1970s, when he was part of the New York City punk rock scene with his original band, Testors. Vincent is currently active in music, film, multi-media art, and writing. His pedigree includes mid-70s Testors' performances at C.B.G.B. and Max's Kansas City. Always active in his own bands, Vincent also spent time touring and recording for 9 years as Maureen "Moe" Tucker and Sterling Morrison's guitar player (both of the Velvet Underground.) Members of Vincent's bands include a vast range of players/characters, from the drummer of the Stooges, Scott Asheton, to Charles Manson's one-time guitar player, Ernie Knapp.

New music and music news of August 2021! New songs from Big D & the Kids Table, Quicksand and Dan Andriano and the Bygones. Check out the Power Chord Hour radio show every Friday night at 10 est on 107.9 WRFA in Jamestown, NY, stream the station online at wrfalp.com/streaming/ or listen on the WRFA mobile appemail me for FREE Power Chord Hour stickers - powerchordhour@gmail.comFacebook - www.facebook.com/powerchordhourInstagram - www.instagram.com/powerchordhour/Twitter - www.twitter.com/powerchordhour/Youtube - www.youtube.com/channel/UC6jTfzjB3-mzmWM-51c8LggSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/kzavhk5ghelpnthfby9o41gnr?si=4WvOdgAmSsKoswf_HTh_MgGRAB THE MUSICQuicksand - Distant Populations - https://quicksandnyc.bandcamp.com/album/distant-populationsBig D & The Kids Table - Do Your Art - https://bigdandthekidstableofficial.bandcamp.com/album/do-your-art

Episode 12 continues our NIT Tournament to determine the greatest rock music artist that didn't make our original 64 “team” NCAA Tournament (see episodes 1-8). Alternative rock match ups for this episode: (1) The Stooges/Iggy Pop (gets bye for first 2 rounds) (2) Sonic Youth (gets bye for first 2 rounds) (3) Elvis Costello vs. (10) Yo La Tengo (4) Pixies vs. (9) The Replacements (5) Joy Division/New Order vs. (8) Hüsker Dü (6) Roxy Music vs. (7) Dinosaur Jr. Notes for this episode: Another Elvis Costello album we should've mentioned/recommended is King Of America. Ron Asheton switched to bass when James Williamson joined, not drums which were played by brother Scott Asheton. Expressway To Yr. Skull is also referred to as Madonna, Sean and Me.

This week we’re discussing the legendary Stooges. This band needs very little introduction, but we will say they’re considered one of the greats for good reason. Although the Stooges did not receive much success during their initial run in the early 70s, their legacy—in addition to the lengthy and successful solo career of frontman Iggy Pop—continues to influence a laundry list of musicians and fans. They reunited in the early 00s with Minutemen and fIREHOSE bassist Mike Watt. However, after the deaths of founding members Ron and Scott Asheton, the Stooges finally called it quits for good. Turn this one up loud—these guys are one of a kind.Closing track: “Gimme Danger” from Raw Power (1973)Check out our episode playlists on Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/user/motherpuncherincMike’s Picks:Fun House (1970) — Best Album, Personal FavoriteThe Weirdness (2007) — Worst AlbumAlex’s Picks:Raw Power (1973) — Best Album, Personal FavoriteThe Weirdness (2007) — Worst AlbumAlbums we discussed this episode…The Stooges (1969)Fun House (1970)Raw Power (1973)The Weirdness (2007)Ready to Die (2013)Follow Mike on Instagram @popejesseventura for show updates and @pandermonkey for original musicFollow Alex on Instagram @motherpuncher

Welcome to another Dropped Culture Podcast After Dark episode all about the greatest rock and roll band of all time "The Stooges" Iggy Pop (vocals), Ron Asheton (guitar,bass), Scott Asheton (drums), Dave Alexander (bass), and later additions James Williamson (guitar), Steve Mackay (saxophone). Often cited as the Godfathers of Punk, The Stooges were ahead of their time and are still light years away from any band that has come since. Songs like "I Wanna Be Your Dog", "Down on the Street" and "Search and Destroy" propelled them into legendary status. The world was never the same after August 5th 1969. Thank God for The Stooges because without them we wouldn't be who we are today! Dan, Tyson and Brock Dive deep into their first 3 albums track by track while recounting their earliest experiences with the band and feelings about what they mean to them. Make sure you have your copies of the records ready because after this podcast you will want them on your stereo full blast and pissing off the neighbors again! Long Live The Stooges!Feedback is always welcome at the dropped culture podcast so hit the subscribe button on whatever you are listening to and drop us a line at droppedculturepodcast@gmail.com or on facebook @droppedculturepodcast, instagram @droppedculturepodcast, twitter @culturedropped and wherever dropped culture merchandise is sold! Sponsored by the-skeletons-of-memory.myshopify.com

伊基•波普被认为是朋克音乐的教父，因为任何一支现在的或是过去的朋克乐队，都曾经从他在60年代末70年代初所建立的乐队Stooges那里有所借鉴和启发。 原名詹姆斯•纽威尔•奥斯特伯格（James Newell Osterberg ）的伊基•波普，出生于1947年。出于对摇滚乐的喜爱，他开始学习打鼓，并且在60年代初成立了他的第一支乐队Iguanas。在滚石公司波普迷上了布鲁斯，并且自创了一种和布鲁斯相近的音乐风格，取名Prime Movers。1965年，他高中毕业后进入在密歇根大学学习，没多久就前往芝加哥，给一些蓝调乐手伴奏。不过他的心仍然在摇滚乐上。回到Ann Arbor一段时间后，他决定成立一个摇滚乐队，不过这一次他不再是鼓手，而是走到了台前，67年他与高中时候的旧友、吉他手罗恩•艾希顿（Ron Asheton）兄弟，以及贝司手戴夫•亚历山大（Dave Alexander）成立了Psychedelic Stooges乐队，虽然他们花了好一段时间才彼此默契起来，但是很快就成了当地的明星乐队。不久乐队将名字缩短为Stooges，而奥斯特伯格也把艺名改为伊基•波普。Elektra唱片公司于68年和这支乐队签约，于69年为他们发行了与乐队同名的专辑，随后在70年发行了第二张专辑《Fun House》。虽然这两张专辑销量极差，却仍旧成为摇滚乐的经典教科书，甚至被视作朋克摇滚的开山之作。由于大众对他们不怎么感冒，而且乐队成员开始染上毒瘾，唱片公司与71年和他们解约，同年乐队也解散了。随后乐队的歌迷大卫•鲍伊（David Bowie）找到了波普，鼓励他继续演唱事业，于是波普与吉他手詹姆斯•威廉姆森（James Williamson）为伴，签下了Mainman管理公司，并定居与英格兰，最终他们再次艾希顿兄弟重组乐队。 　　在和哥伦比亚公司签约后，乐队希望能够沿着鲍伊的足迹，在商业上有所突破，Stooges乐队谱写了又一首朋克经典——《Raw Power》。到了74年底，波普和乐队的大部分成员再次染上毒瘾，他们的星光随即黯淡下去，乐队再度解体。波普和威廉姆森分道扬镳。戒毒期间，波普得到了鲍伊的大力支持，76年末两人一同迁往柏林，波普在他的帮助下，与RCA公司签下合同。对欧洲电子摇滚兴趣颇浓的大卫利用波普的音乐天赋，在专辑《The Idiot》和《Lust for Life》中进行了这方面的探索，两张专辑销量都不错，鲍伊也以键盘手的身份加入波普的巡演计划中，波普的巡演现场版唱片《TV Eye(1977 Live)》发行后，他离开了鲍伊，自己单飞。与另一家公司Arista签约后，波普与威廉姆森一起先后制作《New Values》、《Soldier》、《Party》和《Zombie》等专辑。82以后波普离开了公众的视线，直到86年才再次复出。他签下A&M公司，并立刻投入由鲍伊参与制作的唱片《Blah Blah Blah》中。88年他开始转向硬摇滚，联合了前性手枪乐队吉他手史蒂夫•琼斯（Steve Jones）和布瑞克（Brick），制作出他的第一张美国金唱片专辑《Candy》。 　　就像波普在70年代被朋克乐队所仰视一样，历史在90年代重演了。Stooges乐队在西雅图大受欢迎，很多的乐队开始翻唱Stooges的歌曲。93年波普灌制了一张单曲碟《American Caesar》，虽然他尽力重现昔日的辉煌，但是唱片并未获得好评。倒是他为电影《猜火车》（Trainspotting）所创作的原声碟《Lust for Life》大受欢迎。接下来的10年波普几乎把精力全部投入到了电影事业。当所有的新生摇滚乐队在倾听Stooges的音乐时，波普开始回顾乐队的传奇故事，97年他独自录制了新版本的《Raw Power》，同时又出版了一本和流行音乐有关的书《Please Kill Me: The Oral History of Punk》，再一次回顾了Stooges的音乐生涯。99年对于波普是忙碌的一年，他又是出演音乐剧，又是出新单曲碟，但是他更加“细腻”的音乐风格则体现在他2001年的新作品《Beat Em Up》之中。 　　90年代波普曾许下重组Stooges的诺言，不过直到2003年这个诺言才实现。罗恩•艾希顿和斯考特•艾希顿（Scott Asheton）从国外归来，创作并录制了四首音乐作品，收录在专辑《Skull Ring》中。2004年，波普参与了Jim Jarmusch的专辑《Coffee and Cigarettes》的制作。05年一月Pop又制作了Penetration系列，接着是7月份的《A Million in Prizes: The Anthology》。

伊基•波普被认为是朋克音乐的教父，因为任何一支现在的或是过去的朋克乐队，都曾经从他在60年代末70年代初所建立的乐队Stooges那里有所借鉴和启发。 原名詹姆斯•纽威尔•奥斯特伯格（James Newell Osterberg ）的伊基•波普，出生于1947年。出于对摇滚乐的喜爱，他开始学习打鼓，并且在60年代初成立了他的第一支乐队Iguanas。在滚石公司波普迷上了布鲁斯，并且自创了一种和布鲁斯相近的音乐风格，取名Prime Movers。1965年，他高中毕业后进入在密歇根大学学习，没多久就前往芝加哥，给一些蓝调乐手伴奏。不过他的心仍然在摇滚乐上。回到Ann Arbor一段时间后，他决定成立一个摇滚乐队，不过这一次他不再是鼓手，而是走到了台前，67年他与高中时候的旧友、吉他手罗恩•艾希顿（Ron Asheton）兄弟，以及贝司手戴夫•亚历山大（Dave Alexander）成立了Psychedelic Stooges乐队，虽然他们花了好一段时间才彼此默契起来，但是很快就成了当地的明星乐队。不久乐队将名字缩短为Stooges，而奥斯特伯格也把艺名改为伊基•波普。Elektra唱片公司于68年和这支乐队签约，于69年为他们发行了与乐队同名的专辑，随后在70年发行了第二张专辑《Fun House》。虽然这两张专辑销量极差，却仍旧成为摇滚乐的经典教科书，甚至被视作朋克摇滚的开山之作。由于大众对他们不怎么感冒，而且乐队成员开始染上毒瘾，唱片公司与71年和他们解约，同年乐队也解散了。随后乐队的歌迷大卫•鲍伊（David Bowie）找到了波普，鼓励他继续演唱事业，于是波普与吉他手詹姆斯•威廉姆森（James Williamson）为伴，签下了Mainman管理公司，并定居与英格兰，最终他们再次艾希顿兄弟重组乐队。 　　在和哥伦比亚公司签约后，乐队希望能够沿着鲍伊的足迹，在商业上有所突破，Stooges乐队谱写了又一首朋克经典——《Raw Power》。到了74年底，波普和乐队的大部分成员再次染上毒瘾，他们的星光随即黯淡下去，乐队再度解体。波普和威廉姆森分道扬镳。戒毒期间，波普得到了鲍伊的大力支持，76年末两人一同迁往柏林，波普在他的帮助下，与RCA公司签下合同。对欧洲电子摇滚兴趣颇浓的大卫利用波普的音乐天赋，在专辑《The Idiot》和《Lust for Life》中进行了这方面的探索，两张专辑销量都不错，鲍伊也以键盘手的身份加入波普的巡演计划中，波普的巡演现场版唱片《TV Eye(1977 Live)》发行后，他离开了鲍伊，自己单飞。与另一家公司Arista签约后，波普与威廉姆森一起先后制作《New Values》、《Soldier》、《Party》和《Zombie》等专辑。82以后波普离开了公众的视线，直到86年才再次复出。他签下A&M公司，并立刻投入由鲍伊参与制作的唱片《Blah Blah Blah》中。88年他开始转向硬摇滚，联合了前性手枪乐队吉他手史蒂夫•琼斯（Steve Jones）和布瑞克（Brick），制作出他的第一张美国金唱片专辑《Candy》。 　　就像波普在70年代被朋克乐队所仰视一样，历史在90年代重演了。Stooges乐队在西雅图大受欢迎，很多的乐队开始翻唱Stooges的歌曲。93年波普灌制了一张单曲碟《American Caesar》，虽然他尽力重现昔日的辉煌，但是唱片并未获得好评。倒是他为电影《猜火车》（Trainspotting）所创作的原声碟《Lust for Life》大受欢迎。接下来的10年波普几乎把精力全部投入到了电影事业。当所有的新生摇滚乐队在倾听Stooges的音乐时，波普开始回顾乐队的传奇故事，97年他独自录制了新版本的《Raw Power》，同时又出版了一本和流行音乐有关的书《Please Kill Me: The Oral History of Punk》，再一次回顾了Stooges的音乐生涯。99年对于波普是忙碌的一年，他又是出演音乐剧，又是出新单曲碟，但是他更加“细腻”的音乐风格则体现在他2001年的新作品《Beat Em Up》之中。 　　90年代波普曾许下重组Stooges的诺言，不过直到2003年这个诺言才实现。罗恩•艾希顿和斯考特•艾希顿（Scott Asheton）从国外归来，创作并录制了四首音乐作品，收录在专辑《Skull Ring》中。2004年，波普参与了Jim Jarmusch的专辑《Coffee and Cigarettes》的制作。05年一月Pop又制作了Penetration系列，接着是7月份的《A Million in Prizes: The Anthology》。

They were all punk rock and they all died… In honor of the show turning 27, I decided to pay tribute to those punks that are no longer with us. Special thanks to DeadPunkStars.com Song - Artist - R.I.P. People Who Died - Jim Carroll Band - Jim Carroll Evil - 45 Grave - Rob Graves Body Count - AGRESSION - Mark Hickey, Henry Knowles I'm Sorry - Big Boys - Randy "Biscuit" Turner I Tell Lies Everyday - Black Randy & The Metrosquad - Black Randy Masturbation Generation - Boys Next Door - Rowland Howard Time Bomb - Blitz - Nidge Miller Hate You - Carbonas - Bobby Ubangi Spiritual Cramp - Christian Death - Rozz Williams Fuck The World - Chaotic Dischord - Dave "Pox" Bateman Wild In The Streets - Circle Jerks - Roger Rogerson Human Fly - The Cramps - Lux Interior Pressure Drop - The Clash - Joe Strummer From Protest To Resistance - Conflict - Francisco "Paco" Carreno Frustration - Crime - Ricky Williams, Frankie Fix Liar For Hire - D.O.A. - Dimwit Myage - Descendents - Frank Nauvetta Tiny Town - The Dead Milkmen - Dave Blood What Love Is - Dead Boys - Stiv Bators Satisfaction - DEVO - Bob Casale Roadkill - The Dickies - Chuck Wagon, Karlos Kabellero Modern Kicks - The Exploding Hearts - Adam Cox, Jeremy Gage, Matt Fitzgerald Out There - F Word - Rik L. Rik Ha Ha Ha - Flipper - Ricky Williams, Will Shatter Land Of Treason - The Germs - Darby Crash She's Like Heroin To Me - The Gun Club - Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Rob Graves No Rules - GG Allin - GG Allin Bloodlust - Ink And Dagger - Sean Patrick McCabe Living in the Ice Age - Joy Division - Ian Curtis Get Busy Livin' Or Get Busy Dyin' - Kings Of Nuthin' - Torr Skoog Better Off Dead - La Peste - Roger Tripp Tell me why - M.I.A. - Mike Conley, Todd Sampson John Wayne Was A Nazi - MDC - Mikey Donaldson Kick Out The Jams - MC5 - Rob Tyner, Fred "Sonic" Smith, Michael Davies Love Me Like a Reptile - Motörhead - Lemmy, Philthy Animal Taylor This Ain't No Picnic - Minutemen - D. Boon I Got Power - Negative Trend - Will Shatter Body Language - Neon Hearts - Raven Looking For A Kiss - New York Dolls - Johnny Thunders, Jerry Nolan, Arthur "Killer" Kane, Face Down In the Dirt - Offenders - Michael Donaldson Hidden Agenda - Out Cold - Mark Sheehan Underage - Poison Idea - Tom "Pig Champion" Roberts Butcher Baby - Plasmatics - Wendy O. Williams You're Tripping - The Queers - Hugh O'Neill Chain Saw - Ramones - Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, Tommy Blank Generation - Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Robert Quine Kids Don't Follow - The Replacements - Bob Stinson Quite All Right - Reatards - Jay Reatard Staring at the Rude Boys - The Ruts - Malcolm Owen Reagan Youth - Reagan Youth - Dave Insurgent, Andy Apathy 122 Hours Of Fear - Screamers - Tomata Du Plenty Hope & Glory - Skids - Stuart Adamson I Wanna Be Your Dog - The Stooges - Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton, Dave Alexander Sick and Crazy - Stains - Jessie Fix Victims - The Skulls - Bruce "Morbid" Moreland All The Answers - Social Distortion - Dennis Danell, Brett Lyles I've Had Enough - Slapshot - Jordan Wood Superficial Love - T.S.O.L. - Todd Barnes Tearin' Me Apart - Teenage Head - Frankie Venom That's Life - U.S. Bombs - Chuck Briggs Pirate's Life - The Vandals - Stevo My Rules - Void - Sean Finnegan Rock And Roll - The Velvet Underground - Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison Useless Eater - Vomit Pigs - Mike Vomit Hot Bitch (With An Electric Guitar) - White Flag - Pat Fear Growing Up, The Next Step - Warzone - Raybeez The World Turned Dayglo - X-ray Spex - Poly Styrene My Way - Sex Pistols - Sid Vicious

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we look back at the music of 1984. I've also got music from Hallelujah the Hills, Feral Jenny and Red Sea. Show notes: - Recorded via Skype - Check out Brian's comics podcast The Hour Cosmic - Brian's #5 - Pretenders are very underrated - Chrissie Hynde got a late start in rock - Jay's #5 - Saw R.E.M.'s first national TV appearance on Letterman - Brian's #4 - Minutemen covered a wide range of styles - Mike Watt's interesting career - Scott Asheton, R.I.P. - James Williamson went from playing with Iggy to become a Silicon Valley exec - Jay's #4 - Van Halen inadvertently helped create hair metal - Brian's #3 - Meat Puppets created a unique sound - Most people became aware of them a decade later - Jay's #3 - Replacements' sound evolved from punk to more mature rock - Brian's #2 was his #1 when we started talking - Jay's #2 - Husker Du was coming into its own in '84 - So much good music on SST in the early to mid-'80s - Brian's #1 - Gordon Gano wrote first two Violent Femmes albums while in high school - Serious gospel undertones - Jay's #1 - Purple Rain was a masterpiece - Jay chronicled 1984 in a diary reprinted on Kumar's Blizznog - Next up: 1986   Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review!   Music: Hallelujah the Hills - Pick Up an Old Phone Feral Jenny - Law & Order Red Sea - Down with the Crown   The Hallelujah the Hills song is on the album Have You Ever Done Something Evil? on Discrete Pageantry. Download the song for free at Stereogum. The Feral Jenny song is on the EP Bedrooms. Download the song for free at Bandcamp. The Red Sea song is on the EP Yardsticks for Human Intelligence. Download the song for free at Bandcamp.   The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Show Notes: Melbourne public transport: Tram, train, bus users stranded with unusable data [The Age] NBN Co plans retaliation for TPG fibre project [ZDNet] Google: Australian Piracy Is An Availability And Pricing Problem [Gizmodo Australia] Drone 'used to carry drugs near prison' [BBC News] World Wide Web turns 25 years old [The Age] Neil Young Launching PonoMusic Via Kickstarter [Pitchfork] Apple releases iOS 7.1 with reboot fix, UI tweaks, and CarPlay [The Verge] Apple building support for driving 4K displays at 'Retina' resolution, 60Hz output from 2013 MacBook Pros [9to5Mac] BBC Releases 30th Anniversary Edition Of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Text Adventure Game. You Have Died (And Gone To Gaming Heaven) [TechCrunch] Romanian Man Commits Suicide and Kills His 4-Year-Old after Falling for Police Ransomware [HOTforSecurity] Wesley Warren, the Man With the 132-pound Scrotum, Dead at 49 [Gawker] Hal Douglas, Movie Trailer Voice Over Master, Dead at 89 [Variety] Stooges drummer Scott Asheton has died, aged 64 [FasterLouder] Betty White dead 2014 : Actress killed by celebrity death hoax [Mediamass] FreeviewPlus is dead if it's locked-down [The Age] Foxtel's Presto Streaming Movie Service Launches Today [Reckoner] Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page. Songs We Played: Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder - "Together In Electric Dreams" [iTunes] Gin Wigmore - "Black Sheep" [iTunes] Radiohead - "High & Dry" [iTunes] Chromeo - "Sexy Socialite" [iTunes] DJ Lobsterdust - "It's Fun To Smoke Dust" [SoundCloud] The Stooges - "I Wanna Be Your Dog" [iTunes] Bic Runga - "Sway" [iTunes] Questions, Comments, Feedback and Suggestions are all welcome. Website - http://geeksinterrupted.fm Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/GeeksInterrupted Twitter - https://twitter.com/GeeksOnAir Voicemail - http://www.speakpipe.com/GeeksInterrupted If you enjoyed this episode head on over to iTunes and kindly leave us a rating, a review and subscribe.

Today Detroit is down for the count, but as Steve Miller reveals inDetroit Rock City: The Uncensored History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in America’s Loudest City (Da Capo Press, 2013), his comprehensive oral history of the city’s rock scene, the Motor City’s musicians never gave up the fight. Based on dozens of interviews with veteran promoters, leading musicians, and Uberfans, Miller’s insightful conversations trace the evolution of the city’s scene from its blues-rock beginnings through its current rock-rap incarnations. Along the way Miller demonstrates that while Detroit’s rock community never got the respect it deserved from its New York and Los Angeles counterparts, no metropolis did more to make American rock music loud, heavy, and primal. Miller begins his saga at the legendary Grande Ballroom, the now crumbling 1960s mecca for live rock, which hosted superstar acts like the Who and Janis Joplin and served as the springboard for two seminal Detroit acts, the MC5 and Iggy and the Stooges. By the early 1970s, Detroit was well on the way to becoming Rock City, USA. It played host to the Goose Lake Festival, a massively successful gathering that rivaled Woodstock. It was home to Creem, the country’s best rock magazine. It incubated the careers of Bob Seger and Ted Nugent, performers who would become two of America’s biggest arena rock acts in the mid-1970s. Miller then expertly navigates the city’s obscure punk scene of the 1980s. Many of the acts will be unfamiliar to readers, but Miller’s own experiences as a musician who played in a Michigan-based punk band during these years give these pages a rawness and immediacy that many such accounts lack. Miller closes with eye-opening perspectives on the city’s current scene by garage rock revivalist Jack White and America’s pariahs of rap, the Insane Clown Posse. One sad postscript to this interview: Iggy and the Stooges co-founder and drummer Scott Asheton died on 15 March 2014 at the age of 64. RIP.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today Detroit is down for the count, but as Steve Miller reveals inDetroit Rock City: The Uncensored History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in America’s Loudest City (Da Capo Press, 2013), his comprehensive oral history of the city’s rock scene, the Motor City’s musicians never gave up the fight. Based on dozens of interviews with veteran promoters, leading musicians, and Uberfans, Miller’s insightful conversations trace the evolution of the city’s scene from its blues-rock beginnings through its current rock-rap incarnations. Along the way Miller demonstrates that while Detroit’s rock community never got the respect it deserved from its New York and Los Angeles counterparts, no metropolis did more to make American rock music loud, heavy, and primal. Miller begins his saga at the legendary Grande Ballroom, the now crumbling 1960s mecca for live rock, which hosted superstar acts like the Who and Janis Joplin and served as the springboard for two seminal Detroit acts, the MC5 and Iggy and the Stooges. By the early 1970s, Detroit was well on the way to becoming Rock City, USA. It played host to the Goose Lake Festival, a massively successful gathering that rivaled Woodstock. It was home to Creem, the country’s best rock magazine. It incubated the careers of Bob Seger and Ted Nugent, performers who would become two of America’s biggest arena rock acts in the mid-1970s. Miller then expertly navigates the city’s obscure punk scene of the 1980s. Many of the acts will be unfamiliar to readers, but Miller’s own experiences as a musician who played in a Michigan-based punk band during these years give these pages a rawness and immediacy that many such accounts lack. Miller closes with eye-opening perspectives on the city’s current scene by garage rock revivalist Jack White and America’s pariahs of rap, the Insane Clown Posse. One sad postscript to this interview: Iggy and the Stooges co-founder and drummer Scott Asheton died on 15 March 2014 at the age of 64. RIP.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today Detroit is down for the count, but as Steve Miller reveals inDetroit Rock City: The Uncensored History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in America’s Loudest City (Da Capo Press, 2013), his comprehensive oral history of the city’s rock scene, the Motor City’s musicians never gave up the fight. Based on dozens of interviews with veteran promoters, leading musicians, and Uberfans, Miller’s insightful conversations trace the evolution of the city’s scene from its blues-rock beginnings through its current rock-rap incarnations. Along the way Miller demonstrates that while Detroit’s rock community never got the respect it deserved from its New York and Los Angeles counterparts, no metropolis did more to make American rock music loud, heavy, and primal. Miller begins his saga at the legendary Grande Ballroom, the now crumbling 1960s mecca for live rock, which hosted superstar acts like the Who and Janis Joplin and served as the springboard for two seminal Detroit acts, the MC5 and Iggy and the Stooges. By the early 1970s, Detroit was well on the way to becoming Rock City, USA. It played host to the Goose Lake Festival, a massively successful gathering that rivaled Woodstock. It was home to Creem, the country’s best rock magazine. It incubated the careers of Bob Seger and Ted Nugent, performers who would become two of America’s biggest arena rock acts in the mid-1970s. Miller then expertly navigates the city’s obscure punk scene of the 1980s. Many of the acts will be unfamiliar to readers, but Miller’s own experiences as a musician who played in a Michigan-based punk band during these years give these pages a rawness and immediacy that many such accounts lack. Miller closes with eye-opening perspectives on the city’s current scene by garage rock revivalist Jack White and America’s pariahs of rap, the Insane Clown Posse. One sad postscript to this interview: Iggy and the Stooges co-founder and drummer Scott Asheton died on 15 March 2014 at the age of 64. RIP.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices