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The 1960s have become synonymous with all the new, exciting, radical, and subversive events and trends of the period, which continued to develop in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and continue today as we look fondly back at the coolest decade of all!
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SCOTT CAMPBELL: 2000 LIGHT YEARS
Scott Campbell 2000 Light YearsScott began writing poetry at the age of seven and songs at age eight. He taught himself drums, guitar, sax, piano, and recording production while in his teens. Scott has received 21 ASCAP songwriting awards and has bee...
ANN ARBOR ROCK N ROLL REVIVAL 2009
HOSTED BY MACHINEGUN THOMPSON!Hey all you South Eastern Michigan and surrounding area Detroit Rock fans! Come on out for the up coming once in a lifetime line up of Machinegun Thompson (MC5) Scott Morgan (The Rationals) and Deniz Tek (Radio Birdman)!...
ANNE MCDONNELL AND CRISTINA AUSTIN FORD
Henry Ford II left the Navy in July 1943 and joined the company's management a few weeks later. After 2 years, he took over the presidency of the company on September 21, 1945. Sure, the Deuce had his faults. He was a mean drunk and he began to copy ...
SCOTT MORGAN AND THE RATIONALS AT THE BLIND PIG
We had a blast last night at The Rationals Cd Release Party at The Blind Pig. We were there to see Scott Morgan sing The Rationals songs! We loved the energy and Scott was in a really great mood. I got there early and the big burly bouncer demanded t...
DENIZ TEK AND THE SOUL MOVERS/I 94 BAR
Deniz TekThe Barman did a fantastic job reviewing The Soul Movers recent gig in Oz and I loved it so much... I asked him if he cared if we nicked his post....He of course ever so generously gave us permission.We haven't gotten to meet the famed Dr. ...
BYE BYE SOUPY.... DETROIT COMEDIAN DIES
Oh we are so bummed to hear that one of our Retro favorites passed away today at 83. Poor soup he had been in failing health and he is finally at rest now. Kimmer grew up with Soupy as her absolute favorite TV show as a kid. JUst loved him and all hi...
DETROIT MAYOR JERRY CAVANAGH 1962-1970
Jerome Cavanagh, 1928 - 1979) was the movie star handsome and very charismatic mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 1962 to 1970. In Jerry’s FIRST campaign ever, 33 year old Mayor Cavanagh stunned EVERYONE by defeating incumbent Louis Mariani.Cavanagh ...
HARRY BENNETTS CASTLE
Retrokimmer and her brother JR went to visit Harry Bennett's Castle Sunday and we shot the front view. It is very lovely now. Nowhere on the property did we spy any lions or tigers...Here is a great post I found on the Henry Ford Heritage BlogInspire...
IRRATIONAL: RATIONALS CD RELEASE ANN ARBOR
Get your tickets quick! This show will sell out fast and you don't want to miss this. I was lucky to see this show in July at the Magic Bag in Ferndale.Scott and the band were just fabulous. Scott sings so well and those songs were so much a part of...
RETRO:KIMMER MEETS THE MADHATTER
Kimmer had a blast yesterday at the Carl Lundgren booth meeting Len Beste on the left and Stan "THE MAD HATTER" on the right at the Flintstock Music and Art Festival at the Flint Institute of Art. Stan was a rock legendary Emcee at the Grande Ballro...
CARL LUNDREN AT FLINTSTOCK TOMORROW
SEPT 26 200912:00-10:00pTHE FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS1120 E. KEARSLEY STFLINT MI 48503810.234.1695Tomorrow RK and crew are heading up to Flintstock to visit with the fabulous Artist Carl Lundgren. Tonight is the preview which we had to miss due to an...
RETROKIMMER INTERVIEW: SCOTT MORGAN
Scott Morgan Music Scott Morgan MySpace No more Spaces for Scott.... LOLThe Rationals' soulful cover of Otis Redding's "Respect" pre-dated Aretha Franklin's by a year, and was picked up for national distribution by Cameo-Parkway. A couple ...
RETRO KIMMER: PEOPLE'S ART FESTIVAL
My friend Richard Peardon called and invited Retro:Kimmer and hoped Machinegun would come along to the ultra cool Detroit People's Art Festival last weekend in the Russell Industrial Center on Clay St. Most of my favorite Retro fantastic rock artists...
RETROKIMMER'S BLUES AND NEWS ON SATURDAY
Though Kimmer tends to generally hang around the retro eras of music she definitely has a thing for the Blues. Especially on Saturdays.... No work and relaxing with Albert King..YESJust met the owner of the very cool MOTORCITY MUSIC FACTORY the char...
THE DEAD CITY PROPHETS!
Last week I also had the great fortune to meet and see Ron Cooke sit in with Johnny Bee and the Howling Diablos and blow the house down... We talked a lot after the show about internet promotion and we will be doing a new blog for Ron and his great b...
SUMMER FUN: MACHINEGUN'S HOUSEPARTY
Kimmer had a bunch of fun last Thursday night finally meeting Kirk from the Motorcity Blog and his very talented graphic designer/artist friend RebeccaMich at the Magic Stick in Detroit. We were there to begin the structure of Machinegun Thompson's ...
JOHNNY BEE BADANJEK: DETROIT'S DRUMMER
JOHNNY BEE'S ONLINE ART GALLERYLast night along with Mazinga/Powertrane/drummer Al King, I was lucky to get a ticket to the Scott Morgan and The Rationals Cd Release Party show. Without any advance info I discovered when I arrived that one of my all ...
The Rationals CD Release Party Featuring Scott Morgan
The Rationals CD Release Party Featuring Scott MorganWith The Howling Diablos & The Space Heaters Doors 8 P.mFriday, July 24 8:00pat The Magic Bag, Ferndale, MIWe will be venturing out to Ferndale to see one of our favorite rock musicians Scott M...
BROTHER CRIMEWAVE'S STUDIO
Had some big fun last night I met with our favorite video producer Dan Boyd the Wizard O Livonia and Brother Crimewave at his studio Rockdigi. DETROIT'S MOST UNDERGROUND RECORDING STUDIO. Essentially RK went there to meet the band Circus Boy and line...
MACHINEGUN THOMPSON: NEW YOU TUBE VIDEO
Machinegun Thompson and Kimmer were talking about filming a “Round Table” discussion featuring MGT meeting with young musicians to discuss the music industry and current world news events. Ran into a friend of mine from way back Jim King’s...
I NEED YOU: THE RATIONALS
This weekend as I was digging around in the archives at my rocker pal's house I ran into a picture of MGT and Scott Morgan the lead singer/guitarist of The Rationals and many more bands to come.Dennis Thompson/Scott MorganI came home and flamed up Yo...
DEATH: NEW NEWEST BLOG CREATION
Kimmer ran into these brothers over the weekend and decided to collaborate on making them a blog to splash all over the blogosphere! Bobby, David and Dannis Hackney formed a radically different rock band in the 1970's called DEATH and I actually saw ...
40 YEARS OF MARK FARNER
Visit Farner 9 BlogThere is an "official" tour this year of the former band Mark used to be with.We think this is just ridiculous and so petty. Self defeating as well...How can that voice and those licks be replaced? How can that guy even walk on the...
SHE GAZED INTO THE EYES OF LOVE...
Bob Seger the phenominal Michigan rocker is from my hometown of Ann Arbor. He is 11 years older than me and when he had his first hit record I saved my babysitting money to buy the 45 rpm EAST SIDE STORYIt remains my most favorite of all of Bob's mus...
DETROIT RIOTS IN 1967
67 Riots 12th St Detroit 1967The Detroit Riot of 1967 began when police vice squad officers executed a raid on an after hours drinking club or “blind pig” in a predominantly black neighborhoods located at Twelfth Street and Clairmount Avenue. The...
