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6. DOOP & THE INSIDE OUTLAWS - DARIAN COUNTS 7. SLAYER & MEGADETH - BY STEVE WALLAG AND MATT MCDANIELS 8. LOUDER THAN LOVE, THE GRANDE BALLROOM STORY - ERIC HARABADIAN 11. JOINT CHIEFS OF DETROIT - ERIC HARABADIAN 13. INCEPTION - KARIN ELIZABETH 15. BENNY AND BOB - BENNY JET AND BOB HARRIS 17. HOROSCOPE - EDDIE COOPER 22. DEADMAU5 - STONEY 26. EDUCATED GROWING - RYAN LAPOINTE 28. DL MAG MONTHLY CALENDAR. THIS MONTH FEATURING GUITARIST SUSIE FROM GATES OF BABYLON 30. SISTA OTIS - MICHELL HOUNDSHELL
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Doop & The Inside Outlaws
By Darian Counts
it’s now a dead zone filled with hollow carcasses many say used to be factories. The death and subsequent decay of this area seems to be inspiration for Doop’s songwriting.
I met Doop via a mutual friend, Ty Stone. Ty claimed that Doop was an incredible songwriter and one of Detroit’s unsung storytellers of the music community. After sitting down to talk with Doop it became clear that Ty was dead on. Don “Doop” Duprie hails from the downriver area. More specifically River Rouge. An area that was once teaming with factories providing the promise prosperity to the masses of appellation immigrants that came here to work in the mills and factories. But
Doop started his career primarily as a songwriter. Working with fellow downriver musicians like Ty Stone, he‘d written album after album of Detroit anthems. “ We just love to create great songs , whether it’s country, metal or something in between, writing has always been something I’ve been compelled to do. Ty and I would get together and just bang out song after song. We formed a collection of writers of all sorts to focus on creating great songs. Eventually we gave a name to our songwriting group “The Inside Outlaws”. When it became time to name my back up band, “The Inside Outlaws” just seemed like the natural name”. Doop, Pete Ballard on Pedal Steel/Guitar, Jim Diamond on Guitar, Katie Grace on Bass, and Dave Shettler on Drums unite to form The Inside Outlaws. Doop is a storyteller. In the vein of Bruce Springsteen or Bob Segar, his lyrics reflect with the frustration that many of us who grew up in southeastern
Michigan feel when we drive by the closed Mclouth Steel factory or the location that used to house the Fisher body plant. There is an undeniable realness in Doop’s music. It’s a shared frustration of unfulfilled potential of the Detroit area and a changing society that sometimes seems rudderless and confused. Doop is every man. He’s an ex fire fighter whose layoff has left him no option but to look to songwriting and performing to support his family. His songs reflect what we all feel. His 2009 release Everett Belcher is homage to his grandfather, who like many of our forefathers, came to Michigan along the hillbilly highway to build a better life for his family. Songs like “Burn This City“ seem to reflect the gritty perseverance that built this area while Doop’s version of Bruce Springsteen’s “Prove It All Night” highlights his ability to personalize and retell a tale that is familiar to us all.
he is an incredibly talented storyteller. There is a familiarity to his music that speaks to not only who we are but who we were expected to be. The optimism of the baby boomers with their message of peace, love and understanding now falls on deaf ears. Their inexperienced idealism and kumbaya attitudes have in a generation not only destroyed the cash cow but left us the carcass to bury and no shovel to do it with. A lost generation disconnected from the promise of its fore bearers calls out for guidance and hope. Among this generation are doctors, lawyers, engineers and last but definitely not least songwriters and storytellers.
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Doop’s music seems to speak of smoldering frustration many feel when we think of how hard our parents and grandparents worked to create this now spoiled land of plenty. He tells a story we all know. It’s our story. Granted it’s been told many ways. Yet, still it needs to be told again and again until we, or sons of the sons of our sons find a way out of the current economic dead end street. Doop’s appeal is in the purity of his songwriting. There’s no doubt that
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KERRY KING DAVE ELLEFSON The wait is almost over…after having to postpone the American Carnage tour (due to Slayer’s Tom Araya’s urgent back surgery); the metal trifecta of Megadeth, Slayer, and Testament will finally lay waste to the US and Canada starting July 23rd. With a rejuvenated Tom Araya heading up the Slayer set and the long awaited return of Dave Ellefson (reunited once again with Dave Mustaine) back into Megadeth, this tour promises to be one for the ages given the history these bands have and the years of solid metal that they have given to the fans over so many years.
There are so many story lines with all three of these bands that make this tour a must see for everyone. From the early years of Slayer and Megadeth (Kerry King played in Megadeth during the first shows of Megadeth’s inception), to the disbanding of Megadeth 8 years ago, to the cancer scare for Chuck Billy of Testament to name a few. Regardless of issues and storylines, what makes this tour a must see is the no nonsense, bone crushing thrash metal that will be unleashed to the masses. Recently Detroit Live had a chance to speak with Kerry King of Slayer and Dave Ellefson of Megadeth to discuss what’s on their minds and discuss the American Carnage tour which will be rolling through Detroit on August 19th at Joe Louis Arena: KERRY KING DLM: Well I just want to start by saying I’m really digging the new album a lot all of the songs flow really well together. When you began writing the music for the
new album, did you have an overall theme in mind or did you write each song separate from any kind of overall theme or message? KK: Well I think we always sort of write things as we go along; I think that makes the record cooler when we’re not trying to convey one main thing, because I think it’s really hard to do that over a 40 minute span. We usually get a bunch of individual ideas that fit together and are similar enough to be in the same collection.
DLM: Now that it’s been almost 30 years since Slayer was formed, how is it different now writing a new album compared to the early days? KK: I think each album is different based on the circumstances, the time frame that’s involved, like this one - we had to make up a lot of it in the studio, which we never had to do before, so it was very different for us. But I think it produced a different collection of ideas because we wrote differently than we ever had before. There wasn’t any rhyme or reason for it; that was just the sequence of events that led to these songs being written. DLM: I was really blown away by some of the lead work on this album, especially on songs like SNUFF; how do you usually create solos - do you just start playing until you find something that works, or do you plan it out ahead of time? KK: Actually those damn things are usually a fuckin’ afterthought, because I usually get caught up in making an interesting lead, so the solos just end up being overlooked a lot of the time. They’re definitely less important to us than the lead work most of the time. For example with SNUFF I came up with a real cool section for the lead, and then I just decided to double it, and that was more important than the solo work. I’d say about 75-80% of the stuff I just make up on the spot, and then if I don’t like it I’ll just go back and try something new. DLM: Are there any bands that are playing right now that influence your music in any way, or bands that you listen to a lot lately? KK: Not really...not to sound arrogant, but I would say a lot of bands are influenced by us. I mean, I get inspired by people that play their instrument well, like the Children of Bodom guitar and keyboard - those guys are just maestros at what they do. I’m definitely a fan of a lot of bands, but I just wouldn’t use the word influence. DLM: You guys are going on a European tour soon - do you see any major differences in European fans or venues as opposed to American shows? KK: I don’t think there are big differences,
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but when you get to the festival level there’s huge climax for everyone! a visual difference. I actually can’t wait to go back on tour. DLM: How is it playing the new songs from the time you left Megadeth? DLM: How do you feel about the metal DE: Man, the latest album End Game is scene right now compared to when you a fantastic record!!! It’s certainly Dave were first starting out? Mustaine at his best, writing bone crushing KK: I think it’s real similar actually. I riffs. It’s what he does best! don’t think there’s much originality, but I don’t think there needs to be. I think fans DLM: How is the chemistry now with the just want to hear something cool, and hear new lineup? somebody different doing it. DE: Even though I have played a lot of other stuff in recent years, to come back DLM: All right, thanks a lot man, and I and just play bone crushing thrash metal can’t wait to see you guys live when you again just came back so naturally with me come to Detroit next. to play that with Dave. Reality is that Dave KK: Definitely man, thanks a lot. is the best guy at it. To just come back and sink right back in the pocket with him was DAVE ELLEFSON musically just a treat for me. Shaun Drover DLM: Are you guys excited about playing has a great feel to how he plays. Chris with Slayer and Testament on this tour? Broderick does such a great job emulating Dave Ellefson: Oh for sure! We have a to the details and nuances to the former long history with Slayer…Kerry King was members that it all really is true Megadeth. the guitarist in Megadeth during the first Megadeth shows in 1984. Megadeth and Slayer played in the New York area in 85 DLM: Any past memories from Detroit? and Megadeth and Slayer played Clash DE: Oh yeah! From the early days of of the Titans in 90 and 91. This is a good playing the Token Lounge, Blondies, and year for all of us in our genre to be touring Royal Oak Music Hall. More recently we together. flew up from Buenos Aires straight to the Palace to play a Christmas Show for WRIF, DLM: What is it like being back in and Dee Snyder was host for that night. Megadeth after so many years? It was good to see Dee and hook up with DE: Honestly is feels like I never left. We fit him. It was an awesome way to celebrate back together so good and right now we’re Christmas. just enjoying the ride. DLM: How was it patching things back up with Dave Mustaine? DE: You know, Dave and I have talked and met up several times over the past 8 years. That process over time helps soften everything up. A lot of the past issues were already starting to be put back behind us when we got back together. Dave and I fit together like a glove again, it’s like we never missed a beat.
DLM: Have you had a chance to keep in touch with the old band members? DE: I have, probably more than everyone, stayed in touch with the guys. It’s so good to know that we can move on and do things
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DLM: What’s the difference between Megadeth now and Megadeth then? DE: We have the same inspired enthusiasm that we had all those years ago. The difference now is that we are more mature and wiser men…lol…we approach everything with a lot more experience under our belts. If certain things happen, we don’t get flustered because we have seen it before. You know fans are very excited to see Dave and I playing again. The fans have wanted to see us playing these songs (old and new) for so long. To a large degree playing these songs settles the score from what happened in Megadeth’s past. The American Carnage tour this summer will build all this up to a
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“Louder Than Love”: The GRANDE BALLROOM
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By Eric Harabadian
venue that would rival what was going something on a place like the Grande, the praises of the storied venue and the Janis Joplin, The Who, B.B. on with either the west or east coasts. King, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Beck, Cream, influence of Detroit music. that encompassed the MC5 and all Detroit area filmmaker Tony Vanilla Fudge, Canned Heat, Grateful A large part of the Grande these other great people would be an D’Annunzio has embarked on telling Dead—these are obviously all names interesting story that hasn’t been told Ballroom story is the psychedelic poster this essentially untold story in his that have been a part of our musical art created by Detroit-based artists Gary yet.” upcoming documentary entitled Louder culture for generations now. All are From 1966 to 1972 the Grande Grimshaw, Carl Lundgren, Donnie Than Love: The Grande Ballroom legends and many are fixtures in our Dope and Stanley Mouse. They created Ballroom not only showcased all Story. The modest auteur, who is collective musical psyche. But there handbills and flyers that proclaimed the afore-mentioned stars of classic employed with Jeff Moon Production was a time when these artists and national and international status but also upcoming music events in brilliant Services of Royal Oak, explains this many others were virtual unknowns, spotlighted local Detroit artists that rose colors and mind-blowing images. Some was a project that was indeed a labor of to prominence like Alice Cooper, Iggy of these original prints go for anywhere with careers in their mere infancy. love. “I’ve been doing film and video The Grande Ballroom was one of the Pop and the Stooges, Ted Nugent, Grand from $8-$10,000. And, in fact, Lundgren production for over twenty years,” says Funk Railroad, SRC, Third Power, Scott designed the poster art and t-shirt logos hallowed halls of contemporary music D’Annunzio. “At the twenty year mark Morgan and the Rationals and the MC5. for the documentary. that was instrumental in giving birth to one of my best friends Mike Staff, who many of these timeless acts. There is also a socio-political “It was really an important used to be at WRIF, and I were talking place in a lot of people’s lives,” says Located at 8952 Grand River component to the Grande Ballroom about how we found professions we Avenue near Joy Road in Detroit the D’Annunzio. “I was too young to have story that cannot go untold as the both enjoyed and really had a passion Grande Ballroom currently stands director D’Annunzio explains. “Russ gone there. I was born in ’66. But it for. The company I work for does a lot left a big impact and it was the birth as a literal skeleton of what it once Gibb was one of the first people I talked of network broadcasting for television was, in utter disrepair and almost of a culture. The music was obviously to when I started making this film and and I realized I’ve worked with six of unrecognizable from its original state. important but there was the poster art he was incredibly gracious and a great the last seven presidents, covered two Built in 1928, it was a thriving retail and the light shows. Before the Grande man,” says the filmmaker. “He told me Super Bowls, NBA championships, complex, with a hardwood dance floor the story of being out at a barbecue at the only places bands would play five Stanley Cup series, done that housed big bands of the day on Kensington Park when they heard that were VFW halls and cover bars. The commercials with the Rolling Stones, the upper level. Fast forward to the Grande opened up so many outlets for the riots were breaking out in downtown videos with Jimmy Buffett and Kid mid-‘60s where a burgeoning youth Detroit. He was with Tim Buckley—a bands, artists, photographers. Before movement, musical culture and political Rock, but never directed my own the Grande there was really no need for legendary singer-songwriter of the climate was rapidly changing across the documentary.” day—and his drummer, who happened rock photography.” Knowing it was going to be a U.S. and the world. to be African-American. They quickly At a recent benefit to raise self-funded venture, D’Annunzio gave money to cover music licensing and Dearborn-based radio deejay, wanted to get back to the city to make himself a three to five year time frame legal fees to complete the film held at sure the Grande building remained safe. educator and promoter Russ Gibb was to complete the project. And if he was plugged into the changes going on in the Magic Bag Theater in Ferndale, a Well, Gibb and Buckley, who were going to put his own money and effort near capacity house gathered to listen white, crouched down in the back seat the culture and had an epiphany while into it, the subject would have to be taking a trip to San Francisco. He and the drummer, who was driving, to three great local acts and watch something he felt a passion for. checked out what was happening with stopped some kids on the street and trailers and clips from the upcoming “I wanted to do something the hippie movement and, in particular, movie. Everyone from B.B. King, Alice asked them how come nobody touched nightclubs and venues like the Fillmore that showcased Detroit and its Cooper, Ted Nugent, Mark Farner, Don the Grande. The kids said ‘because they music,” explains the filmmaker. West that was featuring the major rock Was and Roger Daltrey to Lemmy, Tom got the music in there.’” “From a producer/director standpoint bands of the day. Gibb brought his “Even though there were Morello, Henry Rollins and Slash all I didn’t think I was ready to take on enthusiasm back to his hometown of make an appearance in the film and sing different races that went to the Grande someone’s life story. But maybe doing Detroit and staked out a location for a 8 Detroit Live Magazine - BROUGHT TO YOU BY CARTUNESSTEREO.COM
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we want in life and not have bitter feelings and be ok with that. Everyone who has been in Megadeth is an alumni member and is now part of the family tree. DLM: In 2007 you started Megalife Ministries…are you still involved? DE: I am still involved in it. I helped start it with a pastor at my church in Scottsdale, Arizona. It’s something now that in a lot of ways probably has a bigger voice with me being on a bigger stage with me being in Megadeth! We are currently working on developing and expanding what the ministry is. I still oversee the worship teams and the activities going on. I am not as active now being on tour but I plan on the staying actively involved in it as I move forward in my life. It fits well with my life now. For more information on Slayer check out www.slayer.net and for Megadeth check out www.megadeth.com
By Eric Harabadian
“You’ve got to walk before you can run,” “Rome wasn’t built in a day,” “Patience is a virtue”—all phrases that pertain to biding one’s time and having the wisdom to, in the case of Joint Chiefs of Detroit, build something from the ground up. And that’s exactly the career path that Eric Freeman (drums/vocals), Ron McPherson (guitars/ vocals), J.T. Lee (keyboards/guitars/vocals) and Raquel Salaysay (bass/vocals) have laid out for themselves. These four prodigious musicians aren’t exactly unknowns. They are actually all well seasoned vets, with Freeman, McPherson and Lee alums of the Detroit original scene and power pop stalwarts the Sunday Painters and Salaysay heralding a resume that boasts stints with the Truncheons, Slumber Party, Waka Jawaka and Park the Karma. But this is the first time that all four have actively pursued a cover band venture and the learning curve has proven to be a fun and exciting education. “Eric and I have been playing together since we were kids and we had been kicking the cover band thing around for quite a while,” explains McPherson. “We needed a second job and thought we’re pretty good at this so let’s do this. But let’s pick songs that aren’t that obvious but that people still will know. We’ll do our own arrangements of songs and just have fun with it. We brought J.T. in because we’ve known him a long time and had been playing with him a while too.” The trio needed a bass player and composed an ad on Craigslist which was immediately answered by Salaysay. “This was December of ’08 and I was laid off at the time and talked to my husband Kerry about getting into a cover band for money,” says Salaysay. “I emailed my bio to them and they responded the next day to set up an audition. I played the songs they asked me to learn and Ron immediately asked if I wanted to join the band. I said ‘don’t you want to talk this over in another room first?” “Well, it was just one of those things where we started rehearsing and halfway through the second run-through on
a song Raquel asked Eric what he was playing on his kick drum,” explains McPherson. “I looked at J.T. behind Raquel’s back and said ‘she’s in!’ Bass player….kick drum…. meshing….good…ha..ha! The James Jamerson rule!” All prolific songwriters, the Joint Chiefs of Detroit have tried to apply that musical aesthetic to choosing and performing cover songs. “It’s as simple as one of us driving down the road and someone thinks of a tune and starts texting everyone else about it—but not when we’re driving, of course,” explains McPherson. “I wasn’t really sold on being in a cover band, at first,” adds Lee. “But we are able to have our own level of originality in the songs and put our own flair into it. As long as the song is recognizable that’s what matters. We like to say we’re an ‘original cover band.’ Ron can dupe a solo as good as anybody but I’m not that good at copying other people’s stuff. I’d rather do my own. But then we’ll ad lib some stuff on a gig and the crowd really gets into it. That’s a lot of fun!” Recent sets have included an eclectic mix of everything from Black Sabbath and Styx to the Police, Squeeze and the Rolling Stones. They’ve also been combing the local landscape gracing venues such as Dearborn’s Post Bar, Silky’s, The New Place Lounge and Cheli’s, Busters in Trenton, Burrough’s Tavern in Brighton, Pier 500 in Wyandotte, Moose MacGregor’s in Brownstown and Mezza in Novi. “This is a completely different scene that you’ve got to get at,” explains McPherson. “The more it’s different, the more it is the same. It’s just different people involved in different clubs. It’s a lot of networking and we’re still learning that end of things. But we’re patient people and we have a plan. We’re starting to get calls now where people will say we want you, we’ve heard. People come to see us and we’re not your typical cover band. We’re doing this from scratch. It’s almost like a social dynamics experiment where we’re good at what we do and trying to find a method to the madness.” For more information you can check out Joint Chiefs of Detroit on MySpace and Facebook.
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ADVENTURES OF A COVER BAND PART 5: REMEDY, THE INCEPTION By Karin Elizabeth
The dreamer can always remember the genesis of the idea. True inspiration is impossible to fake. –Leonardo DiCaprio, the Inception 2010 Wikipedia describes the definition of the word, “Inception” as the following: The creation or beginning of something; the establishment of the origin of an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events. Some of you may have even seen the new Leonardo DiCaprio movie, “Inception” in which Leo’s character works as sort of a “dream spy”, implanting ideas in the minds of high-profile individuals while dreaming, in order to make it seem like the idea came from them, with deadly consequences. I guarantee, dream spy implanted or not, everyone has an idea floating around in their head that may seem crazy, but that they just can’t let go of. This may be a childhood fantasy, such as modeling, acting or being famous that the adult still dreams of, however inappropriate or far-fetched. For me, having a band is that dream, and I’d like to tell you how it all started.
this as an excuse to party?” Any musician with any sort of work ethic at all will tell you it is definitely the former and not the latter. As a teenager I continued to dream. Hungry for any sort of musical experience I could get, I joined every band, choir and orchestra available to me. Thankfully, I was blessed with parents who could afford all of this and I was able to travel the world, and even make music with people from other cultures. Nothing fired me up more than to be creating music, either by myself or with others. Even if it was the “re-creation” of another’s work (as is always the case in classical music), there was still room for interpretation.
In college I still played in all the orchestras and I began to take myself and my acoustic guitar around and nourish my real dream: being on stage as the main act, and entertaining others with contemporary music. This could be interpreted as something inappropriate as I studied for my “real” career, teaching. I began to squash my hunger and focus on what society would consider noble and acceptable. I began to teach more than I played, telling myself I would eventually find fulfillment. With the advent of adulthood, and the responsibilities to follow, my true dream became more and more distant. As I advanced further into my career, the dream still called out to me. I think there are many others out there still able to hear their true dream, but who are simply unable to answer it due to career and family responsibilities. From a very early age, I began playing I believe that if people were somehow the classical violin. My ear was trained able to answer to their true calling, then in music before I could even talk, and society as a whole would experience a as I grew up, my body grew around the fulfillment and happiness unlike any other. instrument. I still feel naked without it. To Unfortunately, the answer is not that this day, my top and bottom teeth don’t line simple, and you have to sacrifice much up from a childhood misalignment in my sometimes in order to answer that call. neck that was caused by it growing around the violin. That’s kind of how I look at I soon found this out as the call of my performing; it becomes a part of you that true dream became too strong to ignore. you can’t change back to the way it was I was in a job that I absolutely loved yet before. I still felt that something was “missing.” On a whim, I answered a classified ad While everyone else grows up and wants auditioning for female singers. Little did to be a teacher or doctor or lawyer, little I know that my future husband would me and my dream were being “misaligned” already be in that band. Years and many into dreaming that I could make a career incredible life changes, and many band out of music, or at least that’s what some members later, I had a new life that would have you think. A musician’s included my dream. I wouldn’t change biggest dilemma once you start playing anything, and I don’t regret listening to regularly is, “Is this appropriate for my that call, even though my life will never lifestyle? Will people accept this as be the same since the inception of my legitimate work, or just think I am doing dream…
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GETTIN WICKED For the 2nd year, Serial Killin Records & Killmusick will be hosting the Strictly For The Wicked Festival showcasing some of the top Horrorcore acts from all across America. Though they are based in the Southwest (of the country, not the D), Killmusick pays homage to the home of Horrorcore by bringing the show all the way to Detroit again. Featuring such diabolical acts as Mcnastee, Claas, and Sicktanick, as well as the all-female group Dead Girlz, this is sure to be a show to give you nightmares. With 30+ acts, there
won’t be any thing left to the imagination, spectators will walk away permanently scarred from this two day event. The best (if you can call it that) part of this festival is that it will be 2 days long, so if you’re into horrorcore, there’s no reason to not be there, you may be haunted if you don’t. Make sure you check out the 2nd Annual Strictly for “The Wicked Festival” @ The Modern Exchange in Southgate on September 3rd and 4th. For more info and tickets go to www.themusickstore.com
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people were accepting of each other because they knew there were other ways of doing things,” D’Annunzio continues. “And that’s how the White Panther Party started, with John Sinclair and the MC5 backing the black
citizens. So the story is obviously very music-based but also left quite a big impact on the culture as well.” Production for Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story is almost complete and plans for a Detroit debut are right around the corner. “My hope is that the country and the world will recognize how important the Grande was to rock history,” concludes D’Annunzio. “I really believe it is one of the greatest untold stories in music.” For more information on the film or to contact Tony D’Annunzio you can go to the following sources: louder2010@gmail.com , www. indiegogo.com and search “Louder Than Love,” check out Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story on Facebook or search Vimeo for the official trailer.
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Bob & Benny need to thank them. Nashville North 2 in Warren, T C Gators in Canton, the new Lazeez in Livonia, Joe’s Prime Time in Brownstown, the Machine Shop in Flint, Bullfrog in Redford, Quit-N-Time in Wyandotte, Simon’s After Dark in Allen Park, Marlow’s in Brownstown, Rack and Roll in Riverview even Noir Leather in Royal Oak, they get it. They buy ads, they distribute the magazine. They make it, or us, happen. We need to thank them, support them. We need YOU, the readers, to join in. Bob Harris(Far right) with The Rolling Stones
My partner Bob Harris, the guy on the cover of the Motor City Rock and Roll of 60s and 70s book, standing next to the Rolling Stones, is saying we need the girls from the Quit-N-Time Bar and Grill ad to join in. Maybe he means a personal interview for the column? Yes Bob, those ladies are lovely, (and 1/4 of Bob’s age!) Bob recently turned 80, and is the Oldest Rolling Stones Fan! You can hear Bob’s Rolling Stones fan song on the web at He is Bob Harris. I am Benny of Benny www.myspace.com/bennyandthejets. Mr. and the Jets Band. We get together every Harris is looking at a building in Livonia, month right here in Detroit’s favorite might it be a new music venue in the Rock and Roll Monthly, the Detroit Live making? Bob Harris, Detroit’s answer to Magazine. We write about people, places, Dick Clark, has been under the weather, and things, here in the Detroit - downriver feel free to call him direct 313-399-8285 area. We have always said you can read to talk about the old days, new clubs or about Lady Ga Ga, or Snoop Dog in any just wish him well. magazine, we want to have a column that mentions Critical Bill, Pistol Day Parade, Still talking about last month’s issue, Ray Street Park, Nightmare, Sykofish, Eric Harabadian from the Chain Reaction Fifty Amp Fuse, Robots in the Garden, band, wrote a nice column about the Beat and Ty Stone and the Truth. Boys. This rustic, rootsy, acoustic Beatles tribute band performs without bass and Last month’s issue featured Jay Sims drums. They say kind of a Crosby, Stills from Attracting Insanity on the cover. I and Nash doing Beatles songs. The Beat think Randy the bass player from Core Boys seem to be turning a lot of heads and Effect was the month before and seems that is a good thing. Eric has been turning Ty Stone was on a cover not long ago too. some heads. He is looking at making This is the kind of magazine we all need movies. Rock-u-mentry type movies to support! Beastie Boys said you have about working musicians. We ran into to fight, for your right, to party! The MC Erick, his wife Liza, and company at a 5 band, back in the day said if you’re not recent “Mark and the Mysterians concert”. part of the solution then YOU are part of Mark recorded the song 96 Tears when the problem. We all need to push to make he was 16 years old, in Flint Michigan. the magazine work. If you know of a club He and the Mysterians went on to sell 7 or business that is not in Detroit Live, million copies of that song. John Lennon YOU have to talk to them. Tell them to get of the famed Beatles said it was the best on board and support the Detroit rock and 45 record ever recorded. Rolling Stone roll scene. Magazine lists 96 Tears in the top 500 songs of all time. Not bad for some kid The All Around bar in Taylor has a full from Flint Michigan. page ad in our magazine. They support live music and in this day and age, we Also heard from Adam, AKA Sexy Jesus, “Run Run Run” was a song made famous by a band called Joe Joe Gun. It seems this time of the year is really “run run run”. So many festivals, car shows, concerts and gigs. Sometimes two gigs a day, and so often in the band business it is feast or famine. So you take the gigs as they come and do the best you can. It does seem like summer came and is going fast.
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SEPTEMBER HOROSCOPE
ARIES: This month could be a real rollercoaster for some of our ram friends. The stars say now is a great time to reflect upon the past few months. Are you where you want to be? The people around you are looking for encouragement. Tell them the truth. Family is also highlighted for this month. Make sure you spend enough time at home with your loved ones or this could cause trouble near the end of the month. It might even upset your plans for October. Try staying a home a bit this month.
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New people with similar interests will enter into your circle of associates. Listen to them. Their new ideas could bring you the success you’re looking for and deserve. Go for it! LIBRA: In September, you could be the judge and jury when it comes to family or disputes at work. Libra hates people who play games, especially head-games. Your keen perception and good nature helps others to give a little bit to get a little bit , and don’t be surprised if your spooky ideas pay off big next month. Rock on!
SCORPIO: Well its plain to see who runs the ship and Scorpios will prove this in September. Don’t be surprised if people around you seem like they’re dragging their feet, seemingly as slow as molasses. They probably are! Without a doubt, some of your family and friends are taking advantage of your kindness. Now is a good time to have them “ship up or ship out.” SAGITTARIUS: Well, the last few months have been very good to our archer friends, but September may bring some heartache GEMINI: Well, it looks like it will be and changes to this fire sign. First, business as usual for all you twins this everything may not be so cozy around the month. Music is featured and so are home front. Disagreements about money new friendships. If you’re thinking and the control of it could cause problems of expanding your business, now is a between you and those close to you. Also, great time to start advertising. If you don’t have a web site, get one. Try flyers group activities could come to an end if everyone isn’t pulling their own weight. or ads in local papers or magazines, Don’t worry, though. They need you more and remember you can’t provide your service and make money if no one knows than you need them. about you. Good luck! CAPRICORN: In September, our goat friends need to figure out what’s working CANCER: Communication is and what’s not. You are skilled and a have highlighted for our crab friends in good head on your shoulders but, lately, September. Getting the people around things have been a drag. Your success this you to understand your goals will be your key to success this month. At home month depends on your willingness to accept new challenges and responsibilities. everything should be working itself Go for a change. The stars say it will work out by now but, at work others may be out for you. Good luck! undermining your authority. The stars say this will all work out in your favor AQUARIUS: Well, it seems our waterwhen co-workers and family members bearer friends are back at it again. Whether realize you make great decisions for trying something new or back doing what everyone. they do best. They are back in the saddle LEO: Legal matters and paperwork are again. Now is a great time to get other on board with your new ideas. The stars highlighted for lions this month. Make say to plan that special party you’ve been sure to get professional advice when it thinking about and invite all your friend comes to buying or selling a product of any kind. Now would be a great time to and associates. This will bring you luck. Go think with your head and not with your for it! heart. Do this and September could be PISCES: The stars say September will bring your best month this year. Rock on! rewards to our Pisces friends if they learn to swim with the current and not against it. VIRGO: First, let’s say “Happy Birthday” to our Virgo friends, and God You could profit greatly if you accept the bless them in their service to others. This status quo and think about the welfare of will definitely be a wild and crazy month others and not just yourself. Do this and for this hardworking sign of the zodiac. you will have a great month! TAURUS: Teamwork is highlighted for our bull friends in September and, this month, you could hit the jackpot just by showing others that you really do know what you’re doing. Staying focused on just one project will be your key to success in the coming month. Don’t get pulled off course by others’ problems or dumb ideas. Love and luck will come through, children. Know what I mean?
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SISTA OTIS with like minded artists and she was a good fit for the style that they played. Fast forward a few years and I found Sista Otis via social media. We became friends on MySpace and Facebook, I had posted a couple of her videos and we started to converse. I found her to be a genuine person with a genuine love for people from all walks of life. She lived in post Katrina New Orleans for a time and played street music for the people recovering from the devastation there. She has traveled all over the country in her car making friends and playing her music without a “real” home of her own. Her living being made from the sales of her independent CD, “Worldwide Release,” which Living The Dream Out of The Back of Her obtained more Detroit Music Award Car nominations in its history to that point. Six years ago Detroit native Sista Otis was ready to hit the open highway in her 1994 Geo Metro. She was living the dream out of the back of her car… Her bags packed, and leaving the next morning, until a last minute call led her to the New Dodge in Hamtramck. It was then that I met Sista Otis and became a fan. My husband Richard and his band mates from A Hundred Miles (formerly the Michael Blair Project) were performing there that night for the first time. From the moment she came into the bar she exuded personality, and when she got on stage with her much loved guitar, we were mesmerized. She had this jazzy, rock, bluesy, and urban sounding vocal all rolled into one. Even without a band to back her up, she plunked out some very sweet rhythms on her guitar. But putting those talents aside, the most captivating thing about Sista Otis may be her stage presence. She knows how to work an audience; she has that rare gift of personality and charm that set her apart from the others. This may be a gift passed down from both of her grandmothers who toured, danced, and sang professionally, or from her father who practiced with his band in her family’s garage. But gifted she is, and disappointed we were that she was leaving town. Musicians like to perform
Matt Forde played drums for Trinity Broadcast Network in Nashville and listed Phil Rudd and Billy Cobham as his. By Michelle Hounshell Earlier I mentioned Elvis and Johnny Cash as influential in Otis’ musical career, but she had big love for Big Mama Thornton, May 14, Sista Otis invited Janis Joplin, the Doors, and was also several of her favorite local musicians greatly influenced by the Sun Players to perform with her in what she called and the Memphis sound in general, as The Sista Otis Medicine Show, at Rosie well as Bob Dylan whom she finds quite O’Grady’s in Ferndale. There were two stages, one indoor and one outdoor, it was attractive. a great night! She gave the performers Sista Otis and the Wholly Rollers the star treatment, with professional opened up for Blues Traveler back in June photography, a great sound system, live in Myrtle Beach, one of the highs of her radio broadcast by Mad World Radio, and career. John Popper gave her a shout out she introduced each band herself, in her after her performance three times and classic and complimentary style. gave her a kiss on the cheek, and then proceeded to tell her he loved her songs! More recently, on Wednesday
July 28, the Sista Otis and the Gospel of Rock N’ Roll show happened at Rosie O’Grady’s in Ferndale. The line-up consisted of Sista Otis and her top notch musicians the Wholly Rollers. Sista Otis hails from our own Detroit, MI., while lead guitarist Tami or T- Flash Gordon comes from Fort Colbourne, Ontario. Bass player Lee Magnificent Fisher comes from Birmingham, Alabama, She has had much media (his band mates say he put the “Bam” attention in the last few months due in Alabama) and Drummer Matt Forde to American Idol runner up Crystal Bowersox, who mentioned Sista Otis and comes from Mississippi. Also in the Janis Joplin as being some of her biggest line-up for the evening were, A Hundred Miles lead guitarist Richard Hounshell musical influences. Suddenly people from Flat Rock and Tom Hagaman of were wondering who Otis was, and it Southgate who performed an acoustic paid off for her in surprising ways. She set for the usually five piece band. And became friends with Crystal Bowersox ending the evening was Jeffree St. John and they had numerous conversations of the band Sugar Spell from Plymouth, during her American Idol experience, MI., who also performed an acoustic which led up to Sista Otis becoming Bowersox’s special guest in the audience set, and was one of the original Wholly Rollers. one night, and in which she sat next to Bowersox’s then boyfriend and held up a After the show I was sign that read “Mama Sox and Sista Otis say Save New Orleans.” In the aftermath able to spend time and talk with Sista Otis and her band of the oil spill offshore, she was able to mates. I must say, they are bring attention to her beloved people of all every bit as likeable as New Orleans. While in Hollywood she Otis, and very talented, studio recorded her newest CD, “Charmed,” quality musicians! T-Flash with Norwood, the bass player of Fishbone. By the time this hits the press Gordon has performed in the her first title track will be released during band TLC and did a short stint with Emily from the Indigo a CD release party at the New Way Bar Girls, and when asked her in Ferndale on Friday August 13th. You major influences, gave up will be able to download the track titled Lindsey Buckingham and “Charmed”. She plans on releasing her David Gilmour. Lee Fisher, songs one at a time, like they did in the old days, like her influences Elvis Presley who plays bass, played for Green Magnet School and and Johnny Cash did with their record named John Entwistle as his labels. main influence. And drummer
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The band will begin touring in September starting in the South and will release their second single “Pink Caraousel” and have download cards available. As Otis put it, “the whole CD will be one continuous party!” You can find out everything you need to know about Sista Otis by doing a Google search, and if I may make a recommendation, check out her song “Rollin’ Stone” off her “Worldwide Release” CD, and also her new soon to be a hit single “Charmed” off her new CD with the same title.
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