TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND TICKET PRESALE ENDS TONIGHT!

Pre-sale is on for Tedeschi Trucks Band, Greensky Bluegrass and Houndsmouth at Freedom Hill on June 17. Use the password "Hill14" at this link: http://bit.ly/TTBFH.

Hurry, pre-sale ends at 10pm on April 10.

POPULAR DETROIT GUITARIST RICK STEL DIED AT AGE 60

Guitarist Rick Stel photo: © Ingo Rautenberg

**UPDATE**

OBITUARY AND FUNERAL INFORMATION HERE

Sad news today, we lost another loving Detroit soul...Guitarist Rick Stel fought a brave battle against cancer...He was so good and his music was compelling. I remember the first time I saw him play it was in Ann Arbor with Jim McCarty's Mystery Train. I was there to film Jimmy but my camera kept pulling me to the left where Rick was playing.

He was magical to watch..he really was...our prayers are with his family and friends.....he was beautiful ❤️

JB Blues interviewed Jimmy McCarty 
about Rick's passing...
it's a lovely piece..
 click here to read more

THIS FRIDAY ON THE ROCK AND ROLL LAWYER SHOW

Sheldon and the gang will be interviewing author, Steve Miller, whose tome Detroit Rock City is in everybodies hands and conversations these days...

People interviewed for this book include Dan Carlisle, Mitch Ryder, Stirling Silver, VC Lamont Veasey, Ron Cooke, Don Was, Mark Norton, Hiawatha Bailey, Brian Pastoria, Tom Morwatts, Jerry Brazil, Dave Leone, Jann Uhelszki, Pete Cavanaugh, Punch Andrews, Scott Morgan, Deniz Tek, Scott Richardson, Steve Fogey, David Teegarden, John Sinclair, Gary Rasmussen, S. Kay Young, K.J. Knight, Dennis Thompson, Jon Landau, Frank Bach, Rick Kraniak, Leni Sinclair, Sigrid Smith, Dennis Dunaway, Norm Liberman, John Koslosley, Pete Woodman, Susie Kaine, Jack Bodner, The worlds most pissed off guy Rick Stevers, Bill White, Donny Hartman, Shaun Murphy, Dave Palmer, Suzi Quartro, Ray Goodman, Gary Quackenbush, Becky Tyner, Jim McCarty, Jimmy Recca, Niagara, John Kordosh, Cathy Gisi, Robert Matheu, Nikki Corvette, Art Lyzak, Mike Rushlow, Skid Marx, Nick Kent, Dave Hanna, Ric Siegel, Peter Rivera, Gil Bridges, Mark Parenteau, Gail Parenteau, Michael Bruce, Jim Kosloskey, Cindy Lang, Tony Reay, Charlie Auringer, Tom Weschler, and Dick Wagner.

To listen to the show, airing Friday, April 11 at 6 PM EDT, go to http://www.tunein.com and type WCXI in the search bar. If you're mobile, download the free TuneIn app for your phone or other device.

Posted by Cheri Clair
Booking Agent/Promoter · Lincoln Park, Michigan
 Creative Director, Publicist RocknRoll Lawyer Show
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OUT AND ABOUT: NIAGARA AND SCOTT RICHARDSON

Scott and Niagara

Old friends Niagara Detroit and SRC's Scott Richardson had a lovely reunion this past week end in West Bloomfield.

Scott, Colonel, and Niagara

Scott and Niagara hadn't seen each other in many years...both were very close to Ron Asheton and of course both were important to the evolution of the Detroit Rock scene.

Photos: courtesy of Scott Richardson

Scott Richardson We shared memories of the Asheton Brothers who live forever in the hearts of those who love them best

VALENTIN THE MAD: NEVER PIECE OF MIND

Hey Detroit Rock n Roll Magazine,

I'm Valentin (stage name Valentin The Mad) a lead guitarist - solo artist from Haifa, Israel. I'm currently working on my solo project on which I play all of the tracks - record the guitars, the bass and program the drums.

My latest release -- Never Peace of Mind (prog rock):

Sandstorm (heavy-thrash metal in arabian style):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8A_Ry4hisY

Lily Was Here(my all-guitar rewrite to Candy Dulfer`s and David A. Stewart`s classic):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUISi_zeYgM

Insomnia (soft rock):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGUp1s8fJrI

You can listen to the rest of the solo tracks on this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgrDAPIq_KbvO_kfrm7XSLIhEZHKKduOZ&

Social media profiles:
https://www.facebook.com/valentinthemad
https://www.youtube.com/user/Valentintheguitarist
https://twitter.com/ValentinTheMad

THE STORY OF GANG WAR BY RON COOKE!

It was sometime after I had left the Sonic Rendezvous band that I got a call from a local music promoter with and interesting idea. As the conversation grew it became clear to me that this would be and opportunity to experience something tantamount to the big bang theory.

Seems Johnny Thunders was going to be in the metro area for a few show's with the Heartbreakers so I agreed to become witness to this musical black hole. As time passed Johnny had taken a liking to the scene here and decided to hang around for awhile. The promoter had convinced JT that maybe he should try changing his habits and he agreed.

The conversion of Johnny Thunders had begun. In a remote house out side of Ann Arbor Michigan. The plan was hatched to clean JT up and build a new band around his style of rock & roll. The first call went out to Wayne Kramer of the MC5 fame, myself, Scott Morgan's brother Johnny Morgan to play drum's what was to become known as the Gang War Band.

We rehearsed in this remote place and I spent a lot of time with JT. I noticed as time went by that he became healthier looking and added some weight on and his eyes were clearer. So were hanging out one day and JT says Ronnie can you take me to town I haven't seen any concrete in weeks. I laughed out loud that this wylie New York cat was freaking out.

We decided to play a show to see how it would go. I went downtown A2 to a non descriptive bar that was the local watering hole for some of the city's finest drunks you know the kind of place dark smokey and some strange smells. I inquired of the owner who by chance was from my home hood that I hadn't seen in years if we could set up and play the place.

He said we can't pay ya anything. I said fine just get some more table's in here. Come's the day of the show with just a few random call's and word of mouth the bar owner call's and says his phone is ringing off the hook about tonight's gig. This place had never seen live music and it wasn't a place that most would ever enter due to it's extreme funkiness.

Well as the pressure was building up and a galactic shift in the universe is about to pop. The line of people is around the corner and down the block. The noise in the place from the chatter of the crowd was deafening. The band comes up from the cellar and begins to peal the wall paper with a sonic blast. Johnny reached up and caught his guitar neck in the ceiling tile pulling it loose.

He decided to swing from the ceiling support's like something out of a Tarzan movie and bam down come's the whole ceiling in the place all forty foot of it on the crowd, the bartender's and the waitresses. The place goes nuts. Ceiling tiles are flying around as if a hurricane was in progress beautiful I thought complete havoc. We didn't hang around long after that.

The owner was pissed off but here's the real deal... that sh*t hole collected it's insurance money swept the place out build a permanent stage and had a 25 year run as the place to play in Ann Arbor. After that I guess you could say we put the STAR in the Star Bar. And it still shines today even though they bulldozed the place and put up a parking lot.

WR COOKE

ORIGINALLY POSTED ON RETROKIMMER.COM

THE SEATBELTS AND CYNECIDEI APRIL 12 @ THE POUR HOUSE

BLACKPORT SPEAKER CABINETS 

PRESENTS 

THE SEATBELTS 

w/CINECYDE,

SICK SMILE 

and BILL CLEMENTS AXIOM ~ 

SATURDAY APRIL 12th ~ 

$7 adv $10 at the door