A few weeks ago, Third Man proudly hosted a panel discussing five decades of Detroit rock 'n' roll. With panelists spanning across all five decades, the topics discussed were wide-reaching, informative, and often times humorous. The night began with a screening of 15 minutes of 16mm footage of the MC5 and the Stooges that had only been shown publicly once previously. The conversation was peppered with unreleased studio recordings by The Chosen Few (featuring a pre-Stooges Ron Asheton and Scott Richardson), The Go (featuring Jack White on guitar), and The White Stripes.
Panelists included...
— STEVE MILLER - noted true crime journalist and editor of the recent Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk ZIne '79-'83 and lead singer of early hardcore exemplars the Fix—
— SCOTT RICHARDSON - lead singer and namesake of legendary Detroit band SRC
— JERRY VILE - lead singer of cartoon punk band the Boners and editor of a slew of Detroit-area 'zines and proper publications like White Noise, Fun, and Orbit
— BEN BLACKWELL - drummer for the Dirtbombs, head vinyl guy at Third Man Records, official White Stripes archivist
We are happy to give Vault members the option to listen to and download the night's conversations first.
Please note that certain subject matter within this discussion may be offensive to some listeners. You have been warned. Enjoy!
I really enjoyed this. Thank you for sharing. Very interesting and fun.
Looking forward to listening to this with my mom…she was rocking out on the scene in Detroit in the late 60’s early 70’s… I followed her up in the 90’s and beyond. Thanks for the download.
just discovered this post tonight. thanks for the download. gonna be my lazy sunday morning coffee listen tomorrow…
Thank you for uploading this! TMR HQ is half the world away for me and things like this make it feel a lot closer.
Thanks so much for sharing this!
Thanks so much for sharing! I’m only early stages into reading the book, but it is fascinating to hear all of the stories first hand! A family of Detroit origin, my parents often like to argue who went to what shows back in the day and who had what bands at their high school dances (mostly Bob Seger arguments), but my dad was really excited reading all the contributing names since he remembers so many of them so fondly from his hey day and cant wait to read as well! He was a big SRC fan as well. Very cool to relate personally to the generations of musical artists that have come out of the big D and had/continue to have an impact on so many people and musicians around the globe. Thanks for sharing the podcast, can’t wait to take a listen! Detroit truly is America’s Rock City, always and forever…wish I could have been there for the chat but the audio will do in a pinch :)
Podcast from Thirdman at last,fantastic.
Fanfreakingtastic!!! Love the D and all it’s history and love being a Michigander. Thank You Thank You Thank You.
Hope whoever got my ticket had a great time! Thanks a lot for the download, makes up a bit for not being able to be there. :-)
Very cool. Kudos to Ben Blackwell for putting this all together.