So, I bought CDs.
Oct. 18th, 2008 11:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lwoodblooAnd I can't resist being didactic. So. Sonic's Rendezvous Band.
Picture it. Or not. But it's 1978, Detroit. If you think it's a fucked place now, much worse then. The MC5 were broken up, the Stooges weren't a going concern, and P Funk was not so much. Disco ruled the land, and we were already cheated at winterland. Fred "Sonic" Smith tried to pick up the pieces, together with Scott Morgan (The Rationals), Gary Rasmussen (The Up), and one of my personal favorite drummers, Scott Asheton of the Stooges. Each of these guys was a fantastic player, Scott Morgan was compared to some fantastic soul singers, and the songwriting, well, I love it.
I guess there were lots of reasons they were never successful at putting it all together on vinyl. No one wanted to put the money out there when former junkies were involved (rumor, but plausible). There's the sense that they couldn't sustain the live energy on record. Possible, I guess, but I've heard the only songs that came out, and they blow my mind, but I like that high energy detroit rock thing (as if you hadn't guessed). Suffice it to say, they stopped playing together in 1980, and it's only recently that more material has seen the light of day. Practice tapes, and some live stuff. I bought a live cd of SRB at the Masonic Temple in detroit in 1978. For fans of the MC5, Cream, the Stooges, and that sort of thing, this will cause your brainpan to fry the rest of your cerebellum into uselessness. Either that or squeegee open your third eye.
Scott Morgan helped put out a SRB boxed set a number of years ago that was apparently not authorized by Sonic Smith's estate, and so whatever I read about the band from him is a little suspect, but this is a pretty good bio.
http://www.scottmorganmusic.com/scott_sonic.html
Picture it. Or not. But it's 1978, Detroit. If you think it's a fucked place now, much worse then. The MC5 were broken up, the Stooges weren't a going concern, and P Funk was not so much. Disco ruled the land, and we were already cheated at winterland. Fred "Sonic" Smith tried to pick up the pieces, together with Scott Morgan (The Rationals), Gary Rasmussen (The Up), and one of my personal favorite drummers, Scott Asheton of the Stooges. Each of these guys was a fantastic player, Scott Morgan was compared to some fantastic soul singers, and the songwriting, well, I love it.
I guess there were lots of reasons they were never successful at putting it all together on vinyl. No one wanted to put the money out there when former junkies were involved (rumor, but plausible). There's the sense that they couldn't sustain the live energy on record. Possible, I guess, but I've heard the only songs that came out, and they blow my mind, but I like that high energy detroit rock thing (as if you hadn't guessed). Suffice it to say, they stopped playing together in 1980, and it's only recently that more material has seen the light of day. Practice tapes, and some live stuff. I bought a live cd of SRB at the Masonic Temple in detroit in 1978. For fans of the MC5, Cream, the Stooges, and that sort of thing, this will cause your brainpan to fry the rest of your cerebellum into uselessness. Either that or squeegee open your third eye.
Scott Morgan helped put out a SRB boxed set a number of years ago that was apparently not authorized by Sonic Smith's estate, and so whatever I read about the band from him is a little suspect, but this is a pretty good bio.
http://www.scottmorganmusic.com/scott_sonic.html
