Grit, Noise, and Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll - David A. Carson

Ask yourself: "Are there enough books about the MC5 and the Stooges?"  The answer is: "Of course there's not."  Well, here is another one, and it has a bunch of other stuff about a bunch of other bands in it.  Yeah, I loved this book and recommend it.  The author is a native of the scene and did his homework.  It covers a lot of ground but it could have been three times longer.  I'd say it is a good place to start but I am not sure there is that much more out there about the Rationals.  I'll check.

Set List - April 15, 2013

Gillespie, Dizzy - We Love to Boogie - Odyssey: 1945-1952 - Savoy
Gillespie, Dizzy - Tin Tin Deo - Odyssey: 1945-1952 - Savoy
Gillespie, Dizzy - Birk's Works - Odyssey: 1945-1952 - Savoy
Taylor, Billy - Soul Sister - Right Here, Right Now - Capitol
Taylor, Billy - Freedom - Right Here, Right Now - Capitol
JuJu - (Struggle) HOME - A Message From Mozambique - Strata-East
The Contemporary Jazz Quintet - Tao - Location - Strata
Smith, Lonnie - I Can't Stand It - Live at Club Mozambique - Blue Note
Green, Grant - More Today Than Yesterday - Live at Club Mozambique - Blue Note
Person, Houston - You Are The Sunshine of My Life - The Real Thing - Eastbound
Earland, Charles - Black Talk - Black Talk - Prestige
Earland, Charles - The Mighty Burner - Black Talk - Prestige
Soul Bros. - Drive - Various - Shaftman: Introducing a Bad Mutha - Crypt
Taylor, Tommy - Whoop It On Me - Various - Shaftman: Introducing a Bad Mutha - Crypt
Julian, Don and the Larks - Shorty the Pimp - Various - Shaftman: Introducing a Bad Mutha - Crypt
Earth, Wind & Fire - Fan the Fire - The Eternal Dance - Columbia

The Faith of a Writer - Joyce Carol Oates

“Write for your own time, if not for your own generation exclusively. You can’t write for ‘posterity’ – it doesn’t exist. You can’t write for a departed world.” pp. 24-25


“But James Joyce was protected by the unpopularity of his work. He enjoyed, as his brother Stanislaus observed, ‘that inflexibility firmly rooted in failure.’” p. 71

“The most admirable thing about the fantastic, Andre Breton said, is that the fantastic does not exist: everything is real.” p. 82

“Joyce offered no rejoinder to his brother Stanislaus’s judgment that Finnegans Wake is ‘unspeakably wearisome . . . the witless wandering of literature before its final extinction. I would not read a paragraph of it if I did not know you.’” p. 132

Harry Crew - A Childhood: The Biography of a Place

"It was always the women who scared me. The stories that women told and that men told were full of violence, sickness, and death. But it was the women whose stories were unrelieved by humor and filled with apocalyptic vision. No matter how awful the stories were that the men told they were always funny. The men's stories were stories of character, rather than of circumstance, and they always knew the people the stories were about. But women would repeat stories about folks they did not know and had never seen, and consequently, without character counting for anything, the stories were as stark and cold as legend or myth."  pp. 100-101

Set List - April 8, 2013

Davis, Miles - Guinevere - Circle In The Round  - Columbia

Little, Booker - Strength And Sanity - Out Front (featuring Max Roach) - Candid
Little, Booker - Forward Fight - Complete Recordings Featuring George Coleman - Lone Hill Jazz
Curson, Ted - Typical Ted - (Typical Ted) - Trident
Foster, Frank - Manhattan Fever - Manhattan Fever - Blue Note
Foster, Frank - Fly By Night - Manhattan Fever - Blue Note
Byrd, Donald - The Loud Minority - Kofi - Blue Note
Chicago Gangsters - I Choose You - I Choose You - Gold Plate
Douglas, Carl - M.O.R.F. - The Soul of the Kung-Fu Fighter  - Sanctuary
Douglas, Carl - Dance the Kung Fu - The Soul of the Kung-Fu Fighter  - Sanctuary
Douglas, Carl - Blue Eyes Soul - The Soul of the Kung-Fu Fighter  - Sanctuary
The Tony Williams Lifetime - Something Special - Emergency! - Verve
Green, Al - Love is Real - The Absolute Best - The Right Stuff
Green, Al - Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy) - The Absolute Best - The Right Stuff

Knockemstiff - Donald Ray Pollock

“Wherever I went in those days, I stumbled across the bill collectors and misfortunes of my past, while any chance of a future worth living kept spinning further and further away.”  p. 111

Set List - April 1, 2013

 

Sander, Pharoah - Love is Everywhere - Love In Us All - Impulse!

Mingus, Charles - Hobo Ho - Let My Children Hear Music - Columbia

Count Basie - Summertime - 7" - Roulette

The Moments - Love On a Two Way Street - 7" - Stang

The Awakening - Kera's Dance - Hear, Sense and Feal - Black Jazz

The Awakening - Mirage - Mirage - Black Jazz

Heron, Gil-Scott - Lady Day and John Coltrane - The Revolution Begins: The Flying Dutchman Masters - BGP

Heron, Gil-Scott - I Think I'll Call It Morning - The Revolution Begins: The Flying Dutchman Masters - BGP

The Fantastic Four - The World is a Stage - 7" - RicTic

Simon, Joe - Drowining in a Sea of Lover - 7" - Spring

The Southside Movement - I've Been Watching You - 7" - Wand

The Meters - Groovy Lady - Here Comes the Meter Man: the Complete Josie Recordings - Charly

The Meters - The World is a Little Bit Under the Weather - Here Comes the Meter Man: the Complete Josie Recordings - Charly

The Kay Gees - You've Got to Keep Bumping - 7" - Gang

Detroit Emeralds - Baby Take Me Into Your Arms - 7" - Westbound

Bland, Bobby "Blue" - Yolanda - 7" - ABC