who in this bitch is from Michigan

I hope the real Mojo doesn't try to set up a Yahoo account.

Seriously, though, how weird that y'all know Wally. "Las Vegas," "The Cat Came Back"...just thinking about the tunes makes me feel like I'm in some run-down college town bar, barely concious, w/ a belly full of Milwaukee's Best.

Ishpeming, Houghton, and Upper Michigan in general WHAT!

OHH YEAH.

I also remember Wally Pleasant vividly. Sat by a fountain near the big hotel in E.L. watching the crowd of kids around him watch him play "Small Time Drug Dealer" three times in an hour.

A-and Theodore Roethke:

My Papa's Waltz

The whiskey on your breath
Could makie a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.

We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My Mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself.

The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.

You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.

theo in the hizzaaaAAAH!

i grew up in sterling heights 313/48077 but then we headed north to escape the strip malls. now i am spending my last night of my michigan vacation eating wheat thins while watching law and order.

I was at at that rally (I'd just graduated). I remember the thundering sounds of "Where The Streets Have No Name" pumping over the PA at an insane volume after Clinton finished his speech.

Actually, I didn't live in Grand Rapids, but I lived in Standale which is a nice place to stop for lunch if you are on your way to Grand Valley State University for whatever reason.

The night of the debate in East Lansing, I believe. I saw BC in Ann Arbor that same night.

--I've got the Wally P. t-shirt that shows his mug mixed in with The Drummonds.

Not that I'm excited about being in the 586. Because that's no way to live. But at least I'll have a car that can take me nice places.

I've never heard this said about Michigan before, but it has its charms.

At the beginning of the song, he yells out statistics about potato chip consumption in order to prove the point that people in Michigan eat more potato chips than the national average. I must admit that I had not realized this fact before, but it is yet another reason to be filled with Michigan pride. Say Yes to Michigan! We eat more potato chips than you do!

This is completely true of the part of Michigan I lived in, only in the worst possible way. When I went back people I knew acted like I was somehow "living the dream" by moving to, gasp, Chicago.

Both! I was the latter's favorite and the former's nemesis (I didn't know Freudists as literal as Konigsberg still persisted in the academia). Also, Hugh Cohen, Peter Bauland etc. I guess this is the part where we take it to email if you feel like reminiscing further (michaelidov@yahoo)

I took only a few film courses, as my time was spread thin between dual enrollment as a Photo and English student. Konigsberg was roundly despised for his arrogance, but I appreciated his genuine love of horror, and he also served up a compelling reading of Ulysses in an English course I took. Eagle is ace, though. A true champ. Daisies?

I feel we're getting quite off the subject here, so how about those Wolf Eyes! Pas/Cal?

There was one in Jacksonville Florida that converted the other way. They opened as "The Palytime XXX Drive-In Theatre", but the video business forced them to become a $1 theatre.

Now let's talk Floridian drive-in churches!

Damn...I'll miss the Stormy show too.

I miss it.

http://www.frankenmuth-hotels.com/frankenmuth-photos/images/Frankenmuth-pictures%20011_jpg.jpg

I am going to the 906 this weekend and I am v v excited to be home again for a little while.

whoa wtf I didn't realize this was an ILM thread

still, I hope you find that pleasant peninsula...

Kalamazoo. Home of salad-dressing-hurling college students.

Wtf did I mean by that??

The PAS/CAL album I have sounds like OF Montreal.

looking forward to the new Blanche album...

anybody been to Stormy Records?...it's in my hometown, but I moved away ten years ago, and every time I go back, the place is closed...

Corktown, Detroit here.

Kalamazoo. Home of salad-dressing-hurling college students.

Wtf did I mean by that??

-- jaymc, Wednesday, July 18, 2007 8:16 PM

didn't ann coulter get some salad thrown at her here or something?

henry, I am pretty sure I've heard good things about Stormy.

http://www.peoplesdetroit.com/clips/ElectrifyingMojo.mov

wow, well that sure does take me back, to the friends and lifestyle I wish I had back then...

funny, I was just at the end of my rope...but now, I think I'll just tie a knot, and hang on...'cos ain't nobody bad like me...

Er, I never posted on this? OK. Born Detroit, grade school Farmington, high school West Bloomfield, first college year University of Detroit, later (between moving away and back and away) Livonia and Ypsilanti, immediate family now living in Wixom and Livonia and Farmington Hills and St. Clair Shores. Listened to Mojo a LOT on WGPR circa 1980. Etc.

I was born in Dearborn, went to Dearborn High (Russ Gibb was one of my English teachers, used to regale us with stories about the Grande Ballroom, Iggy and the MC5, went on to become Dearborn's own Rush Limbaugh)...also started college at University of Detroit (early 80's), transferred away (New Orleans), went back to the D, went away again to grad school (NJ), moved back yet again (Grosse Pointe Park), finally left (for good?) to Boston, 10 years ago...caught Mojo on both GPR and JLB (strong songs!)...

Born in Southfield, grew up bouncing 'round the 'burbs: Farmington Hills, Berkeley, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills. I was 313 until I was 810 and now the parts I grew up in are 248.

When I interviewed Kid Rock way back in the day we bonded over the proper way to pronounce Lasher Rd and made some pretty typical jokes about Big Beaver Rd.

Although I am way spoiled these days by Amoeba Records, I have very fond memories of Sam's Jams in Ferndale (r.i.p.) and Solo Records and Tapes in Birmingham (which the internets tell me is *still* in biz, but has moved to Royal Oak). I spent a few summers working at Marty's Records in Birmingham, as well.

I went to college at u o' m while jimmy carter was prezident. my brother lives there, just visited him in june. on the way back to detroit metro we stopped at the ford museum in dearborn, I'm not a car not but it was AWESOME. I'm against music museums but I don't know, if any city deserves one detroit does. the concerts i attended during college, rock and jazz both, definitely formed my taste and changed my life for the better.

in the late 70s anyway, detroit radio kinda sucked though, at least from my punk perspective (sorry xhuxk)

^^^don't let the poobah hear you say that!

No way! In 1979, they were even playing 999's "Homicide" on WWWW in regular rotation! (WABX always seemed more like old hippies from my vantage point; WRIF was on its way toward consultant mandate crap, seemed like. WLLZ didn't enter the picture until 1980, same year WWWW went country, right? All downhill from there, probably, but 1979 rocked.)

Iggy's New Values was getting daytime play on at least one or two of those stations in '79, too...

http://www.ct30.com/big30/1979/1979cklw.gif

http://www.ct30.com/big30/1979/1979.html

Cool! Love how the Knack go from nowhere to #1 in three weeks in July. (Pretty sure the AOR stations had "My Sharona" #1 on the 4th; top 40 looks like it was running only a couple weeks behind.)

THOUGHT there was another Michigan/Detroit thread with talk about some of this stuff, but maybe not.

http://www.detroitradioflashbacks.net/hitslistsindex.html

WLLZ didn't enter the picture until 1980, same year WWWW went country, right? All downhill from there, probably, but 1979 rocked.)

which one of those stations was called "wheels"? I didn't hate FM radio then, even wrote an embarrassing tongue-in-cheek appreciation in the college paper, but a lot of it seemed like "consultant mandated crap" those CKLW (AM) Top 40 playlists look a lot better. I moved away in December 1980 and by then I was listening to the funk stations in the car. segue into NYC post-disco radio in 1981, a musical time and place that occupies an even more significant spot in my personal cosmology, but that's another story. stay tuned.

what's happening in detroit now, musically?

"Homicide" was huge in Detroit, I saw 999 play somewhere in 79. maybe it was the "murder city" connection.

What's happening now? Well, as far as I can tell (and it's been a year since I moved):

"Am I wrong, or has all the rock action from Detroit drifted westward down 94 and ended up in Ann Arbor? Right now we have: Ghostly International and all its illustrious popstars; Nomo & Saturday Looks Good to Me, which pretty much means His Name is Alive as well; Wolf Eyes; And some other stuff like The Great Lakes Myth Society, Showdown at the Equator, The Avatars & Brandon Wiard."

So, same thing as three years ago, which is both good and bad. Though I think the Avatars have broken up.

anybody else remember when WCHB marketed itself as "the Black Giant of Detroit", and used "Them Changes" by Buddy Miles as it's theme music?

xpost: you probably saw 999 at Bookie's...

maybe, but I'm thinking it was someplace larger. saw some good shows @ Bookies, but it was in a rough neighborhood. wait, maybe I'm thinking of the New Miami? was that in the Cass Corridor? there was a new wave club in Hamtrammack too but I never went. my favorite venue by far was the Second Chance in A2.

Russ Gibb went all right wing? that's kind of a bummer. John Sinclair had a blues radio show in the late 70s.

which one of those stations was called "wheels"?

WLLZ! (Think about it.) Like I said, near as I can tell, when that station came in, it was the beginning of the end. But for a skinny-tie new waver in 1979, hearing the Boomtown Rats' "Rat Trap" + Fabulous Poodles' "Mirror Stars" + Kings' "Switchin To Glide" etc. on commercial radio was way cool.)

But yeah, hearing Yellow Magic Orchestra and Dirty Mind on Mojo a year later was cooler.

(Oops, actually, Kings were summer of '80. And Dirty Mind came out at the end of that year, so more likely I discovered the "Midnight Funk Association" in '81.)

You in Windsor/Sarnia, Myonga?

Anyway, I look forward to seeing more of Michigan now I'm on the border myself. The 12-h concert at MOCAD in Sept looks good.

detroitblog is worth a read:

http://detroitblog.org/

West side has to represent. I attend college in Kalamazoo. My mom's family is from K'zoo and Grand Rapids. I visit Gull Lake every year. My wife is from Big Rapids. So there you go. Witnessing Mule at peak form was a huge event in my college years.

attend=attended

Not sure what would be the appropriate thread for it, but this ongoing(?) cyber attack on the University of Michigan is kind of nuts:

The University of Michigan was grappling with a second day without internet on Tuesday, a situation that an expert called "highly unusual" as UM and federal officials continued to investigate a cybersecurity threat that led to the disruption.

A "significant security issue" prompted the state's largest university to sever its server from the internet on Sunday, leading to an internet outage for students on its Ann Arbor and Dearborn campuses on the first day fall classes began Monday. UM's Flint campus was largely unaffected.

UM Regent Paul Brown, a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage technologies that often includes security technologies, said the regents have only been given a brief overview of what happened.

"It was a targeted attack on our institution," said Brown. "With IT security, it's not an 'if' but a 'when.'"

(shit, sorry! assumed this thread was on ILE)

Ohio State dark tradecraft

There was a monitor at MIT that showed what servers were currently being DDoSed. It was wild. Constant attacks.

Harbaugh's assistant coaches strike again