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I'll pit 'The Mitten' and its musical epicenter, 'D town' against 

any environs in the land for the sheer volume of visceral 

visionaries whose grills will one day be etched in the Rock 

Rushmore – Tesco Vee, 2011

One can only scratch their melon in amazement at the quantity and

quality of Rock Legends that the Motor City hath spawned, formed or

fostered from the hard scrabble Rust Belt.

The list both inspires and impresses as we tumble thru the decades:

Mitch Ryder, SRC, Brownsville Station, Ted Nugent, Alice Cooper, Grand

Funk Railroad, Bob Seger, The Stooges, MC5, White Stripes, Kid Rock.

Now, the unvarnished truth about how things came to be in that city

will be told in DETROIT ROCK CITY: The Uncensored History of Five

Decades of Rock ‘n Roll in America’s Loudest City (Da Capo) -

scheduled to drop in early 2013 - an oral history of Detroit and its

music told by the people who were on the stage, in the clubs, the

practice rooms, studios and in the audience, blasting the music out

and soaking it up, in every scene from 1967 to today.

From seminal axe men like The Nuge, Dick Wagner and James

Williamson jump to Jack White, to pop flashes Suzi Quatro and Cub

Coda, to proto punkers Brother Wayne Kramer/Fred 'Sonic' Smith, and

James Osterberg, Detroit slices the rest of the land with way more than

its share of the Rock Pie.

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DETROIT ROCK CITY is the story that has never before been sprung, a

frenzied and schooled account of both past and present, calling in the

halcyon days of the Grande Ballroom and the Eastown Theater, where

national acts who came thru were made to stand and deliver in the

face of the always hard hitting local support acts. It moves on to the

Michigan Palace, Bookies Club 870, City Club, Gold Dollar, Magic Stick –

all magical venues in America’s top rock city.

It also offers the fullest tale of the legendary and influential Creem

magazine, detailing its bongs to riches saga and how it helped move

musical mountains both in Detroit and around the globe.

DETROIT ROCK CITY brings these worlds to life all from the guys and

dolls who picked up a Strat and jammed it into our collective craniums.

From those behind the scenes cats who promoted, cajoled, lost their

shirts, and popped the platters to the punters who drove from

everywhere, this is the book that gives life to Detroit’s legend of loud.

Award winning journalist Steve Miller will deliver DETROIT ROCK CITY .

A veteran newspaper and magazine reporter, Miller is the author of two

true crime books, A Slaying in the Suburbs: The Tara Grant Murder  and 

Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender , both published by

Penguin/Berkley. He is editor of Touch and Go, The Complete Hard 

Core Punk Zine ’79-83 (Bazillion Points) and is co-editor Commando:

The Johnny Ramone Autobiography, due out early next year on

Abrams.

Contact Steve Miller: avalanche50@hotmail.com andwww.avalanche50.com