Detroit Rock City (57 page)

Peter Rivera:
Musician. Drummer, Rare Earth.

Gil Bridges:
Musician. Saxophonist, Rare Earth.

Alice Cooper:
Musician. Vocalist, Alice Cooper, solo.

Bob Ezrin:
Producer. Alice Cooper, Detroit, Kiss, Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel.

Glen Buxton:
Musician. Guitarist, Alice Cooper. Deceased.

Mark Parenteau:
Disc jockey. WABX.

Gail Parenteau:
Promoter. Married to Mark Parenteau.

Michael Bruce:
Musician. Guitarist, Alice Cooper.

Jim Kosloskey:
Musician. Guitarist, the Frut.

Cindy Lang:
Alice Cooper's girlfriend for a while.

Dave Marsh:
Journalist, author. One of the first
Creem
writers, went on to join the enemy,
Rolling Stone
. Books include
Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story
and
Before I Get Old: The Story of the Who
.

Tony Reay:
Cofounder, editor,
Creem
magazine.

Charlie Auringer:
Photographer.
Creem
magazine.

John Angelos:
Musician. Vocalist, Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes, the Torpedoes. Deceased.

Gilda Radner:
Comedian, actress. Detroit native, was among first cast of
Saturday Night Live
. Deceased.

Kim Fowley:
Raconteur, musician, producer.

Ben Edmonds:
Journalist.
Creem
magazine.

Bob Seger:
Musician. Vocalist, guitarist, keyboards, Bob Seger and the Last Heard, Bob Seger System, solo, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band.

Toby Mamis:
Journalist, promoter. Now road manager for Alice Cooper.

Tom Weschler:
Photographer, road manager for Bob Seger.

Dick Wagner:
Musician. Guitarist, the Bossmen, the Frost, Ursa Major, Alice Cooper, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, solo.

Mark Farner:
Musician. Guitarist, bassist, the Pack, Grand Funk Railroad.

Terry Knight:
Disc jockey, manager, musician. Vocalist, the Pack, managed Grand Funk Railroad. Deceased.

Don Brewer:
Musician. Drummer, Grand Funk Railroad, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band.

Dave West:
Equipment guy, made amps for Grand Funk Railroad.

Jim Atherton:
Manager. Terry Knight and the Pack.

Dave Knapp:
Terry Knight's brother.

Tom Wright:
Photographer, promoter.

Michael Quatro:
Promoter, musician. Vocalist, keyboard player, Michael Quatro Jam band, solo. Brother of Suzi and Patti Quatro.

Jerry Vile:
Musician, journalist, artist. Vocalist, the Boners, editor of
White Noise
fanzine.

Bob Heath and Bill Spiegel:
Radio producers for WLW in Cincinnati, helped make the Cincinnati Pop Festival go down in 1970. It was the first rock concert ever taped for future national broadcast, preceding ABC's
In Concert
, which debuted in 1972.

Tom Copi:
Photographer.

Dallas Hodge:
Musician. Guitarist, Catfish Hodge Band.

Steve Hunter:
Musician. Guitarist, Detroit, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Peter Gabriel.

John Sauter:
Musician. Bassist, Detroit.

Terry Kelly:
Musician, Guitarist, Detroit Wheels, Cactus. Deceased.

Dave DiMartino:
Journalist. Wrote for
Creem
in the late seventies and the mideighties.

Marcia Rabideau:
One of the MC5 girls.

Richard Haddad, aka Shemp:
Musician. Bassist, SRC. Deceased.

Mark Manko:
Musician. Guitarist, Catfish, Detroit.

Bob Crewe:
Producer. Mitch Ryder.

ACT II

Chris Panackia, aka Cool Chris:
Soundman. Worked every venue in Detroit for thirty years.

Tom Gelardi:
Capitol Records promo man. Known as the guy who tossed the Beatles first US single away and claimed “they'll never make it.”

Cary Loren:
Artist, musician. Guitarist, Detroit All Monsters.

Mike Skill:
Musician. Guitarist and bassist, Romantics.

Gerald Shohan:
Musician. Guitarist, Coldcock.

Johnny Thunders:
Musician. Guitarist, vocalist, New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, Gang War, solo. Deceased.

Bobby Hackney:
Musician. Bassist, vocalist, Death.

Mike Murphy:
Musician. Drummer, vocalist, the Denizens.

Vince Bannon:
Promoter, musician. Guitarist, Coldcock, the Sillies, booked Bookie's, City Club, and a number of other venues in the city.

Jimmy Marinos:
Musician. Drummer, Romantics.

Don Davis:
musician, producer, songwriter. Penned “Who's Making Love,” which Johnnie Taylor turned into a hit. Head of production at Stax.

Doug Banker:
Manager, promoter, musician. Manager of Ted Nugent.

Gloria Bondy:
Scenester, musician. Sang backup for the Sillies.

Tim Caldwell:
Scenester, psycho-intellectual.

Tex Newman:
Musician. Guitarist, RUR, Shock Therapy, Country Bob and the Bloodfarmers.

Gary Reichel:
Musician. Vocalist, Cinecyde.

Charlie Martin:
Musician. Drummer, Silver Bullet Band.

Skip Knape, aka Skip Van Winkle:
Musician. Keyboardist, bassist, vocalist, Teegarden & Van Winkle, Bob Seger.

Drew Abbott:
Musician. Guitarist, Third Power, Bob Seger, Silver Bullet Band.

David McCullough, aka Dansir:
Crew, Bob Seger.

Jamie Oldaker:
Musician. Drummer, Bob Seger, Eric Clapton.

Craig Frost:
Musician. Drummer, Grand Funk Railroad, Silver Bullet Band.

David Tedds:
Fan, record industry guy. Executive producer of the Grand Funk Railroad reissues by Capitol Records in the early 2000s.

Linda Barber:
Journalist. Wrote for
Creem
magazine in the seventies and eighties.

John Brannon:
Musician. Vocalist, Negative Approach, Laughing Hyenas, Easy Action.

Cathy Gisi:
Journalist. Wrote for
Creem
magazine in the seventies and eighties.

Susan Whitall:
Journalist. Editor of
Creem
in the seventies and eighties.

Bill Holdship:
Journalist. Wrote for
Creem, Rolling Stone
.

Mike Kelley:
Musician, artist. Drummer, vocalist, Destroy All Monsters. Deceased.

Jack Smith:
Artist, photographer, filmmaker. Considered by many as the father of performance art films for his 1963 miniflick
Flaming Creatures
, which predated and influenced Warhol and Waters. Deceased.

La Monte Young:
Artist, composer, musician. Cited by Lou Reed in his liner notes to Metal Machine Music.

Jim Shaw:
Tastemaker extraordinaire. Deceased.

Sue Rynski:
Photographer.

Larry and Ben Miller:
Musicians, Destroy All Monsters. Brothers of Mission of Burma's Roger Miller.

Harold Richardson:
Musician. Guitarist, Gravitar, Easy Action, Negative Approach.

Freddie Brooks:
Scenester. Briefly managed Sonic's Rendezvous Band.

Lenny Kaye:
Musician, journalist. Guitarist, Patti Smith Group. Wrote the liner notes for psyche comp
Nuggets
.

Patti Smith:
Musician, author. Vocalist, Patti Smith Group, solo. Married to Fred “Sonic” Smith from 1980 until Fred's death in 1995. Books include
Just Kids
(2010).

Jim Olenski:
Musician. Guitarist, Cinecyde.

Peter James:
Musician. Guitarist, Ramrods, Nikki and the Corvettes.

Michael Profane:
Musician. Guitarist, the Sillies.

Steve King:
Musician, producer. Guitarist, the Pigs, the Boners, Ramrods, Rush-low-King Combo, producer of Eminem.

Andy Peabody:
Musician. Vocalist, Coldcock.

Paul Zimmerman:
Scenester, journalist. Editor of
White Noise
fanzine.

Steve McGuire:
Musician. Bassist, the Traitors.

Jack Tann:
Producer. Worked with Don Was at Sound Suite. Was and Tann formed the Motor City Revue, a fairly failed stab at marketing the emerging punk rock scene in the late seventies.

Lenore Paxton:
Musician. Jazz pianist, vocalist.

Scott Campbell:
Musician, promoter: Vocalist, the Sillies. Booked and ran sound at Bookie's.

Rick Metcalf:
Cartoonist, scenester.

Frank Gagen:
Musician, club owner. Leader of a local big band, also owned Frank Gagen's, a supper club that eventually became Bookie's.

Bookie Stewart:
Bought Gagen's in the early seventies. Deceased.

Michelle Southers:
Scenester.

Kirsten Rogoff:
Musician. Keyboardist, Algebra Mothers, the Sillies.

Tesco Vee:
Musician, journalist. Vocalist, Meatmen, Blight. Cofounder,
Touch and Go
magazine and Touch and Go Records.

Rich Cole:
Musician. Bassist, Romantics.

Bill Kozy:
Musician. Guitarist, Meanies, Speedball.

Irene DeCook:
Fashion designer. Created leather outfits for the Romantics. Also appeared as Irene the Leather Weather Lady in Howard Stern's book
Private Parts
after the two met during Stern's time in Detroit.

Joel Zuckerman and Arnie Tencer:
Managers of the Romantics.

Wally Palmar:
Musician. Guitarist, vocalist, Romantics.

Gary Buermele, aka Gary Brimstone, aka Brim:
Drug dealer, hanger on. Deceased.

Jerry Nolan:
Musician. Drummer, New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers. Deceased.

Billy Rath:
Musician. Bassist, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, the Stooges.

Walter Lure:
Musician. Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, the Waldos.

Keith Jackson:
Musician. Guitarist, the Gerbils, Shock Therapy.

Katy Hait:
Photographer, musician. Vocalist, Sillies.

Sirius Trixon:
Musician. Vocalist, Motor City Bad Boys.

Diane Koprince:
Chili Sister.

Brian Mullan:
Promoter, scenester.

Glenn Johnson:
Musician. Drummer, Mr. Unique and the Leisure Suits.

Johnny Ramone:
Musician. Guitarist, the Ramones. Deceased.

Dave Rice:
Musician. Guitarist, L-Seven, the Linkletters, Algebra Mothers.

ACT III

Larissa Strickland:
Musician, scenester. Vocalist, L-Seven, guitarist, Laughing Hyenas. Deceased.

Chris Moore, aka Opie:
Musician. Drummer, Negative Approach.

Rob Michaels:
Musician. Vocalist, Bored Youth.

Marc Barie:
Scenester.

Sherrie Feight:
Musician. Vocalist, Strange Fruit, Spastic Rhythm Tarts.

Andy Wendler:
Musician. Guitarist, the Necros.

Corey Rusk:
Musician, record label owner, promoter. Bassist, Necros. Took over Touch and Go Records in 1981 and turned it into one of the largest independent labels in the world. Booked the Graystone Hall, the Freezer, and numerous other venues in Detroit.

Hillary Waddles:
Scenester.

Gloria Branzei:
Scenester.

Jon Howard:
Scenester.

Cary Safarian, aka Scary Cary:
Promoter; Managed Graystone Ballroom. Currently in prison.

Rob Miller:
Scenester, owner and cofounder of Bloodshot Records.

Mike Hard:
Musician, actor. Vocalist, God Bullies, Thrall, Brainsaw.

John Speck:
Musician. Guitarist, vocalist, Hoarse, the Fags.

Doc Dart:
Musician. Vocalist, Crucifucks.

Scott Schuer:
Musician. Guitarist, L-Seven.

Margaret Dollrod:
Musician. Vocalist, guitarist, Demolition Doll Rods.

EWolf:
Photographer, musician. Drummer, Angry Red Planet, Dirtbombs.

Ken Waagner:
Promoter, manager.

Charlie Wallace:
Musician. Vocalist, effects, guitarist, ADC, Fractured Cylinder.

Norm Zebrowski:
Musician, Scenester. Vocalist, Disinfect.