Word: motowners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing: A massive resurgence of energy laden hard rock, the three-chord style, led by the J. Geils Band, the finest-chord rock band playing music. The startingly reactionary nature of white rock in Detroit a genre whose foundation rests on a move away from both the slickness of Motown and the innovative qualities of late sixties progressive rock. (A complete assessment of white rock in Detroit is in order, one will appear in this space soon. In short, rock in holding fast, or retreating, or simply in limbo, on each of its fronts...
...first the bad news: Paul Butterfield's new band. Butter used to have the best big band in rock music, and at times, it was clear that what he was actually fronting was a very good soul band, nearly of the caliber of the Motown house band. But in the last six or eight months, he has disbanded it, in favor of the six man band he originally started in 1965. (I found his horn section, nearly intact, backing Stevie Wonder at the Rolling Stones Concerts.) In 1965, Paul Butterfield formed the first, and maybe the best, integrated Chicago-style...
...Fischer is an American primitive. He has no home. He lives out of two enormous plastic suitcases and a couple of shopping bags crammed with transistor radios and chess periodicals in eight languages (English, Russian, Dutch, Italian, German, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, French). The radios are for digging the latest Motown sounds. The literature is for those little off moments. Like the time after his victory over Larsen in Denver, when some chess buffs dragged the two players off to a nightclub featuring operatic singing. While the performers trilled and boomed, Fischer sat buried in a chess book, oblivious...
...making. With federal funding, TWC has established an on-the-job training program for aspiring black and Puerto Rican moviemakers, with 53 apprentices now working, and a film school is in the planning stages. TWC's film plans are appropriately ambitious. They include a biography of Billie Holiday (Motown, a black record company, is already shooting its version of the Billie Holiday story, starring Diana Ross), a film from the works of Puerto Rican Author Piri Thomas, and an adaptation of John O. Killens' chilling war novel, And Then We Heard the Thunder...
...songs. Since they do a great job singing old soul songs like "Loving You is Sweeter than Ever" and "Baby Don't Do It" during their live concerts, it would be an improvement if they released a whole album of other people's oldies. Something like The Band Sings Motown's Greatest Hits...