This wasnвЂ™t pretty rock and roll and it wasnвЂ™t very marketable. There was an energy given by the kids and the record promoters could see it. That is the chapter you should look into. You couldnвЂ™t just park your car downtown and then walk over to it like Saint Andrews Hall. The other interesting thing about the Grande was that it was not right downtown.

This has to sound like science fiction to some of you because the Grande Ballroom was actually a pretty small place but this really happened.

Some of the bands that came turned out to be classic rock giants like Led Zeppelin and The Who. At the same time of Wayne Kramer and the MC5 the British bands were coming to Detroit to play at the Grande Ballroom. The MC5, which stands for the Motor City Five, starts out their album with, вЂњKick Out The Jams Mother F*cker !!!вЂќ and it set the tone for where this movement was going. There were no happy endings in any of the songs. It was more street, more grunge, loud, and real. вЂњBut Detroit rock and roll in the late 70вЂ™s was anything but nice and fuzzy. Ann ArborвЂ™s rock music scene also nurtured local indie groups like the MC5, SRC, Bob Seger and the like. Joe AmbroseвЂ™s book вЂњGimme Danger, the Story of Iggy Pop,вЂќ said it was here that the band came up with its name while watching a Three Stooges marathon on TV. Iggy Pop (James Osterberg) and drummer Scott Asheton (and his late brother, guitarist Ron Asheton) were also raised in Ann Arbor. During the summer if 1967, Iggy Pop and the Stooges lived and practiced in this two-story house.

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