Hung with Teamsters and Chumbawumba 15 years ago today

[blake 3:17]

sorry kinda chitchat but kinda momentous in my life

Only time I spent July 4 in the US was to go down to hang out with Teamsters and other strikers from the Detroit News and Free Press and go see Chumawumba at the Michigan State Fair.

Being a dumb Canadian anarcho-trot, I didn't even think about it being July 4 or that we were not going to a thing in Detroit proper but a thing in the burbs and that most people hadn't been into Chumbawumba because they were anarchists...

Aw fuck... It was a good night. They didn't get lynched though could've. A TDU activist introduced them.

Had a couple of beers backstage, couldn't get the kids who wanted to burn the flag in, but yeah forgot about reactionary US likker laws.

Went to the Heidelberg Project for the first time the next day.

[ed miliband]

can we use this thread to talk about music from detroit?

what an incredible city, from motown and garage to house and hip hop. recently i met theo parrish at record store in london, they were playing some danny brown (another detroit artist) whilst he bought some j dilla (again... detroit).

what is it about that city?

[blake 3:17]

Dilla!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[blake 3:17]

Motown to avant punk right? and to to be social chauvinist lots of dope stuff from the Windsor side.

I think the border city thing was important before burn out.

Don't forget Eminem!

[ed miliband]

watch my dude theo, one of my favourite musicians ever:

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[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

Motown to avant punk right? and to to be social chauvinist lots of dope stuff from the Windsor side.

Orphan Choir!

But, yeah, I'm totally jealous that you got to see Chumbawamba. I just missed them in Calgary one time - I was hitch-hiking through and was in BC by the time I found out they were playing.

[blake 3:17]

Orphan Choir!

But, yeah, I'm totally jealous that you got to see Chumbawamba. I just missed them in Calgary one time - I was hitch-hiking through and was in BC by the time I found out they were playing.

It was kind of cool seeing them there. Most everyone was there for Tubthumpin and a huge crowd left when they played It's No Fun In God's House (more fun in the dog house)

It felt good too cuz I was coordinating solidarity work for the newspaper workers out of my shitty boarding house room and all the unions were No NO -- I got strikers to speak at a CAW hall and it was sponsored by New Socialist Group, Food not Bombs, and the Worker Communist Party of Iraq

Never bothered seeing them in Toronto... But did first discover them here at a punk picnic where I bought a mixtape for $2 or $3 or something -- and then Brave New Waves on CBC did a spotlight on them. My favourite records are Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and the live one that AK Press put out (with a second disc from Chomsky) -- friggin dope

My then girlfriend had a good time razzing one of the guys from the band about getting it on with one of her best friends when they were in TO -- dude was so embarrassed.

Good times!

[NewLeft]

i'm not sure if he's from detroit [no i'm wrong, he's from chicago] but how about frankie knuckles? i saw him at pride

[Jimmie Higgins]

can we use this thread to talk about music from detroit?21JQeNyJRmw


what is it about that city?Iggy Pop said it was the loud machinary of industrial cities that translated well into electric music of various kinds.

This was done by a Ford plant worker, for example:
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I think more, it's that cities in the post-war era were cultural melting pots (even when segregated) and so black migrants and appalachan migrants and immigrants could be at least aware of other musical tradditions -- or even combine regional styles of the same genre.