Larry MILLER!
If someone were to tell you that there is a “New Detroit Sound” happening, you’d probably wonder what was meant by that. When I consider the development of the so-called “San Francisco Sound”. I think that not only do we have something valid going on here, but perhaps an improvement.
Larry MILLER!
If someone were to tell you that there is a “New Detroit Sound” happening, you’d probably wonder what was meant by that. When I consider the development of the so-called “San Francisco Sound”. I think that not only do we have something valid going on here, but perhaps an improvement. All of us who are involved in Detroit are now learning from the San Francisco scene in terms of both-the good and the bad. San Francisco developed as a major influence because it'had all the best possible ingredients. Good local talent, highly developed local press, the first significant underground radio in the country, promoters who were aware of the commercial potential and able to exploit it, and leadership in the “Hip” comminity that was aware of the importance of establishing focal points. It was a city that not only had a very heavy natural mystique, but was developing as a general gocal point for a number of social-political-artistic changes. The music was able to develop freely because San Francisco has no musical identity. L.A., New York, and Chicago had too strong a musical identity. The focal points were established, and everybody got it together. On the negative side, the musicians have had a hard lime handling the changes, coping with the high intensity off and on hype. The press has become overly impressed with itself and is generally pompous, meaningless, masturbatory, hollow, shallow crap. The underground radio scene in San Francisco, which should have by now matured into the most significant in the country, has failed miserably. San Francisco has been the victim of the over-hype. The business/end of it has wound up with Hippies still being Hippies and business hustlers still being hustlers and very few being able to be both. The San Francispo scene is collapsing from more than just Ronnie Reagan or the San Andreas Fault. Over-Hype.
