Prime Time

Mon. The Rolling Stones are in the Detroit area today and tomorrow and the local media coverage has been unprecedented...phenomenal ... weird. True, the Stones have been around long enough to earn the attention of the establishment newspeople, and the Detroit Free Press special Stones section was semi-knowledgeable, quoting CREEM alumni Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs (and calling Its Only Rock n Roll a greatest hits album)...but the local TV stations, with their awed predictions of crowd sizes and their breathless live coverage of the early arrivals, seem to be hoping for a little post-Cincinnati scoop...not an actual tragedy, of course, just a little violence or maybe some colorful arrests...