Song about the 1967 riots

[RickBeall]

Hi Detroit_Uke,

All of those would be great details for a future song or short story. If you do not in some way remember the pain, then future generations will never know what happened. Art helps people remember, just like a history book would. Should the jews forget Auschwitz because it was painful, or not be allowed to write a symphony about it?

The Detroit riots were just one piece. There were also race riots in Cleveland and Newark, New Jersey in 1967. Are all these events and the conditions that spawned them unfit raw materials for art? Or maybe their jaggedness and sharpness make them perfect for art? For remembering, re-experienceing, processing and moving forward?

[rutlev]

Joni Mitchell and Chuck Mitchell and Gordon used to sing at
the Living End and a coffee house on Livernois, near U of D
Checker something or other I think.

[Honky Tonk]

Joni Mitchell and Chuck Mitchell and Gordon used to sing at
the Living End and a coffee house on Livernois, near U of D
Checker something or other I think.

The Chessmate Coffee House. Joe Cocker did his folk schtick there too before becoming a rocker.

[CassTechGrad]

Joni Mitchell and Chuck Mitchell and Gordon used to sing at
the Living End and a coffee house on Livernois, near U of D
Checker something or other I think.

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http://www.hourdetroit.com/Hour-Detr...ticle=1#artanc
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Joni and Chuck Mitchell strike a delib-erately stilted pose in a special bridal section published by the Detroit Free Press on Feb. 5, 1967. Chuck called it “obviously [[to my eye) a send-up of the typical bridal photo.” The two actually were married in 1965. The piece was written by Free Press fashion writer Marji Kunz, who was friendly with the Mitchells

[Lowell]

How about "We Almost Lost Detroit" for a 1967 song title?

[Wheels]

How about "We Almost Lost Detroit" for a 1967 song title?

It's been done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh0WOhbGlvk

[Lowell]

It's been done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh0WOhbGlvk

That's the well known Gil Scott Heron song. I think you overlooked my pun with the strikethrough.

[Wheels]

That's the well known Gil Scott Heron song. I think you overlooked my pun with the strikethrough.

Here is the original. Although often mistaken for a song about the 67 riot it is actually a nuclear protest song about an accident at Fermi in Monroe in 66.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRey-3EUed4

[RickBeall]

Nothing gets past you guys. That's a heck of a great song and video!

[marshamusic]

I [[and my family) experienced extraordinary reversals due to the Riots - my father's 12th Street business was destroyed and his lifelong career was ended in the fire and chaos of those days. But these years later, I can listen to Rick's song and it doesn't bother me. There were innumerable stories of that week and its aftermath; I love these stories. Some of them, like Rick's, are put to song - that stir the memories, but don't dredge up the all the pain.