The Top 10 Rock n Roll Bands from the Detroit Area (1968-1972)

A list of my top 10 rock n roll bands from the Detroit, Michigan area from 1968-1972. An amazing time for rock n roll and Detroit had some of the best and most original music around. Many of these bands changed the face of rock n roll forever. Some are well known, others are not.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Detroit
• Rock
• Roll
• The
• Stooges
• MC5
• Funkadelic
• Alice
• Cooper
• Grand
• Funk
• Railroad
• Bob
• Seger
• System
• Rodriguez
• Frijid
• Pink
• SRC
• Amboy
• Dukes
• punk
• glam
• garage
• psychedelic

[musicmovie240]

What's the name of the song by Rodriguez that's playing in this video? It sounds really cool, and I want to know what it is.

[rocknrollwerewolf]

It's called "Only Good for Conversation" off his 1970 LP "Cold Fact". Definitely one of my favorite tracks on that album.

[Pyth8]

Anyone know of a Detroit band from late 60s-early 70s called "The Up"?

[rocknrollwerewolf]

Yeah, they were a pretty good little garage, proto-punk foursome out of Ann Arbor, often compared to the MC5 and The Stooges, although not as good, in my opinion. They were fairly involved with the White Panther stuff, much like the MC5, from what I understand. They only released a couple 7-inches in their day, however in 1995 a compilation called "Killer Up! 1969 - 1972" featuring all their studio stuff plus some live recordings was released. Their bassist was later in Sonic's Rendezvous Band.

[suzesrc]

no offense, but you need to redo this to be accurate. i dont think ,maybe, you weren't old enough,or you didnt actually grow up in detroit during those days.you have grossly omitted some of the most popular bands we had, the frost, the rationals, mitchryder and the detroit wheels, savage grace, alice did base hid group in detroit, no they werent born there, and also bob seger and the last heard were not from ann arbor. its just not accurate sorry.

[rocknrollwerewolf]

No, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels disbanded in 1967, the time period for this video is 1968-1972. Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier) WAS born in Detroit, his band mates may have been born elsewhere, but he is from Detroit. Bob Seger is from Ann Arbor. Born in Dearborn, raised in Ann Arbor. The Frost, The Rationals and Savage Grace are all good bands, but not in my personal top 10. Again, this is my personal preference. If you have a different top 10, please post it.

[Rednospunk]

THE STOOGES RULE.

[GTVAlfaMan]

Alice Cooper lived in Livonia and went to grade school there also.

[garbage2184]

I 1968 you could see all of them on a sunday night for a buck !

[stephens231]

There from flint

[aprilglaspieable]

Anybody that thinks Grand Funk was a Detroit band is delusional. But you almost get MC5 right. Wxcept Stooges changing things? They couldn't actually play. Sonic and Wayne Kramer could. The Quackenbush Bros. were tremendous musicians.

[aprilglaspieable]

SRC was organ-driven? Mainly sustain guitar dumbass.

[AudioTech50]

The Iggy footage was from Goose Lake. I was part of the sound crew and was on-stage when Iggy dived over the fence into the audience at the end of his set. They beat the crap out of him. Good times!

[TheHurlco]

Good job kid....except for one thing. The MC5 @ #2 behind the Stooges? C'mon man. Anyone who saw both bands in their prime (like moi') will testify that the Five could blow the Stooges off the stage ANY night of the week. At any rate...nice little project.

[93boldaslove]

its cool u put funkadelic on there

[Darr247]

I like that stack of West amps behind Mark and Mel (I'll bet Don was glad to sit kind of behind those)... check out westlabs.com/History.HTML by the way.

[MrUtubePete]

The Up billed themselves as the UofM house band in Ann Arbor. They usually played at the Student Union. What I remember of them are a). they were the skinniest people I had ever seen b). They had the longest hair I had ever seen; and c). their play set was only about 5-6 songs, with "Just Like an Aborigine" as everyone's favorite.