Detroit, Michigan. Motor City, USA. Nicknamed after being the automotive manufacturing center of the USA during the 20th Century. When more and more goods, cars in particular began to be assembled primarily overseas, the economic impact was devastating. This left the city neglected and impoverished, with a landscape of urban decay that became legendary. Despite, or rather due to this, it was an ideal breeding ground for discontentment in many forms, and relevant to us here is the alternative music scene. Shock Therapy in particular. In the punk rock documentary Another State Of Mind following Social Distortion and Youth Brigade across the USA in 1984, it is one of the stops of their ill fated tour that breaks the spirit of part of the bands and crew.
Bands:
Bills Corpse
Country Bob & Bloodfarmers
Crucifucks – Lansing Michigan , Punk
Death – Proto punk band
Gargoyle Sox
Gore Gore Girls – all female garage rock band
Human Eye – psychedelic punk, sacred bones released
Necros – from Maumee, Ohio. Situated halfway between Cleveland and Detroit. They often supported The Misfits on tour in the region.
Negative Approach – hardcore punk
Shock Therapy –
Stooges
Ritual Howls
Rubber
Related: Detroit,
Shows:
January 7, 1983, Misfits, Big Boys @ Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, (outside Detroit) Michigan
- The Misfits recorded for the cable access TV program “Why Be Something You’re Not”. Filmed in a storage room at Group W Cable in Dearborn, Michigan on January 7, 1983.
- This recording has not been officially released and only circulates as a bootleg.