The 9th annual Ypsi Songfest kicks off this Saturday morning at the Whittaker Road library with an all-ages performance by Frank Allison… a fellow who, back in the day, pretty much shared ownership of the Ann Arbor music scene with John Brannon. Or at least that’s how I remember things back around 1990, when I […]
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Frank Allison, opera, and the Ypsi Songfest …on this weekend’s Saturday Six Pack
Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Beatlemania, Community Church of God, Frank Allison, John Lennon, Kira Monae Turner, Laughing Hyenas, Marshall Crenshaw, Mel Ratner, Our Own Thing Chorale, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Willis Patterson, Ypsi Songfest 22 Comments
Discussing race, pushing back against the “greater Ann Arbor area” brand, singing our asses off, and exploring Civil War-era cures for chronic masturbation… on episode eleven of The Saturday Six Pack
“From an old converted barbershop inside the area’s largest all-nude strip club comes the eleventh episode of the Saturday Six Pack With Mark Maynard…” This past Saturday’s show, it seems to me, was probably our most musical one to date. While we covered a hell of a lot of ground, talking about everything from race […]
Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Anthony Morgan, Asheville, balls, Chris Sandon, chronic masturbation, Civil War, Civil War reenactors, Community Records, Freshest of the Bunch, hatchets, Jim Cherewich, John Denver, Kayj Michelle, Kelli Harden-Klenotic, laxatives, masturbation, Matt Jones, Misty Lyn Bergeron, Moisturizer Talk, muskets, New Holland Brewing, North Carolina, pedicures, People's Retort, Pete Larson, self-inflicted gunshot wounds, sing-alongs, squatting, Target, testicles, The Moth, Tony Morgan, Traffic Jam, Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau 11 Comments
John Brannon in the Metro Times, and on SNL
The new issue of the Detroit Metro Times has a pretty good feature on John Brannon, the former lead singer of the band the Laughing Heyenas. While he’s likely more famous for his earlier band – the seminal hardcore group Negative Approach – I was never that into their music. The Laughing Heyenas, however, were […]
Posted in Art and Culture Also tagged Detroit Metro Times, fear, Flashdance, Jim Kimball, John Belushi, Kevin Strickland, Larissa Strickland, Laughing Heyenas, Lee Ving, Minor Threat, mohawks, Necros, Negative Approach, punk rock, Saturday Night Live, skinheads, slam dancing, SNL, Walk on the Mild Side, Who's the Boss 24 Comments