Rich and Johnny's Inzane Michigan

Second episode of RICH & JOHNNY INZANE MICHIGAN = This time an indepth dive into the tragic world of Terry Knight. Thx again to George Szegedy. Stay tuned to for further episodes on Golden Rod MSU Archive, Del Shannon, a live chat with Rick of Rick & J.B, and the Kalamazoo history lesson with the I'd Buy That For a Dollar crew. All things MICHIGAN MF.

Peep the Terry Knight & The Pack companion soundtrack below:

https://www.mixcloud.com/john-olson2/rich-johnnys-inzane-michigan-soundtrack-episode-2-terry-knight-the-pack/

Rich & Johnny have a big gulp of a chat with Grand Rapids underground King BRANDON HILL: DJ, blitzkrieg thunder drummer, cold electronics freezer: multi talented musician holding down the west coast of Michigan in the 00's and beyond. Hear a collection of Brandon's damage at: https://www.mixcloud.com/john-olson2/rich-johnnys-inzane-michigan-episode-9-brandon-hill-plagues-cloud-rat-xtra-vomit-gr-rager/

Rich & Johnny have a lengthy unadulterated chat with OG Tom Weschler = author of "Traveling Man - On The Road with Bob Seger" and tour manager for Seger. Hear all the crazed stories from wild gigs of Michigan's past and general R'N'R inzanity.

Rich & Johnny return in 2021 with a lengthy chat with Michigan poster/flyer historian legend Jack Bodnar. Intense insight to a heavy scene! Here are some post scripts from the talk via Jack himself:

Jack Bodnar talks more about The Brewery days in LansingBy Jack Bodnar, January 18, 2021

I don’t know about you but when talking about the past, especially personal events that happened nearly 50

years ago, I often walk away wishing I had said this or that instead, and that I had been clearer. In my

conversation with Rich and Johnny, I think I got most of it right but what follows are additional insights that

might clarify a few things.

• Terry O’Connor was the (brilliant and whimsical) Brewery graphic artist...he died of cancer in the Florida Keys a few years back. Even though he spent his career as a graphics artist, mostly for Michigan State University, his three-year Brewery and Brewery-related output (1972-1975), which came at the end of the Classic Rock Art era (1965-1976), easily puts him in the Top Four pantheon of Michigan superstar rock artists, joining Gary Grimshaw, Carl Lundgren, and Ozone (Chris Frayne, Commander Cody’s brother).
• O’Connor created 30-35 Brewery concert posters. No one knows for sure how many, not even Terry when he was still alive. Many of the posters were printed in ridiculously small print runs of 50-100, which is why most people at the time and post-1975 have never seen them. This was compounded by the fact that shortly after The Brewery changed concepts to the Silver Dollar bar in April 1975, Terry’s basement, where he stored his Brewery original art and “reference” posters, was flooded and all was lost. A true tragedy.
• Terry never realized how great his Brewery art was. It was just a blip on his radar, something he did for a short time in his youth. Even though his output was low compared to the likes of Grimshaw and Lundgren, Terry’s consistent, eye-popping creativity and use of vibrant color would rank him high on the national rock art scene if people could see his work. Hopefully, this will happen eventually, thanks to the twenty-some-odd O’Connor posters that are part of my collection at Michigan State University.
• I referred to Sloe Gin and Blue Motorcycle (the latter sometimes called Blue Hawaiian) drinks at The Brewery. The latter was basically a blue Long Island Iced Tea...blue curacao, gin, vodka, and rum. Many of the female patrons ordered them and they were deadly. On Tequila Nights, The Brewery sold a lot of Tequila Sunrises, yet another powerful drink that was ordered predominantly by the ladies. The guys tended to order straight tequila shots, as well as Tequila Sunrises on Tequila Nights.
• In our conversation, we kept referring to “Goose Lake.” Hopefully, most people know we were referring to the 1970 Goose Lake International Music Festival (7-9 August) in Grass Lake, MI, which attracted more than 200,000 mostly-stoned fans. It is recognized as the last great rock music festival of the Sixties Rock era.
• During our conversation, I offered a couple of unfortunate exaggerations when referring to multiple items in my collection. For the sake of hyperbole, I said I might have 5,000 Goose Lake Festival poker chips, which were the festival entry tickets. This is not true, though my collection does have close to a thousand of them, which is still a lot given they don’t turn up very often.
• Also, when referring to multiples, I said I had 30-40 copies of some underground newspapers (like the seminal and tough-to-find Warren-Forest Suns), which is true, but many of my underground issues number only in single digits. For instance, my collection has only one of Creem #5 (only a handful exist for some reason), plus the original cover art by Detroit artist Matthew (Matthew Radofsky).
• Rich referred to a Brewery Seger poster at East Lansing’s The Curious Bookshop, something he had mentioned to me when he interviewed me for a Lansing City Pulse article on the Brewery a few years back. However, I think at the time Rich said it was a Brewery Iggy/Stooges poster. I assumed Rich were homing in on it, so I butted out, which is what I normally do/did when somebody mentions something to me and they are still “working on it.” I wonder what became of that poster, Rich?
• Rich also told me about some other Brewery posters that were on display for a short while at East Lansing’s Flat, Black & Circular record store. Because Rich said he was not in pursuit of these posters, I was able to acquire seven Brewery posters, six of them I did not have. Two of the posters were badly wrinkled from a poor mounting job, so I sent them to a reputable poster restoration house in Brooklyn, NY. Of course, shortly after receiving them, the restorer went belly-up and it took me a year of pleading to get them back. The posters were indeed restored (nicely) when...

Rich & Johnny return with a big gulp of a talk with Windsor Filmmaker Otto Buj about his AMAZING new Detroit Freezer Hardcore doc "Dope, Hookers, & Pavement" movie. Read more at: https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/the-story-of-detroit-hardcore-gets-the-documentary-treatment/Content?oid=25909457

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