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01. EDDY DETROIT - Ghetto Lights
02. EDDY DETROIT - Lost In a Silent Movie
03. EDDY DETROIT - Wishing Cups
04. EDDY DETROIT - Subterranean Sundays
05. EDDY DETROIT - Cashmere Carousel
06. EDDY DETROIT - Tacky Town
07. EDDY DETROIT - Sinister Urge
08. EDDY DETROIT - Skull Valley
09. EDDY DETROIT - Ghetto Café
10. EDDY DETROIT - Modern Day Gilligan
ARTIST
TITLE
Shock-A-Lock-A-Lickum
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
ASSO 007LP ASSO 007LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
1/22/2016

Where to start with Eddy Detroit? Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, it was there, in 1966, that he was in attendance for the first Iguanas gigs (Iggy Stooge's first band). He joined the White Panther party in Detroit and was "there" for the pre-punk sounds of The Stooges and MC5 ("We all smoked dope on the state Capitol and got beat up by the cops"). In the early '70s he traveled to London, where he stalked Marc Bolan and tried to seduce Tony Visconti's then-girlfriend Mary Hopkin. It was with Ms. Hopkin, when he was dropping off a demo tape at the Apple store, that he witnessed the moment when Ringo found out that The Beatles had broken up! (We've got the pictures to prove it!) In the mid-'70s, Detroit settled in Hollywood and started The Terminal Wave Band (bongo/synth/punk) which was the soundtrack to the hippy/biker/S&M/satanic/polyamorous scene that Detroit ruled in dingy, underground LA -- that's when he wasn't trying to seduce Nico (The Velvet Underground) to become one of his muses and lovers ("True story bub"). When rents in LA got too much for an acid-fried biker/S&M/punk, Eddy moved to Phoenix, AZ, and was seminal in fostering one of the most interesting underground musical scenes of the early '80s. He was an unofficial member of the Sun City Girls, toured with the Meat Puppets and Mighty Sphincter, and was the pith-helmeted shaman-in-residence at his club The Grotto! This LP contains recordings made from 1979 to 2010. They run the gamut of Detroit's musical landscape, from the UK acid-folk of Tyrannosaurus Rex and The Incredible String Band through bongo-fueled satanic calypso to his new phase as a troubadour recounting tales of hobos, whores, and one-eyed jacks from the old west. Limited edition of 500 copies.