The Dirtbombs and Lee Marvin Computer Arm member Zachary Weedon waxes poetic on our local music scene this week on the Guardian UK's music blog, calling Detroit a city of "unlimited possibilities".
Weedon's toured the world playing music, but he still says Detroit's the best city in the world to be in a band. Maybe it's the history, all those old venues and stories of once-great bands, but Weedon also pinpoints the D's low cost of living for its ability to produce so many creatives.
Excerpt:
Most of the people I know who live in Detroit have low-key jobs, so they
can spend most of their days practising, playing shows, making flyers,
recording, listening to records, making T-shirts. Playing in the
Dirtbombs, I can come home from a long tour and not be completely broke
from paying rent, or have my house smell like cat piss from someone's
pet sub-leasing my place. This is the freedom you have living here.
Read the rest
here.
Enjoy this story?
Sign up for free solutions-based reporting in your inbox each week.