Comments on: Rouge Plant Blues versus Assembly Line Blues http://cousinsvinyl.com/2008/rouge-plant-blues-versus-assembly-line-blues/ The Best Records from Detroit and Beyond Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:43:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: admin http://cousinsvinyl.com/2008/rouge-plant-blues-versus-assembly-line-blues/#comment-1775 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:00:40 +0000 http://cousinsvinyl.com/2008/rouge-plant-blues-versus-assembly-line-blues/#comment-1775 Wow - that is a great site. Wow - that is a great site.

]]> by: Cousin Justin http://cousinsvinyl.com/2008/rouge-plant-blues-versus-assembly-line-blues/#comment-1774 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:33:55 +0000 http://cousinsvinyl.com/2008/rouge-plant-blues-versus-assembly-line-blues/#comment-1774 I found a great website that has biographies to a lot of Detroit bands including Stix & Stoned. The Bio is as follows "Stix & Stoned was a well-known "bar" band around Detroit for many years. Their founder, Bobby Lewis started playing guitar in the 60s with the Soul Survers. After getting married and starting a family, he set his priority as family first and secured a position both financially and musically rewarding in a bar called "Your Moustache" in Dearborn. This allowed him monetary survival while staying in one place. The three piece band kept the bar filled even with a cover charge and high drink prices and if you got there after 10, it was standing room at the bar only. They recorded one single: "The Rouge Plant Blues" about Ford Motor's nearby factory. Marcus Terry, Stix and Stoned's original drummer, headed south to an interest in Florida. He was replaced by Jimmy Hunter (who's gone on to an illustrious career as a studio/session/touring drummer). John Coury, their bass/keyboard player stayed on for awhile (John was also in Sky with Doug Feiger and later went on to write "End of the Innocence" with Don Henley) with new drummer Hunter in place, but eventually followed other callings. Lewis put togehter a new ensemble, continuing on in the old format of including many personal touches and humor to the show, under the name of Bobby Lewis and the Cracker Jack Band. Lewis is something of a Detroit legend and owing to his musical abilities and length of time in the business, and it appears that anybody who's anybody knows Bobby. One night at the Moustache, Jose Fleciano stopped in and did a couple songs with him, as had Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton on other occasions. Their gig at Your Moustache ended when the bar was sold several years back but Lewis (and a revamped version of the band) has continued to play out around the metro Detroit area, albeit sporadically, over the years." The WEBSITE IS HERE http://home.att.net/~s.m.geer/home.htm Click on the bands link. It is atruly impressive list of bands and info I found a great website that has biographies to a lot of Detroit bands including Stix & Stoned. The Bio is as follows
“Stix & Stoned was a well-known “bar” band around Detroit for many years. Their founder, Bobby Lewis started playing guitar in the 60s with the Soul Survers. After getting married and starting a family, he set his priority as family first and secured a position both financially and musically rewarding in a bar called “Your Moustache” in Dearborn. This allowed him monetary survival while staying in one place. The three piece band kept the bar filled even with a cover charge and high drink prices and if you got there after 10, it was standing room at the bar only. They recorded one single: “The Rouge Plant Blues” about Ford Motor’s nearby factory.
Marcus Terry, Stix and Stoned’s original drummer, headed south to an interest in Florida. He was replaced by Jimmy Hunter (who’s gone on to an illustrious career as a studio/session/touring drummer). John Coury, their bass/keyboard player stayed on for awhile (John was also in Sky with Doug Feiger and later went on to write “End of the Innocence” with Don Henley) with new drummer Hunter in place, but eventually followed other callings.

Lewis put togehter a new ensemble, continuing on in the old format of including many personal touches and humor to the show, under the name of Bobby Lewis and the Cracker Jack Band. Lewis is something of a Detroit legend and owing to his musical abilities and length of time in the business, and it appears that anybody who’s anybody knows Bobby. One night at the Moustache, Jose Fleciano stopped in and did a couple songs with him, as had Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton on other occasions.

Their gig at Your Moustache ended when the bar was sold several years back but Lewis (and a revamped version of the band) has continued to play out around the metro Detroit area, albeit sporadically, over the years.”

The WEBSITE IS HERE http://home.att.net/~s.m.geer/home.htm Click on the bands link. It is atruly impressive list of bands and info

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