This story is music from the other end, instead of playing it, documenting it so it would not be lost in the shuffle of time as most things on. This is that story, the story of AMG, the All-Music Guide.

I hear a lot of comments about Iggy Pop (James Osterberg) in our band (The Prime Movers Blues Band), because he was our drummer for a time. I hear less about Ron Asheton, who was one of Iggy’s Stooges. Ron was also on the scene with us for some time.

In the late 1960s, in particular with the Ann Arbor Blues Festivals in 1969 and 1970, the blues were coming to town. Since Chicago is only a few hours drive from Ann Arbor, some of the Chicago blues greats were finding their way here.

I am feeling a little nostalgic. I just read the book on a friend of mine, the great blues guitarist-- “Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of an American Guitar Hero” by Ed Ward. Excellent book. I don’t blog much on my musical background, but I have one. Here is a little taste of that both in Ann Arbor and elsewhere.

Rick Danko, a founding member of ”The Band,” and its bass player, also one of the lead singers, played his last concert at “The Ark” on December 6, 1999. I was there that night.