  Noggin Member Username: Noggin Post Number: 45 Registered: 09-2004 Posted From: 71.227.102.104 |
One thing that seemed to get the crowd going in Ford field were the performances of the old motown sound. Why not have a week long review with just old time motown acts? It can happen in the summer when it is more pleasant and more venues. | ||
Sharmaal Member Username: Sharmaal Post Number: 701 Registered: 09-2004 Posted From: 136.2.1.103 |
Kind of like the Shakespeare festival in Stratford? | ||
Dang Member Username: Dang Post Number: 32 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.73.194.57 |
If they couldn't even pull off a pre-game performance without lip-synching and over-production... what makes you think they can actually pull off a concert? Stevie Wonder might be the ONLY one able to play a full set these days. Call it impossible. | ||
Southwestmap Member Username: Southwestmap Post Number: 369 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 64.79.90.206 |
Motown is like Jimmy Dorsey: a historical artifact. The people who promote Detroit need to stop dragging the Four Tops and the Temptations to their bids. The inference is that Detroit hasn't done much in pop culture since 1966! Please, let's get past Motown - its old, tubby, gray and repitive at this point, except (I agree) Stevie. Aretha transcends it all, I guess. But people, ask ourselves what image we are projecting when we constantly drag out something so old and static. | ||
1953 Member Username: 1953 Post Number: 677 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 209.104.146.146 |
Motown is not something to get past, but to repackage. The original artists are mainly toast, but the legacy can be used in fresh promotions. If we get Beyonce singing for Martha Reeves, we've got a nationally recognized event with music that crosses demographic lines. | ||
Leob Member Username: Leob Post Number: 27 Registered: 10-2005 Posted From: 24.192.32.249 |
Forget Motown Acts?- Sure, as we all know, the Baby Boomers (who would pay for tickets) are not a very large demographic anyway.... ;) | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 9884 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 64.118.137.228 |
Uh...yeah. That sounds like the hot ticket. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 3048 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107 |
The Funk Brothers act is taking the country by storm. Diana Ross and some back-up Supremes, Little Stevie, Aretha, Lionel Ritchie, Martha and the Young Vandellas, Gladys Knight and the Nuevo Pips, and on and on. You don't like the Four Tops, try for the NEW Four Tops. What about the Young Temptations? The announcer can be Al Sharpton for all we care. He'd draw them in. Look, take the lead from Preservation Hall Jazz Band. They are popular and they are all old. In "Standing in the Shadows of Motown", the artists sing Motown and they are young. This is a wonderful idea. Hey, they run the Woodward Cruise circus for a week. It attracts millions to Woodward Avenue. The same can be said of a Motown Festival. jjaba, singing "Where did All the Love go?" on Dexter bus. | ||
Ndavies Member Username: Ndavies Post Number: 1634 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 129.9.163.106 |
Actually sport, it is a hot ticket. Just because it doesn't appeal to you, doesn't mean it's not popular. The tiny town of Stratford draws hundreds of thousands of people during the summer for it's festival. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 3050 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107 |
And nobody understands what the fuck they are saying. jjaba is with Ndavies on that one. jjaba, Tells it like it Tis. | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 9886 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 64.118.137.228 |
I know, my comment was meant to draw RSA outta the woodwork. He hits up that event every year, along with the Star Trek convention down in Ohio somewhere. | ||
Upinottawa Member Username: Upinottawa Post Number: 188 Registered: 09-2005 Posted From: 198.103.184.76 |
The Shakespeare festival in Stratford is top-notch entertainment (even for those without English Lit degrees). Not everything they do is Shakespeare and the productions are always excellent. http://www.stratford-festival. on.ca/ A Motown-inspired festival could work -- but it would have to be more than just bringing back the oldies. Some of the ideas above are quite good. If it were to take off, then the festival could expand beyond Motown offerings (just as Stratford does more than just Shakespeare). Better start the renos on the Michigan Theatre and the UA! | ||
Matt_the_deuce Member Username: Matt_the_deuce Post Number: 489 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.248.252 |
How about a Motown Festival where invited artists just play motown songs - not just Motown artists themselves. You could get some big names in here and it would be a lot of fun. They do it in Liverpool - the International Beatles Festival. It's off the hook and would be great for detroit. http://visitliverpool.com/displayproduct.asp?productkey=16220 (Message edited by Matt the Deuce on February 10, 2006) (Message edited by Matt the Deuce on February 10, 2006) | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 5505 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 208.27.111.125 |
I'd give my left one for a Star Trek convention in town. | ||
Ilovedetroit Member Username: Ilovedetroit Post Number: 2057 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 68.40.173.250 |
I am with you on that itsjeff-we are such nerds! Or a new Battlestar Galactica convention - we could be the first - dibs on Apollo! | ||
Erikd Member Username: Erikd Post Number: 521 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.242.214.106 |
Live long and prosper, Jeff. LOL | ||
Upinottawa Member Username: Upinottawa Post Number: 189 Registered: 09-2005 Posted From: 198.103.184.76 |
Matt: that idea is pretty good. As long as I have been alive, Metro Detroit has never been a tourist magnet -- if the City (and the region) want to draw people in then Detroit needs to market itself using the positive things for that it is known. Motown is certainly one. Also, when I was in Paris last summer I couldn't miss the Peugeot store on the Champs Elysees. The store had cars in it (including a race car), but it sold all kinds of Peugeot memorabilia. Even if Peugeots suck -- the store was bright, busy, and interesting. Imagine if GM, Ford, Chrysler, etc. all had stores (not dealerships) with cars and merchandise downtown on Woodward just blocks from each other. Detroit's comeback should reflect its heritage, especially if its heritage can bring tourists into the city (and the region). | ||
Arab_guyumich Member Username: Arab_guyumich Post Number: 739 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 141.217.98.141 |
I can die peacefully...I attended the X-Files convention at COBO Hall in 1999. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 3051 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107 |
You can get plenty of car stuff at Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village Gift shop. jjaba got his vintage yellow Vernor's sign there, knome and all. jjaba, Bar Mitzvah bukkor wearing his Cadillac cap on the Dexter bus over his yarmulka. | ||
Machoken Member Username: Machoken Post Number: 1123 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.85.155.145 |
Funny, I could see the Liverpool Beatles festival drawing in thousands, hundreds of thousands, each year. I would like to be one of those thousands one day. But a motown festival? It wouldn't, it couldn't come even close to that. | ||
Lmichigan Member Username: Lmichigan Post Number: 3167 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 67.172.95.197 |
A Motown review would be a great part of a greater Detroit Music Festival, which would have would have to take a few years of planning. | ||
Damon Member Username: Damon Post Number: 653 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 172.175.96.69 |
We need to build the MOTOWN CENTRE now! Theres no question about it! | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 512 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 69.212.169.194 |
How about something like SXSW, except in Detroit.... MXMW? Ummm... Or.... http://www.motorcitymusic.com/ | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 3061 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107 |
We could start with a tent on the Donovan Bldg. site during a music festival. That would be simple. jjaba, | ||
Jams Member Username: Jams Post Number: 2634 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.79.121.199 |
Hey, I need that Parking space. | ||
623kraw Member Username: 623kraw Post Number: 767 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.41.224.200 |
Too bad the MOTOWN CENTRE was foolishly torn down for a one week SB event. Sorry, but that takes the wind out of the sails. In other words, I wouldn't go. A tent for the parking site sounds real charming...yeah right. |
