Considered the Garage Rock Godfather, Jim Diamond sits down for a Q & A with a Phoenix writer and talks Detroit music.
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UP: I'm
pretty sure you're going to scoff at this question too, but I've always
thought there's a certain energy in Detroit that produces great music
of every type, and successful music . . . There are so many cities the
size of Detroit -- I mean, you look at a city like Phoenix, it's a lot
larger than Detroit -- that never put out that many successful acts.
JD:
Yeah, that's true. I always think it's, like, Detroit is really easy to
live there, and it's kind of like there aren't a whole lot of rules and
the rent isn't expensive, so people have time to screw around and play
music, and it's pretty easy. And I've said this before a million times:
People there always have a really good knowledge about musical history,
for whatever reason. Like there are a lot of really big music fans. And
no one's really concerned about making it there. I guess they have this
really downtrodden spirit like, "Fuck this. We're not going to make it;
let's make music." So once they get back and think they're not going to
make it, that's when they probably make better music.
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