Frank Bach
Frank Bach was lead singer with Detroit band the Up, and wrote extensively for underground paper the Ann Arbor Sun. He has also written for Creem and the Detroit Free Press.
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Essay by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, 4 July 1970
THE LIFE of the young rock and roll musician is and has always been filled with the bitter contradictions of honko Amerika................. ...
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin: Jimi and Janis: Victims of the Plague
Essay by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, February 1971
EARLY IN the morning of Monday, October 5, 1970, Janis Joplin was found dead in an apartment in San Francisco, her arms filled with tracks, ...
The Up: Rock & Roll Dope: the May Day Peace Festival, Iowa
Report by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, 7 May 1971
(AT THE moment I'm writing this the Up is solidly entrenched in Amerika's midwest — it's 2 am and we're sitting around getting high at a ...
MC5, John Sinclair, The Up: Rock & Roll Dope: John Sinclair
Retrospective by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, 28 May 1971
IT WAS back in the fall of 1966 when Rob Tyner, lead singer for the then "Avant Rock" MC5, and myself got in Rob's beat ...
The Flamin' Groovies: Rock And Roll Dope: the Flamin' Groovies
Report by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, 11 June 1971
DETROIT CITY was reelin' and rockin' last weekend to high energy blasts from the most unique and refreshing band to come out of San Francisco ...
Comment by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, 25 June 1971
IT WAS A Friday night back in the fall of 1966 when Gary Grimshaw, myself and some brothers and sisters from Detroit set up some ...
The Up: Rock And Roll Dope: the Up
Column by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, 2 July 1971
UP PLAYED for the Scapegoat Six in Kennedy Square last Tuesday and after running a bunch of errands around the Motor City all afternoon we ...
MC5, John Sinclair: Rock And Roll Dope: MC5 Kick Out The Jams At The Grande Ballroom
Column by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, 29 October 1971
IT WAS back in the fall of 1966 when Rob Tyner, lead singer for the then "Avant Rock" MC5, and myself got in Rob's beat up ...
Bobby "Blue" Bland: Phelps' Lounge, Detroit MI
Live Review by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, 15 July 1976
JUST ABOUT every time a holiday rolls around nowadays, Bobby "Blue" Bland can be found singing down at Phelps' Lounge, a comfortable nightclub located in an otherwise bleak ...
Average White Band: Crisis At Cobo Hall
Interview by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, 3 September 1976
Alan Gorrie Talks to The Sun ...
Leon Thomas: Baker's Keyboard Lounge, Detroit MI
Live Review by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, 17 September 1976
VOCALIST LEON Thomas has seen work with everybody from Count Basie to Pharoah Sanders in the last twenty years and is probably one of the most innovative singers alive today. As ...
The Spinners: The Spinners: Breakin' The Barriers
Interview by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, 8 October 1976
EVER SINCE the beginnings of radio broadcasting in this country, the programming policies of most of the large white-owned stations have made it difficult, if ...
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