Hi ALL ............

I try to read this comment page everyday
I like to keep in touch with everyone

I got a CD from our friends Mercury Bullet today (now I need to listen to it)
I met them via JT the Brick's Fox Sports radio show
He does a thing called myspace monday .., he need bands/music see www. myspace. com/jtthebrick

I am back in Detroit ... from my out west exseriton
I tell you the economy may be bad but you would never know it by traveling around
car rentals busy, air ports busy, Vegas busy, traffic jams everywhere ....
need a vacation from my vacation

Keep in touch
your friend BENNY
Benny and the Jets Band
www. myspace. com/bennyandthejets
 

I havent posted on this blog in a while soooooooooo

I was out in Az, Vegas, La, Hollywood .... and put up this bulliten when I got back

ANYWAY alive and well and I am back in DETROIT .... lol
and of course it is cold and wet and all that stuff
did a late night coffee with GINO and Pam (the wife) (who is feeling better)
she draged on the trip ... a soon as we got to Az she was sick .. then pills she got she had bad reaction
just dragedon and kind of kicked her butt .. on top of travling and all that stuff
but what can you do ... the best you can!

the whole trip seemed like a few days instead of weeks
Az is very clean/nice area ... LA was a cluster and not all that nice ...
Vegas was exciting but traffic jams and long lines everywhere you go
(I did get to met NIKKI at the PLAYBOY CLUB - she is on my top friends on www. myspace.
com/bennyandthejets)
also got to hang a lot with Fox Sports radio friend JT the Brick also on the top myspace friends
he has that myspace monday where he PLAYS myspace bands ... all the bands should go to his site
and get played nation wide 300 cities including LA, Boston, Detroit, Tx, Fla everwhere ....

also remember on the message board we post one long tread/blog for each month www.http://p204. ezboard.
com/bbennysmessageboard
and the person who opens the new page sits on top in a place of honor
(who will open the march page???? 12:01 March first)

SOOOOOOO anyway back home in DETROIT
should be back to the regular grind ........
monday JT's radio show 1am via Fox Sports Radio.
com
tuesday the Wayne Road Pub in Westland Mich
wednesday the www. wpon.
com radio show 5pm Detroit time
thursday the Thunderbowl in Allen Park Mich
saturday the Fiddle bikni bar in Wayne Mich

Always feel free to e-mail benejets@aol.com
or call the 24 hour hot line 313 730 1627

Oh ya should be a story about Benny and the Jets in the Detroit Live magazine ???? great time in Vegas with Chubby Checker too ...

keep in touch
your friend
BENNY
 

there you go ... today on that map page we have hits from Japan ??? Australia?? WECLOME stop by often ... leave a message either here or at benejets@aol.com  good week for the band, good gigs, lots of fun, my friend in Boston is trying to set up and gig there ... have to see if that works out, we have a half time show at the femail pro football game I think they are going to come to the our live radio show wed 5pm via www.wpon.com remote at embers deli on orchard lake road west of telegraph soooo everyone could get free ticktes .... geezzz brings back memoires of our friends from England who were in town for Wrestelmania ....... lol ... life is good check back often ....... BENNY

 

on the myspace map it says we had a vist from ICELAND ... I want to met the person who came here from ICELAND also Japan and ALL other far away (from DETROIT) places ... leave a comment or a reply or e mail benejets@aol.com Thanks for stoping by ....... www.myspace.com/bennyandthejets a DEETROIT rock and roll band ... ps nice gig at the thunderbowl in allen park mich tonight, people dancing, singing, having fun, and we love that .....

 

<P>try to get some regular readers here on the BLOG page ... good week for the band we played the Detroit Demolition Womans football game/half time show ... very cool gig we did several old mitch ryder songs, chuck berry and the brown eyed girl! On the way home dark rainy night I damn near hit a kid walked across the intersetion (at night in the dark) ... damn kids ...lol ....... but scared me .... ok blog on BENNY and the jets band ... DEEEETROIT</P>
 

this is a column I wrote for the Bargain Hunter paper

 

 

hi all ....... man i love this myspace stuff ... hits from all over the world ??? as always feel free to say hi either on the space or benejets@aol.com ........eruope, india, astrailia, how better can bands reach out then via myspace ... very cool ... my friend JT the Brick has a national USA radio show see www.myspace.com/jtthebirck I just found out he is on a station in Cincnatti Ohio 1530AM a 50,000 watt station BOOMING the midwest ... might be why we have so many hits on our little map icon from the midwest ... very cool .... keep in touch your friend BENNY hmmm PS Old Time Rock and Roll seemed to be the cool song at the gig last night ... got to love that Bob Seger  .... Detroit rock and roll
 

pretty obveouis I can't keep up with this daly blog idea
I tried to post this but I think I hit the cancel instead of the post ...lol
this is something I cliped from the www.bennyandthejets.com message board
friends and fans should check there regularly ...

lets see recap
thursday at thunderbowl was fun

friday at Allen Park carnaval was interesting
we saw that Walinda lady clime a 70 foot pole
which attracted a few onlookers ....

Sat at turtle-lake.com was great ...
like hug said very nice day not a cloud in the sky, some very nice cars trying to think of the highlight song??
might have been when this hot naked blond got in her blue ford convertable and drove pasted the stage as we were singin mustang sally?

(How often you see a naked blond driving a convertable?)

then we rased to the Ramada Inn in Taylor ... they had some luau going on in the banquett room over flowing into the bar so they had us set up on the restaurant side ... which like Lorna said really was kind of nice (might have been our biggest night ever there???)

Sunday at Jacks bar in Pontiac was kind of slow
might have been because of the extra nice day???
(might have been our slowest night ever, go figure)

OOOOOOOOOOH YA ... check out SUNDAYS Detroit Free Press
page 2 .. about the Doctor of Doo Wop (my radio show partner) .... pretty damn cool (maybe Deb find a link???)

Wednesday June 13th we are doing the radio show from live remote at Cheeze Burger Cheeze Burger on Hagerty Road between 6 and 7 mile Roads .... Hear the show Wednesday 5 till 7pm actually we are going to go till 9pm with ERNIE's Crusing with the crew... stop in or listen via www.wpon.com

geez I have to find out if we are playing the Strawberry Festival Friday??? at St Antony's Church in Belleville

oooooooook keep in touch
BENNY
benejets@aol.com
313 730 1627
 

good day on the myspace ....
i really think i need to figure out a way to put a daly greeting on the main page
i dont think enough people stumble into the blog pages
but all is well in Detroit

we played some great gigs this week
nice out doors show at the Village of Rodchester Hills
our regular gigs at the wayne road pub on tusday
the thunderbowl on thursdays,
the ramada inn in taylor on saturdays
and jack's bar and grill in Pontiac on sundays

the Wyandotte Fireworks this friday should be very cool
keep in touch
BENNY
BENNY and the Jets Band
benejets@aol.com
 

well no mysapce monday with the death of Bill Walsh ...
I did have a long talk with Mike from the Curcit band who's song is played on JTs page ... seems like a good bunch of guys (check out thier myspace) we talked a lot about how to promote JTs myspace music idea ... how some of the band could network with each other, maybe somekind of a compalation CD? I told him about Mike Shane in Nashville, Mike Fishook in noCail, hmmm Mike TyEil, (lot of Mikes?) and MICK from Dog Beever band in San Fran ... also the Prospect Hill guys in Boston, I know karatte, los nawdy dawgs ... a lot of bands, a lot of music, there should be a way to make something of this?
anyone with ideas .. let me or JT know, everyone should friend and network will all the other bands ... keep pushing this mysace monday
via myspace.com/JTtheBrick
 

checking in on my own page ... or space
been super busy month (August) for the band
everything from being on the front page of the Detroit Free Press
to the Wayne County Fair and the Woodward Dream Cruise
I had the photo of the Benny and the Jets 55 Chevy on the myspace for that Dream Cruise
but now is time to put the outdoor photo up ... lol
anyway keep in touch
keep reading the page
feel free to call or e mail anytime
BENNY 313 730 1627 benejets@aol.com
no GIGs to big - no GIGs to small ... call
 

kind of a cool link
about cars and music
all the kids need to see this
it kind of explains what a little duce coup IS ....

Benny and the Jets
rock and roll Band
detroit michigan

"http://thefiftiesandsixties.com/CarsWeDrove.htm"
 

the Tigers Yankess on the Benny and the Jet network ... damn I wish I would have recorded that ... I would have put it on our next CD ....

everyone should click on JT's RANT
always a cool topic ....
"http://myspace.com/JTthebrick"

JT mentioned Kamikaze ... on his wednesday show
said he wanted to do somekind of tribute to him on his web site ... which I thought was a great idea
very nice of him .....

also JT mentioned www.ticket760.com
a station that carries/streams the show
nice site lots of sports stuff

also always MYSPACE MONDAY MUSIC
was cool ... we still need to post the names of the bands played ...maybe send them some e mails tell them they were on the show

bands might consider writing some songs expecelly for the show? or thier favorite sports team ... if you have an "Are you ready for some football" type song .. thing how cool it would be to be played on Fox Sports Radio ....

pass the word, tell all the music people you know ...

BENNY and the Jets
a Detroit Rock and Roll band
 

the Tigers Yankess on the Benny and the Jet network ... damn I wish I would have recorded that ... I would have put it on our next CD ....

everyone should click on JT's RANT
always a cool topic ....
"http://myspace.com/JTthebrick"

JT mentioned Kamikaze ... on his wednesday show
said he wanted to do somekind of tribute to him on his web site ... which I thought was a great idea
very nice of him .....

also JT mentioned www.ticket760.com
a station that carries/streams the show
nice site lots of sports stuff

also always MYSPACE MONDAY MUSIC
was cool ... we still need to post the names of the bands played ...maybe send them some e mails tell them they were on the show

bands might consider writing some songs expecelly for the show? or thier favorite sports team ... if you have an "Are you ready for some football" type song .. thing how cool it would be to be played on Fox Sports Radio ....

pass the word, tell all the music people you know ...

BENNY and the Jets
a Detroit Rock and Roll band
 

Hard Core Wednesday ROCKED ....

NFL predictions
I guess JT picked Pats
Lonney Baltamore ???
I piced Colts last year and just couldn't do it two in a row didn't fell it for Pats ... so went with the Saints (which i called the jazz???LOL)

I think the LIONS are cooked
maybe the worst ever ???

Looking forward the Myspace Monday Music ... tell you music friends to hit JT's BLog (myspace.com/JTthebrick)
and get thier music played

I see Mike Shane from Nashville's DOG song on JTs page .....

I met a girl via mysapce from Austraila that has some out their stuff also a girl from Hawaii .. I hope JT plays music from around the world ...

In closing (basllball fans)
The Indians haven't won since tradiong ROCKY COLAVITO (that is a baseball name) to DETROIT in the 60s

NO CLEAVLAND team has won a tiltle since the 64 Browns NOT even LeBron James .....

BENNY and the Jets Band
from DEETROIT
 

I posted this on JT the Bricks myspace after his radio show .....

myspace mnday music when well ...
I know kratte, core factor, lost cause,and jayne nelson (from nashville) our pal mike shane needs to e-mail her all the band NEED TO NETWORK ... make this happen ...on the bennyandthejets myspace was glad to see Mike Fishook/mello music, the KISS band from Germany, some HOT GIRL named DEB, the bloody grim reaper, the Emeralds from Phlli, FOX RADIO 1410, the Curcuit band, and my pall Mick from Hayword and his Dog Beaver band .. Mick's girl friend has a cool story about meeting Mitch Ryder and knowing Benny and the Jets (damn Detroit bands stick togetter) ...ANYWAY TELL EVERYONE TO HOOK THEIR FAVORITE MUSIC MAKERS UP TO JT'S MYSPACE ...www.myspace.com/JTtheBrick send them to the blog section and get then a chance to be heard on national radio ...
 

HI all ... we talked about the mysapce on the show today ...
our pal Steve doing a nice job mantaing the site for us ... Huggy and MJ were at the station they brought some guests from UK Robert and Dot along with the rest of the gang Dave from Warren, Beatle Brad, jukebox John, Carrie we had fun yaking about 1965 ... make sure you tell you friends about this space, remember my e mail is benejets@aol.com and see www.myspace.com/bennyandthejets Dr doo wop's e mail is roman509@aol.com and we have that newsletter (which needs to be posted HERE) you can get it bey e mailing WoodwardCruisers@aol.com September 26 we are going to be at Embers Delli on Orchard Lake Road west of Telegraph ... no cover, open to the public, good food, good times

WOW NOTE THAT YOU CAN NOW CLICK ON THAT BOOM BOX RAIDO ICON AND HEAR THE STATION ... AND 5 TILL 7PN DETROIT WE ARE ON LIVE .. ALSO that music player has my message .... lol www.mysapce.com/doctordoowopshow
 

you know i post on a lot of peoples spaces ... but it seems it is hard to post on my own space... had to get to the BLOG ... it would be easyer to post on the coment section let everyone else does ... we could reply to people and questions right there .... hear that TOM
.. lol .........anyway i call into my friends JT the Bricks radio show on Wedesday nights
I always like to check in after the show .... I told JT this really is the best caller driven radio show in the WORLD ... the could make a book or a movie about it (JT was mentioned in a book called sports talk my Alen Eyenstock) ... also mentioned the RED WINGS ... hocky is in trouble, they are doing a poor job of marketing thier players .. every little kid knows baseball, basketball and football ...players names ....but very few kids or adults know ANY hocky players ..... NHL needs to WAKE UP

BENNY and the Jets Band
Detroit or is that Hockytown ????
 

i found this

my daughter on the bike at 1:51 and 2:10
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMaOhkkrVbE"

benny
 

we get a lot of former Detroiters stoping by ....

BENNY and the Jets
a Detroit Rock and Roll Band


You Know You're From Detroit If . .

You used a pillowcase to go "begging" on Halloween, and you yelled, "Help
the Poor!" at every door. ("Help the poor, my pants are tore, I need some
money to buy some more.") OR TRICK OR TREAT, SMELL MY FEET, GIVE ME SOMETHING GOOD TO EAT

You remember what Devil's Night used to be.

You remember the huge elm trees forming lush green tunnels over many Detroit streets in the summertime. Or when they'd come around to spray and tell you to stay in the house. And, the autumn smell of burning leaves, after you'd rake huge piles to the curb for burning.

You remember honking your horn as you went through the tunnel to Belle Isle at the end of East Grand Blvd.Where it went under Jefferson Avenue, even though the sign at the entrance read "Don't Sound Horn." And you remember the submarine that was tied up at the Brodhead Naval Armory alongside the Belle Isle Bridge.

You took a class trip or a moonlight cruise to Bob-Lo with Captain Bob-Lo..

You remember running home from school so you could have lunch with Soupy Sales.

You rode a bus to Edgewater Amusement Park to ride the wooden roller coaster (again and again) or the Salt & Pepper Shaker. You remember "A fantabulous day for the family, at fantabulous Edgewater Park." P. O.. P. Meant pay one price.

Your Mom packed the car with kids, swimsuits, towels, and peanut butter and
jelly sandwiches to spend the day at Metropolitan Beach.

You played in the "Big Ditch" as I-94 was being built.

You played tennis on Belle Isle's courts, or golfed at their par 3 course, both lit after dark. Or went ice-skating, or for a horseback or canoe ride, rode in a pony-drawn carriage, hand-fed the animals at the zoo, visited the aquarium (remember the teepee), or attended an event at the Casino.

You rode the big white roller coaster or found your way out of the Fun House
at Jefferson Beach Amusement Park.

Took a day trip and drove way out to Walled Lake Amusement Park where they had lots of rides, a roller coaster, and to the Walled Lake Casino for
dancing.

When ice-skating was outdoors and Palmer Park or Belle Isle was the place to do it. You also remember its tennis courts, wading pool, golf, ice-skating,
and horse and buggy rides.

Or how about the Detroit Firefighters working the crowds at the fireworks,
selling tickets to their Field Day, and giving out firecrackers to the kids.

You rode a streetc ar that ran on tracks down the center of Gratiot, Woodward, Jefferson or Michigan Avenue. Or the electric buses on Warren and Grand River.

You remember how all of the lights from the auto dealerships lit up Gratiot
and Livernois -- and that they only sold American-made cars.

You remember when Eastland, Wonderland and Northland Malls were open, not enclosed. And when Wonderland had animals in circular cages.

You know how to pronounce Gratiot and Schoenherr and Cadieux.

If someone told you it's on Outer Drive, you knew to consult a map first.

You thought driving to Southfield was going "out to the country."

You checked out books for two weeks from the Bookmobile that came to your
elementary school once a week.

You vividly recall the mineral bath smell (rotten eggs) when you drove
through Mt. Clemens.

You bought candy and nuts from window-lined, walk-around counters and wooden floors at S. S. K resge or Woolworth's ("dime" stores).

You went to Sock Hops at Notre Dame high school on a Friday night where you heard Stevie Wonder, Bob Seger and the Last Herd, or the Rationals.

You drank Faygo, Towne Club, Grilli's, Oso, or Atlas pop (we never heard it
called "soda").

Your Mom saved Top Value, Holden Red, S&H Green or Gold Bell stamps.

Cunningham Drug Stores soda fountain and their raspberry phosphate.

Your school took a bus trip to the cider mill (with donuts and cider after
the tour), or to Kellogg's in Battle Creek.

Silverstein's was the candy store of Army and Navy surplus stuff.

You had a subscription to the three Detroit newspapers, including The
Detroit Times.

You remember news anchor Jac LeGoff who eventually worked at every TV
station around Detroit.

You visited the Wonder Bread Bakery and got to take home a mini-loaf of
bread (but you weren't cool unless you ate Silver cup bread).

You had a Shaffer's or Awrey's breadman and a Brickley's milkman. Or a Twin Pines milkman, a Jewel Coffee man, and a Fuller Brush man (and they were always men).

You remember Pure, Penzoil, Speedway 79, Monkey, Dance, Purple Martin,
Sinclair, Danny's Dino, Kayo and Gulf gas stations, and when "gas wars"
meant 17 cents a gallon.

You remember Primo's Pizza, Carbone's Pizza, Red Barn, Powers, Henry's,
Herc's Beef Buffet, Cupid's, Tom's Tavern, Ted's 5x5, Totem Pole, Red Devil,
Marcus, or Richard's drive-in. (car-feteria).

You attended a wedding reception or a banquet at Roma Hall.

You attended "Wendy Ward's Charm School " at Montgomery Ward.

You remember when Ben's Hi-Chaperelle and Watt's Club Mozambique were the places to go to catch Motown acts.

Every year when the Blue Angels came to Willow Run Airport.

Or always wished you could be one of the Hudson's Teen Panel girls whose
pictures hung on the wall in the Juniors Department.

You had friends or relatives who could get you into Camp Dearborn for the
canteen dances in the summer and to go swimming. Or the pond at Belle Isle
near the Conservatory where the sign warned you not to touch the water.

You had a reverb unit installed in your car at Mickey Shorr's or Crazy
Jack's (a. k. a Michigan Mobile Radio or MMR) on Livernois.

You remember the riots of 1967.

When the bleacher seats at Briggs Stadium were only $2.00 to watch the
Detroit Lions play. And when they won the National Football Championship
(before there were Super Bowls) in 1957 against the Cleveland Browns, 59-14.

And when the Red Wings won all those Stanley Cups in the 1950s, and balcony seats at Olympia Stadium were only $1.25!

You remember Detroit wrestlers Dick the Bruiser, Bobo Brazil, Leaping Larry
Chene, Wild Bull Curry, Ernie "The Cat" Ladd, Lord Athol Layton, Ed ward "The Sheik" Farhat, Fritz Von Erich, George "The Animal" Steele and Johnny
Valentine.

You remember bowling for a quarter a game at Chandler Park Lanes, Falcon
Lanes (next to The Ginos/Falcon Showbar), Parkside, Woods, Ritter's or Ritz
bowling alleys.

You worked at Detroit Bank & Trust, Manufacturers National Bank, Bank of the Commonwealth, City National Bank, or National Bank of Detroit.

You "parked" at Belle Isle, either to watch the color-changing waterfall or
the submarine races -- depending on how old you were and who you were with! You were in awe of the Big Stove on East Jefferson at the entrance to Belle Isle (before it was moved to State Fairgrounds entrance).

You remember your Mom taking your burned-out lightbulbs to Detroit Edison to exchange for new ones.

You remember the J. L. Hudson Co. (known to us as just " Hudson's") building
on Woodward Avethat occupied an entire city block. And you remember the white-gloved elevator attendants operating the expandable gate and lever- locked door, and just before letting you out, she would call out the names of the various departments on that floor.

You ate a Maurice Salad at a J. L. Hudson's cafeteria.

You went shopping during Downtown Detroit Days.

You remember Women's Hospital before it became Hutzel Hospital.

You remember that Hudson's hung a HUGE American flag on the front of the
building every 4th of July.

You would ride the bus downtown at Christmas and stand in line at Hudson's
amid a fabulous winding, animated Toyland just to see Santa.

Or you remember going to see Santa Claus at the Northland Mall igloos
because it was televised and you hoped your friends would see you.

Thanksgiving was not complete unless first you went to the Hudson's Parade,
then to watch the Detroit Lions play the Green Bay Packers (always the
Packer s back then) at Briggs (later Tiger) Stadium.

You know guys who put up big antennas so they could pull in the Lions home
games on channel 6 out of Lansing.

You watched the 'old guys' play bocce ball at Buddy's Rendezvous Pizza or
sang the Schnitzelbank song at the Dakota Inn.

You remember when Mayor Cavanaugh would give Santa and Christmas Carole (who always looked like she should be freezing in her short red velvet outfit trimmed with white fur) the keys to the city at the end of every parade.

You remember the Detroit Tigers pitcher Mark "The Bird" Fidrych.

You remember watching the Detroit Pistons and the WHA Michigan Stags hockey games at Cobo Arena.

How about Al Ackerman ringing Big Al's bell for the Sports Hero of the Day.

And watching Cadillacs being made on Clark Street.

Or the giant, three-dimensional "Elsie" the Borden Cow (head) located on the
side of the Ira Wilson Dairy off the I-94 service drive. (Now, it only says "ILSON" -- much of the stack has been taken down).

Going to the Better Made potato chip factory and getting small bags of brown
chips or shoe strings before going to the Jewel movie theater.

You remember hearing the air raid sirens on Saturday at 1 p. m.

You remember the RAF bomber flying from England in 1962 that exploded over the Detroit River near Grosse Pointe Park.

Your neighborhood had a man who came down the alley on his horse-drawn
carriage honking his horn and collecting the stuff no one wanted, like
bicycle parts, wheel rims, etc., and he was called the "sheeny man."

Or the guy who came through your neighborhood on a bike to sharpen your
scissors, etc.

You remember the ice man delivering ice to be placed in your ice box (we
didn't have refrigerators then) after you placed a card in your front window
indicating whether you wanted 25-, 50-, 75-, or 100-pound blo cks.

You remember the milkman delivering milk and cream in glass bottles from a
horse-drawn vehicle.

You remember going to the drive-in and getting blasted by mosquito spray
from the back of a pickup truck that drove up and down the lanes.

You ordered Cold Duck at the Ponchartrain Wine Cellars (the restaurant/bar
where it was invented) and enjoyed a frog leg dinner.

THOSE WERE THE DAYS
 

milky the clown johnny ginger soupy sales ricky the clown poopdeck paul keener13
spark plug at 8 and woodward 10 cents to ride that trolley bus to hudsons michigan theater...............
 

getting to be a lof of ??????? stuff on this blog
feel free to join in ... lol

wenesdays I do my wpon.com radio show 5 pn detroit time
after i call in my friend JT the Brick's Fox sports show 1:20am
i think you find him at foxsports.com or his myspace on my top 10 friends
he has a new x-mas song on his page .. young guy from georgia nice version of little drummer boy


Hey its December ...
got my Santa hat on LOL

and JT the BRICK is going to Green Bay ...man it is going to be cold there. Gino the mailman said to tell you to get them big heavy wool socks

HARD CORE WENDESDAY ROCKED
Mr C ... did great remembering the passing of John Lemmon (that was back when Monday night football was HUGE)

Loony hit the POP LOONY right into Hard core Wed call ...

I said BENNY from the city voted best sorts town in American with a baseball team that has a Hall of Fame catcher, a life time 300 hitter who may hit out of the 9 spot ... with this trade for Cabrera (NL top fine homers and RBIs last year) Tigers may bat him 3rd? Granderson our 20 20 20 guys stays leadoff 1, Polanco 3rd in batting race stays 2, Cabrera 3
Ordonez and Gullen stay 4 and 5, bumping Sheffield to 6 Renteria 7 Jacque Jones 8 and Pudge 9

and in interleage games Dontrelle Willis has hit a few homers TOO

hey New Years EVE Benny and the Jets playing at the THUNDERBOWL in Allem Park Bowling with BENNY ... LOL
beat me win some cash ... plus band, DJ, Karaoke, Pizza, champaine ahhh the good life 008
 

2008: Now many of us are just longing for hair...any hair

1978: KEG parties
2008: EKG appointments

1978: We wanted to move to California because it's cool
2008: We want to move to Arizona because it's warm

1978: Seeds and stems
2008: Roughage

1978: Many of us hoped for a BMW
2008: Many of us are just hoping for a BM

1978: We were going to a new, hip joint
2008: We're receiving a new hip joint

1978: We wanted to screw the system
2008: We want to upgrade the system

1978: Disco
2008: Costco
 

HI ALL ....

I need some HELP passing this YOUTUBE aroud ... can you cut and past

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=HDYjsH_TVZk

Benny and the Jets Band
Dumb Girl song and video

maybe send it on a bulliten or to your friends or PUT IT ON YOUR SITE

we are getting a lot of extra traffic and I think it is because of that video (thanks Mitch)

Steve that slide show you put was cool
we need a photo of Guitarest Joe Prus ... he has been stoping by here add he has a good band and myspace

OUR OLD PAL DJ Larry London
has a myspace (5 friends)
www.myspace.com/larrylondon

our Superbowl Party was HUGE
the Gaelic Irish American Club downtown Detroit is just a great place to hang out ... we did a little after the game pary at the JMB bar Michigan and Inkster ... all and all great superbowl and a great superbowl day ....

thanks again
push the video
BENNY
 

read this and then send it to a friend

I got an e-mail from my friend blues singer Paul Miles www.myspace.com/pauljmilesmusic
he asked about my pal JT the BRICK and how that sports radio contest was going

JT won that last round, which put in the finals. That last round was really probably the tuffest
he beat David Stine who had beat Jim Rome in the round before. ( I think Rome may have been the favorite)
but really every well known sports radio host was in this contest and anyone of them could have won.

Many thanks to my friends who took the time to help me help JT to this final round ....

If you want to jump in for the finish ..
same as before go to
www.sportsmediajournal.com
scroll down to JT the Brick click and vote
every easy takes a minute

you can see more about JT at his www.myspace.com/jtthebrick
also lots of BENNY stuff at www.myspace.com/bennyandthejets
PS on the blog section there is some stuff about the ROLLING STONES MOVIE
that I have a small part in and they use our song "The Oldest Rolling Stones Fan"

oooooooook
life is good, live it up
the band is still playing every Tuesday (18 years) at the Wayne Road Pub in Westland
Wednesday 5 till 7 the www.wpon.com radio show also www.myspace.com/doctordoowopshow
Thurs, Fri and Sat at the Thunderbowl on Allen Road in Allen Park
Fri, and Sat, I go on after the comedy show ( 9 pm comedy show get in FREE)

Yours Truly
BENNY 313 730 1627

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you remember Harry Rodman the "Old" Benny and the Jets drummer (II LP) (hey II Benny LP sold for $21 on E-bay recently geezzz) Harry is now a blues man
The Bluescasters!
Remember to visit us on our website for all things Bluescasters!

www.thebluescasters.com

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I think Chris Christy and Mike Mcguigan (former Drummers) are on my myspace. Hmmm not sure if Ken Duffy has a myspace? Gino the mailman does and he is on my top friends there too. Damn I need to get guitar player Joe Prus and his band Killin Machine in my top friends too ... Former Honey Radio DJ Larry London has a myspace Arlen from Salem Witchcraft too (Angel Gomez says HI) Madman Mike the DJ too ..... Well that is probably enough for this e-mail go vote for JT the Brick. Oh ya Happy Birthday to our friend Lorna (party Friday at the Thunderbowl) It was good to see Srg Ted and some of his troops at the Thunderbowl last week (back from Afghanistan) The WPON radio show is going to do live remote from OverTyme Saloon on Dixy Hwy west of Telegraph all summer (BIG CAR SHOW) I had a damn flood in my yard and was afraid all the little kids would get their feet wet walking to school so I dug a trench to get the water to run off the side walk -hurt my back ... nothing like a bad back ... damn kids walked on the grass got all muddy instead of wet???? This guy IsI3158 keeps emailing me stuff ??? but I like Elephants so I read this one In 1986, Dan Harrison

was on holiday in Kenya after graduating

from Northwestern University.



On a hike through the bush, he came across

a young bull elephant standing with one leg

raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed,

so Dan approached it very carefully.



He got down on one knee and inspected the

elephant's foot and found a large piece of wood

deeply embedded in it.

As carefully and as gently as he could, Dan worked

the wood out with his hunting knife, after which the

elephant gingerly put down its foot.



The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather

curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments.



Dan stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled.

Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away.

Dan never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.

Twenty years later, Dan was walking through the Chicago Zoo

with his teenaged son.

As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures

turned and walked over to near where Dan and his son Dan Jr.

were standing.

The large bull elephant stared at Dan, lifted its front foot

off the ground, then put it down. The elephant did that several

times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man.

Remembering the encounter in 1986, Dan couldn't help

wondering if this was the same elephant.

Dan summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing and

made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the

elephant and stared back in wonder. The elephant trumpeted

again, wrapped its trunk around one of Dan's legs and slammed

him against the railing, killing him instantly .

Probably wasn't the same elephant.
 

HI ALL ....

Phil (moive maker from France) made a Doc/Moive about
Rolling Stones Fans

the remade Philfan's myspace looks great (sounds good too)

I think I will send out a bulliten and try to get everyone
and all the STONES FANS to take a peek at his page ... www.myspace.com/stonephilfiction
also take a look at www.myspace.com/oldestrollingstonefan

(we still need more of that STONES Moive on line or DVD)

other sad news my friend BO DIDDLEY passed away ... you know the Stones loved BO and BO loved the Stones

my band -Benny and the Jets spent a few years touring with BO as his back up band we have some Bo info on our myspace www. myspace. com/bennyandthejets

ooooooook
live is good
we have to live it up
your friends from Detroit
Benny and the Jets Band
 

HI ALL ....

thanks for stopping by here
I try to read all the comments keep in touch and keep pushing Benny and the Jets Band ... we still have the message board from the old web site
bennysmessageboard. yuku. com/ but really spending most of our time here at www. myspace. com/bennyandthejets

been a busy summer ....
our friend Wendell the ICP fan has been bringing his karaoke computer to the gigs which has been a lot of fun ...last week he bround a brass striper pole ????? WOW the Girls Gone Wild ... big fun ... lol
I guess we need to get some photos of that up ...

anyway keep in touch
remember the radio show I do on Wednesdays 5pm est via www. wpon. com
also see www. myspace. com/doctordoowopshow and I was telling some of the guys in Boston I still do JT the Bricks Fox Sports Radio show every Monday and Wednesday at 1:20 am you can see JT at www. myspace. com/jtthebrick

ok life is good
your friends
BENNY and the JETS band
 

I mail this out to a lot of important people and some friends too. (hmmm which one are you LOL)
I know a lot of you are not in the Detroit area ... But hey you know me and I think you need to know what I am up too!

Last weeks pre Dream Cruise gig with Chubby Checker at the State Fair Grounds really went well.

It was kind of like a class Reunion. So many of the old gang there. Some really cool cars, Ms Gratiot Auto Linda Vawn and some of her car/art collection was on display. Got some cool photos with the Monkee mobile!

Chubby really rock the crowd. They were on their feet from the first song. I opened my part of the show with a tribute to the late Bo Diddley also squeezed in my version of Palisades Park, which I call Edgewater Park and sure enough plenty of howls from people who remembered that roller coaster there.

This week the BIG GIG is ... The Dearborn Heights Firefighters 16th annual Chili Cook-Off
YES Benny and the Jets Band LIVE ... proceeds to benefit the DHFD charity fund
bring the whole family, lot of music, food and beverage, fun and games.

Over $5000 worth of prizes for all ages will be raffled off.
face painting, moonwalk, kids games, Fire engine water shower.

Saturday August 23 NOON "till dusk
Upper Parkland Park on Ann Arbor Trail between Telegraph and Evergreen

oooooooooook
all the regular gigs during the week
fell free to call the 24 hour hot line 313 730 1627
and see the web site www.myspace.com/bennyandthejets (see photos too)
also the radio show 5pm every Wednesday www.wpon.com

Keep in touch
your friend BEN
PS pass the word about the Firefighters benefit GIG


also Bob Harris' Motor City Rock and Roll of the 60s and 70s book is out!
and yes I am on page 118... see barns and noble or his myspace is on my top friends
the new Bo Diddley myspace is there too














GarageBand.com : song profile for Last Kiss by Benny and The Jets
I wasn't sure anyone would scroll this far down the page




YouTube - Benny and the Jets...Dumb Girls



YouTube - The Dr. Doo Wop Show 2/20/08 - snippet 1


YouTube - George Thorogood And The Destroyers - Get A Haircut (1993...
hey how did that get in here .......


YouTube - The Michigan Theatre Detroit
remember my Dad owned the Michigan Palace in the 70s
Kiss, Bowie, Arosmith, Seger, Nugent ahhhh good times ... nice youtube too



OOOOOOOK
enough see ya later
 

needed to post something on this section ... lol

all and all things going well
feel free to call the hot line for gig info 313 730 1627
there is a ad in the metro times newspaper say's
for your club party or event hire BENNY -SOLO only $100
(got to love that) call 313 730 1627


So this is Christmas
and happy new year
I have some new pictures
and some green beer

Not srue what green beer has to do with Christmas (and I don't even drink beer) just thought it rhymed LOL

and a young lady posted a photo of a Christmas tree
made out of green beer bottles .. lol

I do have the Christmas TWIST song on the myspace page
www. myspace.
com/bennyandthejets

This is a song from the first Benny and the Jets LP we recorded in the 70s
(love you to hear it or even add it) ... we were opening for Chubby Checker
back then and I kind of wrote the song for him ... he didn't really want to mess with his HIT version ... so we recorded it ....

I have a fond memory of driving over the Ambassador bridge (Detroit to Canada) listening to CKLW the BIG 8 AM rock station (the one Seger sang about in the song Rosalee) and all of a sudden hearing the Christmas Twist being played on C K L W ... WOW very hard back then to get played on CK ... I guess we lucked out because of the Christmas connection ... but it was very coo ... I am lucky I didn't drive off the bridge ... LOL

well keep in touch
tell some friends about the www. myspace.
com/bennyandthejets
Your Friend
BENNY
 

I became a teenager in the right place at the right

time.
Although you could count on one hand the number

of blacks enrolled at Woodrow Wilson Jr.
High or

Pasadena High School, Los Angeles County had large

enough a black population to justify the existence of

radio shows that played "the very best in Negro

entertainment" around the clock.
One such show was

Hunter Hancock's afternoon "Harlematinee" on KFVD.




I'd discovered this radio show in Jr. High.
In 1952,

when I turned 13, I already was part of a growing

vanguard of white kids listening to black music, and

we were going to change the popular music industry

forever.
I was on the front lines for the birth of

rock-n-roll.




But as a pre-teen and teenager, I didn't look like

anyone in "Grease" or on "Happy Days.
" I didn't even

smoke, let alone roll a cigarette pack up the sleeve

of a T-shirt. I didn't own a car, let alone a hot rod.


My hair was in a butch, not a flat top.
Hell, I didn't

even date.
I was a science nerd -- but boy did I love

listening to black music on Hunter Hancock's radio

show, from Little Water to Muddy Waters, from The

Clovers to The Robins to The Flamingos, from the

wailing sax of Earl Bostic to the bending guitar notes

of young B.B. "Blues Boy" King.




To this day I can remember Hancock's signature

introduction: "From blues to ballads, from bebop to

boogie, featuring the very best in Negro

entertainment.
" Late at night, there was a more risque

radio show, "Harlem Hit Parade" on KRKD, which was

hosted by a DJ who called himself "Huggy Boy" and

sponsored by an all-night record store, Dolphin's of

Hollywood.




In this literal and explicit age, when the life of the

imagination is so impoverished that nothing is left to

it, anyone under 55 may find it hard to comprehend how

risque the lyrics of some early 50s R&B songs were and

how titillating they became to white teenagers and

pre-teens.
Black artists were attracting a growing,

white, teenage audience with songs that rattled the

walls of decency, and the times they were a-changin'.




In 1951 came "Sixty Minute Man" by Billy Ward and The

Dominoes.
This bragging confession by a stud included

lines like "they call me Lovin' Dan; I rock 'em, roll

'em, all night long, I'm the Sixty Minute Man.
" This

great lover would make women holler "please don't

stop!" and his seductive ways would end with "fifteen

minutes of teasin', fifteen minutes of squeezin', and

fifteen minutes of blowin' my top.
"



Television was in its infancy, and there was no talk

show on which a Dr.
Ruth could explicate the meaning

of "blowin' my top.
" Virgin teenagers had to imagine

this experience themselves and, believe me, the result

was considerably more titillating than anything Dr.


Ruth would have to say.




The next year The Clovers released "One Mint Julep.
"

Here we learned that seduction could have unfortunate

consequences: "I'm through with flirtin' and drinkin'

whiskey, I got six extra children from a-gettin'

frisky" and "one mint julep was the cause of it all.
"



1954 is the pivotal year in the history of

rock-n-roll.
Most pop music historians credit

"Sh-Boom" by The Chords as being the first rock-n-roll

single.
This song by a black group attracted such a

substantial white teenage audience that it was

"covered" by a white group, which typically drained

the arrangement of all its sensual energy and began a

process of de-sexualizing early black rock-n-roll with

white cover records that reached its absurd extreme

when Pat Boone started covering the hits of Little

Richard.




But in 1954 the sound was still black.
That same year

in Memphis, Sam Phillips of Sun Records, who had been

looking for a white singer with the black sound and

black feel, signed Elvis Presley.
(You can hear Elvis'

early Sun recordings, like "That's Alright Mama" and

"Mystery Train," at

http://www.elvispresleyonline.com/html/elvis_discography.html).




To "hip" white teenagers, however, 1954 was most

remembered not for "Sh-Boom" or Elvis but for three

extraordinary records released by Hank Ballard and The

Midnighters: "Work With Me Annie," "Sexy Ways," and

"Annie Had A Baby.
"



In "Work With Me Annie," the lyric "let's get it while

the gettin' is good" was considered so dirty, so

obscene, that for a time the song was banned from the

airways in Los Angeles.
This was the situation when I

heard Huggy Boy announce on his early morning radio

show that, the law be damned, next week at 3 a.m.
he

was going to play "Work with Me, Annie" on the air!

(You can hear "Work With Me Annie" online at

http://www.iei.net/~drifter/blues/ballard.html).




My Jr. High was abuzz with the news.
Would Huggy Boy

really dare to do this? Of course, those of us who

were hip (and I was one hip nerd) knew the song

because we owned a 78 rpm record of it or at least had

heard it on the radio before it was banned.
And no

wonder it was banned: "Annie please don't cheat, Give

me all my meat!" My God, who had ever heard anything

so sexually explicit on the radio before?



Hank Ballard and The Midnighters, more than any other

black group in the early 1950s, had a reputation for

being sexual and dangerous.
Their songs were full of

references to, well, SEX.
"Sexy Ways" had the

mind-boggling lyric: "In the hall, on the wall; Dance

baby dance, now crawl crawl crawl!," followed by so

many repetitions of "Oh baby; Do it, baby" that a

teenager could have a premature coronary just from

imagining the activity being described.
Ballard's

quivering voice suggested more sexual abandon than

anyone before Little Richard.
Hank Ballard and The

Midnighters would have made "The Star Spangled Banner"

sound sexual.




Despite being banned, "Work With Me, Annie" was so

popular -- at the time it was referred to as the Negro

National Anthem -- that it inspired a sequel, "Annie

Had A Baby.
" This song was filled with predictions

about male-female relationships that many male

teenagers would encounter in the very near future:

"She sings to the baby instead of me, Clings to the

baby instead of me; Now it's clear and it's understood

-- That's what happens when the gettin' gets good!

Annie had a baby, can't work no more.
"



And so we spent a long week at Wilson Jr.
High in

1954, the tension mounting, as we awaited the early

morning when Huggy Boy was going to defy the law and

put Annie back on the airways.
Would he chicken out at

the last minute? One day a rumor spread around school

that Huggy Boy had been fired.
In my room, I

nervously waited up late for his show to start -- and

felt incredible relief to hear his usual opening

banter, "This is Dick Hugg -- Huggy Boy!"



On the morning in question, I had no trouble getting

up at 3 a.m.
I often set my alarm for 3 in order to

get up and look at the stars with my telescope.


Sometimes I would take a portable radio outside with

me, listening to Huggy Boy at low volume as I

star-gazed.
This night, however, I stayed in bed,

turning on the show around 2 and waiting for the

count-down to the magic hour.




As 3 approached, it became clear that he was going to

go through with it; at least, he kept talking about

it.
And then the hour came, and it really happened:

the introductory guitar riff played, Hank Ballard sang

"Work with me, Annie" in a voice drooling with sex,

and the Midnighters followed with their suggestive

chorus, "Ah-oom, ah-oom.
" Jesus Christ, Huggy Boy was

breaking the law just like he said he would!



I wanted to call up one of my nerd friends to make

sure he was listening.
I wanted to shout at the top of

my lungs -- without waking my parents.
I wanted to

masturbate.
Maybe I would have gotten around to the

latter if an unexpected sound hadn't come from the

radio.




Someone was pounding on a door! Huggy Boy explained

that the police were outside, trying to break into his

studio! And then there was a crash, a confusion of

noise suggesting breaking furniture ... and then the

radio show was off the air! Huggy Boy had been

arrested, right on the radio!



It doesn't matter that later, as an adult, I realized

this was all staged.
And good radio theater it was,

too.
But at the time it all made perfect sense because

there was, in fact, something deliciously wicked about

listening to the songs of Hank Ballard and The

Midnighters.
The sizzling abandon in these songs was

as different from Patti Page's proper singing about

doggies in the window as the chaotic mess in my room

was from the perfectly made bedspread in my parents'

bedroom.
(Of course, no teenager could imagine his

parents making love.
)



In fact, rock-n-roll was going to clean up its act as

it became more and more popular in the late-50s.
The

infamous gyrations of Elvis' hips were far less risque

than the quivering sexuality in Hank Ballard's voice,

but by Elvis -- who burst upon the scene in 1956 after

Phillips sold his contract to RCA, where Elvis quickly

recorded "Heartbreak Hotel" and became a national icon

-- there was such a large, white, teenage audience for

rock-n-roll that the less threatening gestures of

Elvis caused much more uproar than the raw sexuality

of early 50s R&B.
Why? Probably because the white

audience was small and restricted to large urban

centers in the early 50s.
By 1955, kids everywhere,

from Montana to Rhode Island, were getting off on

rock-n-roll, and to some critics this defined a

cultural crisis.
At more than one radio station,

rock-n-roll records were being destroyed on the air.




For me, rock-n-roll was just about over by 1957, and

my musical tastes were turning to West Coast Jazz,

particularly to the musical partnership of Gerry

Mulligan and Chet Baker.
I wouldn't get interested in

rock again until Bob Dylan went electric.
But I

experienced one last hurrah to the more raw early

sounds when a travelling rock-n-roll revue came to my

high school during my senior year.
Among the

headliners was Little Richard.




Little Richard inherited the "most nasty" throne from

Hank Ballard.
Little Richard was even more dangerous:

for one, he looked more dangerous, with his pompadour

hair style and constantly sweating brow, and the

sexuality in his voice was more like a growl than a

quiver.
Hank Ballard seduced the audience; Little

Richard raped it.




I went to the revue mainly to see Little Richard.
He'd

recently come out with a new single, "Jenny, Jenny,"

the only recording on which he'd lost his breath, and

I was hoping he'd sing it.
Near the end of the

program, he did.




Unfortunately, he wasn't able to finish "Jenny,

Jenny.
" Little Richard, who knew as well as anyone why

white teenagers had flocked to rock-n-roll, began

singing on stage with the microphone between his legs,

where it jutted out toward the audience like a long,

skinny, silver phallus. He even began stroking it.




Somewhere in the back of the auditorium was our

Principal.
She was not a fan of rock-n-roll, and the

only reason the revue had come to campus was because

the campus belonged to the Community College, which we

shared while our new high school was being built.
When

our Principal saw what Little Richard was up to, she

did the very thing one might expect from a woman whose

highlight of the week was to lead the student body in

singing "You Gotta Have Heart" at the end of each

school assembly: she turned off the power to the

building.




Somehow no riot started.
After the show was officially

cancelled, most teenagers probably went cruising or

went home, waiting for Huggy Boy to come on the radio.






I remember sitting in the dark auditorium, marveling

at the history I just had witnessed and how lucky I

was to have grown up on The Clovers and on Hank

Ballard and The Midnighters and how one day I would be

talking about seeing Little Richard the night my high

school principal turned off his power, and how

wonderful it was to be a teenager at this time and

place, to participate in the rise of rock-n-roll, even

if now Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis were the

only performers who retained the forbidden danger of

the music's roots.




It wouldn't be until six years later, late on a

morning in November, 1963, when I would learn that

history has many moods, some of them dark and

uprooting, and as the sixties progressed and the

assassinations piled up, I began to understand that

never again would I live through an historical moment

as warmly nostalgic as the birthing of Little Richard.





 

SOS around here ... been busy, computer is running slow

Me and Pam the wife went downtown looked at some riverfront condos .. very nice
but I don't think they are in the cards for us ... also ate at Ron Camoron's new sub shop called
the Home Run Sub shop ... lol .. It is pretty much right downtown -Lafayette near the old Free Press building
close to Cobo and AT&T .. pretty good location for a downtown food biz ... and super good subs

Man last Tuesday at the Wayne Road Pub was .. Magic

A bunch of the old gang came by and jammed ... I think we had 5 guitars plus bass, sax, drums and girl singers! wow
I had to stop and look at the roof to made sure it was still there ... Long Hair Rob and Sean Allendorff have a band called Georgia Overdrive they where the jist of the jam. But Fred Lorenze the sax and Billy Star (studio lounge) John Houl and Carry Cogain the drummer .. sometimes that many players is a cluster but once in a while it is magic
and there were some Seger/Springstein type power moments ... very cool, very fun ... PS Chris Campbell from Seger's band was in town too

A lot of people talking abot Ted Nugent at the Detroit music awards ... he got a bunch of his old players together including our old pla piano player Rick Lober ... seems like that must have been a cool event ... I guess Johnny B from the Rockets jammed too

I heard our pal Question Mark and Mysterians are playing in Ann Arbor at the old Heidelberg???? that was one of the first places Benny and the Jets band ever played ... way back in the day

Any bands should feel free to mention thier gigs and events on the comment section at
www.myspace.com/bennyandthejets ... lot of traffic there ... Rossco the old Sunday Funnies drummer sent me some stuff about singer Fidge doing some Detroit gigs with the Doctor Pocket band (Rossco had a county band now days Silver Canyon) i think ....

WOW right while I am typing this I get a call from Tommy C ...(Tommy is going to the J Giles concert at the Fillmore theatre downtown Detroit) he used to play for Moose and the Sharks but now plays with Chubby Checker (Chubby has a cool myspace) Tommy's son is the guy who plays drums for Rob Zombie ... Tommy SR says there is a cool youtube of JR playing a gig with Billy Gibbons he is that good looking guitar player from ZZ TOP

Thunderbowl where I play on Thursdays got the World Series of PBA bowling ESPN TV could be 1000 pro bowlers some of the qualifing starts in May .. the event is pretty much the month of August .. Should be very cool
Seems I played for them back in the day at the old Satellite Bowl the Orbit room on Michigan and Gully that is where we did the TOGA party .. lol ........ geezzz I think that is where that guy passed away dancing to Wipe Out Too ...

(aaaa geez the anniversary of the little bro BERT SPEER too 17 years ago/on his Harley) me and Gino the Mailman will probably do a late night=midnight coffee at the White Castle on Telegraph just south of Michigan Ave WED the 29th Bert was supposed to meet us there 17 years ago and never made it)

The girls at the Giant Hamburger on Van Born and Monroe are doing some cancer benefits events
stop in one night Kim can fill you in (me and Gino went to and event in Dearborn that DJ mad man Mike was doing it was very cool)

I have some more new pictures on the www.myspace.com/bennyandthejets ...
and the message board (link is on that page too) James, Hug, Gino MJ have been doing a great job on the board

Seems like there is more I wanted to tell everyone ... but if you twitter you have to keep it short ???? LOL
Remember to check out the radio show Wednesdays 5pm via www.wpon.com (call in)
Saturday the Fiddle Bar on Van Born just west of Wayne Road ... No Cover - BIKINI GIRLS

OK keep in touch
your friend BENNY
Benny and the Jets band
www.bennyandthejets.com
benejets@aol.com
313 730 1627

 
 

I did this book review for our pal Bob Harris on www.Amazon.com I understand my posting it here it help it be searchable for GOOGLE ... so here it is GOOGLE and www.bennyandthejets.com


Motor City Rock and Roll: The 1960's and 1970's (Images of America: Michigan)
This is a GREAT GREAT GREAT BOOK ...

I am a long time Detroit musician and radio host. I just got off my radio show this weeks guest was Question Mark of the Mysterians we talked on the air about this book

The book gives a great snapshot into the events that happend in Detroit in the 1960s and 1970s. Just as the MC 5 and Bob Seger where great Detroit moments so were KISS (Detroit Rock City) and David Bowie (Panic in Detroit)

I have this book at my radio station and every star the happens by (from the 4 Tops and Marth Reveas to Ted Nugent and Kid Rock) all fall in love with this book!
Motor City Rock and Roll, the 1960's and 1970's, released by
Arcadia Publishing in August of 2008, is a "must have" book for both
serious and casual rock fans. From the 1950's through the 1970's,
Motor City fans experienced the golden age of rock and roll.
Co-authors, Bob Harris who spent 50 years as a rock promoter, rock group
manager and rock newspaper publisher, and John Douglas Peters, rock
concert promoter in the 1960's, have written a very cool book and 200
photographs and 200 information packed captions.
Unique among the Arcadia books which focus on local history,
this book takes a more national and international look at rock from the
view of Detroit fans during the 1960's and 1970's. What Detroit
fans listened to in person, on the radio or saw in concert, together
with the clubs they visited, concert posters, disc jockeys, stage
security and rock managers, are mixed into a visual presentation that
captures chronologically, the rock sounds of the Motor City during the
1960's and 1970's.
Photos of over 190 Detroit area musicians are presented.
Twenty-eight (28) photos of Motown groups or artists are included.
Pages are devoted to Detroit area radio stations from the era (CKLW,
WCHB and WKNR). Madonna, Aretha Franklin, Bob Seger, MC5, Alice Cooper,
Grand Funk Railroad, Bill Haley, Johnny Cash, Del Shannon, Mitch Ryder,
Stevie Wonder and I, Benny Speer of "Benny and the Jets Band", are some
of the almost 200 Michigan musicians pictured. Great gift for any musician or music fan!


 

 

Hi all ... thought I would check in

I put a photo of our old 55 Chevy on the mysace page
and yes that is ME before I grew the ZZ top type beard
there are a lot of photos on our myspace page
(songs and youtube too)

We played at the famous medow brook car show today (sunday)
what a traffic jam/cluster

Big car show/bike show Wednesday 5 till 7pm at O-Tools
400 Cass Elisabeth Lake road in Waterford
simal cast on www.wpon.com

We are playing at the NUDE FESTIVAL (different then the NUDE dance we played a few weeks ago) at www.turtle-lake.com
5 bands $60 includes camping -next week Aug 8 and 9

And playing the famous Woodward Dream Cruise Aug 15
pretty much all day and night ON Woodward north of Square Lake
across from St Joe's hospitol ... trying to hook up with Chuck Berry on the 16th at the Pheonix Center in Pontiac

our OLD friend Steve ... left a comment on the myspace page
about the Chlli cook off we play at the end of the month (I think TORCH won that last year?) ... Also that HOTTIE Nikki who works at the Playboy store in Las Vegas left a photo and comment .... I been trying to get my partner Wendell to put some comments on the Benny and the Jets message board
you can find the link on the main page of our myspace

ooooooooook
that seems like enough
for todays bulletin (who needs twitter)
your friend
BENNY
Benny and the Jets Band
Detroit Mich USA