on 3/25/01 10:38 PM, The [Quad] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... me too... but can you ( or anyone else reading ) explain the significance > in the wearing of the > "Detroit Sucks" t-shirt..?
One completely subjective opinion. At the time Detroit was representative (to entitled upper middle class white America) of everything that was wrong with the country--riots, flight to the suburbs, racial tension, expressways, ghettos, "declining" (to the whites) urban cores. I think Lester Bangs, so obviously into Iggy and the MC5, was wearing it in "a state of irony," to use a totally pretentious term. He was distancing himself from everything he thought was boring, aged, white, hippie, and by that time, mainstream. Crosby Stills and Nash had given birth to The Eagles by then and even though Detroit sucked, it didn't suck as bad as the Eagles. j
