I'm going to risk a major firestorm by venturing that when Derrick said
"... because I think this may be the last chance that we may be able
to do
it through Techno music. I don't know if there's going to be a next
generation of young musicians coming through to follow up in our
footsteps."
he really meant "I don't know if there's going to be a next generation
of
young BLACK Detroit musicians coming through to follow up in our
footsteps."
I've had discussions on several disparate occasions with Black Detroit
artists (Rob Hood, Kenny Larkin, Bone, etc.) and they all bemoaned to me
the fact that there seemed to be no young Black cats coming up through
the ranks - that all the young brothers were just interested in Hip-Hop
now,
and didn't care about Techno. They all understood why things were the
way they were, but it made them sad nevertheless.
Obviously I don't live in Detroit so I don't know all the current
players
on the scene, but off the top of my head I couldn't think of anyone
younger than, say, Sean Deason (chime in Sean!) or Kenny Dixon Jr. (or
our own Jwan, if we stretch Detroit over to Pittsburgh :-) ).
(One thing that triggered my thinking of this line of reasoning was
listening
to Kenny's old Dark Comedy track "Without A Sound (Silent Mix)" from
"Corbomite
Maneuver". [EMAIL PROTECTED] what a sublime track. It's going on my Wedding
music list.)
- Greg
