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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Retro: Kimmer

RIKKI ST JAMES: *NEW* VIDEO DETROIT ROCKER SOUND

Posted: 09 Apr 2011 11:32 AM PDT

THE MOTOR CITY ROCKERS "ROCKER SOUND"

This great Detroit Band had some heavy hitters in their line up. Rikki St James (v/b) and Glenn Dean (g) of the former Motor City Bad Boys joined together to form The Motor City Rockers around 1980. The band also included MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer, Phil Greasy Carlisi (g), Dee Dee Lamarr (d) and the fantastic John Sabino rocking the keyboard and harmonica.

I have made 4 videos with Rikki featuring the Motor City Rockers EP tunes and 1 original Rikki St James tune "Railroad Crossing" from the Rikki St James Project CD called ROUGH AND RAW recorded in Brownsville Texas.

Additional new tunes recorded in 2010-to date will be featured soon as copyright and publishing paperwork are completed. We had such a great time collaborating on these videos.

It certainly is crucial to have the songwriter sitting next to you while creating these projects. After all it is their vision that brought the song forward in the first place. I listened to his conceptual ideas and tried to match the images to his thoughts and lyrics. Lots of fun!

"Rocker Sound" took a bit of time to create. Nearly 3 days of reworking the images to sync with the audio. Glenn Dean had some new ideas (sent me back to rework the video LOL) and sent me some cool photos to add. Glenn's charming wife Sheila helped out too contributing ideas. I just adore happy team players don't you?