Michigan Music History Podcast -- MMHP989 · Scott Baker, Gary Johnson, Fred Reif, Mike Beattie

Michigan Music History Podcast--Barbara Bacon--Sin's A Good Man's Sister Part 2 of 2

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1. Michigan Music History Podcast -- MMHP989 turns part two with Barbara Bacon into a tour of Ann Arbor, California, and New Orleans through specific rock-and-roll memories. 2. Barbara Bacon is the guest, Scott Baker is the host, and Dr. J, Fred Reif, and Mr. Mike frame the live MMHP session from the Bay County Historical Museum in Bay City. 3. The episode asks what it felt like to move through Michigan’s music scene from 1969 through the early 1970s and then watch those connections shift elsewhere. 4. Barbara says she started at Flint U of M, moved to Ann Arbor, and barely cared about walking the stage because she was more interested in the scene. 5. She describes Ann Arbor in 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1972 as “ground zero of radical politics and hardcore rock and roll.” 6. Barbara names the Blind Pig, the Ark, and Goose Lake while talking about where blues and festival culture overlapped in Ann Arbor. 7. She also recalls trying to place an Elton John concert in Ypsilanti and says he wore a blue velour suit. 8. Scott Baker and Barbara compare that memory with a Stones film day and an outdoor show, but Barbara says she cannot fully resolve the concert date. 9. Barbara says she left Michigan because she did not want to stay in “a one-horse town” while factory work, rents, and industry were changing. 10. She points to Volkswagen and Toyota entering Michigan and to union workers being laid off as part of that shift. 11. Barbara identifies Charlie Basseline as her boyfriend and as the manager of Funkadelic. 12. She says Charlie was on the albums, that George Clinton spoke well of him, and that he had ties to Motown and wanted to bring a singer back who had been dumped by the label. 13. Barbara remembers a Cass Stevens concert with Charlie and says “cocaine’s just flowing on our fingernails” in the front row. 14. She later names Charlie Basseline directly for the listener after first hesitating to say it on air. 15. Barbara recounts a dinner in Los Angeles where Charlie was asked to manage Sly, and she says he declined because Sly was “too hard on” and unreliable. 16. She adds that after Funkadelic, her music life in California became a different chapter with Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Eagles, and Fleetwood Mac nearby. 17. The conversation shifts to a friend who became Ringo Starr’s personal assistant and told stories about Topanga Canyon, Harry Nilsson, John Lennon, and the Hollywood crowd. 18. The tone stays conversational and memory-driven, with Scott Baker, Fred Reif, and Barbara trading names, dates, and scene details in a loose interview format. 19. People interested in Ann Arbor rock history, Funkadelic, and 1960s-70s Michigan club culture would get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners wanting a tightly linear story or minimal name-checking would probably skip it.

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