PinnedR.D Francis·Oct 22, 2025The ‘Phantom’s Divine Comedy’ MagazineYour ultimate guide into the myth and mystery behind Jim Morrison’s doppelganger: Detroit’s Arthur Pendragon
PinnedR.D Francis·Mar 17, 2025Pawn Shop GuitarsNever trust vintage guitars in the hands of the Rick Harrisons and Seth Golds of the second-hand marketplace
PinnedR.D Francis·Nov 23, 2022‘It’s God’s Will . . .’Man’s excuse to explain away bad behavior: Why the Waukesha Parade Massacre, happened
PinnedR.D Francis·Aug 10, 2020Kurt Vonnegut: ‘Go Into the Arts . . . I’m Not Kidding’How the muses kill . . . and fulfill at the same time: adventures in screenwriting as a QWERTY warrior in the digital divide
R.D Francis·Oct 26, 2025They’re Not From Detroit, Part 2: These Vizitors of Miami, FloridaTheir Sunshine Pop classic, “Happy Man” b/w “For Mary’s Sake,” from May 1968, brings the Sunshine State quartet to the Motor City
R.D Francis·Oct 26, 2025The Unrelated Segments of Taylor, Michigan: Another Frijid Pink Sidebar, Part 2From ’60s Beatlesque pop-rock to ’70s organ-grinding prog-rock with Lost Nation
R.D Francis·Oct 25, 2025Eddie Dempley: Lost Sounds from Louisville, KentuckyMore ’70s vintage vinyl lost in the thrift store’s dusty corners by Eddie Dempley . . . and Nick Jolley of Hindsboro, Illinois
R.D Francis·Oct 24, 2025They’re Not From Detroit, Part 3: The Sweet Younguns: ’60s Garage Prog-Rock from Atlanta, GeorgiaTeen rockers who opened for Ted Nugent’s the Amboy Dukes’ first Atlanta shows, as sponsored by the city’s first progressive radio station…
R.D Francis·Oct 22, 2025A Day in the Life . . .I woke up, got out of bed, dragged the comb across my hair; I spoke to a duck, I was kind to a lizard; a human spoke, I went into a dream
R.D Francis·Oct 20, 2025The Ascots: Detroit’s Forgotten Teen RockersDale Kath and John Neff tell the story behind their ’60s’ ‘Back from the Grave’ 45 single
