8000 Celebrate Dylan’s Birthday

DETROIT —.The Motor City’s mountains are extremely short and the tide never comes in and there ain’t much to do but there sure is one fuck of a lot of dynamite rock and roll music here.

8000 denizens of Detroit’s rock and roll ghetto got down and got back for WABX’s first second annual rock and roll Sabbath celebration May 24th. (Of course, 40,000 of their brothers were over in Lansing for a festival featuring Jefferson Airplane and the Faces so god knows what the crowd could have been like.)

At noon, when the show was slated to begin, there were only a handful of the true hard-core rock freaks and a. torrent of rain to greet the arriving bands. But by 1 o’clock Jerry Lubin and John Detz of ABX, who were staging the show, had arranged for the sun to pop through the clouds and the concert began.