11.24.2011

SCOTT MORGAN AND THE RATIONALS: ANN ARBOR NEWS 1966



Bill Figg, Scott Morgan, Steve Correll, Terry Trabandt

Scott Morgan's Story on the Rationals Van...
yeah kim. here is the story. our manager jeep holland was the world's worst driver. we thought we would die at any second. one day i demanded that he pull over now! he was taking my brother david's band to lansing. you need to remember david was my little brother. he's the guy i used to hold his hand and walk him across the street. not so little any more.

jeep passed someone on the freeway and promptly lost control. he rolled the van three times and threw himself, david, and all their gear onto the the side of the road. i don't know how but they both survived.

5 comments:

mobilefroggy said...

Oh do I remember the van - especially after it crashed into the back of my dad's GTO.

john c. morgan said...

That's Jeep Holland kneeling in the photo. I'd like to hear more about the Rationals van crashing into the GTO!

Jane Brundage said...

I do recall when I think the Rationals used to be, perhaps, the most popular band in Detroit (along with the Scot Richard Case group).

I found an A2 compilation a few years ago at a Berkeley record store (Amoeba) that had all the old A2/Detroit rock bands. True, the Rationals and SRC sounded so wholesome by comparison to what went down a few years later. Nonetheless, I was probably in my last vestiges of being wholesome when they were popular & recall going to see the Lefte Banke and the Association in Detroit, but then I saw the 13th Floor Elevator, and Jefferson Airplane and the Fugs and the MC5 and Iggy and I am assuming I was typical of nice kids who go "bad" when they get a taste of the more hard core stuff.

Mick Holland said...

Along with a whole bunch of more talented band, Scott Richard sounded pretty off key, when they did that little get together here. ,sorry,sad but true,Im must have been High when I thought they were a good band I know the groupie's will hate me for saying it, but ,there was a whole lot of bands that were better,they just didn't get the promo and Hype.,When you stand there and watch them cut and edit out parts and put up only the good ,well need I say more.

Scott Morgan said...

yes at the famous dive bar two doors down from tootsies. now it's brazil billy and chris costello plays with them. great town though. the ryman, ernest tubb's. patsy klines houses although no one would tell us which one was hers. we settled for the house with all the cadillacs out front. her dream house in the suburbs was the mystery. kitty wells house, house of cash, twitty city, waymore's house, little jimmy dickin's, hank william's, tammi wynette (winnete pugh). alright i thought it was 7 pm but it's it's 7 am. i'm going back to bed so i can have dinner with maureen before she heads for nc. looks like i'm going to rubio next month with joe chonto.

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