6.28.2012

SRC REUNION TOMORROW...SUSAN WHITHALL DETROIT NEWS


SRC and Iggy photo: Leni Sinclair

By Susan Whitall
Detroit News Music Writer

If you're a rock fan of baby boomer age, grew up in Metro Detroit but never saw the SRC, you just weren't trying (perhaps you were grounded for life?)

It was difficult for a teenager to leave the house in the late '60s and not run into the group, an early proponent of acid rock known for hits including "I'm So Glad" and their show-stopping medley of "In the Hall of the Crimson King" paired with "Beck's Bolero."


If you're a rock fan of baby boomer age, grew up in Metro Detroit but never saw the SRC, you just weren't trying (perhaps you were grounded for life?)

It was difficult for a teenager to leave the house in the late '60s and not run into the group, an early proponent of acid rock known for hits including "I'm So Glad" and their show-stopping medley of "In the Hall of the Crimson King" paired with "Beck's Bolero."

From 1968-72 the SRC — short for Scot Richard Case — was one of this city's most popular groups during one of the most fertile times for Detroit rock. They were peers of the Bob Seger System, Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes, Frijid Pink, the Rationals, the Stooges and MC5, and so many more.

The group was signed to Capitol Records and cut three albums for the label from 1968 to '70. They played to a standing ovation at the Toronto Pop Festival in 1969.

On Friday, lead singer Scott Richardson joins original bandmates Glenn Quackenbush (organ), Gary Quackenbush (lead guitar) and Steve Lyman (lead and rhythm guitar) for an SRC reunion at the Magic Bag in Ferndale. He sees the event as perfectly symmetrical with the group's beginnings "cosmologically speaking." Full Story Here

SRC Reunion

8 p.m. Friday

Magic Bag Theater, 22920 Woodward Ave., Ferndale

Tickets: $25

Opening act: Katie Grace

Call (248) 544-3030


The Rock and Roll Band that changed everything for me was called SRC (The Scot Richard Case Band). I was 14 years old and I saw SRC at a small Catholic school auditorium with about 100 other kids. It was not the first time I had seen a rock band play.....BUT it was the first time I saw real rock and roll played by great musicians.

In Keith Richards biography he talks about hearing Chuck Berry for the first time and how it changed his life.....hearing music that reached down and touched his heart. Never had music done that to him before and that day he knew what he wanted to do for the rest of his life!

There are not many things that I can remember from when I was that young, but I can remember that night like it was yesterday. Seeing Scott Richardson ( the lead singer) in front of that great band was just like seeing The Beatles or The Rolling Stones in a small club for a young English kid.....Read Full Story

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