Sunday, January 10, 2010

Trip to Detroit Rock City

So I interviewed in Detroit, at the Henry Ford Health Sciences Center. The interview went amazingly well, and I was far more impressed with the site than I thought I would be. I had some time to kill the day after the interview, and visited the Motown Museum. The museum is the old Hitsville, U.S.A. building, where Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson began recording some of the best music anyone has ever heard, about 50 years ago. The highlight of the tour was, of course, getting to see the 'snake pit', aka Studio A. It was truly an emotional experience for me, standing in the same room that had seen the likes of Diana Ross and the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and dozens of others. Among the former denizens of that hallowed studio were the Funk Brothers. If you don't know who the Funk Brothers are, do yourself a favor and look up their history, and/or watch the amazing documentary "Standing In the Shadows of Motown".

Since photography and video were not allowed inside, I snapped this picture on my way out. It was extremely cold, and I was happy to have been able to hold the phone still enough to get this picture.
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