Before the Chicago riots, we moved from Detroit to Ann Arbor because of the 1967 Detroit race riots. It was real scary. I was living in an apartment at Second and Alexandrine, and the first couple of killings were right in that neighborhood. It was all police murders. The police just went insane and shot the place up for a week—killed forty or fifty people. Shit started getting real tense after that. Some of our girlfriends got raped and our gear got ripped off a few times. I mean, we’d get to the place where we practiced and the door would be busted open and three more guitars would be gone.
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