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Smartass Motor City Punks

March 16, 2001

Check out this letter to the editor from the July 6, 1972 issue of Rolling Stone:

I can't help but notice that nearly every time you mention Detroit, it's some sort of put-down. I wish you wouldn't pass judgment on an entire city. Not everyone around here holds John Sinclair as his savior, or spends his time grooving on the MC5, Alice Cooper, the Stooges and so on. [...] Not all of us are smartass Motor City punks.
Jeff Stern
Southfield, Mich.
Isn't that great! Associating "punks" with the MC5 and the Stooges (and Alice Cooper — huh?) back in 1972. How cool is that?

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