Posted on
2015-04-27
Two American musicians’ chance meeting on the Vietnam battlegrounds led to the formation of one of Detroit’s most prolific jamming bands during the evolutionary musical era that was developing and flourishing towards the end of the Vietnam War. Detroit’s historical and utopian Garwood mansion (built by industrialist and speedboat king Garfield A. Wood) was their home and creative haven. Both became national and front page news in the early 1970s when the band was embroiled in a string of turbulent events fueled by local prejudice, political dogma, drug raids/busts, a shelved movie deal, and the loss of their master tapes with the bulk of Stonefront’s professionally recorded music on them; these events eventually and ultimately led to the collapse of the band.
Forty plus years on with the dogged persistence of a band member turned producer (sax player Robin E. Welch), a body of rescued and re-developed demo tapes, and hundreds of stunning and magnificent photographs taken by Pulitzer Prize nominated photojournalist John Collier we have a compelling set of factors that have developed into the creation of an authentic visual and musical record of how one of the most tumultuous and important periods in American history affected the journey of a group of extremely talented musicians, artists, performers, and friends during their struggle to live out their dream lifestyle during the Johnson/Nixon era of the Vietnam war.
In theatres May 14th, 2015
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