Articles tagged: Scott Morgan
New career retrospective to help Ann Arbor music icon Scott Morgan
Posted: Mar 18, 2013It would be a major understatement to say that the last year or so has been a difficult and challenging time for Scott Morgan—because, during that period, he's had to deal with one medical problem ... Read more »
photo gallery: Scenes from special benefit concert for Scott Morgan's medical bills at Necto
Posted: Jun 21, 2012The Ann Arbor music community came together at Necto Wednesday night for a special concert to help pay the medical bills for Scott Morgan, the longtime local music icon who is dealing with liver disease. ... Read more »
with video: Local music community uniting in benefit concert for rock icon Scott Morgan's medical bills
Posted: Jun 15, 2012For nearly 50 years, Scott Morgan has sung his heart out in such seminal bands as The Rationals, Sonic’s Rendezvous Band, and Powertrane. Now, with Morgan’s health in crisis due to liver failure, his fans ... Read more »
Benefits planned to aid Scott Morgan, seriously ill Ann Arbor music icon
Posted: Apr 06, 2012Scott Morgan It was right around 1965 that The Rationals, the seminal Ann Arbor band, began to make gritty, garage-rock / garage-soul records that would influence many local acts who would come along later—like the ... Read more »
Terry Trabandt of popular 1960s Ann Arbor band The Rationals dies
Posted: Jan 18, 2011Terry Trabandt, bass player for the landmark local rock/soul band The Rationals, died late last month in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 61. Trabandt's bass anchored the garage-rock sound of the Rationals, an important Ann ... Read more »
with audio: Scott Morgan's new album explores the local music great's soul side
Posted: May 17, 2010Scott Morgan has been an important part of the Ann Arbor/Detroit music scene for decades. He fronted the legendary Rationals, Scots Pirates and Powertrane; he was also part of Sonic's Rendezvous Band. The cover of ... Read more »
Ann Arbor Rock 'n' Roll Revival celebrates rich local music legacy
Posted: Dec 19, 2009A multi-generational host of Ann Arbor musical royalty rang in the holiday cheer on Friday during a night of vintage, high-energy rock’n’roll at the Blind Pig. It was a homecoming show in every sense of ... Read more »
with poll: Stooges named to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Posted: Dec 15, 2009The Stooges have finally made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. The pioneering Ann Arbor band — which formed here in the late 1960s, flamed out after a few years ... Read more »
with jukebox: Scott Morgan, Deniz Tek, and others to salute Ann Arbor rock
Posted: Dec 13, 2009Chris Taylor is living his own rock ‘n’ roll fantasy. Except in Taylor’s case, his fantasy has become real life, allowing him to perform with some of his all-time favorite musicians — people who have ... Read more »
Kevin's Clips: The Rationals - "Leavin' Here"
Posted: Oct 24, 2009In September, when I wrote a story about The Rationals — the seminal, '60s-era Ann Arbor rocking-soul band that broke up in 1970 — I interviewed Scott Morgan, the band's former lead singer and a ... Read more »
Old Ann Arbor band The Rationals gets some long-overdue exposure with new anthology
Posted: Sep 04, 2009Well, it’s been an exciting couple of months for longtime fans of The Rationals, and for the former members of the legendary Ann Arbor group itself. Especially for Rationals’ singer/frontman Scott Morgan. In July, after ... Read more »
video: Kevin's Clips: The Rationals - "Smokestack Lightnin' / Inside Looking Out"
Posted: Aug 03, 2009Fans of seminal garage-rock and rocking-soul — especially of the Ann Arbor-Detroit variety — are probably in hog heaven right about now, soaking up the sounds from the newly-released, two-disc Rationals anthology, "Think Rational." Whatever ... Read more »
After 40 years, "The Stooges" — local band's landmark album — still strikes a chord
Posted: Aug 01, 2009Forty years ago this month, the album “The Stooges” was released by the Ann Arbor band founded by Iggy Pop, to nearly non-existent sales and generally scathing reviews. Still, it has survived the test of ... Read more »
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