Found this too...
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Detroit`s Rockets are not one of the groups people might think of when considering that city`s storied history of great bands -- for a reason, since they weren`t all that special. Still, they have a vital link to the Detroit sound as drummer Johnny "Bee" Badanjek was in Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels and Detroit and guitarist Jim McCarty was also in the Detroit Wheels and went on to join the failed supergroup Cactus. Their 1979 record, Rockets (Turn Up the Radio), had two pretty solid AOR staples (in the Detroit area anyway) in their blistering cover of Fleetwood Mac`s "Oh Well" and the rollicking "Turn Up the Radio." By the time of 1981`s Back Talk, the band was still in the netherworld of being a perennial opening act and really struggling to survive. It shows in the music, as almost every song seems to be aping another act or trying a different sound. Mostly though, they sound like a good bar band of the early `80s, able to crank out good-time summer rock & roll...
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It's only rock 'n roll...but I like it.
Let's call it a draw.
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