Detention Rises From The Dust Bin of History

Written By Mike Greenblatt
Detention

There once was a band called Detention from the New Brunswick area. They were nasty. They were hardcore. Left For Dead Records, the punk reissue label, will release Dead Rock’n’Rollers on Halloween, comprised of singles plus tracks from their self-titled 1985 debut and unreleased material recorded in Roselle Park.

The title track is 97 seconds of turbo-blast—like The Ramones on meth—mocking the deaths of Jimi, Janis, Lennon, Keith Moon, Elvis, Jim Morrison, Sid Vicious, Belushi and Bonham (“those who played the drug game and couldn’t maintain”) plus Jim Carroll who was still alive at the time but whose song “People Who Died” came out in 1980. “What are you waiting for, do it,” they tastelessly ask, before going a step further with “why couldn’t it be Barry Manilow?”

For more information, visit https://www.leftfordeadrecords.com/

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Mike Greenblatt

MIKE GREENBLATT has been writing for Goldmine magazine and New Jersey's Aquarian Weekly for more than 35 years. His writing subjects fill the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

He's interviewed Joe Cocker, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Carlos Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Johnny Cash, and members of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. He was 18 when he attended Woodstock in 1969.

In addition to writing about music, Greenblatt has worked on publicity campaigns for The Animals, Pat Benatar, Johnny Winter, Tommy James and Richard Branson, among others. He is currently the editor of The Jersey Sound.

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