"'It's Everything and Then It's Gone' a documentary featuring the brief era when a group of bands took over an old rubber workers' hangout and created a mix of punk rock and art rock that would be coined 'The Akron Sound' will be aired on PBS 45 & 49 at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 5.
Produced by Phil Hoffman, UA adjunct professor of communications, the hour-long program chronicles the early 1970s, when rubber was still king in Akron, and how, just a few years later, Akron's most important export was music.
Writer/director Hoffman says the documentary takes you back to a time when the music really did mean everything. And, for these musicians "most of them children of rubber workers" music was a way out of the factory.
The program features music from Devo, the Rubber City Rebels, The Bizarros, Tin Huey and The Waitresses, and interviews with members of Devo, Akron writer David Giffels, legendary rock critic Jane Scott and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame chief curator Jim Henke. "
(Anybody out there able to land me a video copy of this?.)
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