Local musical acts and local tragedies are a lot alike – they usually suck.

But sometimes a near-tragedy can inspire a pretty good tune from a (former) local act.  I’ve written about The Victorious Secrets before (you might know them better as the Free Credit Score or Report or Whatever website commercial guys).  Well, the lead singer of that group started another group called Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. and they gave us this – We Almost Lost Detroit:

Upon further (little) searching, I learned that the above ditty is a remake of a song by Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson:

And then I found out that the Fermi 1 plant did have a partial nuclear meltdown back in 1966, so we really almost lost Detroit…

If that happened, there would be no:

• Riots in 1967
• Mayor Coleman A. Young
• Saddam Hussein getting a key to Detroit
• Riots in 1984
• People Mover
• Casinos
• Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick