Jim McCarty

Engine City-based guitarist Jim McCarty initial surfaced as an associate of Mitch Ryder’s support music group the Detroit Tires, building his bow within the group’s 1966 debut LP Go for a ride. You start with 1968’s Expressway to Your Skull, he supported Buddy Kilometers, concurrently recording songs with Jimi Hendrix before becoming a member of the short-lived music group Cactus; relatively peaceful during the middle-’70s, McCarty made an appearance just on Bob Seger’s Seven and Bob “Catfish” Hodge’s Dynasaurs and Alleycats (both 1974) before time for actions full-time in 1977 using the group the Rockets. Pursuing that band’s early-1980s dissolution, McCarty became a member of the Detroit Blues Music group, later on fronting his personal group, Mystery Teach.