The Akron Sound Its Everything and Then Its Gone (2003)

In the early 1970s rubber was still king in Akron Ohio But just a few short years later Akrons most important product was ever so briefly music In the mid1970s a group of local bands took over an old rubber workers hangout in downtown Akron called The Crypt and created a mix of punk and art rock that came to be known as the Akron Sound And for a while it was almost the next big thing Almost Its Everything and Then Its Gone a Western Reserve PBS production written and directed by Phil Hoffman takes viewers back to a time when the music really did mean everything And for the men and women in these local bands it was a way out of the factory