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This flyer, by an unknown artist, advertises a special Thanksgiving evening recording session at the Grande Ballroom, November 23, 1967, with MC5 and Scot Richard Case, and free admittance. No recording is known to exist.
The 60th weekend at The Grande Ballroom, November 24-25, 1967 featured Gary Grimshaw’s 30th poster for the venue. The Fugs headlined both nights with support by MC5, the Gang, and the Ashmollyan Quintet. The Gateway lists both nights for the MC5, but the ad shows them opening the second night only, November 25, 1967.
This was the second time that John Sinclair brought his friends and like-minded travelers from New York City, The Fugs, to Detroit.
The Fugs stuck around for an extra night to perform a Sunday benefit show, November 26, 1967, for a John Sinclair Defense Fund, advertised by Gary Grimshaw’s 31st poster for the Grande Ballroom. Opening bands were the MC5 and Billy C & the Sunshine.
Mickey Kress made another holiday-themed poster for the December schedule at the Fifth Dimension in Ann Arbor. His “Santa’s Bag” poster in 1966 had the bands and show information on gift-wrapped presents, this year they appeared as ornaments on the tree. The MC5 and Thyme started the month on December 8, 1967.
The 62nd weekend at The Grande Ballroom, December 8-9, 1967 featured Gary Grimshaw’s 32nd poster for the venue. The San Francisco band Moby Grape, who had earlier played in Detroit at The Roostertail supper club in July (when underaged Wayne Kramer was busted trying to get in to the club), headlined both nights with support by the Rationals, Wilson Mower Pursuit, and with the MC5 on the second night, December 9, 1967.
The 63rd weekend at The Grande Ballroom, December 15-17, 1967 (three nights) featured Carl Lundgren’s 4th poster for the venue. This was the first appearance in Detroit by The Vanilla Fudge from Long Island, New York. As we’ll see later, the rhythm section from the Fudge, Carmine Appice (drums) and Tim Bogert (bass), will hook up with Detroit musicians Jim McCarty (guitar) and Rusty Day (vocals) to form the band Cactus.
The Thyme opened the first night, Children, the Epidemic, and the Rationals opened the second night, and the MC5 opened on the final night, December 17, 1967.
The 64th weekend at The Grande Ballroom, December 21-23, 1967, featured Gary Grimshaw’s 33rd poster for the venue. It included a Thursday night show by Paul Butterfield with the Rationals and Thyme. And the return of Cream for two nights, December 22-23, 1967, supported by the line-up of Billy C & the Sunshine, MC5, and Soap both nights. Grimshaw’s poster was now Trans-Love Poster Co.
This image was originally printed as both a 13” x 22” poster and a 4” x 7” postcard.
Detroit and Cream took an instant liking towards each other, the band played a total of seven shows in the area in two months.
A Christmas ad for the December 1967 Paul Butterfield and Cream shows, December 21-23, 1967, at the Grande Ballroom, by an unknown artist.
The year-end wrap-up week of 1967 for the Grande Ballroom, seven nights worth of shows, was crammed into Carl Lundgren’s fifth poster for the venue. John Lee Hooker made his first Grande Ballroom appearances on two of the nights.
The run of shows started on Christmas night, December 25, 1967, with MC5, Rationals, UP, and Odds & Ends.
December 26-27, 1967, with two nights of the Lyman Woodard Trio headlining with support by Billy C & the Sunshine, Talisman on the first night, and with the MC5 and UP on December 27, 1967.
On December 28, the Woolies returned for their first time since the Grande Ballroom’s second show, back in October 1966. Soap and Heavy Metal Kids opened. December 29-30 were John Lee Hooker’s two shows, with support by the Apostles (two nights), the Pack and the Gang.
Those shows brought us up to Sunday, New Year’s Eve, December 31, 1967, with a NYE Bash featuring the MC5, Billy C & the Sunshine, the Prime Movers, UP, and the Apostles.
Here is the 1967 year-end list of shows, from December 22 through December 30, 1967 on a flyer/ad for Club Limberlost, a large barn that had been converted into a dance hall and opened in May of that year in Lakeville, Michigan, about an hour north of Detroit. This MC5 show, on December 26, 1967, in between nights at the Grande Ballrooom, went off without a hitch, but this spot (later to be renamed The Loft) will be the scene of an altercation later.
The MC5 also filled in two other nights that they were not at the Grande in this final week with two nights at the Crow's Nest East in St. Clair Shores, December 29-30, 1967.
By our count, cross-checking our sources, we currently have (63) shows by the MC5 in 1967, with (41) of them at the Grande Ballroom. All of the shows were in Michigan, all but a handful were in Detroit, none further away than a couple of shows in Ann Arbor.
1968
An ad for a “Drug Teach-In” at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor with a concert by the “MC5 Rock Band” as part of the program, performing at Angell Hall at 6:00 PM on January 7, 1968. The MC5 timeline does not list this show, so it is another “found” show.
A review of the event in the Michigan Daily newspaper a couple of days later confirmed that “real live hippies” from Detroit, “John Sinclair and his court arrived to give Ann Arbor a glimpse of their Thing”. The concert was briefly described as “an interlude of music of electric cables wound through amplified drum beats”, whatever that means, but one attendee told guitarist Wayne Kramer, “When you played, it made me want to come up on the stage too.”
“Why didn’t you?” Sinclair cried. He was happy, very happy, and his face had the simple joyful look of some kid who finally made a friend.
“As ‘sweet smoke’ was passed around, Gary Grimshaw, panel member, commented, ‘People in the dope culture have turned their whole lives into works of art.’”
A pair of ads for the MC5 ("Straight from the Grande Ballroom") at Mickey’s Hideaway in East Lansing on January 26, 1968.
The 70th weekend at the Grande Ballroom, February 2-3, 1968 featured Gary Grimshaw’s 36th poster for the venue. The Beacon Street Union from Boston headlined both nights with MC5 and the Charging Rhinoceros of Soul from Ann Arbor on both nights.
A newsprint version of Gary Grimshaw’s poster for Beacon Street Union at the Grande Ballroom, February 2-3, 1968.
Making use of the Community Arts Auditorium at Wayne State University again, Trans-Love Energies produced a Thursday night concert, February 8, 1968, with MC5, Up, and Pink Peach Mob that was a “Love Feast” rather than a “Love Fest”, and was “Mass Meat” as well, implying that some form of banquet was included.
A non-Grande Ballroom poster (in two versions) by Gary Grimshaw.
Friday, February 23, 1968 also saw the Michigan return of Jimi Hendrix for his first performance in Detroit. As we mentioned in the earlier post about his Ann Arbor shows, Hendrix immediately thereafter became too high-priced for small clubs like The Fifth Dimension, and this show was booked by Russ Gibb at the Masonic Temple.
Contemporary reviews describe the show as “listless”, with Hendrix in a dour mood and plagued by equipment problems. Afterwards, Hendrix apologized, “I’m sorry everything went wrong, it was a bad night”.
The British band, The Soft Machine, under the same management as Hendrix, were serving as the opening act on this tour and delivered a great performance, joined by members of Canned Heat during a jam finale. The Soft Machine had one of the first psychedelic rock singles released in the UK, slightly pre-dating Pink Floyd. The A-side was near-saccharine pop, but the B-side was produced by Kim Fowley (enough said) and featured rhythm guitar by Jimi Hendrix, who was recording “Hey Joe” in the next-door studio.
Local openers were the Rationals and MC5.
Gary Grimshaw’s poster is one of the all-time classic Hendrix posters and it was the first of three rapid-succession Hendrix posters that he produced over the next few weeks.
A newsprint version of Gary Grimshaw’s poster for the Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Masonic Temple in Detroit Michigan on February 23, 1968, from the Fifth Estate newspaper.
A newspaper ad for “Jimmy Hendrick’s Experience” at Masonic Temple in Detroit on February 23, 1968.
A “commemorative” poster by Tribune Showprint for the Jimi Hendrix Experience with Soft Machine, MC5 and the Rationals at Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan on February 23, 1968. We know it was printed sometime after April 1977 as that’s when Tribune moved to the Earl Park, Indiana address which is printed on the poster.
Issue #5 of the Warren-Forest SUN newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, dated March 1, 1968, with a cover photo of the MC5 at home, with Becky Tyner as the seamstress for the band. Photo by Leni Sinclair.
A poster/flyer called “The MC-5 & Friends”, using the same Leni Sinclair photo that appeared on the front cover of Issue #5 of the Warren-Forest SUN newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, dated March 1, 1968.
The famous Leni Sinclair photo of a topless MC5 was first published in Issue #5 of the Warren-Forest SUN newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, dated March 1, 1968, along with the invitation to join the fan club:
“KIDS! BE THE FIRST ON YOUR BLOCK TO JOIN THE ALL-NEW MC5 SOCIAL & ATHLETIC CLUB”
“Fun for all! Picnics! Outings! Orgies! Weird games and prizes! Get photographs of the guys in the band and their friends in strange poses! Records! Posters! Treats and surprises galore! Plus a subscription to our monthly newsletter, the National Dopester! All this and heaven too for only $2.00 membership fee. AND: This Special Offer—Free subscription to the SUN to the first 100 members who sign up NOW (and if your parents won’t let you get the SUN at home, we’ll reserve your copies and you can pick them up however you can!).
“Send your name and address and $2 to MC5, Trans-Love Energies, 499 W, Forest, Detroit, Michigan 48201.
“REMEMBER! THE MC5 WANTS YOU IN THE BAND! EVERY BODY IS IN THE MC5!”
The 74th weekend at The Grande Ballroom, March 1-2, 1968, featured Gary Grimshaw’s 38th poster for the venue. Big Brother & the Holding Co.headlinedd both nights with support by the MC5, and Pink Peech Mob on the first night, March 1, 1968, and Family Dump Truck, and Tiffany Shade on the second night
Guitarist James Gurley came back to his hometown with the first Detroit appearance by Big Brother & the Holding Company. The band’s first album had been mangled in the recording and mishandled in the marketing by the Chicago record label Mainstream. The band had signed with Mainstream only because they were stuck in Chicago without enough funds to return to San Francisco and the jazz label got its first rock release.
Following their performance at the Monterey Pop Festival they were signed to Columbia and Gurley told The Sun newspaper that the next album would be a live record of their shows at the Grande Ballroom. However, their manager and producer weren’t entirely happy with the results, the idea was scrapped and Cheap Thrills re-created the Grande set in the studio. A couple of the live tracks from the Grande Ballroom turned up on later compilations.
Gary Grimshaw’s 39th poster for the Grande Ballroom was for the Sunday night show on March 3, 1968 with Blood, Sweat & Tears, whose management requested that the MC5 not open the show based on mounting reports from national touring acts appearing at the Grande that The Five were blowing them off the stage.
So instead, the relatively safe pick of a new unknown band, the Psychedelic Stooges were selected, appearing for their second time at the Grande Ballroom, but the first time actually appearing on the bill. And by most accounts, the Stooges blew BS&T off the stage.
Trans-Love Energies organized a benefit concert on behalf of the band, the Pink Peech Mob, to raise funds to replace their stolen equipment on March 7, 1968 at Wayne State University in Detroit, featuring the MC5, Odds & Ends, and UP. In the family tree of bands that played the Grande Ballroom, members of the Pink Peech Mob intersect with Gold, The Gold Brothers, The Black & Blues Band, and the Amboy Dukes. Later, they would become Mighty Quick. A simple poster by Gary Grimshaw.
A newspaper events column with the MC5 appearing at the Intersection in Windsor, Ontario, Canada on March 15, 1968.
The 76th weekend at the Grande Ballroom, March 15-17, 1968 featured Gary Grimshaw’s 41st poster for the venue. The Youngbloods headlined two nights, with the Rationals and UP opening the first night, and the James Gang opening the second night. In small print at the bottom of the poster was the listing for a Sunday night, St. Patrick’s Day show on March 17, 1968, with the MC5 and Thyme.
A newspaper ad for the Grande Ballroom for the weekend of March 15-17, 1968 that shows the Sunday night show more clearly.
A poster by an unknown artist for a Tribal Stomp at the Grande Ballroom on Sunday, March 24, 1968. The long list of bands performing was MC5, Psychedelic Stooges, UP, Pink Peech Mob, Gold, and Odds & Ends.
The 78th weekend at The Grande Ballroom, March 29-30, 1968 featured Gary Grimshaw’s 43rd poster for the venue.
This image was produced only as a 4” x 7” postcard. No poster is known to exist for this event.
John Sinclair’s pals, The Fugs were in town for their third time, headlining two shows (their 5th and 6th Michigan shows) with Sly & the Family Stone both nights and the opening slots filled by the MC5 on the first night, March 29, 1968, and the Psychedelic Stooges on the second night.
It was the first Detroit appearance for Sly & the Family Stone, a band that formed in San Francisco in November, 1966 by a marriage of two bands, Sly & the Stoners, and Freddie & the Stone Souls. When they appeared at the Grande Ballroom, they had just released their second album, Dance to the Music.
Newspaper version of Gary Grimshaw’s poster for the Grande Ballroom, March 29-30, 1968. At the bottom, it lists Sly & the Family Stone staying in town for a Sunday night show, but this does not seem to have happened.
A newspaper ad with the shows by the Fugs and Sly & the Family Stone at the Grand Ballroom, plus an additional Sunday night show (without Sly), March 31, 1968, with MC5, Rationals, and Thyme.
A show by the MC5 that is missing from the both the Database and the Gateway timelines, at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo on March 30, 1968. The captioned photo above ran in the March 29, 1968 edition of the Western Herald newspaper. Three days earlier, the newspaper had run a front page story, headlined “MUB ‘Electrifies’ Cotillion”:
“Men’s Union Board is trying something new in the way of Cotillion this year. In the time of psychedelic drugs, love for all, and the drop out tune in philosophy, MUB has turned away from the old-fashioned tea and crumpets type of Cotillion.
“This year an attempt has been made to make this year’s Cotillion an event that will appeal to all of Western’s Students. For this year, Men’s Union Board presents its “Electric Cotillion” on March 30, in the East Ballroom of the University Student Center.
“…in the past few years, Western’s Cotillion has lacked the fire and excitement that was so evident in the past. People seemed to look upon the dance as “just another mixer”. Gone was the weeks of preparation, the worried coeds, and the lines in front of the ticket offices. Instead, there were people going home, to the show, or just sitting in the dorm watching the tube. Cotillion had died, and so had part of Western.
“But don’t give up the ghost yet, friends. Men’s Union Board has not let this disaster go unnoticed. Hidden away in their office, their little minds have been at work, trying to revive the ghost of Cotillion and put back some of the tradition that went along with it. Many ideas have filtered into the minds of the MUB boys, to rejuvenate Cotillion and make it a “fun thing” once again.
“However, some ideas just didn’t seem to fit in with the Western Way. Ideas such as having a Genghis Khan Cotillion complete with mounted horsemen, a full scale battle of the warlocks, and plundering and burning of weirdos just didn’t seem to fit. Also, the idea submitted in favor of filling Waldo Stadium with old inner tubes and having a “Bounce In” Cotillion just did not quite seem to fit the ticket.
“So, under the chairmanship of Glenn Meyers, along with some assistance from his helper Bob Amberg, the men from MUB decided on their “Electric Cotillion”, complete with light show.
“Headlining the dance itself, will be the MC5, an avant-garde group from the Detroit area. Under the guidance of Mark Ryder (Mitch’s brother) the MC5 have established themselves as an impressive rock group from the Motor City. The MC5, as you might remember, was the original house band at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit.
“They have appeared in concerts across the country with such groups as the Jefferson Airplane, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Cream, the Fugs, Moby Grape, Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg. The MC5 have a record out, to be released later this month, Looking at You Borderline on A-Square Records. To say the least, the MC5 will be a change from the dance bands of past Cotillions.
“As an extra added attraction, along with the MC5, Men’s Union Board will present John Sinclair in his first nightclub performance. For those of you who may not know about Mr. Sinclair, he is more or less the poor man’s Timothy Leary of the Detroit area. Sinclair has appeared across the country speaking to university audiences on such cheery items as drugs and the new act poetry of which he is very versed in.
“Sinclair is the gentleman who initiated the Banana Peel Conspiracy which led to a Senate subcommittee hearing on the danger and crime of smoking banana peels. He also, as you may or may not remember, formed and led the Smoke-In at Detroit’s Grand Circus Park a few years ago.
“He is currently engaged in a crusade to have the State Legislature legalize marijuana. An interesting sidelight to this endeavor is that Sinclair has been accused of “turning on” some of our State’s lawmakers in an attempt to prove his point.
“Sinclair will be making his first night club performance at the 1968 MUB Cotillion. This will include some of his poetry, a sprinkling of comedy, and some insight as to what makes John Sinclair tick.
“This year’s Cotillion has all indications of being the most interesting of all Cotillions. A psychedelic rock group, a spokesman for the New Art, and a light show courtesy of Trans-Love Energies, make up this year’s Men’s Union Board Cotillion. Tickets may be purchased at $3 per couple in the booth across from the Student Activities office and in the cloak room in the Student Center. Make plans now to attend the 1968 Men’s Union Board “Electric Cotillion”. It’s shocking.”
John Sinclair always hated the first MC5 record that was released in March, 1967 by AMG Records. The A-side was a cover of a Van Morrison song that was de rigueur for every garage band, and the B-side original was recorded with a gloss suitable for teen clubs.
On January 4, 1968, Sinclair got Russ Gibb to donate $500 and took the band to United Sound Studio in Detroit to re-record the single, 500 copies were pressed and issued with a picture sleeve, still a rarity in those days, but then not every band had the services of Gary Grimshaw at hand.
Sinclair was happy with the results, “…and to this day, I have no idea how we got the master take to end with the spine-tingling aural explosion that still fills my heart with thrills every time I hear it”.
MC5 – Looking at You (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYi8wY9AJDg
In addition to the cover sleeve, Gary Grimshaw also designed the intricate record label. It was released on A-Squared Records, without Jeep Holland’s knowledge, possibly just to get attention, or perhaps in some way related to Holland’s slipping grasp on his label and his bands. Holland was personally stung when SRC left his label and the same was about to happen with his prize jewel, the Rationals.
MC5 – Borderline (A2 single) (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRVA-vkRgE0
The 79th weekend at The Grande Ballroom, April 5-7, 1968 featured Gary Grimshaw’s 44th poster for the venue, printed here as the back cover of Issue #6 of the SUN newspaper.
On Thursday evening, April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee. In nearly every major city in the country outbursts of rage erupted, particularly in Chicago and Washington DC.
In Detroit, reports of shootings, some fires, and gathering crowds on 12th Street, the epicenter of the previous summer’s rebellion, were being reported. Schools closed early on Friday and the Governor declared a state of emergency for Wayne County and imposed an 8:00 pm curfew, and closed “all places of amusement”.
John and Leni Sinclair both have mentioned that the curfew negatively affected Trans-Love’s main source of income, shows at the Grande Ballroom. These shows by The Troggs must certainly have been cancelled as the curfew was imposed on April 5th. But the curfew was lifted on April 11th, in time for the following weekend’s shows to occur as planned.
Poster by Gary Grimshaw for the Troggs with Tiffany Shade and the MC5, at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, Michigan, April 5-6, 1968, and Junior Wells with the Psychedelic Stooges and UP on April 7th.
We are going to assume these shows were cancelled by the curfew.
Russ Gibb made his second foray into attempting to establish Toronto, Canada as an additional base of operation, bundling The Troggs, whom he already had in Detroit for the weekend, and the MC5 for a rendezvous date on The Who tour on April 7, 1968. Gary Grimshaw made the poster.
The Trans-Love “Freek Show” of the MC5, UP, and the Psychedelic Stooges, booked the University of Michigan Union Ballroom in Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 11, 1968, to escape the curfew in Wayne County, although the curfew was lifted on the day of this show. Unknown poster artist, although it may be signed “Jerry”.
The MC5 – I Believe to My Soul (live) (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZf3cK5b3UY
Poster/flyer by Gary Grimshaw, for the MC5 and the Psychedelic Stooges at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1968.
The 81st weekend at the Grande Ballroom, April 17-21, 1968 featured Gary Grimshaw’s 46th poster for the venue. The poster packs in five shows, starting with MC5, Jagged Edge, and Psychedelic Stooges on Wednesday, April 17, 1968. The next night had Scot Richard Case with Thyme and the Ashmollyan Quintet.
Cream, however, had to cancel and was rescheduled to appear in June.
A nice, colorful poster for the MC5 and Wilson Mower Pursuit at the Psychedelic Midway in the Ann Arbor Famer’s Market on April 20, 1968. Artist is unknown as we cannot find an image large enough to read the signature.
We should have linked this video to one of the Troggs posts awhile back. The MC5’s cover version of their song “I Want You” was panned as a rip-off of “Wild Thing” although the Five never made a secret of the Trogg’s authorship of the song, and indeed, all of the Troggs’s songs sounded like “Wild Thing”.
The MC5 – I Want You Right Now (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcCGUt9ZXBI
Here is a show that is listed in the Gateway, but they do not have a picture for it. This ad from The Paper in East Lansing, Michigan lists the UP, along with the MC5, at the “Love-In” in Island Park in Mount Pleasant on April 21, 1968.
Another “Freek Dance” on April 25, 1968 on the Wayne State University campus in Detroit. The trinity of Trans-Love bands, MC5, The UP, and the Psychedelic Stooges were joined by the delightfully named Pigfuckers which was the band formed by bassist Ron Miller after his Seventh Seal partner, Bill Kirchen, left to join Commander Cody. Flyer by Gary Grimshaw.
Twenty years later, Village Voice music critic, Robert Christgau would coin the term “Pigfucker” to describe a genre of dissonant art rock and he attributed the term to Hunter S. Thompson’s description of Hubert H. Humphrey. We cannot confirm the Hunter S. Thompson quote, so we have to credit Ron Miller.
A nicer version flyer for the April 25, 1968 Freek Show, again by Gary Grimshaw.
Since our last post, we have found a Hunter S. Thompson reference to the term “pigfucker”, but Ron Miller’s band name still pre-dates it. So there.
Ron Miller is also the person who first pulled permits for Sunday free concerts in West Park in Ann Arbor in the summer of 1967. His band (at the time Seventh Seal), along with the Prime Movers, Billy C & the Sunshine Band, The Up, Charles Moore, and Roscoe Mitchell, all performed there throughout the summer, with the highlight surprise show by The Grateful Dead that we described earlier. But over the winter, the Ann Arbor city council passed an ordinance preventing concerts in the park for the up-coming summer, an ordinance that John Sinclair would soon run afoul.
Shortly after this Freek Show appearance, the Pigfuckers embarked on a tour of Europe and were never heard from again.
Poster History of the MC5 - continues - HERE
An ad for a benefit concert at the Union Ballroom in Ann Arbor, Michigan, December 3, 1967 with the Rationals, MC5, Billy C. & the Sunshine, The Thyme, The Children, and Len Chandler, to raise funds for the defendants in the upcoming “Flaming Creatures” obscenity trial.
An ad for the MC5 fan club.
The 58th weekend at The Grande Ballroom, November 10-11, 1967 featured Carl Lundgren’s second poster for the venue. The newspaper ad was for “a dance concert in honor of Sad People” and the admitted-free gimmick was for “Psychiatrists”. The postcard has a solarized negative look.
This is one of the most recognized of the Grande Ballroom posters, known as “Vanessa” for the photo of actress Vanessa Redgrave.
The headliner both nights was the James Cotton Blues Band with support by the MC5 and Thyme on Friday, November 10, 1967, and the Apostles, with Billy C & the Sunshine on the second night.
The 57th weekend at the Grande Ballroom, November 3-5, 1967 (three shows) featured Gary Grimshaw’s 28th poster for the venue. The Paupers headlined all three nights with support from the Gang, Thyme (two nights), UP, and MC5 with the Rationals on November 5, 1967.
The newspaper ad for the Paupers weekend at the Grande Ballroom, November 3-5, 1967. The ad was for “a dance concert in honor of The Paupers” and the admitted-free gimmick was for “Social Workers”.
Newsprint version of Gary Grimshaw’s poster for the Grande Ballroom, November 3-5, 1967.
By reading the photo caption and the “Happenings” listing very carefully, we can determine that the Stuart Avery Assemblage band made its debut performance on October 21, 1967, at Brother Rice High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Also that night, The Buoys were playing at the Birmingham – Bloomfield Teen Center, and the MC5 were playing, with The Gang and Billy C. & the Sunshine Band at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit.
Three weeks later, on November 11, 1967, Stuart Avery Assemblage performed at the Birmingham – Bloomfield Teen Center with the Poor Souls and the MC5.
