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Splatt Gallery's History of Michigan Music Posters
Volume Ten - 1974 - Page Eight
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Poster by Dennis Preston for Josh White Jr. at The Stables in East Lansing, Michigan, May 4-5, 1974.
A Globe Poster for Gladys Knight & the Pips in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 5, 1974.
A newspaper ad for "Bob Seger System" in Austin, Texas on May 5, 1974.
Following his performance at the Michigan Palace in Detroit, Tim Buckley moved over to the Rock ‘N’ Roll Farm in Wayne, Michigan for two nights, May 5-6, 1974. Opening band, Salem Witchcraft remained at the Farm for five more night before giving over the stage to the band Sunshine.
No matter that it was no longer accurate, and actually had never been, but Ohio promoters persisted in attaching the Wheels to Detroit, as on this ad for Detroit with Rusty Day at the House of Bud in Cleveland, Ohio on May 5, 1974.
A full-page Atlantic Records ad in the May 1974 issue of CREEM magazine for the second album by Maggie Bell, coinciding with her appearance at Masonic Auditorium in Detroit, opening for King Crimson on May 5, 1974. It was her second Detroit show, having performed with Peter Frampton at Ford Auditorium in March.
Th text includes a quote by Loraine Alterman, formerly the Detroit Free Press reporter, now with the New York Times.
A full-page Columbia Records ad in the May 1974 issue of CREEM magazine for the first live album by Mahavishnu Orchestra, coinciding with the band’s appearance at Masonic Auditorium in Detroit on May 6, 1974.
Donald Bryd’s visits back to his home state typically were confined to the jazz clubs in his hometown of Detroit, but he ventured up to East Lansing, Michigan, to perform at The Stables May 6-11, 1974, and it went so well that he was held over, joining flutist and singer, Bobbi Humphrey, in extending his stay to May 12-15. The “Top jazz album of ‘73” referenced in the ad is in regards to his 1973 album “Black Byrd”, which remains one of Blue Note Records’ best-selling albums.
Donald Byrd – Black Byrd (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIf6Vsphtmo
An ad for Suzi Quatro at Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Australia on May 7, 1974. Having just completed a twelve-date US tour with three nights at the Whisky a Go Go in California, this was the first of five shows in Australia.
Chris Frayne (Ozone)’s gorgeous tour poster for his brother’s band, Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen, with the New Riders of the Purple Sage, was ingeniously designed to have the show information on the truck’s grill, in this case for a show in Fort Wayne, Indiana on May 8, 1974. The license plate carries the poster artist’s name.
The earliest ad we’ve found that names the Silver Bullet Band, from the LA Free Press for Bob Seger shows at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles, California, May 8-12, 1974.
Newspaper ad for Chase and the Chi-Town Hustlers at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan on May 9, 1974. Chase was a jazz-rock band founded in 1970 by Bill Chase, a veteran musician who had been the lead trumpet in bands led by Maynard Ferguson, Stan Kenton, and Woody Herman in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s.
Chase released three albums and were working on their fourth, when Bill Chase tragically died in a plane crash exactly three months after this show, on August 9, 1974.
Here are two live clips, their best known song “Get It On” which spent 13 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1971, and “Open Up Wide”, the lead track from their debut album, both of which feature some amazing horn work.
Chase – Get It On (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERZZr5ckOeg
Chase – Open Up Wide (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBogxn5ObgA
A full-page United Artists Records ad that appeared in Billboard about a month after WAR performed at the Masonic Auditorium in Detroit, Michigan on May 9, 1974, advertising a single from their 1973 live album, a two-record set comprised of only seven (very long) songs, including this previously unreleased track, which, as seen in the clip below, also became a staple of the “Soul Train” TV show (in a much shorter version).
WAR – Bollero (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08R4tBCBhP0
An ad for Grand Funk at Public Hall in Cleveland, Ohio on May 9, 1974.
Frank Zappa’s fourth Michigan show on the “10 Years of the Mothers” Spring 1974 Tour, at the IMA Arena in Flint, Michigan, May 10, 1974. He had kicked off the tour at Grand Valley State Colleges near Grand Rapids on April 19, appeared at Lakeview Arena in Marquette on April 21, and at Ferris State College in Big Rapids on April 28. Tapes of the May 10, 1974 show in Flint circulate on Zappa tape trading sites, but none are found on YouTube.
Zappa will perform three more times in Michigan later in the year, making 1974 his biggest year for Michigan shows, and will end the year on the cover of CREEM magazine with a 10th anniversary birthday cake. We’ll have all of that coming up.
Ad for the Michigan Palace in Detroit, May 10, 1974 with Chick Corea, IF, and Chuck Mangione. “IF” is not a typo or some code abbreviation, they were an English progressive rock group that had formed in 1969 and had released seven albums by the time of this appearance. This was actually the third show that IF had played in Detroit, opening twice for Elton John at the Eastown Theater in 1970. With a list of band members that numbered over twenty over the years, two of the alumni of this band, bassist Walt Monaghan and drummer Cliff Davies, later joined Ted Nugent’s band, Davies joined in 1975, and Monaghan joined in 1979.
Here is their final album, released in 1975, featuring both Monaghan and Davies:
IF – Tea Break Over, Back on Your ‘Eads (album) (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDSJpkAgimw
Ad by Jive Comix in the May 10, 1974 issue of the State News in East Lansing, Michigan for the release of the Siegel-Schwall Band album “Live, Last Summer”, half of which had been recorded at The Brewery in East Lansing during the summer of 1973.
Siegel-Schwall Band – Live, Last Summer (album) (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1EqqGXHkqs
A newspaper ad with New Birth in Ithica, New York on May 10, 1974.
Jazz musician Rahsaan Roland Kirk was from Columbus, Ohio, but he performed so often in Detroit that it was frequently rumored that he moved there. He appeared on the cover of the May 11, 1974 issue of the Fifth Estate newspaper, following a nine-night stand at Baker’s Keyboard Lounge. He was known for his on-stage banter, often political but always satirical and humorous, as well as his ability to play multiple instruments at once. He also befriended a young comedian, whom he took on tour as his opening act, named Jay Leno.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Bright Moments (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z2E7ZWd0Hc
Chris Frayne (Ozone) ad for New Riders of the Purple Sage with Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen at the Grand Valley State Colleges Field House near Grand Rapids, Michigan, on May 11, 1974, and another show the following night at Masonic Auditorium in Detroit on May 12th.
A Discount Records ad from New York City for the New Riders of the Purple Sage, with tour dates including two Michigan shows, at the Grand Valley State Colleges Field House near Grand Rapids, Michigan, May 11, 1974, and a show the following night at the Masonic Auditorium in Detroit.
A full-page Casablanca Records ad in the May 11, 1974 issue of Billboard magazine, introducing a new band line-up for the band Fanny which now included Suzi’s sister Patti Quatro, and their first single with a new record label, joining Parliament and KISS in Neil Bogart’s growing stable of hopefuls.
Fanny – I’ve Had It (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XTw53BAgak
A small handbill from Rainbow Productions for a recording called “Demos” by the Rockets. The detailed information on the back side provided the track listing for six songs, the band line-up of Jim McCarty, Johnny Bee, Marc Marcano, John Fraga, and “backing vocals by The Guppies”, production by John Sinclair and Jeff Jones, and copyright credits to “Dynamited Mice Music”. It states that the recording was made on February 26, 1974 at Zenta Sound in Ann Arbor and remixed at Strata Sound Studios in Detroit on May 11, 1974.
Front cover of a press kit folder that contained the handbill for the Rockets’ demo record, released sometime after May 11, 1974. Rockets logo by Gary Grimshaw.
Colorful poster by Chris Frayne (Ozone) for New Riders of the Purple Sage with Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen at Masonic Auditorium in Detroit, Michigan, May 12, 1974.
Newspaper ad by Chris Frayne (Ozone) for New Riders of the Purple Sage with Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen at Masonic Auditorium in Detroit, Michigan, May 12, 1974.
Another one of those great “all you can drink” parties at the Carpenter Hall in Ypsilanti, Michigan, May 12, 1974, a “Rejuvenation Boogie” with the Rockets and Rabbits. The ad features a new cool (says so itself) logo for the Rabbits by an unknown artist (they will later have an even better one), the music note dude is by Chris Frayne (Ozone), and the Rockets logo is by Gary Grimshaw.
A poster/flyer by John Benson for the “Rejuvenation Boogie” with the Rockets and Rabbits at Carpenter Hall in Ypsilanti, Michigan on May 12, 1974.
The odd billing of Savoy Brown with Silverhead and KISS performed together at a pair of odd venues, at the Yack Arena in Wyandotte, Michigan, May 12, 1974, and at the Fraser Hockeyland in Fraser, Michigan, May 14.
The British band Silverhead broke up shortly after this tour, bassist Nigel Harrison will play a strange one-off show with Iggy, which we will get to later, before joining the band Nite City (with Plymouth, Michigan guitarist Paul Warren and ex-Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek), and later, Blondie.
Silverhead – Sixteen and Savaged (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgBlkwP25aU
A Globe Poster for the Duff II Family Festival at RFK Stadium in Washington DC on May 12, 1974, featuring the Jackson 5ive in their first DC appearance, with Eddie Kendricks & the Young Senators, Ohio Players, and the Soul Searchers.
A note at the bottom of the poster reads. “Beware of the man in the street. The tickets he tries to sell you will not be real.”
Newspaper ad for the Climax Blues Band with Boz Scaggs at Masonic Auditorium on May 13, 1974.
A full-page Epic Records ad that appeared in Billboard magazine four days after the Edgar Winter Group had appeared at the IMA Auditorium in Flint, Michigan on May 14, 1974.
Live concert performance by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band at the Orphanage Club in San Francisco, California, broadcast on KSAN FM 95 radio on May 14, 1974.
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band – Live at the Orphanage Club in San Francisco (5/14/74)
https://archive.org/details/bobseger51474ksanfmbroadcastsf
Hugh Surratt poster for the band Astigafa at the Alle-Ey in East Lansing, Michigan, May 14-19, 1974. The band, whose name was an acronym for “a splendid time is guaranteed for all”, originated in Berkley, Michigan and was formed in 1968 by guitarist/singer Marshall Crenshaw. While still in high school, the band built their own recording studio, releasing the Crenshaw-written song “Wingnuts” on the Great Ape Records label in early 1974.
Astigafa – Wingnuts (1974)
https://soundcloud.com/a-groove/wingnuts-astigafa
An Astigafa bumper sticker.
A poster by Jive Comix, aka Ted Echterling for Roscoe Mitchell and Muhal Richard Abrams at the Abram’s (no relation) Planetarium in East Lansing, Michigan, May 15, 1974.
A very cool poster for Keystone Korner in San Francisco, California with Detroit native and Cass Tech High School graduate Donald Byrd appearing May 15-20, 1974.
The Dogs were still in New York City, appearing at Coventry, May 16, 1974.
Ad for the New York Dolls at the Michigan Palace in Detroit, May 17, 1974, rescheduled from the earlier ad that had the April 26 date. This was the New York Dolls’ third Michigan appearance, all of them, so far, at the Michigan Palace.
Petition form for the ballot initiative for an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Michigan to decriminalize marijuana, circa May 1974, decorated by Chris Frayne (Ozone).
Ad from the May 17, 1974 issue of the Ann Arbor SUN newspaper for the second solo album by Catfish Hodge. As with his first album, Hodge had Funkadelic guitarist Garry Shider as a co-songwriter on half of the tracks, and on this album also enlisted help from Rockets guitarist Jim McCarty and Radio King’s saxophonist Crispin Cioe.
Catfish Hodge – Heartbeat of the Street (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rgvOlE5riQ
A full-page ad for Blind Pig Records in the May 17, 1974 issue of the Ann Arbor SUN newspaper with albums by Boogie Woogie Red and the Vipers.
A poster with Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen opening for the Grateful Dead in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on May 17, 1974.
Poster/full-page ad for Marvin Gaye at the Forum in Inglewood, California on May 17, 1974.
An ad for Grand Funk in Shreveport, Louisiana on May 17, 1974.
A great Globe Poster with nearly a month’s worth of shows at the 20 Grand Driftwood Lounge in Detroit, Michigan, with the Undisputed Truth from May 17, 1974 through May 27th, and with the Persuaders from May 31st though June 9th.
Poster, presumably by Hugh Surratt, for the Beach Boys at the Jenison Field House in East Lansing, Michigan, May 18, 1974. It was the Beach Boys’ 16th Michigan appearance, going back ten years to 1964.
Newspaper ad for the Beach Boys at the Jenison Field House in East Lansing, Michigan, May 18, 1974. It was their 16th Michigan show over the ten years since their 1964 debut. Roger McGuinn, formerly of The Byrds, was performing at the nearby Stables, and during the break between his first and second sets, he came over to the concert and joined the Beach Boys onstage for three songs before high-tailing it back to the Stables to finish his night.
The Beach Boys were still touring in promotion of their 19th studio album “Holland” which had been released in January 1973. Their next five albums would be greatest hits compilations and a live album (their third), with no new material until 1976, but the “Holland” album yielded a number of good tracks, including “The Trader”, “Funky Pretty”, and our favorite, “Sail On Sailor”.
The Beach Boys – Sail On Sailor (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQOaLP-qPmk
A very nice poster by M. Casey for the Beach Boys at the Jenison Field House in East Lansing, Michigan on May 18, 1974.
Ad by Hugh Surratt for a Flea Market at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, May 18, 1974.
The Spinners from Ferndale, Michigan, celebrated their 20th year as a group with the release of their fourth album, and a May 18, 1974 appearance on Don Cornelius’ “Soul Train” TV show.
The Spinners – Live on “Soul Train” TV Show (5/18/74)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC0i4cmUah8
A wonderful poster by an unknown artist Kosmic Kowboy (?) for an all-day concert at the Northside Drive-In in North Lansing, Michigan, May 18, 1974. This was the first US show by the Canadian band Rush, and according to a New York Dolls website, the Dolls performed in place of Dr. John, making it the Doll’s fourth Michigan show (not in the database, but being the day after their show at the Michigan Palace in Detroit, it seems likely).
The show was heavily promoted with full-page ads in the State News newspaper in East Lansing with additional bits of information added, they said it would be a non-stop twelve hour show and that it would be filmed “for a forthcoming general release Super Spectacular Rock Film”.
From accounts we’ve read, it rained heavily that day and only 1,300 of the expected 13,000 people showed up. The mainstream Honk media reported drug arrests and made no mention of the bands or their sets.
Volume Ten - 1974 - continues - HERE
The “Guitar Battle of the Century” with Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes, Cactus featuring Mike Pinera, and Wayne Kramer at the Municipal Auditorium in Lafayette, Louisiana on May 16, 1974.
