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Splatt Gallery's History of Michigan Concert Posters
Volume Eleven - 1975 - Page Nine
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Poster by an unknown artist for The Dogs in Tujunga, California on August 11, 1975.
A poster, possibly by Chris Frayne, for the Mojo Boogie Band at the Hill Lounge, a roadhouse bar on North Territorial Road, north of Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 14-16, 1975 and also the following week.
Poster for the theatrical release of the movie “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” on August 15, 1975. Meat Loaf appeared in the movie as Eddie the Biker, one of the two roles that he performed as part of the Los Angeles Roxy cast of the stage play since 1973.
Eddie’s part in the story is short but sweet, as can be enjoyed here:
Rocky Horror Picture Show - Hot Patootie Bless My Soul (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMRl55U0eDw
Stevie Wonder on the drums on the cover of the August 15, 1975 issue of the British music magazine Blues & Soul.
Newspaper ad for Rare Earth and Parliament-Funkadelic opening for WAR at Madison Square Garden in New York City on August 16, 1975.
A trio of ads for the Joker club in Elyria, Ohio with Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes appearing on August 16, 1975, followed by Michael Quatro on August 30th, and Bob Seger on September 18th.
Two posters for Smokey Robinson with the Persuasions, a Train Printing & Poster Company poster for August 16, 1975, and a Bast poster for August 22nd.
A poster for Alex Cooley’s Electric Ballroom in Atlanta, Georgia, with Brownsville Station appearing, August 18-20, 1975.
A poster by an unknown artist for Seals & Crofts at Grand Valley State Colleges in Allendale, Michigan on August 21, 1975.
A broken frame and glare from a flash, but otherwise an awesome photo of a poster by an unknown artist for Ron Asheton’s New Order at Chances Are in Ann Arbor, Michigan on August 25, 1975.
A poster with Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen opening for ZZ Top in Denver, Colorado on August 27, 1975. It was the “Grand Rock ‘N’ Roll Opening” of the McNichols Sports Arena, the first concert at the newly-opened venue, Cody’s opening number being the first song to be performed on that stage.
An ad for the Starwood in Los Angeles, California with Brownsville Station appearing August 29, 1975 through September 2nd.
Poster by Colby Poster Printing Co for the Dramatics and Eddie Kendricks with the O’Jays in Inglewood, California on August 30, 1975.
Poster/flyer for Ted Nugent in Pomona, California on August 31, 1975.
The second leg of Alice Cooper’s “Welcome to My Nightmare” tour kicked-off in Stockholm Sweden on August 31, 1975.
The cover of the August 1975 edition of the Fifth Estate in Detroit, Michigan proclaimed “LAST ISSUE – FE as Capitalist Enterprise”, as the editorial content had become more vehemently anti-capitalist the paper decided to drop all advertising. This meant no more cool graphics from the local head shops and record stores and no more concert listings or event calendars, other than for benefit parties for fund-raising for itself, which without ad revenue, were fairly frequent.
It may have been partly because of this vacuum that the Ann Arbor SUN announced that it would drop the “Ann Arbor” from its title and expand its coverage to include all of south-east Michigan. The FE, who had always, and increasingly, been critical of the SUN, Rainbow Productions and John Sinclair in particular as being “hip capitalists”, noted that the SUN “has slithered into Detroit”.
They accused the SUN of cozying up to Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, seen in a photo holding an issue of the paper, and of pandering to Detroit’s black population by running a cover story on Detroit Tigers’ outfielder Ron LeFlore, calling the staff of the SUN a “bunch of white college-town liberals”.
The next issue of the Fifth Estate, in September 1975, now just a monthly, had a three-page parody of the SUN, with the feature story “Jail John Now!”, claiming that Sinclair had been most effective during the time that he was in the slammer. The SUN, taking it all in stride, declared that the parody was the most interesting thing that the Fifth Estate had run in years.
Out of necessity and convenience, all of the Fifth Estate coinboxes around town were sold off to the SUN. A few months later, the Fifth Estate ran a news story about a “coordinated wave of vandalism which left 40 of the newspaper coinboxes disabled after a liquid solder was poured into the coin slots”.
The month of September 1975 from Stanley Mouse’s “Monster” calendar.
The September 1975 schedule of events at Mr. Flood’s Party in Ann Arbor, Michigan by Crow Quill.
A full-page ad in the September 1975 issue of the Lansing Star newspaper in East Lansing, Michigan, showing that the store was still operating at this late date. The artwork, by an unknown artist, incorporates the “eye in the ear” logo created by Dennis Preston.
Cover art by Gary Ciccarelli for the September 1975 issue of CREEM magazine.
A full-page ad for Rare Earth’s eighth studio album “Back to Earth” in the September 1975 issue of CREEM magazine, in an interesting juxtaposition with the ad for Roger Daltrey’s second solo album on the facing page.
A poster/ad by Hugh Surratt in the September 1, 1975 edition of the State News newspaper in East Lansing, Michigan, with a re-cap of the shows presented by Pop Entertainment in the previous term and announcing the coming attraction of the Average White Band.
An ad for the new Silver Dollar Saloon in the September 1, 1975 edition of the State News newspaper in East Lansing, Michigan, which previously was known as The Brewery. The "8 piece horn band" Chopper had the current engagement with Savoy Brown coming up.
The “tour-blank” poster, by “thats it Design Company” with photo by Bill Naegels, for the second leg of Alice Cooper’s “Welcome to My Nightmare” tour. The white box in the lower center was where the show information was printed, venues like Gothenburg Scandinavium, Bremen Stadthalle, Boeblingen Sporthalle, Ludwigshafen Friesenheim Radstadium and Munich Circus Krone, in Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Austria, from September 1, 1975 through September 8th.
The schedule for Chances Are in Ann Arbor, Michigan, beginning with Juicy Lucy appearing on September 2, 1975. Following acts include Hot Foot Highway, Mojo Boogie Band, After Hours, Rastus, Express, Ziggy & the Zeu Review, L.A.W., Canned Heat, Brainstorm, Luther Allison, Mugsy and Sky King. The side strip ad recalls previous acts at “The hottest Rock and Roll night club in the state”, including Weather Report, Steven Stills, Bob Seger, Jr. Walker, Orleans, Salem Witchcraft and Skip Van Winkle.
A full-page ad for WJZZ radio in Detroit, Michigan, published in the September 3, 1975 edition of the SUN newspaper.
Graphic from the September 3, 1975 issue of the SUN newspaper for a feature story about recent events in Detroit FM radio, with both WABX and WWWW instituting playlist restrictions that reduced the disc jockey’s programming freedom. Across the river, in Windsor, Ontario, the owner of CJOM-FM called a staff meeting where he played a twenty-second tape recording of himself firing the entire staff.
The insert is a cartoon by Gary Kell from the SUN newspaper a few months earlier.
Poster for Alice Cooper’s “Welcome to My Nightmare” show in Bremen, Germany on September 4, 1975, art by Drew Struzan.
A pair of ads for two shows by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan, September 4-5, 1975. The recordings from these two shows formed the double-album “Live Bullet”, which would be released in April 1976.
A number of significant events going on in this concert calendar excerpt from September 5, 1975, Bob Seger in the second of his two nights at Cobo Arena for the performances that will be released as the “Live Bullet” album, Ron Asheton’s New Order appearing in Ypsilanti a month since their arrival in Michigan, they will recruit ex-Virgin Dawn guitarist Ray Gunn and return to Los Angeles, and the final summer free concert of the year in Ann Arbor with Tribe, Carolyn Crawford and Sonic’s Rendezvous Band (live broadcast on WCBN radio – could a tape exist?).
At the Atwood Stadium in Flint there is an Outdoor Rock Festival, with REO Speedwagon, Frijid Pink, Rumor, Salem Witchcraft, Tatersall, Nature, Mike Quatro Group and Moose & Da Sharks, also, the Temptations and the Jackson 5 at Pine Knob, and Martha Jean the Queen at Masonic Auditorium.
An ad blitz in the SUN newspaper, scattered throughout the issue in at least five or six places, was this ad for New Order at the Ypsilanti Armory in Ypsilanti, Michigan on September 5, 1975, a month after their show at Chances Are in Ann Arbor. On the link below, drummer Dennis Thompson provides his final account of the band. We have just one more coming up.
Machine Gun Thompson – New Order Part 4:
https://web.archive.org/web/20091111173546/http://www.machinegunthompson.com/2009/11/new-order-part-4.html
Poster for Alice Cooper’s “Welcome to My Nightmare” show as part of an Open Air Festival in Ludwigshafen, Germany on September 6, 1975, apparently Leslie West and Supertramp did not end up playing.
An ad for a series of Sunday night radio shows on WCBN-FM radio in Ann Arbor, Michigan, of highlights from past Blues & Jazz Festivals, presented on John Sinclair’s “History of Jazz” program. The 1972 festival was aired on September 7, 1975, followed by the 1973 and 1974 festivals on subsequent Sundays.
Newspaper ad for an Outdoor Rock Festival at the Atwood Stadium in Flint, Michigan on September 7, 1975, with REO Speedwagon, Frijid Pink, Rumor, Salem Witchcraft, Tatersall, Nature, Mike Quatro Group and Moose & Da Sharks.
Both John Lee Hooker and Commander Cody performed frequently at the Keystone in Berkeley, California, here we have them appearing back-to-back with Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen on September 7, 1975, and John Lee Hooker on the following night.
Ticket and poster for Alice Cooper’s “Welcome to My Nightmare” show in Munich, Germany on September 8, 1975.
KISS released their fourth album, a live album, on September 10, 1975, it was a break-through success, saving the fate of Casablanca Records. Earlier, we posted extensively about the back cover photo, with the two Detroit teenagers and their hand-made KISS banner at the KISS show at Cobo Arena in Detroit back in May. The front cover came from a photo shoot on the stage of an empty Michigan Palace at the time of the Cobo show.
The album was compiled from four shows, including the Detroit Cobo show, but it was so heavily overdubbed that most of the actual live material was buried in the mix. Even the audience cheers and screams were doctored.
KISS – Rock and Roll All Nite (KISS Alive!) (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS-lJ9gd4yI
Poster for Alice Cooper’s “Welcome to My Nightmare” shows in London, England, September 11-12, 1975, and in Liverpool on September 14th. Concert footage from the London shows was used for the “Welcome to My Nightmare” feature film.
Poster by an unknown artist for Bob Seger with the Jeff Harvey Band at the Bowen Field House in Ypsilanti, Michigan on September 12, 1975.
A newspaper ad with Rare Earth and Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes in Dayton, Ohio on September 12, 1975.
An ad with Rare Erath and White Lightnin opening for the Ohio Players in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 13, 1975. Motown group the Dynamic Superiors opened for Isaac Hayes two weeks later.
Poster/handbill by Gary Grimshaw for the Marshall Tucker Band at the Showcase Theatre in Detroit, Michigan on September 13, 1975.
A full-page Discount Records ad for Ted Nugent’s self-titled first solo album which was first listed in Billboard magazine’s “New LP/Tape Releases” in the September 13, 1975 issue. This is at the same time that Nugent began playing shows again after a three-month vacation, so the record must have been recorded during his vacation. The album featured his new core unit of Derek St. Holmes (guitar, vocals), Rob Grange (bass) and Clifford Davies (drums). St. Holmes wrote one of the singles from the album, “Hey Baby”.
Ted Nugent – Hey Baby (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNeQ_xglSsM&pp=QAA%3D
A full-page Epic Records ad for Ted Nugent’s self-titled first solo album, released on September 13, 1975.
A full-page Motown Records ad in the September 13, 1975 issue of Billboard magazine for the second album by the Dynamic Superiors.
The Dynamic Superiors – Deception (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy9lr83oyoI
An ad for the David Bromberg Band with the Roger McQuinn Band in Midland, Michigan on September 14, 1975.
A full-page Warner Bros. Records ad with show dates for the Doobie Brothers’ 1975 Fall Tour, with three Michigan shows, in Detroit on September 14, 1975, in Ypsilanti on September 17th, and in Saginaw on September 20th.
Newspaper ad for the Doobie Brothers at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan on September 14, 1975.
Poster by an unknown artist for Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes, filling in for a cancelled Canned Heat, with the Mojo Boogie Band at Chances Are in Ann Arbor, Michigan on September 15, 1975. More accurately, this was one of Nugent’s first shows as a solo artist, and not the Amboy Dukes. Nugent’s solo group was comprised of Derek St. Holmes on guitar and vocals, Rob Grange on bass, and Cliff Davis on drums.
A Brass Ring Productions poster for the Doobie Brothers at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan on September 17, 1975.
Volume Eleven - 1975 - continues - HERE
Ted Nugent performed in Central Park, NYC as part of the Schaefer Music Festival on August 29, 1975. Five of the tracks from the radio broadcast were released on CD in 2021.
A full-page Motown Records ad in the August 16, 1975 issue of Billboard magazine, latching onto the emerging disco craze.
