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Splatt Gallery's History of Michigan Concert Posters
Volume Eleven - 1975 - Page Eleven
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This poster/flyer by an unknown artist for a Gaelic League concert in Detroit, Michigan on October 19, 1975 is included here because of its rarely-seen use of the word “concert” in “lights”. It looks great – poster designers take note.
Poster for the Temptations in Dusseldorf, Germany on October 19, 1975.
Two posters/ads by “Studer” for Loggins & Messina at Michigan State University in East Lansing on October 20, 1975.
A third poster by “Studer” for Loggins & Messina at Michigan State University in East Lansing on October 20, 1975.
A full-page Columbia Records ad with tie-in to the concert by Loggins & Messina at Michigan State University in East Lansing on October 20, 1975.
Newspaper ad for Deodato in Ann Arbor, Michigan on October 20, 1975, the last of his three known Michigan shows, the other two were in November 1973.
An ad for the Raven Gallery in Southfield, Michigan, presenting Louisiana Red, October 20-26, 1975. Red, first name mis-spelled above, played with John Lee Hooker in Detroit for almost two years in the late '50s.
An ad for the UAC concert schedule in Ann Arbor, Michigan, beginning with a show by Loggins & Messina on October 22, 1975.
Newspaper ad for Loggins & Messina at Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Michigan on October 22, 1975.
The first Michigan appearance by The Tubes from San Francisco, California was at the Silver Dollar Saloon, previously The Brewery, in East Lansing, Michigan on October 23, 1975, the "cultural event of the year".
The Tubes – White Punks On Dope (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJDQFLLdZ_k
Newspaper ad for the first Michigan appearance by The Tubes, at the Silver Dollar Saloon in East Lansing, Michigan on October 23, 1975.
Poster for Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes in Tulsa, Oklahoma on October 24, 1975.
Poster/handbill, and newsprint version) by Gary Grimshaw for Quicksilver Messenger Service with Salem Witchcraft and the Frankie Miller Band at the Showcase Theatre in Detroit, Michigan on October 25, 1975. This was the 15th, and final, Michigan appearance for the San Francisco band Quicksilver Messenger Service (discounting reunion shows decades later). The following clip is a live performance two months after this Detroit show.
Quicksilver Messenger Service – Fresh Air (live 12/28/75)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNE0CKK71TI&pp=QAA%3D
On October 27, 1975, Bruce Springsteen made history by becoming the first rock star to appear on both of the covers of Time and Newsweek on the same week.
At a concert at Michigan State University on April 4, 1976, Springsteen modified the lyrics in the bridge of "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)," to "Tell him now it’s his last chance, Rosie / Tell him I ain’t no freak / ‘Cause I got my picture / On the cover of Time and Newsweek!"
A Beatles tribute band at Chances Are in Ann Arbor, Michigan on October 27, 1975, with Kinky Friedman following up his previous night’s show in East Lansing, and apparently a “5-day sellout appearance at Ratso’s in Chicago”, with a stop at Chances Are on October 28th.
The Temptations on the cover of the October 28, 1975 issue of the British music magazine Blues & Soul.
Poster by Gary Grimshaw for the Detroit debut of The Tubes (second Michigan show), at Masonic Auditorium on October 29, 1975.
Newsprint ad for the Detroit debut of The Tubes at Masonic Auditorium on October 29, 1975.
A modified ad for Spirit and Brainstorm at the Silver Dollar Saloon in East Lansing, Michigan on October 29, 1975.
Poster/ad for Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, Texas on October 29-30, 1975.
Rod Stewart & the Faces made their final Michigan appearances with two shows at Cobo Arena in Detroit, October 21-22, 1975, the group would perform its final ever show ten days later in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They had appeared at least 22 times since 1970, with thirteen shows in that first year alone.
As part of the Jeff Beck Group, singer Rod Stewart had performed eleven Michigan shows in 1968-1969, with ten of those at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit. Later, as a solo artist Stewart will return to Michigan frequently, all together he may hold the title of the most Michigan appearances by a British artist.
Poster by an unknown artist Duffer for a Masquerade Party at the Savoy in Detroit, Michigan with Funkster on Halloween night, October 31, 1975.
Poster/flyer for the Electric Ballroom in Dallas, Texas for Halloween night, October 31, 1975 with Ted Nugent (no more Amboy Dukes in spite of the poster) and Gary Wright.
Wright, originally with Spooky Tooth, and great friend and collaborator with George Harrison, had just released “Dream Weaver”, which would become his biggest hit. The following clip is a live performance from 1976 on the Midnight Special TV show. The performance, and the hair, are certainly of their time.
Gary Wright – Dream Weaver (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEn8nm80GCg
Alice Cooper was guest DJ on CKLW radio in Windsor, Canada on Halloween night, October 31, 1975.
The cover of the weekly Big 30 survey by CKLW radio in Windsor, Ontario, Canada with photo from Alice Cooper’s guest DJ show on Halloween night, October 31, 1975. On the same night, and in the same town, the Fantastic Four performed at a Masquerade Ball at Cleary Auditorium.
Earlier in the year, the Fantastic Four released their proper debut album (a “Best Of” album was released in 1969, comprised of singles since 1966). Released on the Westbound label, it was a short six songs, with a loose concept based around the fictional gangster Alvin Stone, and it’s a masterpiece.
Fantastic Four - Alvin Stone (The Birth and Death of a Gangster) (album) (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKkUNgzohn4
An ad for the fourth annual Ozone Parade in Ann Arbor, Michigan on Halloween, October 31, 1975 with artwork by Chris Frayne (Ozone).
An ad by an unknown artist jam-packed with text for a Halloween show on October 31, 1975 at the Grand Opening of Richards with two generations of Brubeck, Dave and his sons Darius and Dan, but with all that text, one crucial piece of information is missing – where the hell is Richards located?
The run of Discount Record ads by Ted Echterling, aka Jive Comix, which came to a sudden and apparent end in May, resurfaced for one more time, with this ad in the State News newspaper in East Lansing, Michigan on October 31, 1975.
The November 1975 page from Stanley Mouse’s 1975 Monster calendar.
A full-page color Capitol Records ad for Grand Funk Railroad’s album “Caught In The Act”, a live double-album, from the November 1975 issue of CREEM magazine.
Illustration by Kevin Tolman in the November 1975 issue of CREEM for the magazine’s third annual guitar review.
A sticker, or round handbill, for Suzi Quatro’s 1975 Australian Tour, which from what we can tell consisted of a single show at the Apollo Entertainment Centre in Adelaide on November 1, 1975.
Poster by Jessica Edwards with photo by Doug Fulton for Bonnie Raitt with Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Robert Pete Williams, and Sippie Wallace at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan on November 1, 1975.
Poster/flyer for a rare formal gig by the original Destroy All Monsters, in Ann Arbor, Michigan on November 1, 1975. The core group of Niagara, Cary Loren, Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw were joined by John Reed on guitar and Jeff Fields on congas for a Halloween Dance at the University of Michigan art school. Cary Loren mentions that they also performed at Gerhard Shlansky's loft above the Star Bar and the Halfway Inn at East Quad.
Photos from the show by the original line-up of Destroy All Monsters, at the University of Michigan on November 1, 1975.
Posters for shows that never were. In the book “Return of the Repressed” it’s explained that Jim Shaw of Destroy All Monsters “created advertisements for the band but never posted them, an aversion to performing led him to appreciate the flyers more as art than as encouragements to see the group onstage”. Shaw created the four examples above in 1975.
A more complete image of one of Jim Shaw’s 1975 posters for Destroy All Monsters.
More Destroy All Monsters art by Jim Shaw, 1975. Although the group performed only a mere handful of public appearances, the art work was prolific, as were the recordings of the jam sessions, rehearsals and parties at Shaw’s and Mike Kelley’s “God’s Oasis” home base in Ann Arbor.
In 1975, Cary Loren and Niagara assembled a 60-minute cassette tape titled “Destroy All Monsters Greatest Hits” dubbed onto cheap “Made in Mexico” C-60 yellow cassettes, bought at K-Mart, three for a dollar. They were sold through advertisements in the first Destroy All Monsters magazine and in Lightworks magazine for two dollars apiece. About 30 copies were produced and sold.
In 1994, Kelley, Loren, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, and Byron Coley compiled a three-CD boxed set of some of these recordings as “Destroy All Monsters: 1974–1976”, released on Moore's Ecstatic Peace! label. The bulk of the 76 tracks were recorded in 1975.
Destroy All Monsters -- You Can't Kill Kill (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spv6q6-E6hw
A collage by Cary Loren of Destroy All Monsters in 1975.
Loompanics Unlimited, a book publishing company that produced the world's most controversial books from the radical left, the radical right, and the lunatic fringe, was started by Michael Hoy in East Lansing, Michigan in 1975. He moved the business to Port Townsend, Washington in 1982, and closed the business in 2006.
An ad by an unknown artist for McCoy Tyner in Ann Arbor, Michigan on November 2, 1975. One fan was Robert Derminer, who adapted the surname of the jazz pianist to become known as Rob Tyner, lead singer for the MC5.
Flyer/ad with Brownsville Station opening for KISS in La Crosse, Wisconsin on November 2, 1975.
A full-page Warner Bros Records in the November 5, 1975 edition of the SUN newspaper for the sixth album by Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen. It was their second album to be released in 1975 and it would be their final studio album to feature most of the band's original lineup.
Poster by Amy Horowitz for the first Michigan appearance by Jamaican reggae star Jimmy Cliff at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor on November 7, 1975. It was also the first in a series of midnight concerts at the Michigan Theater, the show ended at 4am.
1975 was the year that Jamaican reggae came to Michigan, with Bob Marley at the Showcase Theater in Detroit in June, and although the highly anticipated Michigan debut of Toots & the Maytals at the Showcase Theater in October was cancelled, the group would become part of one of the biggest shows of the year in December.
Newsprint version of Amy Horowitz’s poster for Jimmy Cliff at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor on November 7, 1975.
A second poster/full-page ad for Jimmy Cliff at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor on November 7, 1975.
A Discount Records ad for a new album by Dave Mason and for his show at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan on November 7, 1975.
Record store ads for Ted Nugent and Artful Dodger in Akron, Ohio on November 7, 1975, and in Cleveland the following night.
To answer the age-old question, did Bob Seger ever open for Frank Zappa?, the answer is “probably yes”, at least once, likely twice, possibly three times. The ad on the left is for a show in Louisville, Kentucky on November 9, 1975, and appears to be confirmed by multiple sources. “The Planet of My Dreams” website (one of the best Zappa websites) also lists the night before, in Knoxville, Tennessee on November 8th, as having Seger open the Zappa show.
The ad on the right is for a show in Dayton, Ohio on November 16, 1975, for which some sources show that the opening act was Robin Trower. Both shows presented by Bob Bageris.
A full-page ABC Records ad for the Crosby-Nash album “Wind on the Water” and supporting tour dates, including three Michigan shows, Eastern Michigan University on November 9, 1975, Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant on November 14th, and in Kalamazoo on November 15th.
Poster by “Studer”, unfortunately only found in these poor newsprint versions, for the Spinners and the Pointer Sisters at Michigan State University in East Lansing on November 13, 1975. Eleven days earlier, the Spinners had performed at the Olympia Stadium in Detroit and in a ceremony before the show the band was given the key to the City of Detroit while Michigan Governor William Milliken declared the week as “Spinners Week” in the State of Michigan.
Spinner’s singer Philippé Wynne, whom you may recall started out with Bootsy Collins’ early Cincinnati bands and was a member of James Brown’s J.B.’s before replacing his cousin G. C. Cameron in the Spinners, gave his key to the City to the family of Jackie Wilson, who was still in a New Jersey hospital following his on-stage massive heart attack.
The Spinners – Mighty Love (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU7akB-WB0g
Two more ads for the Spinners and the Pointer Sisters at Michigan State University in East Lansing on November 13, 1975.
A poster by an unknown artist, and newspaper ad, for a previously undocumented show by Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes, with Salem Witchcraft, at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan on November 14, 1975.
Poster for Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention at Grand Valley State Colleges in Allendale, Michigan on November 15, 1975.
Volume Eleven - 1975 - continues - HERE
