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Volume Twelve - 1976 - Page Eight
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A Bonzo’s Records ad for an album sale tied in with a show by Chuck Mangione and Esther Satterfield at the Meadow Brook in Rochester Hills, Michigan on July 9, 1976.
Poster/ad by an unknown artist for Donovan at Castle Farms in Charlevoix, Michigan on July 10, 1976. Five nights later, Donovan performed at the Royal Oak Theatre in Royal Oak, Michigan. It was the first time he had two Michigan shows in a single year, in fact, it was only his fifth Michigan appearance since 1967.
Two posters with Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band opening for KISS in New Jersey on July 10, 1976.
A full-page Warner Bros. Records ad in the July 10, 1976 issue of Billboard magazine for the final album by Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen. Illustration by famed California artist John Van Hamersveld.
The sixth concert at the Pontiac Stadium in Pontiac, Michigan, was with Elton John on July 11, 1976. The crowd of 52,000 included one of the most famous Detroit celebrities at the time, Mark “The Bird” Fidrych, the Detroit Tigers’ rookie pitcher who would be the starting pitcher in the 1976 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, played two days later, on July 13th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Poster/photo by Jeff Morey used on this ad for Ted Nugent at the Oriental Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 11, 1976.
A full-page Reprise Records ad for the new studio album by the Beach Boys (their 20th) along with tour dates that included three shows at the Pine Knob Music Theater in Clarkston, Michigan, July 12-14, 1976.
A listing of the Discos in and around Detroit, Michigan from the July 15, 1976 issue of the SUN newspaper.
In addition to being the nation’s bi-centennial, 1976 was also the 275th birthday of the city of Detroit, this logo, created by John Sinclair with a David Fenton photograph, was for a Detroit Homecoming Festival, a nine-day celebration, July 16-24, 1976.
A full-page poster/ad for the Poison Apple in Westland, Michigan, with a toast to the Detroit Homecoming festival and a continuation of their own “Disco 76” series of shows, beginning with Brainstorm July 16-20, 1976, followed by the Lyman Woodard Organization, July 21st and 28th, and Salem Witchcraft, July 22nd and 29th.
Overly ambitious and poorly promoted, the Detroit Homecoming Festival was a flop, intended to cover two weekends, from July 16-24, the plug was pulled on Monday the 19th, with all but three remaining events cancelled. One of those that proceeded was Yusef Lateef’s quartet accompanied by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at Ford Auditorium on July 20, 1976.
The concert featured Lateef’s 1969 album “Yusef Lateef's Detroit Latitude 42° 30' Longitude 83°”, which is a truly fine piece of music, and was apparently the hi-light of the aborted festival.
They should have had more posters. Photos above by Dick Bakker and Leni Sinclair.
Yusef Lateef - Yusef Lateef's Detroit Latitude 42° 30' Longitude 83° (album) (1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFcbYulQpK8&list=PLn8WMQrzp79hWPYrgzpgCZjxxpyYwSEKN
A Dharma Records ad for a solo album by Corky Siegel to coincide with his solo shows at the Raven Gallery in Southfield, Michigan, July 20-25, 1976. A year later, he would be back at the Raven Gallery again, but reunited as the Siegel-Schwall Blues Band.
A newspaper ad unveiling a stylish new logo for the newly-named Second Chance in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with a list of previous highlight acts and the upcoming shows by Salem Witchcraft beginning on July 21, 1976, followed by Coal Kitchen, July 22nd through July 24th.
Poster and ad for KISS, with Bob Seger, at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee on July 21, 1976.
An awesome poster by Austin, Texas artist G.L. McElhaney for Ted Nugent on July 22, 1976, the show was produced by the Armadillo World Headquarters but took place at the larger Municipal Auditorium across the street from the ‘Dillo.
A poster by an unknown artist for “The Electric Rodeo” at Lamar Park in Wyoming, Michigan, near Grand Rapids, on July 24, 1976, with both Johnny and Edgar Winter, REO Speedwagon, Heart, Nils Lofgren, Renaissance and Starz.
Two posters for Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, with Tantrum, at the Glacier Dome in Traverse City, Michigan on July 24, 1976.
Here is a quote from the KISS tours website:
“Bob Seger proved himself a true road-warrior following this show (opening for KISS in Birmingham, Alabama on July 23, 1976). He headlined his own sold-out show at the Glacier Dome in Traverse City, MI the following day (with Tantrum opening) after travelling all day from Atlanta, GA.”
A Recordland music store advertisement for “Alice Coope Goes To Hell” in the July 22, 1976 issue of the Northeastern Ohio Scene magazine.
An ad for the Sidestreet Lounge in Lincoln Park, Michigan with the finely logoed Sky Dancer appearing on July 20, 1976, followed by Tilt, July 22 though 27.
An ad for the Sho Bee Doo Show Jazz A-Go-Go Band with the Prof. Hirishimo Cox Trio at the Showcase Theatre in Detroit, Michigan on July24, 1976. Also featuring an all-night fashion show with Lottie “The Body”, it doesn’t get much more Detroit than this.
A full-page Capitol Records ad in the July 24, 1976 issue of Billboard magazine for the second, and final, album by HUB, an offshoot of the band Rare Earth. By this time, Tom Baird had tragically died in a boating accident, and Peter Hoorelbeke and Mike Urso would soon rejoin Rare Earth.
A poster/handbill by Gary Grimshaw for Jethro Tull and Robin Trower at the Pontiac Stadium in Pontiac, Michigan on July 25, 1976. This was the seventh concert at the “Siverdome”. There were two additional acts, Rick Derringer (noted on the second version) and Rory Gallagher, to help fill out the bill for the large venue, attendance figure is unknown.
Newspaper ad Jethro Tull with Robin Trower and Rick Derringer at the Pontiac Stadium in Pontiac, Michigan on July 25, 1976.
An ad for the band Derringer with tour dates, including Detroit, Michigan on July 25, 1976. The show was at the Silverdome in Pontiac, opening for Jethro Tull and Robin Trower.
A very nice Jeff Beck poster, included here because of the listing of the upcoming show by Ted Nugent, in San Antonio, Texas on July 25, 1976.
A poster/ad with Bob Seger opening for KISS in St. Louis, Missouri, July 28-29, 1976. Seger had also opened for Queen at the same venue in February 1976.
The SUN newspaper in Detroit, Michigan called Tigers’ rookie star Mark “The Bird” Fidrych, “The Bob Dylan of Baseball” in the July 29, 1976 issue, yet they murdered the spelling of his name.
A striking ad for a woman’s self defense book “Below The Belt” in the July 29, 1976 issue of the SUN newspaper in Detroit, Michigan.
A Warner Bros. Records ad for the sixth studio album by the Doobie Brothers, the first to feature Michael McDonald on lead vocals. The Doobie Brothers appeared at the Pine Knob Music Theater in Clarkston, Michigan for three nights, July 28-30, 1976, following up with a show in Kalamazoo on July 31st.
An ad for Crazy Jack’s Sound Factory with illustration by Gary Kell, in the July 29, 1976 issue of the SUN newspaper in Detroit, Michigan.
Poster artist Dennis Loren as a performer, in concert at the Trinity Methodist Church in Highland Park, Michigan on July 20, 1976. Poster by D.L. Kranich (aka Dennis Loren).
Jack Ford, son of President Gerald Ford became the 10th Michigan-related personality to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, with its July 29, 1976 issue.
The King’s Row Showcase Lounge in Detroit, Michigan began featuring reggae music on July 30, 1976.
An ad for the Grand Opening of The Music Station in Detroit, Michigan, with Sam Sanders & Visions, July 30-31, 1976.
Following damage to the field of Cleveland Stadium after the 1975 series of the “World Series of Rock”, use of the stadium was denied in 1976. The series moved to Comiskey Park in Chicago, but after fires were set inside that ballpark during the first show, all subsequent shows, including the July 31, 1976 show which would have featured Ted Nugent and Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, were cancelled.
The series resumed back in Cleveland in 1977 after groundskeepers employed a field-covering system consisting of plywood and outdoor carpeting. Nugent and Seger would both appear during the 1977 season.
A full-page Capitol Records ad in the July 31, 1976 issue of Billboard magazine for Bob Seger’s single “Travelin’ Man” noting the sold-out show for 67,000 fans at the Pontiac Silverdome.
A nice op-art graphic that accompanied a story on Parliament Funkadelic in the August 1976 issue of The Music Gig magazine from South Plainfield, New Jersey.
One of our favorite CREEM magazine covers, for the August 1976 issue, with illustration by Gary Ciccarelli.
Dearborn, Michigan artist Gary Ciccarelli’s first work for CREEM magazine was the Elton John cover on the May 1975 issue, followed by covers with Pete Townshend for September 1975, John Denver for January 1976, and Paul McCartney for August 1976. More are yet to come.
Ciccarelli’s work goes way beyond what he did for CREEM magazine, from the likes Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Star Wars, Disney, Star Trek, Sega, Toy Biz, Parker Bros and Nintendo, to board games and trading cards and Quadzilla ads for W4 Radio, to brands like Coca-Cola, Hershey’s, McDonald’s, Camel, Miller and Budweiser (notably spending several years as the artist behind the collectible holiday beer steins). In 1997, he was commissioned to illustrate the portraits of Martin Luther King, Hellen Keller, Chief Joseph and others iconic Americans on the United States Savings Bonds.
He labels his website, “The Man Who Illustrated Your Childhood (you just didn’t know it)” if you grew up in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
Check it out, it’s pretty amazing:
https://yourillustratedchildhood.com/
Senior Editor Lester Bangs, with two other guys that our readers might be able to identify, on the front page of the Extra CREEM supplement in the August 1976 issue of CREEM Magazine.
A full-page ad for WGPR TV62 in Detroit, Michigan, by an unknown artist, in the August 1976 issue of CREEM magazine. With its first on-air broadcast on September 29, 1975, it was the first black owned and operated television station in the country.
A record store ad for Ted Nugent following his show at Madison Square Garden in NYC on August 1, 1976. Nugent performed three times at Madison Square Garden in 1976, but the August 1 show was the only one that he headlined. He opened for Aerosmith at the Garden on May 10, just two days after he had opened for Aerosmith at the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan. The third 1976 Madison Square Garden show, by which time Nugent’s second album “Free-for-All” had been released, was on December 6, opening for Black Sabbath, a show at which Frank Zappa allegedly joined Nugent on stage.
Cheap Trick returned to Ann Arbor, Michigan on August 2, 1976, again at the same venue except that the name had changed in the fourteen weeks since their last visit, from Chances Are to Second Chance. It was their eighth show of the year at “the Chance”.
The next night, August 3rd, Sonic’s Rendezvous Band played there for their seventh time.
Newspaper ad for Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band opening for KISS in Indianapolis, Indiana on August 2, 1976.
Poster by Freddie Brooks (Michigan Music Production) for Sonic’s Rendezvous Band at Second Chance in Ann Arbor, Michigan on August 3, 1976. This poster is the first to show Gary Rasmussen on bass, so the concert in Bad Axe, Michigan, when he replaced Ron Cooke on bass has happened since the previous poster on June 7th. Specific dates aside, the story of the transition from Ron to Gary is well told at the always excellent I-94 Bar website is found here:
https://www.i94bar.com/features/sonic-s-rendezvous-band-the-one-that-got-away/gary-and-rock
Newspaper ad for Catfish Hodge at the Union Street in Detroit, Michigan, August 4-5, 1976, and again, August 11-12.
With apologies to the Temptations, who also had their latest album offered as a premium on this subscription page of the SUN newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, we had to take it over in celebration of the birthday of an album that blew our minds right out of the gate upon its release on August 6, 1976, “Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band”. HALLELUIA!
Bootsy’s Rubber Band - Stretchin' Out (In a Rubber Band) (1976)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt94QIf7250
Poster/ad for the Kool Jazz Festival at the Pontiac Stadium in Pontiac, Michigan, August 6-7, 1976, the eight concert to be held at the “Silverdome”.
A regal patriotic ad for the “Sound of ‘76” show at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, August 7-8, 1976, starring the Ohio Players, Parliament-Funkadelic, B.T. Express, and Bootsy’s Rubber Band.
Following the release of the “Born To Die” album in January 1976, Grand Funk Railroad decided to call it quits as a band. But they got a call from an unlikely fan, Frank Zappa, who offered to come to Michigan to be their producer if they would get back together for one more record. The album “Good Singin’ Good Playin’” was released on August 9, 1976. Following its release, the band broke up again for good.
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