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Volume Thirteen - 1977 - Page Seven
The Lansing Star newspaper in East Lansing, Michigan celebrated its three-year anniversary in their May 20, 1977 issue.
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An ad for Ted Nugent in Des Moines, Iowa on May 20, 1977.
A nice series of illustrations for three shows at the Abrams Planetarium in East Lansing, Michigan, May 20-22, 1977.
A full-page ad for the One Stop Poster Company in the May 21, 1977 issue of Billboard magazine.
An ad for a free concert in East Lansing, Michigan on May 21, 1977 featuring Dickie Betts & Great Southern, with the follow-up “thank you” ad from Pop Entertainment.
Poster for Parliament-Funkadelic with Bar-Kays and Coldfire in Long Beach, California on May 21, 1977.
A full-page, colorful Casablanca Records ad for Parliament in the May 21, 1977 issue of Billboard magazine.
A two-page Motown Records ad in the May 21, 1977 issue of Billboard magazine. In addition to the latest albums by Motown’s superstars, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and Smokey Robinson, the ad included albums by the label’s stalwarts David Ruffin, Willie Hutch, G.C. Cameron and Jerry Butler, up-and-comers Thelma Houston and the Commodores, and the more obscure Dynamic Superiors, Tata Vega, Charlene, Flavor and Mandré.
We took a particular interest in those last two. Flavor was a trio led by Stan Sheppard, son of the Chicago-based record producer Bunky Sheppard. They released a single called “Don’t Freeze Up” which landed them a deal with Ju-Par Records in Detroit, which was being distributed by Motown and released their only album.
Mandré will be the subject of a following post.
Flavor – Don’t Freeze Up (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYiiNCW3q94
Flavor – Body (1976)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYv-qjTv62U
An ad for Bootsy’s Rubber Band with Fred Wesley & the Horny Horns and the Trammps in Cleveland, Ohio on May 24, 1977.
The theatrical release poster by Tom Jung for the movie “Star Wars”, which debuted on May 25, 1977, opening in only 32 theaters across the country, and in only one theater in Michigan, the Americana in Southfield.
In a decision that seemed laughable to the Fox executives at the time, George Lucas opted to forgo his option to receive an additional five-hundred-thousand-dollar fee for directing “Star Wars” in exchange for taking the merchandising and sequel rights instead. Shown above is a 1977 Burger Chef/Coca-Cola poster for Star Wars Fun Meals, a Burger Chef/Coca-Cola poster for a Star Wars poster set, and a Japanese Coca-Cola poster for Star Wars prizes.
A 1977 Star Wars-themed public service announcement poster from the U.S. Department of Health, Education & Welfare.
A newspaper ad in local area papers for the opening of the movie “Star Wars” on May 25, 1977, listing the 32 theaters across the country, and the one theater in Michigan, the Americana in Southfield.
A debut album, a debut single, and their debut Michigan appearance, a string of “firsts” for the band Foreigner when they performed at the Royal Oak Theatre in Royal Oak, Michigan on May 26, 1977, with local heroes Brownsville Station as the openers.
Foreigner - Feels Like The First Time (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK6jKL2qWxo
Bob Seger on the cover of the May 26, 1977 issue of the Northeastern Ohio Scene magazine.
A record store ad for Iggy & the Stooges back catalog along with Iggy Pop solo records in the May 26, 1977 issue of the Northeastern Ohio Scene magazine.
There must have been a rash of shoplifting in the college towns, as this full-page poster/ad appeared in the student newspapers in Ann Arbor and in East Lansing during the week of May 27, 1977.
Radio station 640AM in East Lansing, Michigan ran a promotional series called the “Music Makers” which asked musical trivia questions for the chance to win prizes. Our favorite one was in the May 27, 1977 issue of the State News, which asked whether ex-MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer (mis-spelled) was currently in jail or playing guitar for ABBA?
Suzi Quatro embarked on her fourth Japan tour on May 27, 1977. With only five scheduled shows over a six-week stay, she had time on her hands. At the suggestion of the Japanese promoter she and her husband Len Tuckey got remarried in a traditional Japanese wedding ceremony.
She also recorded a couple of the shows which were compiled and released as the double album “Live and Kickin’”, her only live album. A detailed review of the album can be found on the first link, and the entire album can be heard on the second link.
http://zacharymule.com/wp/?tag=aggro-phobia-tour
Suzi Quatro – Live and Kickin’ (album) (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ncovr6SCEg&list=PLK_CvsdkomBVo5IERej9L1tvuycZWNCj_
A poster for Suzi Quatro's fourth Japan tour, starting on May 27, 1977.
Poster for Ted Nugent in Lexington, Kentucky on May 28, 1977.
Painting by Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley that was used as the album cover for the Steve Miller Band’s “Book of Dreams” LP which was released on May 28, 1977. It was originally intended as a T-shirt design until Miller dropped by the Mouse Studio looking for artwork for his album. It is reported that the album cover won a Grammy Award, but it doesn’t appear to have even been nominated.
This commonly-seen image of George Clinton flips back and forth, this ad from the May 28, 1977 issue of the British music newspaper New Musical Express is the mirror-image of the poster that came with the “Live: P-Funk Earth Tour” double album, but if you look closely at the poster (see comments below), the “Dr. Funkenstein” signature on the poster is backwards, it would read properly on this mirror-image ad.
Poster with Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band in Orlando, Florida on May 29, 1977.
Poster for Bootsy’s Rubber Band, along with the Horny Hours and Brothers Johnson, opening for Rufus featuring Chaka Khan in Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 30, 1977.
An ad for two shows by Emerson, Lake & Palmer at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan on May 31, 1977 and the following night, June 1st, both shows were performed with a full orchestra. Full concert recordings for both nights linked below. They would play six shows in Michigan in 1977, giving them 15 Michigan shows from April 1971.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Live in Detroit (5/31/77)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xohQamb317o
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Live in Detroit (6/1/77)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raE18gb7v80
An ad for Foghat with the Climax Blues Band in Lansing, Michigan on May 31, 1977. Later in the year, the band will release a live album called “Foghat Live” that was recorded in Henrietta, New York three weeks before this Lansing show, the album will become the band’s best-selling album.
Foghat – Foghat Live (album) (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_r4tEL6U1k&list=PLLfLWygNyBDOFUXQhdEBSx_tJXW4f9DRk
A full-page Capitol Records ad for the third single off of Bob Seger’s “Night Moves” album, “Rock and Roll Never Forgets”, released in June 1977.
Bob Seger – Rock and Roll Never Forgets (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ_kYEDZVno
Issue #2 of the “Radio Free Hollywood” pamphlet, dated June 1977, featuring the Dogs.
A poster with the line-up for June 1977 at the Red Carpet Lounge in Detroit, Michigan, including the Rockets, Tantrum, Jett Black, Sonic’s Rendezvous Band, Rob Tyner’s solo version of the MC5 and Ruby Jones. From what we can read of the fine print, we agree this is a great line-up.
An ad for Rob Tyner’s group calling themselves MC-5 at the Suds Factory in Ypsilanti, Michigan on June 1, 1977. Also notable for being the earliest known mention, found so far, of DJ “The Electrifying Mojo”, although spelled wrong and the radio station was actually WGPR.
Poster by Gary Grimshaw which we have dated as June 2, 1977.
Flyer/ad for the Dogs, with Eulogy, in Whittier, California on June 3, 1977. The “Farewell Concert of the Year” probably applies to the sponsor KRHC, the campus radio station at Rio Hondo College, since we have plenty of more Dogs shows coming up later in the year.
An ad for Bad Company at the Olympia Stadium in Detroit, Michigan on June 4, 1977, their fifth Michigan show over a span of three years.
Poster/flyer, presumably by Freddie Brooks, for Sonic’s Rendezvous Band with the Rockets at Lamphere High School in Madison Heights, Michigan on June 4, 1977.
Multi-color posters/flyers for a “Rock Boogie Funk Festival” in Los Angeles, California on June 4, 1977, featuring Parliament-Funkadelic, Isley Brothers, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, Bootsy’s Rubber Band, Brothers Johnson, Horny Horns and Rose Royce. This was the final show for Fuzzy Haskins, one of the founding members of the original doo-wop Parliaments.
Poster for “Game 1” of the third season of the “World Series of Rock” shows in Cleveland, Ohio, the first one to feature a Michigan artist, as Ted Nugent joined the line-up on June 5, 1977.
Six weeks after the conclusion of his UK tour and a show in France, Ted Nugent was back on the road in the US, crisscrossing the Midwest, starting in Madison, Wisconsin on May 4, 1977. More Wisconsin shows, Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, North Dakota, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Rochester, New York, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, and finally back to Michigan for his first home-state shows since November 1976, but at the unlikely venue of the Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston, June 7-8, 1977.
Ted Nugent performed two shows at Pine Knob in Clarkston, Michigan, June 7-8, 1977. At least one, or both, of the shows were FM broadcast. Leading to these two bootleg CDs. The band line-up was Ted Nugent - lead guitar, vocals, Derek St. Holmes -guitar, vocals, Rob Grange – bass, Cliff Davies – drums.
Ted Nugent – Live in Clarkston, Michigan (6/8/77)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhWXRYVVTK4
Poster for Bootsy’s Rubber Band with the Horny Horns and Maze featuring Frankie Beverly in Portland, Oregon on June 9, 1977.
A full-page ad/poster for the North America 1977 tour by Hall & Oates, with two Michigan shows, June 10-11, 1977 at the Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan. A third show, for June 12, may have been added.
A nice full-page color ad from RCA Records in the May 1977 issue of CREEM magazine for the single “Rich Girl” by Daryl Hall and John Oates, which became their first, of six, #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100.
The duo made their sixth Michigan visit with two shows, likely three, June 10-12, 1977 at Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan.
Poster/ad, presumably by Freddie Brooks, for Sonic’s Rendezvous Band with Mugsy, and the professional debut of the “Phase Three” seven-piece Destroy All Monsters, at Second Chance in Ann Arbor, Michigan on June 12, 1977.
Poster by Destroy All Monsters for their professional debut of the “Phase Three” seven-piece Destroy All Monsters, opening for Sonic’s Rendezvous Band and Mugsy at Second Chance in Ann Arbor, Michigan on June 12, 1977.
An extensive preview of the June 12, 1977 show at Second Chance in Ann Arbor, Michigan featuring Sonic’s Rendezvous Band with Mugsy, and the professional debut of the “Phase Three” seven-piece Destroy All Monsters. Written by DAM’s manager David Keeps, the bass player in DAM is identified as Mike Powers who performed with the Miller brothers in the group Cruzonics, so bassist Michael Davis, ex-MC5 had not yet joined the band. Photos by Keeps and Sue Rynski.
Newspaper ad for Sky King at Second Chance in Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 16-19, 1977. These shows, which are missing in the concert database, were likely the final Michigan performances by the band.
Poster/flyer, presumably by Freddie Books, for Sonic’s Rendezvous Band at the Red Carpet in Detroit, on June 17, 1977.
Poster for a “Giant Summer Party” in Los Angeles, California on June 18, 1977, with Van Halen, A La Carte, the Dogs and the Zippers.
Posters/ads and program covers for Peter Frampton with Steve Miller at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan on June 18, 1977, a Bamboo Production.
Posters/flyers by Bamboo Productions for Peter Frampton at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan on June 18, 1977. Opening acts were the Steve Miller Band, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Dukes, and, although unlisted, local group the Romantics in their “first big show”.
Although not listed on the ads for the Peter Frampton and Steve Miller Band show at the Pontiac Silverdome on June 18. 1977, the opening band was The Romantics, in their “first big show”, from the photos it looks like they had the Dome set up in the “Mini Dome” configuration, utilizing just half of the stadium.
As a matter of record, the Romantic’s first-ever show was on Valentine's Day 1977 at My Fair Lady Club in Detroit, opening for the New MC5, which was Rob Tyner’s group.
Volume Thirteen - 1977 - continues - HERE
