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Volume Seven - 1971 - Page Fifteen
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Most unfortunately, no poster can be found for this show. Here’s the description from the Fifth Estate’s Calendar:
Sunday, September 12, 1971
Parliament-Funkadelic, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, and Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen. 6:30 pm, Oakland University Ballroom Pavilion, $3.00 – Far Out!
The show was taped and released by Westbound Records in 1996.
Funkadelic – Live Meadowbrook, Rochester, Michigan (9/12/71)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QSV1AfXeN4
Poster for Alice Cooper with the MC5 in Miami, Florida on September 12, 1971.
Newspaper ad for Alice Cooper "Superstar" in Miami, Florida on September 12, 1971, “plus the Genius of MC5”.
Mail order form for Sly & the Family Stone with Rare Earth and Ruth Copeland in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 12, 1971.
Gary Grimshaw’s 70th poster for the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, Michigan, September 15, 1971. Bands were Commander Cody, Detroit with Mitch Ryder, UP, and Motor City Mutants.
Newsprint version of Gary Grimshaw’s poster for the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, Michigan, September 15, 1971.
A full-page Tamla Records ad for the third single from Marvin Gaye’s album “What’s Going On”. The single “Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)” was released on September 16, 1971. The final minute of the original album version of the song, which is also the last track on the album, is a reprise to the theme of "What's Going On", the album's first song, then segues into a dark ending. This final minute was cut off of the single version, as well as other sections of the song so the single edit runs under three minutes—this edit appears on subsequent reissues of the LP. The original album version is linked below:
Marvin Gaye – Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler) (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Ykv1D0qEE
A Tamla-Motown Records ad, dated September 16, 1971, for albums by Marvin Gaye and the Four Tops.
The album cover for the live/soundtrack album by the Jackson 5 taken from their September 16, 1971 ABC TV special “Goin' Back to Indiana”. It was the Jackson 5's sixth album, and was released just two weeks after the broadcast, on September 29, 1971.
The TV special and soundtrack consists of multiple in-studio live performances, skits and half of the Jackson 5's concert in Indiana on May 29, 1971.
Here is a portion of the one-hour show:
Jackson 5 - Going Back To Indiana TV Special (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDPxPrM1FcU
Gary Grimshaw poster for Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, and Terry Tate at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 17, 1971.
In-process version and newsprint versions of Gary Grimshaw poster for Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 17, 1971.
On September 17, 1971, Iggy was staying at Danny Field’s apartment in New York City when he got a call from Fields telling him to come down to Max’s Kansas City to meet David Bowie. The seeds of the Stooges’ comeback were planted that night at the bar.
A Westbound Records ad for the debut album by Frut and their upcoming single in the September 16, 1971 issue of The Fifth Estate newspaper in Detroit, Michigan.
Newspaper ad for Alice Cooper and MC5 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on September 17, 1971. The MC5 were held up at the border crossing from Detroit to Canada, arriving just as Alice Cooper was tuning up and were too late to perform.
It’s a pity that the Eastown Theater in Detroit, Michigan did not pick up on the poster tradition of the Grande Ballroom, about 250 shows over the two-and-a-half years of operation from 1969 through 1971, with plenty of monster shows right from the beginning until the end. We’ve posted about some of the biggest shows, but without weekly posters it is not as documented as the Grande.
So, using a shot of the interior, here’s a fake poster for the shows on September 17-18, 1971, with Cactus, Boomerang, and Savage Grace.
We wanted to mention these shows because they seem to be the only Michigan appearance by the band Boomerang, which is the band that ex-Vanilla Fudge vocalist and organist Mark Stein formed after the Fudge broke up when drummer and bassist Carmen Appice and Tim Bogert quit to form Cactus, with Detroiters guitarist Jim McCarty and vocalist Rusty Day. With both Cactus and Boomerang at these shows, it was a bit of a Fudge reunion.
These shows are also notable for being the last shows that Savage Grace played at the Eastown. It may come as a surprise that Savage Grace was the group that played the most shows at the Eastown, with at least 24 shows, ten more than the next closest (Alice Cooper and the Stooges, each with 14).
Savage Grace’s second album had been out for four months at the time of these shows and it was not selling well. The band only had a few more months to go before breaking up. We earlier posted the album, here’s the lead-off track, one of the greatest album openers, one more time:
Savage Grace – Mother’s Song (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVHPcAXYPI8
Gary Grimshaw poster for the Alley, the third in the “checkerboard series”, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with Commander Cody, September 17-19, 1971.
Jonathon Round, the Detroit-born and raised, multi-faceted-artist, was a producer, director, playwright, author, composer, actor, singer, musician, teacher and coach, released an album on the Westbound label in 1971. It included his dramatic rendition of “Sympathy for the Devil”, which when performed live was a real showstopper, armed with only an acoustic guitar he could command even the rowdiest of rock and roll audiences.
Jonathon Round – Sympathy for the Devil (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl9oLnGq7gI
Gary Grimshaw poster, his sixth for The Park in North Baltimore, Ohio, September 18, 1971. Michigan bands were the Woolies, SRC, UP, and Sunday Funnies with headliner Chuck Berry.
Alternative version of Gary Grimshaw’s poster for The Park in North Baltimore, Ohio, September 18, 1971.
Newspaper ad by Gary Grimshaw for The Park in North Baltimore, Ohio, September 18, 1971.
Poster by an unknown artist for the Palladium in Birmingham, Michigan, September 18, 1971. Bands were MC5, Guardian Angel, and Suite Charity.
Poster by an unknown artist for Alice Cooper in Louisville, Kentucky, September 18, 1971.
Poster by an unknown artist for the Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes with Third Power and Bread Fruit at the Midland Center for the Arts in Midland, Michigan, September 18, 1971.
Dennis Preston poster for the Jam Band, with Julia and Still Eyes, at the Melody Ballroom in Inkster, Michigan on September 18, 1971, a Jerry Patlow presentation. Poster image sent to us by the drummer for Still Eyes, Patrick Irla.
Ad for the Sounds and Diversions store in East Lansing, Michigan, by Dennis Preston, September 1971.
A new single by Bob Seger, backed by Teegarden & Van Winkle, appeared on the CKLW Big 30 music chart on September 20, 1971. Although it reached the #2 spot in Detroit, the highest it rose on the national charts was #96. Never released on an album until a live version on the 1976 “Live Bullet”.
Bob Seger – Looking Back (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptbYM5A7K64
Another two-man band, in the model of Teegarden & Van Winkle, but with additional instrumentation, the Whiz Kids from Ann Arbor at Bimbo’s, September 20, 1971.
Ad for Ormandy at the Union Ballroom in East Lansing, Michigan, September 20, 1971, by either Hugh Surratt or Doug Huston.
An ad for the Mike Quatro Jam Band at The Plato in Cleveland, Ohio on September 20, 1971. A show preview described the Jam Band as a duo with Quatro and drummer Terry Mullen and predicted that Quatro would “soon be a ‘monster’ in music circles”.
Here is the Gary Grimshaw poster that uses the Aztec figure that we’ve already seen a couple of times before in the Chicago Seed, this time for the Union Ballroom in Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 22, 1971. Bands were SRC, Catfish, UP, and Geyda.
A newsprint version of the Gary Grimshaw poster for the Union Ballroom in Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 22, 1971.
Poster for Alice Cooper with the Mike Quatro Jam Band in Peoria, Illinois on September 22, 1971.
Poster with Cactus, Savoy Brown and John Baldry in Atlanta, Georgia on September 23, 1971.
Gary Grimshaw posters for two shows by Mountain with Mylon, first at the Finch Field House at Central Michigan University, September 23, 1971, and at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, September 24, 1971.
Newsprint version and in-process version of Gary Grimshaw’s poster for Mountain and Mylon at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, September 24, 1971.
Newspaper ad for Mountain at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, September 24, 1971, a Daystar presentation.
Newspaper ad for Ike & Tina Turner at the University of Detroit on September 24, 1971, their fourth Michigan show of the year.
One-half of CSN&Y at the Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan, September 24, 1971.
Poster/ad by Randy Tuten with Alice Cooper at the Winterland in San Francisco, California, September 24-25, 1971, and Grand Funk a month later at the Oakland Coliseum.
Gary Grimshaw poster for the Alley, the fourth in the “checkerboard series”, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 24-26, 1971.
A ad for the Ritz Theatre in Staten Island, New York with the MC5 opening for Bloodrock and Mandrill on September 25, 1971.
Handbill by an unknown artist, possibly Chad Hines, for Savage Grace, Jonathon Round, and the Whiz Kids at the Palladium in Birmingham, Michigan, September 25, 1971. This appears to be the final show at the Birmingham Palladium, the end of a sweet nearly two-year run that began with a Bob Seger show on November 7, 1969.
Well-managed by Punch Andrews, the Palladium hosted around 120 shows during its run with an impressive list of local and international acts. More to the point of our interest, the Palladium produced a a nice body of work of outstanding posters, with feature artists Carol Ann, Chad Hines, Gary Grimshaw, Darlene Pond and others.
Prior to being called the Palladium, the venue had been called the Village Pub, another source of great posters in its short time, with feature artists James Render and Mary Phil.
The consistent production of high quality posters is probably attributable to Punch Andrews, who used these same artists, and more, for his other ventures as well, the Something Different club in Southfield, Michigan, and of course, the Silverbell (the last of his string of Hideout clubs) in Auburn Hills.
The Silverbell lasted from November 1966 to March 1970. Something Different lasted from November 1968 to April 1970. The Village Pub/Birmingham Palladium lasted from April 1968 to September 1971.
Andrews had already released about two dozen records on his Hideout Records label, and he had started another record label called Palladium Records. It seems that with the closing of the Birmingham Palladium club, he gave up on club management to concentrate on record production and in particular, the career of Bob Seger, opening an office in Birmingham, Michigan in 1971 which continued to be his base of operations to, at least, up through 2015.
The history of the address of 136 Brownell in Birmingham, Michigan begins in 1964, when the Raven Gallery in Detroit relocated to the location. That arrangement only lasted ten months, with the last known show being Josh White in April 1965. The Raven Gallery re-located again, to Southfield where it carried on for at least fifteen years, the last known show being Josh White Jr. in May 1980.
136 Brownell re-opened as the Birmingham-Bloomfield Teen Center, a story in the January 22, 1966 edition of The Detroit Free Press newspaper reported:
“It's hard to open a teen center, even in Camelot. For three years a group of Birmingham-Bloomfield area youngsters and their parents have been working to establish such a recreational facility in the affluent north Woodward area. Their efforts have finally paid off.
“(On) SATURDAY at 9 a.m., Gov. and Mrs. Romney will inspect the newly leased headquarters of the Birmingham-Bloomfield Teen Center at 136 Brownell, Birmingham. Romney will offer congratulatory remarks. The facility is incomplete, but it should be ready for a grand opening in two months. It's around the corner from Birmingham Police Headquarters in a downtown building which formerly housed an art gallery and coffee shop. The building has been completely renovated at a cost of $50,000. It features a snack bar and coke parlor, billiards and ping-pong facilities, a television lounge and a ballroom which will accommodate 800 people.
“A hi-fi record system pipes music throughout. Interior decorating and furnishing is incomplete, but will be "rustic barn," according to Mrs. William Compton, of the adult advisory committee. Idea for the center originated with area youngsters, Mrs. Compton said. City fathers in both communities were sympathetic, but lacked funds, so a private citizen group called Operation Teen Center was formed. An anonymous benefactor promised $15,000 if Operation Teen Center members could raise $35,000 on their own. THEY DID, by selling "booster buttons" door-to-door, washing cars on weekends, and sweet-talking local clubs and organizations.
“To date 1,000 youngsters In public, private and parochial schools in the area have paid $2 each for one-year memberships in the center. The youngsters, with volunteer adult help, will paint and decorate the center and hope to construct furniture. Most needed now, according to adults working on the project, is a little more money ($20,000 will do) for furnishings and to hire a full-time professional director.”
The facility operated as the Birmingham-Bloomfield Teen Center until sometime before April 1968 when it became known as the Village Pub. There are very few known shows during its two years as the BBTC. The Village Pub, although only in operation for one year is well documented, with nearly 50 known shows, and show posters and flyers by James Render, Mary Partridge, Greg DeHike and other unknown artists.
The facility appears to have been dormant for the next seven months, following the last known show in early May 1969, until Punch Andrews, possibly with the help of Russ Gibb, re-opened it as the Birmingham Palladium with a show by Bob Seger, with Cactus, Third Power and Johnny & the Hurricanes on November 7, 1969.
Palladium was also the name of the record label that was owned by Punch Andrews. The Birmingham Palladium club was active for nearly two years with well over 100 shows, until Andrews gave up on club management to concentrate on record production and in particular, managing the career of Bob Seger.
Shown above are the posters for the Birmingham Palladium by artist Chad Hines. Hines, as you may recall, was a high school friend of poster artist Steven Forsythe, aka Donnie Dope and other aliases, at Northville High School. Hines made at least one poster for the Grande Ballroom (January 1969 with the Amboy Dukes).
A collection of posters/flyers for the Birmingham Palladium by the artist Carol Ann. Unfortunately, little else is known about her.
A collection of posters/flyers for the Birmingham Palladium by the artist Mary Partridge. She typically worked in collaboration with a second artist, for these it was Tom Wall, and with her posters for the previous Village Pub, she signed her work as “Mary Phil”, which we assume Phil to be her partner on those posters.
A collection of posters/flyers for the Birmingham Palladium by Gary Grimshaw, Darlene Pond, Al Shamie, Ken Victor, Matthew Radofsky and other, unknown artists.
Poster by Dennis Preston for Super Sunday at the Sherwood Forest in Davison, Michigan, September 26, 1971. Bands were Brownsville Station, Bob Seger, Teegarden & Van Winkle, Plain Brown Wrapper, Commander Cody, Catfish, and Smack Dab.
The posters that Gary Grimshaw made for The Park in North Baltimore, Ohio were some of his most unusual. This one is for the September 28, 1971 show with Savoy Brown, Spirit and Boomerang.
They had been cast-mates on the Detroit production of Hair, and they had shared stages with their respective bands, he in Popcorn Blizzard and Floating Circus, and her in the Wilson Mower Pursuit. Motown talent scouts caught their performances in Hair and invited the duo to record together, their one album was released in September 1971 on Rare Earth Records.
Stoney & Meat Loaf – What You See Is What You Get (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpnubtN2ZnY
A Roulette Records ad for the Tommy James single “I’m Coming Home”, released in September 1971. It was the fourth single from the album “Christian of the World”, which had been released in August. The other three singles, "Church Street Soul Revival", "Adrienne", and "Draggin' the Line" had all been released prior to the album.
We previously posted the biggest hit, "Draggin' the Line", but the somewhat overlooked album is pretty good, start to finish.
Tommy James - Christian of the World (album) (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOeh-jKFqJU&list=PLh1V-uWJTno8GC62VyAKARIQv7Ue3ToWa&index=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ76caQCL1M
A full-page Motown Gordy Records ad for the single “Bless You” by Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, released in September 1971, and a clip from the “Soul Train” TV show.
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Bless You (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJDVZZI4cZk
Volume Seven - 1971 - continues - HERE
An ad for WABX-FM radio in Detroit featuring DJ Dennis Frawley in the September 16, 1971 issue of The Fifth Estate newspaper
A Motown Records ad from a British music magazine for the Diana Ross single “I’m Still Waiting” and the soundtrack album for the TV special “Diana!”. The TV special which aired in the US in April was broadcast by the BBC in England on September 18, 1971.
