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Volume Nine - 1973 - Page Thirteen
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The first 53 issues of the Ann Arbor Sun newspaper in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from April 30, 1971 through September 24, 1973, which represent the period of Gary Grimshaw’s tenure with the paper. Barbara Weinberg assumed the title of Art Director soon after. You can upload this image to see it full size.
Dennis Preston illustration for The Dillards at The Stables in East Lansing, Michigan, September 24-29, 1973. The bluegrass band from Salem, Missouri are perhaps best known for their regular appearances as a trouble-making hillbilly band, The Darlings, on the Andy Griffith Show.
Gary Grimshaw ad for the Primo Showbar in Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 24, 1973 through October 8th. Up until this point, Primo had booked mostly Ann Arbor groups, so we were intrigued to see the band Teenage Lust “From New York” and are stoked to have found this video, which we now present for your edification:
Teenage Lust & the Lustettes – Teenage Lust (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxta84CjSVc
An interesting poster by an unknown artist for Grand Funk in Honolulu, Hawaii on September 25, 1973.
Poster by an unknown artist Art Sims for B.B. King at the MSU Auditorium in East Lansing, Michigan, September 26, 1973.
A beautiful poster for Diana Ross in Munich, Germany on September 26, 1973. Below is a link to her complete concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England just the week before.
Diana Ross – Live at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England (9/17-19/1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAn6WoFnULM
Poster for Diana Ross in Paris, France on September 27, 1973.
Record company ad for Slade with tour dates, including a show at Masonic Auditorium in Detroit, Michigan, September 27, 1973.
Rather plain, by the standards of other GVS posters, for Steve Stills & Manassas at Grand Valley State Colleges Fieldhouse in Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 27, 1973.
Having successfully established ABC-TV’s “In Concert” series, producer Don Kirshner launched his own “Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert” series, which debuted on September 27, 1973. The logo for the show was created by San Diego, California artist Jim Evans, who will later form the T.A.Z. rock poster collective with Gibran Evans and Rolo Castillo.
A full-page Capitol Records ad in the September 27, 1973 issue of Rolling Stone magazine for the Grand Funk album “We’re An American Band”.
Gary Grimshaw handbill for Stephen Stills & Manassas at Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 28, 1973.
John Lee Hooker, returning after a long absence to the small club scene in Detroit, bringing with him a John Lee Hooker Jr., at Ethel’s Cocktail Lounge, September 29, 1973.
A flyer/ad for the Miracles in Baltimore, Maryland on September 29, 1973. The flyer notes that “Baltimore’s Own” William (Bill) Griffin was now a member of the group, in fact, he replaced Smokey Robinson. It incorrectly states the Griffin was formerly with the Temptations, but that was actually his brother Donald Griffin, who replaced Eddie Kendricks in the Temptations, so it is even more interesting that both of the brothers wound up as replacements for their idols in their respective groups.
Another excellent poster for the Goodman Ballroom in East Lansing, Michigan, September 29, 1973, that looks like the same mystery artist “G” who made the earlier Humun Ivy poster, that one was numbered 21, this one is numbered 23. Newspaper ad also by "G".
A full-page RCA Records ad for Lou Reed’s “Rock ‘N’ Roll Animal” tour with an itinerary that picks up with the tour’s 13th show, in Sheffield, England on September 29, 1973.
Motown artist, writer, and producer R. Dean Taylor must have had something about Jane. His 1968 record “Gotta See Jane” was one of his better-sellers, and although he was still working with Motown’s Rare Earth subsidiary, he also started his own label, called Jane Records, as announced in the September 29, 1973 issue of Billboard magazine.
An ad in the September 29, 1973 issue of the Ann Arbor SUN newspaper for the Music Box record store in Brighton, Michigan. The new Rolling Stones LP was “Goat Heads Soup”.
Poster and newspaper ad by Hugh Surratt for Alice Coltrane at the Fairchild Theater in East Lansing, Michigan on September 30, 1973.
Newspaper ad with Rare Earth headlining a show in Hollywood, California on September 30, 1973, supported by Fleetwood Mac and Nazareth.
Rainbow Graphics poster by an unknown artist with a unique layout for the Primo Showbar in Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 30, 1973 through October 6th.
Volume Nine - 1973 - continues - HERE
A Motown Records ad in the September 29, 1973 issue of Billboard magazine that featured lesser-known Motown releases such as an album by composer Stephen Cohn and an early Christmas album, along with the blockbuster thirteenth studio album by Marvin Gaye.
A full-page Motown records ad for the self-titled solo album by composer Stephen Cohn, released in 1973. It was his only release on Motown as Cohn continued on a long, award-winning career performing and composing classical music and film scores.
An ad by an unknown artist for Ike & Tina Turner at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan on September 23, 1973. A show that is missing from the database but is verified by articles following the concert that report that the show was poorly attended and lost money for the organizers.
Gary Grimshaw handbill for the Primo Showbar in Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 23-29, 1973, with Radio King & his Court of Rhythm, Uprising, Detroit, Lightnin’, and Deliverance.
Terry O’Connor poster for Freddie King at The Brewery in East Lansing, Michigan, September 24, 1973.
A full-page RCA Records ad for Lou Reed’s “Rock ‘N’ Roll Animal” tour with an itinerary that picks up with the tour’s eighth show, in Glasgow, Scotland on September 24, 1973.
A new band for Mitch Ryder, the Nova Band, at the Dearborn Towne House in Dearborn, Michigan, September 24-27, 1973.
The Michigan band Rare Earth managed to get themselves into the line-up and listed onto this fantastic poster for the third British Rock Meeting festival in Ludwigshafen, Germany, September 22-23, 1973, that included Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention, Beck Bogert & Appice, Lou Reed, and others. The festival, however, was cancelled.
Poster for the Boogie Hill Outdoor Rock Concert in Tiffin, Ohio, September 23, 1973, with two Michigan bands, Brownsville Station and Catfish Hodge.
Poster by an unknown artist for Super Sunday ’73, the last outdoor concert of the year at the Sherwood Forest in Davison, Michigan, September 23, 1973, with White Witch, Chase, Sunday Funnies, Rock & the Sharks, Rumor, Springwell, and the Woolies.
Record company ad for Earth, Wind & Fire with announcement of a show at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan, September 23, 1973. They were opening for Uriah Heep. Two months earlier, EW&F had made their first Michigan appearance, opening for the Temptations at Pine Knob. From here after, they would never be a supporting act in their Michigan appearances again and would always be the headliners.
Earth, Wind & Fire – Evil (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ2AsBQCPeI
Newspaper ad for Uriah Heep at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan, September 23, 1973, with opening acts Earth, Wind & Fire, and Tucky Buzzard.
Chazz:
I think I am the original source for the Ohio Theater misinformation on this. I'm certain I was at this concert. But, I don't actually live in Toledo. I live an hour east in Port Clinton. I was 17 in 1973 and this was the only show i saw at the venue and kind of forgot the name soon after. Back in the later 1970s or early 1980s, as I tried to remember the name of the venue, I think I mixed up State and Ohio. Somehow, I concluded it was Ohio. Don't recall why, though. As a result, anytime I mentioned this concert, including MANY times on the internet, I always said it was the Ohio Theater and I would suppose it propagated from there.
This is the second copy of this handbill I've seen in the past two days. Thus, Loren Kusf, I would believe it to be real. I remember the weather being warmish and the Sept 22 date would work for that. Here is the other copy of the handbill I found. The fold convinces me it's real.
I had conveyed the misinformation to Bruno's blog (and) I see he now has the correct date.
Here is the folded handbill that is mentioned by Chazz:
Chazz:
However, I have no clue where the Sept 10 date comes from. I've been trying to research the date of the show forever to no result. After seeing one of my internet posts, someone sent me this newspaper ad. It doesn't seem to come from the Toledo Blade, though. Might this be the show that was rescheduled to Sept 22?
Here is the ad that is mentioned by Chazz:
Chazz:
Also, I forgot to mention in my comment above, I'm certain the Sunday Funnies and The Frut did not appear at the show. They were at the May 29 1971 show. I was there. I know there was an opening band(s) at the 1973 show. Was it The Whiz Kids?
Nice illustration by an unknown artist in an ad for the Art Ensemble of Chicago at the Fairchild Theater in East Lansing, Michigan, September 22, 1973.
A poster that presents a mystery. Here’s what we’ve been able to confirm:
There was a State Theatre in Toledo at the location on the poster, at Collingwood and Delaware. September 22 was a Saturday in 1973. Billboard magazine has a listing for Iggy Pop at the State Theatre in Toledo Ohio, but has the date of September 10. Online databases also have the September 10 date, but at the Ohio Theatre on LaGrange Street in Ohio.
Now, some of our readers may recognize this poster image as one that we have posted before, it was for a May 29, 1971 show at the Toledo Sports Arena for the Stooges with Bob Seger, the “Special Guests Sunday Funnies and Frut” are left over from the original poster. The “Iggy and the Stooges Raw Power” and “The State Theatre Music Hall” have been pasted over the previous information, and the “Courtesy of Revelations” has been added. The date of September 22 does not seem to conflict with any Stooges timeline.
This post gathered the following comments:
Jack:
I have this handbill and went to this show at the State Theater. I remember Iggy jumping on the seats right in front of us. The Ohio Theater was still at that time strictly a movie house so I'm sure they didn't play there.
Bruno:
My fault here, my source for the September 10, 1973 gig was Billboard and actually the magazine listed the venue as "State Theatre" but in my research of the venue years ago I only find the Ohio Theatre so I suppose it was the same venue, but now I understand that I'm wrong because a venue called State Theatre actually exist and it was located at 2476 Collingwood Boulevard. The problem now is the date, Billboard listed it as September 10, but because the magazine was printed way before the show, I guess in the meantime the date was postponed to September 22 exactly.
Loren:
Sunday Funnies were around until 1975, not sure about Frut - it would be unlikely to book the same 2 opening bands for an out of town gig though. I have the original 5/29/71 handbill for Toledo Sports Arena - I would like to see the original State Theater handbill mentioned above because this image here looks like it was carelessly put together on a computer by some misguided fan.
Here is the original 5/29/71 handbill for Toledo Sports Arena that is mentioned by Loren:
A Poster Mystery in Four Parts
Readers may recall that the Michigan Theater in Detroit came back to life in 1972 as the Michigan Palace, presenting Motown, Big Band Jazz, and dinner-club acts, but that had run its course in a little less than a year. The Plymouth, Michigan physician, Dr. Leo Speer, who owned the Rock & Roll Farm in Wayne took over the ownership of the Michigan Palace, intending to bring rock and roll shows to the venue. Someone suggested that he should open with a group from New York that was beginning to generate a buzz, called the New York Dolls.
On September 22, 1973, the New York Dolls made their first Michigan appearance, at the Michigan Palace in Detroit. Poster by Dennis Loren with the Dolls, Aerosmith and Bertha. Aerosmith did not play the show and Birtha (spelled with an “I”) was an all-female band from Los Angeles, they may not have actually appeared either. Radio King, listed in the newspaper ad, was a confirmed opening act.
New York Dolls – Personality Crisis (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL6zaPy6kdI
Newspaper ad for the first Michigan appearance by the New York Dolls, at the Michigan Palace in Detroit, September 22, 1973. The ad has Radio King as the third act instead of Birtha on the Dennis Loren poster.
Another flyer for the first Michigan appearance by the New York Dolls, at the Michigan Palace in Detroit, September 22, 1973.
Program cover for the first Michigan appearance by the New York Dolls, at the Michigan Palace in Detroit, September 22, 1973. Illustrations by Nick Kellepourey and Dave Hudson.
Inside of the program for the first Michigan appearance by the New York Dolls, at the Michigan Palace in Detroit, September 22, 1973, with an announcement for a “Bootsniffer’s Ball” at the Roostertail Club, September 24, with Detroit, Werks, Riot, Radio King & his Court of Rhythm, and Master of Ceremonies, Stanley “the Mad Hatter”.
The night before the New York Dolls’ Michigan debut, they performed in Memphis, Tennessee, with Iggy & the Stooges opening. Doll’s lead singer David Johansen was arrested at the end of this show for disorderly conduct and inciting a riot, and spent the night in a Memphis jail before coming to Detroit.
Catfish Hodge’s first album as a solo artist was released on Eastbound Records, a sublabel of Westbound Records, with an aptly Michigan cover photo, Funkadelic guitarist Gary Shider co-wrote all of the tracks with Hodge, except for the one Beatles cover.
Catfish Hodge – Boogieman Gonna Get Ya (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2z4gYR00ho
A Mercury Records ad for the New York Dolls with tour dates, including their first Michigan appearance, at the Michigan Palace in Detroit (second to last on the list) on September 22, 1973. The Dolls would perform at least ten times in Michigan from 1973 through 1976.
Nice page of ads by an unknown artist from the Joint Issue newspaper in East Lansing, Michigan, with Tom Rush at the Mariah Coffee House, September 20-22, 1973, B.B. King at the MSU Auditorium on September 26, and Showcase Jazz at the Fairchild Auditorium, September 30.
Dennis Preston poster for Tom Rush at the Mariah Folk & Blues Coffee House in East Lansing, Michigan, September 20-22, 1973.
Dennis Preston poster for Brownsville Station and Springwell at the GMI International Room in Flint, Michigan, September 21, 1973.
Brownsville Station had just released their third album, “Yeah!”, and an FM radio station in Portland, Maine had picked up on the album’s final track, leading to its release as a single and snow-balling from there to become the #3 single on Billboard magazine’s national Hot 100.
Brownsville Station – Smokin’ in the Boy’s Room (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oksTiOIuhHA
Gary Grimshaw handbill for the Eastown Theatre in Detroit, Michigan, September 21-22, 1973, with Quicksilver, White Witch, and Marcus. After being closed down since December 1971, re-opened in July 1973, closed down again and re-opened again, after this show the Eastown was finally closed down for good (until it comes back as the Showcase Theater in 1975).
Newspaper ad for Warriner Auditorium in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, September 22, 1973 with Catfish Hodge, Mojo (not Moto) Boogie Band, and Tattersall (?).
A full-page Reprise Records ad for the debut album by Maria Muldaur, coinciding with her first Michigan appearance, opening for Bonnie Raitt at the Pine Knob Music Theater in Clarkston on September 20, 1973.
Full-page ad by Dennis Preston for the Sounds & Diversions store in East Lansing, Michigan, published in the September 17, 1973 issue of the Joint Issue newspaper.
A full-page RCA Records ad in a Dutch language newspaper, likely to coincide with the fifth and sixth shows of the tour, in Copenhagen, Denmark on September 19, 1973, and in Amsterdam the following night. The touring band consisted of Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner on guitars, Ray Colcord on keyboards, Pentti (Whitey) Glan on drums, and Peter Walsh on bass (later replaced by Prakash John for the US leg of the tour which began in late November).
The words that were used to incorporate Lou Reed’s name in the vertical red letters, translate as “Original”, “Provocative”, “Horrifying”, “Touching”, “Mind Blow”, Frightening”, and “Penetrating”.
Linked below is possibly the only known recording of the band Ascension, featuring Fred "Sonic" Smith on guitar and vocals, Dennis "Machine Gun" Thompson on drums, Michael Davis on vocals and keyboard, and John Hefti on bass, recorded at the Heaven Club (Bowling Alley) in Detroit, Michigan on September 20, 1973. Be sure to check out the links there as well.
Ascension – Live at Heaven Club (Bowling Alley) Detroit (9/20/73)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bClQBSNe_bA
