great site about Southeastern Michigan Rock Bands - 1966 to 1972

Hey,

Are you guys hip to this site? My First Band (dot com) ...it encompasses bands from all over now, but it was started by two Detroit guys, and the detail on Michigan bands is amazing...it's about everybody's "first band," and it definitely jogged a few brain cells about bands I saw at the Birmingham-Bloomfield Teen Center -- I was underage even for that place, but I got in to see the Fugitives, etc.!

http://www.myfirstband.com/

Susanw,

Thanks for sharing that link on the forum. I never came across that one but man, there is alot to find there, as Michigan leads the pack with the most entries. I noticed a couple of bands there I had heard from my younger days, and there's some information included by the very short-lived Motown inclusive as well... The Ones.

Hey, I just happened to come across this new website, and it belongs to none other than Mitch Ryder of The Detroit Wheels. And in the video clip file, check out Mitch Ryder and Otis Redding jammin' to "Knock On Wood" (that must be the Bar-Kays in the background).

It's just too bad that shortie was inserted as a fill-in as they rolled the production credits!

--Jim

Oh, almost forgot... here's the Mitch Ryder website:
http://www.mitchryder.de/

It's odd that so many of these sites omit information on Tino And The Revlons. Granted, the band was based in New York. But they recorded for Chet Kajeski's Dearborn label and played prolifically in the Detroit area.

Their "Little Girl, Little Girl" single on Dearborn remains a monster garage band classic. Ironically, Keener didn't seem to think too highly of it, though. It only charted for two weeks (31 to 28) and during the second week when it was #28, the last week's position in parentheses showed a blank instead of #31.

It definitely got lost in the shuffle, in view of the tremendous amount of great records all vying for one of those 32 spots on the Keener charts that month. An amazing record, nonetheless.

Thanks for the kind remarks about the song Little Girl Little Girl. I'm Hoot Gibson I wrote the song and played drums with Tino, John and Cheech. Those were special days in Detroit. If anyone would like more history about the group I'd be glad to share it. We did have other singles Lazy Mary Memphis is one and downloadable on the web. That's a funny song with a history.