Thursday, March 04, 2010

Grande Ballroom, 8952 Grand River At Beverly, 1 Block South Of Joy Road, Detroit, MI: Performance List 1966 - 1967


October 7-8, 1966: MC-5 / The Chosen Few (scheduled but maybe replaced by The Wha?)
Grande Ballroom's opening nights.

October 14-15, 1966: MC-5 (14-15) /The Woolies (14-15) / The Southbound Freeway (15; not on the poster)

October 21-22, 1966: MC-5 / The Prime Movers / The Chosen Few (uncertain) / The Wha? (uncertain) / The Southbound Freeway (uncertain) / The Gang (uncertain)
MC5 and The Prime Movers were the only two bands scheduled on the concert poster, but a Newspaper Ad also reported that The Wha?, The Southbound Freeway and The Gang were to perform too.

October 28-29, 1966: MC-5 (28) / The Southbound Freeway (28-29) / The Chosen Few (29)

November 4-5, 1966: Bossmen (4) / Southbound Freeway (4-5) / MC-5 (5)

November 11-12, 1966: Hitch Hikers (11) / Southbound Freeway (11) / MC-5 (12)

November 18-19, 1966: Walking Wounded (18) / The Wha? (18) / Poor Souls (18) / MC-5 (19) / "Mystery Bands" (19)

November 25-26, 1966: MC-5 (25-26) / The Jagged Edge (25) / The Black & Blues Band (26)

December 2-3, 1966: The Southbound Freeway / The Hearde / Poor Souls / The Cosmic Expanding / The Psychedelic Flipout

December 9-10, 1966: The Jagged Edge (9) / Ourselves (9) / MC-5 (10) / The Kynde (10)

December 16-17, 1966: The Landeers (16) / The Plague (16) / MC-5 (17) / The Wha? (17)

December 22-23, 1966: MC-5 (22 and maybe 23) / Green Grass Blues (22) / Suburban Roots (23) / The Family Medicine Chest (23; uncertain)

December 26, 1966: MC-5 / The Cosmic Expanding Blues Band
"The Fifth Estate First Anniversary Freak Out"

December 29-31, 1966: MC-5 (29, 31) / The Black & Blues Band (29) / The Taboos (30) / The Thyme (30) / The Cosmic Expanding Blues Band (31) / Poor Souls (31)

January 6-7, 1967: The Walking Wounded (6) / MC-5 (7) / Seventh Seal (7)

January 13-14, 1967: Southbound Freeway (13) / Unrelated Segments (13) / MC-5 (14) / Cosmic Expanding (sic) (14)

January 20-21, 1967: MC-5 (20) / The Trees (20) / Scotty's Group (21) / The Passing Clouds (21) or The House Of Lords (21)
The Passing Clouds were scheduled on the concert poster but The House Of Lords were scheduled on a Newspaper Ad. Scotty's Group is the first name of the late famous Scot Richard Case (aka SRC).

January 27-29, 1967: The Plague (27) / C-Water Blues (27) / MC-5 (28-29) / The Vernor Highway Blues Band (28) / The Spike Drivers (29) / Livonia Tool & Die Company (29) / Detroit Edison White Light Band (29) / The Lyman Woodard Ensemble (29) / Joseph Jarman & The English Spangler Jazz Unit (29) / Poets: Bill Hutton (29), Allan Van Newkirk (29), Jim Semark (29), Jerry Younkins (29), John Sinclair (29), Art Rosch (29), Don Moye (29) & more "Guerrilla Lovefare"
Cancelled due to January 24, 1967 John Sinclair drug bust!.

February 3-4, 1967: The Wha? (3) / Poor Souls (3) / Little Sisters (3; scheduled but maybe replaced by Brand X) / MC-5 (4) / The Raven (4) / The Harvard Street Blues (4; not on the poster)

February 10-11, 1967: Thyme (10) / People (10) / Rationals (11) / Zymodics (11) / The Wha? (11; not on the poster)

February 17-18, 1967: The Barons (17) / The Ashmollyan Quintet (17) / The Landeers (18) / The Cosmic Expanding Blues Band (18)

February 24-25, 1967: Scott Richard Case (sic) (24) / The Village Beaus (24) / The Jagged Edge (25) / The D.S.R. (25)

March 3-4, 1967: Ourselves (3) / Zymodics (3) / MC-5 (4) / Apostoles (4) / The Belshires (4; not on the poster)

March 10-11, 1967: We Who Are (10) / Poor Souls (10; on the concert poster) or The Harvard Street Blues (10; on newspaper ad) / Frut Of The Loom (11) / The Southbound Freeway (11) / Passing Clouds (11)

March 17-18, 1967: MC-5 (17) / Sixth Street (17) / Scot Richard Case (18) / The Strange Fate (18) / Gang (18)

March 24-25, 1967: Landeers (24) / Henchmen (24) / MC-5 (25) / City Limis (25) / Born Blues (25; uncertain)

March 30-31, 1967: Scott Richard Case (sic) (30) / Somethin' Else (30) / The Thyme (31) / The Wild Cargo (31) / Yesterday's Shadows (31)

April 1-2, 1967: The Jagged Edge (1) / The Detroit Blues Ball (1) / Seventh Seal (1) / The Back & Back Boo Funny Music Band (1) / MC-5 (2) / Billy C. & The Sunshine (2) / Seventh Seal (2) / C-Water Blues (2) / The Back & Back Boo Funny Music Band (2) "Benefit for Senator Roger Craig"

April 7-8, 1967: The Rationals (7-8) / Poor Souls (7) /The Reason Why? (7) / Born Blues (7; uncertain) / The Restless Set (8) / The Hideaways (8)

April 14-15, 1967: The Weeds (14) / Changing Times (14; on the concert poster), Sum Guys (14: on the concert poster) or The Southampton Rowe (14; on newspaper ad) / One Way Street (15) / The Thyme (15) / Gang (15)

April 21-22, 1967: Jagged Edge (21) / Sons of Sound (21) / Scot Richard Set (sic) (22) / Manchild (22) / New Spirit (22)

April 23, 1967: MC-5 / Billy C. & The Sunshines /Back & Back Boo Funny Music Band / Poets: John Sinclair, Jerry Younkins "Benefit for the Warren/Forest Sun"

April 28-29, 1967: The Jagged Edge (28) / The Trees (28) / The Wild Woodies (28) / Dick Purta(i)n (29) / The Metrics (29) / The Strange Fate (29) / The Buckingham 5 (29)

May 5-6, 1967: Billy C. & The Sunshine (5) / The Primates (5) / The Wha? (6) / The Strange Fate (6) / Harmond Street Blues (6) / Panic & The Pack (6; uncertain)

May 12-13, 1967: Ourselves (12) / The Berry Patch (12) / The Hearde (12) / The Apostles (13) / Echoes from a Broken Mirror (13)

May 19-20, 1967: Scot Richard Case (19) / December's Children (19) / Thyme (20) / Odds & Ends (20)

May 26-27, 1967: The Southbound Freeway (26) / Cowardly Thangs (26) / Harmond Street Blues (27) / Vernor Highway Band (27)

June 2-3, 1967: The Rationals (2) / C-Water Blues (2) / The Jagged Edge (3) / The Belshires (3)

June 9-10, 1967: The Apostles (9) / The Morticians (9) / The Thyme (10) / The Eccentrics (10)

June 16-17, 1967: Jagged Edge (16) / Shifting Sands (16) / MC-5 (17) / Those Guys (17)

June 20, 1967: The Spike Drivers / The Jazz Disciples / The Group / The Family Medicine Chest "Love Prom"

June 23-24, 1967: MC-5 (23) / Phogg (23) / Scot Richard Case (24) / Up-Set (24)

June 30, 1967: Echoes from a Broken Mirror / The Southampton Rowe

July 1, 1967: MC-5 / The English Ryders

July 7-8, 1967: The Thyme (7) / The Hideaways (7) / The Malibus (7) / Ourselves (8) / The Berry Patch (8)

July 14-15, 1967: Rationals (14) / Bump (14) / Jagged Edge (15) / Craig Sutherland Movement (15)

July 21-22, 1967: Tim Buckley (21-22) / MC-5 (21) / Ourselves (21) / Shaggs (22) / Up (22)

July 28-29, 1967: Scot Richard Case (28) / Euphonic Aggregation (28) / Apostles (29) / Up-Set (29)

August 4-5, 1967: Thyme (4) / Odds & Ends (4) / Apostles (5) / Bouys (5) Newspaper Ad shows The Peanut Butter Conspiracy on the bill for this weekend.

August 11-12, 1967: Grateful Dead (11-12) / Rationals (11-12) / Southbound Freeway (11-12; on the concert poster), Bishops (11; on the concert poster), Ashmollyan Quintet (12; on the concert poster) or Gang (11-12; on Newspaper Ad)

August 18-19, 1967: Thyme (18) / Uncalled Four (18; on the concert poster) or Psychedelic Lollipops (18; on Newspaper Ad) / Shaggs (19) / Troyes (19; on the concert poster) or Mother's Little Helpers (19; on Newspaper Ad)

August 25-26, 1967: Thyme (25; not on the poster) / Apostles (25) / Our Mother's Children (25) / Scot Richard Case (26) / MC-5 (26; not on the poster) / Certified Chalk Cyrcle (26)

August 27, 1967: MC-5 / Spike Drivers / Billy C. & The Sunshine "Benefit for Trans Love Energies"

September 1-2, 1967: Chambers Brothers (1-2) / MC-5 (1) / Thyme (2) Newspaper listing shows (The) System on the bill for this weekend.

September 8-9, 1967: Scot Richard Case (8; on the concert poster) or Southbound Freeway (8; on the Newspaper Ad) / Bouys (8) / Rationals (9) / Up (9) / Jagged Edge (9; on the concert poster) or Shaggs (9; on Newspaper Ad)

September 15-16, 1967: MC-5 (15) / Gang (15) / Ourselves (15) / Pack (16) / Odds & Ends (16; not on the poster) / Ashmollyan Quintet (16)

September 22-23, 1967: Southbound Freeway (22) / Our Mother's Children (22; not on the poster) / Billy C. & The Sunshine (22) / MC-5 (23) / Bouys (23) / The F.D.A. (23; not on the poster)

September 24, 1967: MC-5 / Up / Charles Moore Ensemble / Poets: John Sinclair, Jim Semark "Benefit for the Warren Forest-Sun"

September 29-30, 1967: Apostles (29) / Eastside Orphans (29) / Happiness Tickets (29; not on the poster) / MC-5 (30) / Spike Drivers (30)

October 1, 1967: The F.D.A. / MC-5 / Gang / The Heard / Period / The Rationals / The Thyme / Ourselves / Our Mother's Children / Poor Souls "DEVA Presents"

October 6-7, 1967: Scot Richard Case (6) / Billy C. & The Sunshine (6) / MC-5 (7) / Gang (7) / Odds & Ends (7) Grande Ad in West-Forest Sun #4 shows The Case of E.T. Hooley on the bill for October 6 & 7.

October 13-15, 1967: Cream (13-15) / MC-5 (13 and maybe 15) / Thyme (13; not on the poster) / Rationals (14 and maybe 15) / Apostles (15)

October 20-21, 1967: Pack (20) / Gold (20) / Our Mother's Children (20) / MC5 (21) / Gang (21) / Billy C. & The Sunshine (21) Grande Ad in West-Forest Sun #4 shows Lothar & The Hand People on the bill for October 20 & 21.

October 27-28, 1967: MC5 (27) / Rationals (27) / Prime Movers (27; not on the poster) / James Gang (28) / Up (28) / The Stuart Avery Assemblage (28; not on the poster) Grande Ad in West-Forest Sun #4 shows The Paupers on the bill for October 27 & 28...They played the first weekend of November.

October 29, 1967: MC5 / Gold / Poets: John Sinclair, Jim Semark "Benefit for Trans Love"

November 3-5, 1967: Paupers (3-5) / Gang (3) / Thyme (4; they was scheduled on the poster for day 5 too but was cancelled) / Up (4; not on the poster) / MC5 (5) / Rationals (5) / Apostles (5; not on the poster) / Peter Max (5; not on the poster)

November 10-11, 1967: James Cotton Blues Band (10-11) / MC5 (10) / Thyme (10; not on the poster) / Billy C. & The Sunshine (11) / Apostles (11; not on the poster)

November 17-18, 1967: Scot Richard Case (17) / Apostles (17) / Lost Generation (17) / Odds & Ends (18) / Our Mother's Children (18) / Epidemic (18)

November 23, 1967: MC5 / Scot Richard Case "Recording Session"

November 24-25, 1967: Fugs (24-25) / Gang (24) / Ashmollyan Quin. (24) / MC5 (25)

November 26, 1967: Fugs / MC5 / Billy C. & The Sunshine "Benefit for John Sinclair Defense Fund"

December 1-2, 1967: Chambers Brothers (1-2) / Children (1; not on the poster) / Thyme (2; not on the poster) / Up (2; not on the poster)

December 8-9, 1967: Moby Grape (8-9) / Rationals (8) / The Wilson Mower Pursuit (8; last minute cancellation of unknown band allowed WMP to play first gig at the Grande) / MC5 (9)

December 15-17, 1967: Vanilla Fudge (15-17) / Thyme (15) / Rationals (16) / Our Mother's Children (16; not on the poster) / Epidemic (16; not on the poster) / MC5 (17)

December 21, 1967: Paul Butterfield Blues Band / Thyme / Rationals (on the concert poster) or Apostles (on Newspaper Ad)

December 22-23, 1967: Cream / MC5 / Billy C. & The Sunshine / Soap

December 25, 1967: MC5 / Rationals / Up / Odds & Ends

December 26, 1967: Lyman Woodard Trio / Billy C. & The Sunshine / Talismen

December 27, 1967: Lyman Woodard Trio / MC5 / Up

December 28, 1967: Woolies / Soap / Heavy Metal Kids

December 29-30, 1967: John Lee Hooker (29-30) / Apostles (29-30) / Pack (29) / Gang (30)

December 31, 1967: MC5 / Billy C. & The Sunshine / Prime Movers / Apostles

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