NEWS ROCK & ROLL
ON THE LOCAL SCENE-The Stooges, as bizarre-o and twist-o as ever, have been exposing themselves in new areas, not the least of which is St. Louis, where they completely stunned the audience at the St. Louis Pop Festival and returned two weeks later as “The Rolling Stones of St. Louis.”
NEWS ROCK & ROLL
ON THE LOCAL SCENE-The Stooges, as bizarre-o and twist-o as ever, have been exposing themselves in new areas, not the least of which is St. Louis, where they completely stunned the audience at the St. Louis Pop Festival and returned two weeks later as “The Rolling Stones of St. Louis.” The west coast will soon see what the Stooges are really like (after an insane shuck of an article that appeared in Rolling Stone) when they play the Whisky and the Fillmore next month while they’re in the area to record their second album...Ted Nugent, Amboy Dukes guitarist, did a short gig at Chicago’s Northwest Hospital. He had his tonsils removed. While Nugent recuperated, the band took a rest and then resumed appearances at the Fillmore Auditorium in Frisco, with their new drummer K.J. Knight, formerly of Jack Burningtree...The Bob Seger system has a new organist, Danny Watson (formerly with the Caste) and a new stage show, that is reportedly at least equal to the Seger we knew way back when...Good of Robin Seymour is back again. He has returned to the scene of his original TV show, CKLW’s “Lively Spot” after ex-host George Young, was discovered to be some how involved in a counterfeiting scandal...Jazz giant Duke Ellington, will be in Detroit May 20/21 to appear with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Ellington will conduct the orchestra in his own composition, “Harlem.”...Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels have just returned from their Southern tour. The newly reformed Wheels will begin reocrding their first single release for Dot records in a few weeks for release this summer...The SRC have recorded the old Nolan Strong standard, “Mind Over Matter,” for possible release as a single. Reports from Ann Arbor rumor that the group is undergoing some heavy musical direction changes...The Frost, who change managers more often then they change their set, got rid of Mike-Quatro almost before he could get a press release out. Their new manager is Dennis Arfta, formerly of Universal Talents, the Frost’s national booking representative. Meanwhile, half of their album is completed but after an interview with the Frost and Quatro on Carlisle’s WKNR-fm show, during which Vanguard was discussed, the record company cancelled the rest of the advance for the album...Tom Wright, who used to manage the Grande Ballroom and before that worked with the Who, is returning to Detroit after being in Florida and Cleveland. He is returning to the Motor City to work exclusively on photographing bands...Watch for the Up’s new single on their own Sundance label, a two-sided hit with “Just Like an Aborigine” and Hassan i Sabba”...The Brownsville Station have been touring the South where, their single “Rock and Roll Holiday” is a smash and have nearly completed their album to be out soon on Polydor...Try and catch Iggy on the cover of the latest “Gay Power” with a discussion of the Stooges by Jackie Curtis and Rita E. and some rather good perceptions of Stooge-ism on the inside...WABXFM will be starting their free concert series May 24th at WSU’s Tartar Fieldl. The first concert’s line-p will include Catfish, SRC, 3rd Power and Virgin Dawn...Terry Knight, exdisc jockey and presently manager of Grand Funk, is trying again with a single written by Funk’s Mark Farner called “I’ll Keep Waiting Patiently.” Good Knight?!...WKNRFM is adding another Detroit/ Ann Arbor personality to its disc jockey team. It’s about time the legendary Jeep Holland, our unofficial Detroit Rock and Roll historian, got a chance to shine over the air. KNRFM will also be going twenty-four hour stereo in June.
