From the MCRFB news archive: 1971
Music Happenings In and Around Detroit Town, 1971
DETROIT — Producer Jack Richardson, who has worked with RCA’s Guess Who out of Toronto and most recently with Bizarre’s Alice Cooper, is recording in Chicago with Mitch Ryder and his band, Detroit. A new single and album will be out. The finished product will be mixed in Toronto. Ryder follows the sessions with his first tour in six months, covering most of the northwest from April 13 to 25.
Ted Nugent, lead guitarist of Polydor’s Amboy Dukes, married in Florida. He spent his honeymoon touring radio stations in the south talking about the group’s latest album, ‘Survival Of The Fittest.’ Nugent and the Amboy Dukes and Brownsville Station will work together at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go in Los Angeles April 21 through 25. It marks the West Coast debut of both groups, although the Amboy Dukes have been there with different personnel and a different show . . . New Jersey’s Wadsworth Mansion, now booked out of Diversified Management Agency in Detroit presently taping ‘The Dating Game,’ ‘American Bandstand’ and other TV shows on the West Coast. The group starts touring March 12 going through North Carolina, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas and into Canada April 16, 17, 18 for dates and TV shots.
Ike and Tina Turner plan to work on a new album June 1-10 following a two-week stint in Las Vegas. That’s to be followed by 15 one-nighters. They’ll be on the Pearl Baily show Saturday, March 20 . . . Damnation will head into their Cleveland studios for their third United Artist album . . . . Alice Cooper, along with Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes and Brownsville Station, goes to Pittsburgh March 31, Atlanta April 1, Miami April 2 and 3, ten one-nighters to Baton Rouge, Birmingham, Tampa, Jackson, Memphis, Little Rock and winding up at Orlando, Florida April 11. The second-half tour of the 20-day tour is not completed as yet. The swing is booked out of DMA in Detroit . . . . The Stooges begin recording their third Elektra LP Monday, March 22 in Los Angeles. The working title for the album is ‘Big Time Bum.’ The group, featuring Iggy, has taken time off from recording and touring to prepare an entirely new act, to be debuted sometime in April . . . .
Local favorites Sunday Funnies will have their first album out for Rare Earth Records. Andrew Oldham, discoverer and early producer of the Rolling Stones, produced the album. The album was recorded in the Motown studios in Detroit.
. . . Jam Band, led by pianist Mike Quatro, took to the stage at the Roostertail as part of the Pop Cycles series put on to help bring young people closer to classical music . . . . Janus’ Teegarden & Van Winkle are working in their home studios for an early April single release. A second Janus album will follow. . . . Savage Grace will come home to Detroit after living in Los Angeles for six months will they worked on their second album with Reprise. A May tour is planned for the group through DMA, to coincide with the release of the album . . . .
Windsor’s CKLW are currently into their concert promotion field. Their first venture, with Three Dog Night, sold out within five days of tickets going on sale. It took place at the University of Detroit. The next CKLW announcement is expected to be a Steppenwolf – Alice Cooper show for Detroit’s Olympia April 17. . . . The Supremes are playing a rare local engagement at Windsor’s Elmwood Casino. END
(Information and news source: Billboard; March 20, 1971).
