| Author | Message | ||
| Diana Bonner |
Would be interested in reminiscing with others about some of the cool bands who played the corridor. I'll throw a few names out:Retro, the John Brio show, Rockabilly Cats, Sleep, Destroy All Monsters,L-7, Godbullies, our bands, Fresh Hell and Blame Mother,the Ghost Band, Cathouse, the Stooges...jar my memory;I know there were many others...Spanking Bozo,Vertical Pillows, Detroit Cobras(I just talked to Maribel-what a cool chick!) | ||
| Stephen Goodfellow (Admin)
Username: Admin Registered: 6-2003 |
Hi Diane, Bill Hodgson, Tom Karsiotis and David Opatik at Alvins - 1981 Cats Cindy Laverty Blame Mother Cathouse Destroy All Monsters Fresh Hell Griot Galaxy Godbullies The Ghost Band The John Brio Show L-7 The Layabouts 1981 - The Luddites The MonsterSlayers Retro Rockabilly Cats Shadowfax Sleep The Stooges If you - or anyone else has pictures, links, info or dare I wish - MP3 files, please let me have them! | ||
| gkerby
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Can't forget Ted Lucas and The Horny Toads, Savage Grace (not really Corridor, but they played all the anti-war rallies at The Mall), Alice Cooper (rehearsed at the 1st UU before they were famous), Joni & Chuck Mitchell (at The Alcove), Bobby McDonald Trio, Prismatic Band (formerly Old Buck), Skip VanWinkle (regular at The New Miami), and 3 bands with which I played: The Lords, Okefenokee Swamp Band, The Inside Outside Band. I have lots of Lords photos as well as some Okefenokee MP3s on my website ... feel free to Hyper-Link to them. | ||
| Stephen Goodfellow (Admin)
Username: Admin Registered: 6-2003 |
It amazes me just how many bands there were! Thanks for the heads-up, gkerby. I have added them on the site. I will also link the MP3 files as well - once again, Thanks! | ||
| Stephen Goodfellow (Admin)
Username: Admin Registered: 6-2003 |
Oh, yes - forgot the updated list: Any more? Artists & Bands Alice Cooper Bill Hodgson, Tom Karsiotis and David Opatik at Alvins - 1981 Cats Cindy Laverty Blame Mother Bobby McDonald Trio Cathouse Destroy All Monsters Fresh Hell Griot Galaxy Godbullies The Ghost Band The Inside Outside Band The John Brio Show L-7 The Layabouts The Lords The Luddites Joni & Chuck Mitchell The MonsterSlayers Okefenokee Swamp Band Prismatic Band Retro Rockabilly Cats Savage Grace Shadowfax Skip VanWinkle Sleep Ted Lucas and The Horny Toads The Stooges | ||
| Kris Peterson |
Careless Love Lyman Woodard Organization Frank Isola Trio Stratanova What the heck happened to The Rockabilly Cats? I was thinking about them the other day. Kris | ||
| Kris Peterson |
....and Dennis Pruss....Hi Dennis....I just asked Suzy Wahl about him today. I still have "Dick Head" on my wall. Dennis is one of my favorite artists....next to Stephen and Lowell of course. When is that Bluegrass band going to play again, Dennis? Kris | ||
| Stephen Goodfellow (Admin)
Username: Admin Registered: 6-2003 |
Kris - I'll give you just ten minutes to stop that :-) | ||
| G.Kerby |
Kris, I referenced Dennis indirectly as he was the founder of The Lords and "that bluegrass band" The Okefenokee Swamp Band. | ||
| G.Kerby
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Another Corridor standout that I somehow overlooked on my list is Conrad Carlock. I ran into him a few months back, and he gave me a CD of some of his live performances from "back in the day". It was AWESOME. He was light years ahead of what many of us were trying to do back in the 70s and 80s. | ||
| Tom Karsiotis
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Michael Knight & Darlin' played the Song Shop for a spell Mick Vranich & Plankton at Alvin's. Billy C and His Killer Blues Band (1st Unitarian Church). I can be heard occasionally at The Music Suite in Toledo with the Eric Brazier Trio most Thursdays. It's mostly Jazz and a little bit of Blues. David Opatik has moved up north. | ||
| Dick Ceyzyk |
I still remember Sixto Rodriguez...used to play frequently at the Decanter. Was very Dylanesque, liked to turn his back on the audience, was usually well toasted, had big problems in that area. I was working at Detroit General Hospital next to Greektown as a an emergency dept. psych social worker and we would often talk about his various problems. He had a woman manager with whom I think he lived or had some sort of domestic arrangement. Oh yeah, and he never used his first name, just went by Rodriguez. My friends and I loved his stuff. He did put out one LP. I still have a copy and it still sounds good today. Anybody else remember him? This would have been during the sixties... | ||
| G.Kerby
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Rodriguez has been mentioned in a few threads here. I used to see him around well into the 90s, but I haven't lately. But then I don't spend much time in The Corridor these days, either. | ||
| G.Kerby
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Going into the Wayback machine, does anyone remember when Debbie Duncan or Pam Smith performed around The Corridor? Both sang frequently at the original Circa. Both had a gospel background, but Debbie got into jazz and blues too. She worked for MANY yrs in L.A. doing sessions, clubs, concerts. She's based in Minnesota now and sounds better than ever. (She has some clips on Youtube) Last I heard, Pam stuck with the traditional gospel and had moved to NYC. I hear that she does session work too. And does anyone remember a gal blues-harp player --- I think she called herself "Clear Light" ?? | ||
| Stephen Goodfellow (Admin)
Username: Admin Registered: 6-2003 |
Wow! Some in-depth knowledge there! Thanks everyone, I have added these names to the list of musicians of the Corridor (Click "Music" on the front of the site.) The next step would be to start fleshing out each artist and/or band, getting as mush content as possible. A long assignment, but we have time and I am confident this aspect of the site will get fleshed out. Please send any info, pics and MP3 files that can be gleaned. Permissions to use would also be nice. | ||
| Kris Peterson |
Excuse me for being a burn-out. Let's put a new band together and play Alvins. Kris | ||
| Kris Peterson
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Well, that ended that. Here we are again. Nice pictures, Dennis Pruss. I still haven't communicated with you. What a multi-talent and all around regular guy you are, Dennis. I'm not hitting on you....just thinking about you. The weather has been so awful. I've had bronchitis since November. How is Suzy Wahl? She's mad at me about something and won't return my calls. Like, I can afford to lose friends at my age. Oh, by the way, I will be 64 in August. No, somebody else is. It can't be me. It's somebody else's mother or something. My God. We're almost 80. Kris Peterson | ||
| Stephen Goodfellow (Admin)
Username: Admin Registered: 6-2003 |
Corridor Artists & Bands 1.01 beta Updated - Alice Cooper Bill Hodgson, Tom Karsiotis and David Opatik Billy C and His Killer Blues Band at Alvins - 1981 Cats Cindy Laverty Blame Mother Bobby McDonald Trio Careless Love Cathouse Conrad Carlock Debbie Duncan Destroy All Monsters Frank Isola Trio Fresh Hell Griot Galaxy Godbullies The Ghost Band The Inside Outside Band The John Brio Show L-7 The Layabouts The Lords The Luddites Michael Knight & Darlin Joni & Chuck Mitchell The MonsterSlayers Okefenokee Swamp Band Pam Smith Prismatic Band Retro Rockabilly Cats Savage Grace Shadowfax Sixto Rodriguez Skip VanWinkle Sleep Stratanova Ted Lucas and The Horny Toads The Stooges Lyman Woodard Organization Please list, if there are more... | ||
| Bob L |
How about David and Rosalin? They go way back. Think they live in New Orleans now. Please correct my spelling, if needed. | ||
| Bob |
Just checked...it's David and Rosalyn. They played and lived in the Corridor in the late sixties/early seventies. Performed for years at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and on the streets of New Orleans. | ||
| corridornotmidtown |
if we are allowed to add new bands tyvek darkred human eye velveteen rabbit the detroit cobras the demolition dollrods blair audra kulbat i could add more if you like i am sure there are links for all these bands at myspace.  so glad i found this site, its nice to read about the history of our neighborhood i have been here almost 15 years | ||
| Stephen Goodfellow (Admin)
Username: Admin Registered: 6-2003 |
Thanks! I Have updated the "Bands of the Corridor" on the main site with your info, and have recently added a slew of "The Lords" pictures, sent by Dennis Pruss | ||
| susan watkins
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Thank you for the pictures, fantastic. I couldn't resist putting that great photo of Mike Knight with Jimmy Dean in the background, on my computer desktop. I had the HUGEST crush on him, and the shot is perfect. It would be nice to return for a day... | ||
| Bob Fleck
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Bill Webster, Bob Fleck, Jane Allison Fleck as the New American Swinette Orchestra played Alvin's once or twice in 1980, then did a "Brunch with Bach" at the Art Institute in June of '81 the day before Bob & Jane moved to LA, never to return. Bill's then-fiance, Cecelia Hrodko (sp?) was at the DIA gig on piano, harp and dulcimer. Bill's harps, dulcimers and occasional banjo necks are still among the world's finest, check websterstrings on the 'web. I think that Bill, Jane and I also did an appearance or two at a bar that Robin Sommers (sp?) was managing around that time. Going way back, I played violin with the Spike Drivers in concert at DeRoy in the fall of '66, Dave Levine played cello and Irving Kirsch (sp?) played flute. Was one of their better concerts. After a long layoff from fiddle from that concert until spring, 1970 when Hostetter ragged on me to start fiddling again, I didn't play. I've run across Joe Fineman out here a few times in the course of the picture biz, he sez he doesn't pick mandolin any more. Every time I pass by the Lenny Somberg clinic, I grieve. I had hired him as a music reviewer in the fall of '67 when Art Johnston tapped me as entertainment editor of the newly minted "South End." He was a good writer, not to mention a member of the seminal Detroit folk rock band, "The Southbound Freeway." | ||
| gkerby
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Stephen, if you don't mind correcting it on The Lords photo at the 1st UU, my name is spelled George Kerby, not Kirby. Also, did you get the photos with Mike Knight, Bobby McDonald, Frank Isola, and me at The Song Shop? I emailed them to you some time last week. | ||
| Stephen Goodfellow (Admin)
Username: Admin Registered: 6-2003 |
Hi George, I've corrected your name on the front page - sorry, I copied and pasted directly from Dennis' email and the mistake eluded me. I have added the additional band you mentioned on the "Sounds of the Cass Corridor" page. For some reason, I did not get your email with the pictures. Would you be so kind as to send them again to this address? zapped_REMOVE_THIS_pyramid@gmail.com | ||
| Joe Dabbs
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I played with David (of David and Rosalynn) for awhile at Alvin's Finer Delicatessen in '73 or so. Dave and Ro did move to New Orleans way back when. I believe they still own a house up behind the Fisher Building. We played all over Detroit from '69 to about '74. Dave and Ro won the kissing contest (to promote the new group "Kiss")which, I believe, was held locally or in Chicago. We also did a few gigs at the Open City coffeehouse at the Unitarian Church along about '69 or '70 when it operated under that name. I used to have a gig at Russel's Steak House at Michigan and Cass. There's a People Mover column right where I used to sit. I'm in Virginia Beach, now. I'm lucky to play with my wife, Laurie, and a cool couple from Memphis, Jack and Amy Adcock. They were very active in the Memphis Blues scene and have backed bands at Chicago Blues festival. He on percussion, she on bass. I told them to be on the watch for David and Rosalynn when they visited New Orleans. Sure enough, they ran into them and gave regards to all. I do remember playing with a young musician/artist named Stephen Goodfellow before his fame with the Layabouts (Hi, Stephen!). That gig we played in Wyandotte was supposed to have included Bill Hodgson, but he was a bit shy about playing accoustically at the time - he was used to the electric thing with drums and all. We'd sit in my studio and he just loved my old '58 Martin 00-17. Remember, Keith Aoki played with us along with Joe Lucido. Great artists and musicians, all! Those were good times. | ||
| Stephen Goodfellow (Admin)
Username: Admin Registered: 6-2003 |
Hi Joe, I sure do remember that gig! I was so impressed by your fortitude. Despite a group of nasty hecklers, you played through like a trooper, and that was a good lesson for a young musician. I so enjoyed your comradeship. Great to hear from you. | ||
| mclarren
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greetings & thanks, i am looking to contact conrad carlock for the upcoming gustafson reading. any hints? thanks again. | ||
| G.Kerby
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I know Dennis Pruss stays in touch with Conrad. I'll forward your request to him in case he isn't lurking. | ||
| Conrad Carlock
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I hope I'm not too late for the Gustafson reading, I would love to participate. My e-mail is <conradcarlock@comcast.net>my computer has been down for the last couple of months and I just now got back on, I would like the thank G.Kerby for his kind remarks. The Southbound Freeway featuring the Sondberg bros. and Mark Chover, Ted Lucas's first group was the 'Spikedrivers'. I was on the bill with Chuck & Joni at the Alcove. | ||
| G.Kerby
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Great to see you here Conrad! | ||
| Stephen Goodfellow (Admin)
Username: Admin Registered: 6-2003 |
Thanks Conrad, I have added your information on the "Sounds of the Cass Corridor" page. | ||
| KAT-Robert Katkowsky
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I haven't any bands to add ....just some memories. Ralph Korsiarski and Mary Roberts Inside Outside Band payed at my wedding in 1982 at the Roostertail. They were great and Ralph was so nice. Debbie Duncan and I were great friends. She and her pals Demi and Pam and my friend Marie used to go out to Ann Arbor on Sunday afternoons and catch Larry Nozero, Danny Spencer, Ron Brooks and Eddie Russ "The Mixed Bag"(a group Boz turned me onto). Just before Debbie left town she was playing at a club on Livernois called the Black Orchid. I had a crush on Pam Smith....she had one of the finest contralto voices I ever heard and we shared the same birthday. | ||
| G.Kerby
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I had left Inside/Outside by '82 so unfortunately I did not get to play The 'Tail. You knew Demi, Pam and Debbie? We must've crossed paths somewhere. Pam's voice was (and I'm sure still is) amazing !!! | ||
| G. Johnson |
Don't forget Mr. Unique and the Leisure Class (Alvin's, New Miami, Freezer Theater). The band's website is at leisureclass.net | ||
| Mark M. |
One New Year's Eve in the 80's (?) I flipped on the radio to hear Debbie Duncan performing live at some club in Minneapolis...some of the audience had noisemakers which they used - instead of clapping after the songs. "That's right. Blow your horns," Debbie said, chuckling. Hi Kat. Long time. - Mark from the Circa. | ||
| S Glazer
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Also... Gail Baker and Cats Meow Howard Glazer and Bob Goodwin (who still play together) as 2/3 of the jazz trio, New Center | ||
| G.Kerby |
I heard from former Detroiter Terry Perrin, now in SF, that Rodriguez played at Slim's last week. For those not familiar with contemporary S.F., Slim's is a premiere club, south of Market St, that opened when I still lived there in the mid-80s. IIRC, it's owned by Boz Scaggs. | ||
| Suzanne
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Hi George, This isn't about music...you came to a Birthday party or two of mine, years back, and I just want to say "Hello". I thought you were living someplace warm...? | ||
| Stephen Goodfellow (Admin)
Username: Admin Registered: 6-2003 |
Terry Perrin - I remember playing pinball with her at Cobbs Bar, probably around '76. She got overconfident and thought she could beat me, so she put her body up as collateral. Terry lost, but I wuz cheated! :-) Bobby McDonald was playing piano in the background... | ||
| G.Kerby |
Suzanne ... I've been back in Michigan for 20yrs now !!!! Where are you now? | ||
| B V
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Anyone remember The Blanks? Lots of fun Old Miami and the corridor during the 70 - 80s. | ||
| Margo Kempinski
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I remember seeing Herbie Hancock at a place on Selden in the early 70's. Straight Ahead played at Alvin's in the early 90's. | ||
| Kerriann
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If time is money you've made me a weailther woman. | ||
| Abeer
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Hey, you're the goto expert. Thanks for hanigng out here. | ||
| Adi
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Surprising to think of somteihng like that | ||
| Blessing
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Until I found this I toghuht I'd have to spend the day inside. | ||
| Tracen
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Walking in the presence of gitans here. Cool thinking all around! | ||
| Shane
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be a human,, religion comes next huiamnty is best....If we fell down in any other area or city where we born the other guy may b or may not b from our religion will help us...that is INDIA.... no religion....we are brothers...thats it.!!! | ||
| jahra11
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Hi! I just wanted to add Harold McKinney and his various ensembles (trio, quartet, etc.) that played Cobb's Corner in the 1970s. He would be the pianist for the jam sessions. I would sneak in to sing (I was 18; the state legislature hadn't raised the legal drinking age to 21 yet), and I was careful to not drink any alcohol. I had a ball learning jazz standards with Harold, George Davidson, Roy Brooks, Danny Spencer, Marcus Belgrave, saxman George Benson, Donald Walden, Charles Moore, Shams Earl McKinney, Bud Spangler, Rod Hicks, Phil Ranelin -- you know, the cats. Sometime later, after I married Harold McKinney, he played at the Belmont Hotel with all of the above, plus by then Ray McKinney on bass, Wendell Harrison on reeds, and others. What a time that was! | ||
| Sean Mooer
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In the mid to late 90's, this was a favorite place for CYBERTRYBE to play. Back then we were just a two man band. Many of our most popular songs were played on the Old Miami stage for the very first time. Several of the old school Detroit Industrial bands played here... like Skinhorse, The Impaler, N2 Submission and Mental Landscape. A lot of them got their start here. | ||
| Scotty Boman
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I was looking at your list of Cass Corridor Bands and some others came to mind: "Kuru" and "Spanking Bozo." |