Can anyone ID this band?

**5939DT** · January-12-21, 10:07 PM

Hi all:

Does anyone recognize this band? Where are they now?

Pictures were taken July or August of 1973 at the McGregor library in Highland Park.

Thanks!

**Bong-Man** · January-13-21, 11:31 AM

You have no idea how much rock trivia questions like this can drive me bat-shit crazy. There's another drum set behind the band, so they could be the warm-up for someone else, and their equipment indicates they were more than a local bar band.

Could it be the 'SWEET' ?

**Scottathew** · January-13-21, 11:39 AM

No idea. But if there is a group that can figure it out, it's this group!

**Dumpling** · January-13-21, 01:00 PM

Actually I will ask my sister who used to bartend
at Doug's Body Shop in Ferndale back in the day
starting around 1976. The entertainers were Ortheia
Barnes and similar acts [[soul or jazz) but she would
be familiar with the rock bands of that time as
well...checking now...

**jmpatrick** · January-14-21, 08:38 AM

Originally Posted by Bong-Man

Could it be the 'SWEET' ?

Absolutely not the Sweet.

**Zacha341** · January-14-21, 09:19 AM

Wow - Doug's Body Shop! That was a blast from the past. I was in high school but I recall hearing about that spot. Whatever became of it?

Originally Posted by Dumpling

Actually I will ask my sister who used to bartend at Doug's Body Shop in Ferndale back in the day
starting around 1976....

**jcole** · January-14-21, 10:18 AM

It was on Woodward and Hazelhurst in Ferndale and now it's just an empty building up for lease. My husband and I used to go there back in the mid 70's. It had old car seats for booths and other car decor. It also had really good food.

Originally Posted by Zacha341

Wow - Doug's Body Shop! That was a blast from the past. I was in high school but I recall hearing about that spot. Whatever became of it?

**Zacha341** · January-14-21, 11:06 AM

Cool. What's there now? I am up and down Woodward all the time in Royal Oak and Ferny.

**ferndalien** · January-14-21, 12:18 PM

As jcole said, after a few runs as different nightclubs, it's been empty for a few years. Available with liquor license if anyone want to bring back Doug's - Ferndale could use a Vinsetta Garage south...

Originally Posted by Zacha341

Cool. What's there now? I am up and down Woodward all the time in Royal Oak and Ferny.

**13606Cedargrove** · January-14-21, 02:23 PM

Originally Posted by jmpatrick

Absolutely not the Sweet.

Led Zeppelin

**Zacha341** · January-14-21, 02:57 PM

^ Wow! Did they play Kashmir? [[My favorite)

**13606Cedargrove** · January-14-21, 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by Zacha341

^ Wow! Did they play Kashmir? [[My favorite)

No, Kashmir was written in the Fall of '73.

**EastsideAl** · January-15-21, 01:22 AM

Perhaps it's this event?

From Free Press, Fri. Aug. 3, 1973.

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**Pam** · January-15-21, 09:47 AM

Led Zep-funny. Not them either. They were headlining arenas at the time.

**Kathleen** · January-15-21, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by EastsideAl

Perhaps it's this event?

From Free Press, Fri. Aug. 3, 1973.

Maybe Lowell knows! I believe he was living in Highland Park at this time.

**garyalex** · January-15-21, 02:08 PM

Could be the Prismatic Band. I saw them in Palmer Park in the seventies and have what I think is their only album.

**MikeM** · January-15-21, 03:34 PM

Post those photos over on the Garwood Mansion thread. Seems like the right group and the right generation to possibly identify them.

**Zacha341** · January-15-21, 03:45 PM

^ Good point!! Someone of the Garfield crowd will know I'm sure!

**jcole** · January-15-21, 03:53 PM

It looks like "The Licking Sticks" and "The Dogs" were fairly popular that year; they played the Grande
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**Henry Whalley** · January-15-21, 06:13 PM

It’s definitely not the Shittons.

**5939DT** · January-15-21, 09:25 PM

Originally Posted by EastsideAl

Perhaps it's this event?

From Free Press, Fri. Aug. 3, 1973.

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Yeah, that would be it. I didn't attend, had to work and a guy I was staying with took my camera there and snapped these off. I just wondered if these guys ever became famous. Drummer sure has a "wtf you lookin' at?" look in the second pic.

There used to be a website that had a history of most of the local Detroit area bands, even the obscure ones like Wilson Mower Pursuit. It had something like "s_m_geer" in the URL but I couldn't find anything like it currently.

**EastsideAl** · January-16-21, 09:51 PM

The Dogs appear to have had a long, winding life in the succeeding years and, believe it or not, are still around.

They have a Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/motorcityfever/

They rated a posting of their history in this blog [[complete with a flyer from a show in California that shows them as the middle act between opener Van Halen and headliner the Ramones):
http://fastfilm1.blogspot.com/2016/0...rom-1960s.html

And have been important enough for somebody to write them a Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dogs_[[US_punk_band)

**jiminnm** · January-17-21, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by 5939DT

There used to be a website that had a history of most of the local Detroit area bands, even the obscure ones like Wilson Mower Pursuit. It had something like "s_m_geer" in the URL but I couldn't find anything like it currently.

I knew that site but it's been gone awhile. You might check here:
http://www.motorcitymusicarchives.com/