The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, in the spring of 1967. Loud music in a small room.
That spring I also saw Buddy Guy, Big Mama Thornton, and the Lovin' Spoonful with Judy Collins opening.
@rockadanny @sns I too was in Detroit in the late 60s and saw all the locals. We had an impressive scene! An early fave of mine was The Frost. The Grande hosted a lot of local bands in its first year or two: the Psychedelic Stooges, the 5, the Frut, Jagged Edge, Up, etc. My first non-local band concert was either Tim Buckley or the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at the Grande, sometime in ‘67, maybe ‘68. I don’t rightly remember anymore. Time blurs and the belly sags! |
I actually lived in Ann Arbor, we used to take the City bus which came right through our neighborhood to UM campus. We were like 12 when we first started this so I was pretty young during 'summer of love'. So many legendary bands based in A2 and the entire SE Mi area during that time, what a time and place to have one's consciousness raised, I'd never trade if for anything! |