When MC5 played the show it was at a venue called Crazy Horse, which was very popular in the 60s and 70s. The Concert Database places its original location at 5845 S. 12th Street in Portage, where the Bullfrogs & Butterflies Christian Learning Center & Preschool is today.
When MC5 played the show it was at a venue called Crazy Horse, which was very popular in the 60s and 70s. The Concert Database places its original location at 5845 S. 12th Street in Portage, where the Bullfrogs & Butterflies Christian Learning Center & Preschool is today.
When MC5 played the show it was at a venue called Crazy Horse, which was very popular in the 60s and 70s. The Concert Database places its original location at 5845 S. 12th Street in Portage, where the Bullfrogs & Butterflies Christian Learning Center & Preschool is today.
ZZ Top’s bassist and vocalist Dusty Hill passed away this week at the age of 72. The band was certainly one of the longest original-member bands in history. Hill died in his sleep at his home in Houston, Texas.
Hill, along with drummer Frank Beard and vocalist and guitarist Billy Gibbons played together since 1970. Their 1973 album “Tres Hombres” with the hit “La Grange” got the band noticed, but they weren’t exactly a household word by the time they visited Battle Creek’s W.K. Kellogg Auditorium.
It was April 24
th, 1974. They played “The Brewery” in Lansing two days before, headed to Battle Creek, and later flew out to Detroit.
John Cougar Mellencamp: R.O.C.K. in Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.A.
John Mellencamp most recently appeared at MIller Auditorium in 2019. It was a night at Wings Stadium in 1985 that he played all the hits fans will never forget.
John Mellencamp s hometown of Seymour, Indiana is only 300 miles south of Kalamazoo. The heartland rocker has always been popular here and has performed many live shows at storied Michigan venues like Pine Knob, Cobo Hall, Joe Louis Arena, the Palace of Auburn Hills and Wings Stadium.
Back in the Johnny Cougar days, he opened for a band I don t even remember called The Rockets at Cobo Hall on New Year s Eve 1979. he would open shows for the Kinks, the Babys, and Heart before headlining. The concert at Wings Stadium in Kalamazoo may have only been his second as the main attraction in Michigan. The Concert Database lists a March 1984 show at the Fox Theatre and then Joe Louis Arena on November 15, 1985, the night after he appeared on the Wings stage.