BANDS

Here’s a list of West Michigan bands, both past and present. Locate one that you are interested in, click on it, and we’ll take you to pages that include biographies, memorabilia and photos for each specified band.

• 13TH Hour – Grand Rapids
• 1776
• 4th Re-Incarnation
• 5^th Avenue Caste
• 9^th Street Market
• Aardvarks – Muskegon
• Aerosmythe – Grand Rapids
• Aisle 8 – St. Ignace
• Albert Smith Group – Grand Rapids
• All Night Tennis Shoe – Kalamazoo
• Amaryllis – Muskegon
• Amboy Dukes
• Apocolypse
• Ashes to Wind – Grand Rapids
• Assortment – Lansing Band
• Azz Izz
• B Brothers – Westgate Bowl
• Back Alley – Lansing
• Bacon Fat – Grand Rapids
• Bad Manor – Grand Rapids
• Balloon Farm
• Band X – Manistee
• Barons – Grand Rapids
• Basic English – Grand Rapids
• Beaux Jens – Grand Ledge
• Bel-Aires – Grand Rapids
• Bennie Carew – Grand Rapids
• Bergsma Brothers Band – Holland
• Beveridge Brothers
• Beyond
• Bimini Brothers – Grand Rapids
• Bits and Pieces – Grand Rapids
• Black Watch – Cedar Springs
• Blokes – Muskegon
• Blue Highway Band
• Blue Max
• Blues Invention – Grand Rapids
• Bob and the Bandits – Grand Rapids
• Bob and The Rockbillies – Grand Rapids
• Bobby Bond and the Bandits – Grand Rapids
• Bobby Charles Quartet – Grand Rapids
• Bossmen
• Bo White and the Bluezers – Grand Rapids, Manistee
• Boyfriends – Grand Rapids
• Brad – Grand Rapids
• Bruce Early Trio – Grand Rapids
• Bruce Early’s Big Band – Grand Rapids
• Caffeine
• Cain
• Carl Webb Band – Muskegon
• Cathy and the Crescents – Grand Rapids
• Chance Encounter – Grand Rapids
• Chancellors – Lansing
• Chentelles – Fennville
• Chaos Incorporated
• Checkmates – Grand Rapids
• Cherry Slush – Saginaw
• Chevrons V – Grand Rapids
• Choosen Ones – Grand Rapids
• Citations – Grand Rapids
• Common People – Grand Rapids
• Corner Store – South Haven
• Country Roads – Kalamazoo
• Cover Story –
• Creations and Soul Mates – Grand Rapids
• Cruel Moon – Grand Rapids
• Cupid and Invaders
• Cynics – Grand Rapids
• D-6 – Grand Rapids
• Danny Hernandez & the Ones – Lansing
• Dave and the Shadows – Grand Rapids
• Days Light – Grand Rapids
• Daze End – Grand Rapids
• Deacons – Kalamazoo
• Dead End Kids
• Debarge
• Debarges
• Deborah Kay and the Bluebloods –
• December’s Children – South Haven
• Decisions – Kalamazoo
• Defenders – Grand Rapids
• Desire ?
• Dewsouth – Kalamazoo
• Dick Root Band – Kalamazoo
• Dirk Rivers – Grand Rapids
• Dog Breath – Grand Rapids
• Don Dougherty Show
• Don Henke and the Echomen – Grand Rapids
• Doug Cook Band – Grand Rapids
• Driven – Grand Rapids
• Dusty Chaps and the City Slickers – Grand Rapids
• Dunn Deal – Grand Rapids
• Eastones – Grand Rapids
• Electrik Toyz – Grand Rapids
• Eveready and the Batterys – Grand Rapids
• Everyday Things – Grand Rapids
• Extra Stout – Celtic
• Extravagramza (Denny Gramza Trio)
• Familiar Feelings Band – Grand Rapids
• Fast Eddie – Grand Rapids
• Fatt Lapp Blues Band – Grand Rapids
• Fendermen – Manistee
• Fire Department – Grand Rapids
• First Row Live – Grand Rapids
• Five Emprees – Benton Harbor
• Flat River Big Band
• Flight 505
• Flintstones – Grand Rapids
• Fluid Ounce – Grand Rapids
• Flyin’ Home – Grand Rapids
• Foolish Plezyer – Grand Rapids
• Fred Knight and the Chessmen – Grand Rapids
• Freeflow – Grand Rapids
• Force of Habit
• Four U & Him – Grand Rapids
• Foxfire – Grand Rapids
• Frank Eimer Band – Grand Rapids
• Fred Walker Band – Grand Rapids
• Fredric – Grand Rapids
• Frightened Trees – Lansing
• Frost
• Fugitives – Grand Rapids
• Fuller Cass Band
• Fyrebirds – St. Joseph
• Galaxies – Holland
• Galligan Brothers Band
• Gold Rush – Grand Rapids
• Gospel Believers
• Grand Rapids Federation of Musicians
• Grapevine – Manistee
• Great Train Robbery – Grand Rapids
• Groove Therapy – Grand Rapids
• Guildsmen – Grand Rapids
• Gungor
• Gunslinger
• Gypsy
• Harry Lucas and the Lowdown – Grand Rapids
• Headband – Kalamazoo
• Headhunters – Lowell
• Heavy Soul – Grand Rapids
• Hickory Wind – Grand Rapids
• Hitch Hikers – Kalamazoo
• Hit Men – Grand Rapids
• HMS – Grand Rapids
• Homade – Grand Rapids
• Home – Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids
• Horsefeather – Grand Rapids
• Hotline – Grand Rapids
• Hot Rocks – Grand Rapids
• Hotso – Manistee
• Houghton
• Hula Dogs – Grand Rapids
• Hyde Park – Grand Rapids
• HyRyder – Muskegon
• Iggy and the Stooges
• In the Red – Rock
• Intruders – Grand Rapids
• Invictas with Ruth Ann – Grand Rapids
• Jackey Beavers – Battle Creek
• Jaded 8
• Jades
• Jake the Shake – Grand Rapids
• James Murphy & The Bedrockers
• Jelly Roll Blues Band – Harbor Springs
• Jerry Brown and Beyond – Kalamazoo
• Jerry Steinport Orchestra – Grand Rapids
• Jerry Van Trio – Grand Rapids
• Jive at Five
• John Brown Trio – Grand Rapids
• Johnson Brothers Band – Cadillac
• JP Pan – Grand Rapids
• Junior Walker and the All-Stars – Battle Creek
• Junior Valentine and the All-Stars – Grand Rapids
• Just Jake Band
• JuJus – Grand Rapids
• Ken Kay & the Country Drifters – Grand Rapids
• Ken Rank Band – Benton Harbor – St. Joseph
• Keynotes – Grand Rapids
• Kingtones – Grand Rapids
• Klansmen – Grand Rapids
• Knights – Grand Rapids
• Kwik Fix Band – West Michigan
• Larry Ballard and the All Night Tennis Shoe – Kalamazoo
• Larsen Brothers – Grand Rapids
• Last Train Out – Martin
• Lavender Hill Mob – Lansing Area
• Lawrence Company – Grand Rapids
• Laymen – Grand Rapids
• Legends – Grand Rapids
• Lighthouse
• Lindsay Lou & the Flatbellys
• Little Feat
• Little Kids – Grand Rapids
• Livin The Dream – Grand Rapids
• Lloids of Lon Den – Detroit
• Lloyd Brown Trio – Grand Rapids
• Lucky Star
• Luke Gallaway and the Drifters – Howard City
• Lyn and the Invaders – Grand Rapids
• Mafia – Grand Rapids
• Magi – Indiana
• Mass Hysteria – Grand Rapids
• Masters of Stonehouse – Grand Rapids
• Me and Dem Guys – Jackson, Grand Rapids
• Merrie Motor Company – Olivet
• Metros – Grand Rapids
• Mickey and Ernie –
• Mickey Holiday and the Jaywalkers – Asbury Park, N.J.
• Milkweed – Grand Rapids
• Moonrays – Grand Rapids
• Morning Sun – Grand Rapids
• Murphy Brothers Band – Classic Rock
• Mussies – South Haven
• Mustang
• Mustard Plug – Grand Rapids
• Natchez Trace – Grand Rapids
• Nathan Kalish & the Wildfire
• Night Shift – Grand Rapids
• Noah – Kalamazoo
• North Country – Mainistee
• NRG – Grand Rapids
• ODR / Old Dudes Rock – Grand Rapids/Manistee
• Old Rangers – Grand Rapids
• One Night Stan
• Orange Wedge – Grand Rapids
• OTC
• Our Generation – Portland
• Outcasts – Grand Rapids
• OZZ – Grand Rapids
• Paeons – Marne
• PAPA VEGAS – Grand Rapids
• Pastels
• Pedestrians – Grand Rapids (Think Twice)
• Penetrators – Traverse City
• People’s Choice – Grand Rapids
• Persuasion – Grand Rapids
• Peter and the Prophets – Grand Rapids
• Phlegethon – Grand Rapids
• Plymouth Rock Crowd – Kalamazoo
• Plagues – Lansing
• Plain Brown Wrapper – Grand Rapids
• Poor Boys Pride – Fremont
• Psychotics – Coopersville
• Pyramid
• Quests – Grand Rapids
• Raggs – Grand Rapids
• Rainmakers – Traverse City
• Ramblers – Grand Rapids
• Randissimo – Grand Rapids
• Random Play – Holland
• Ray Hummel III – Grand Rapids
• Ramrods – Grand Rapids
• Red Apple Road Band
• Remembrance
• Renegades – Grand Rapids
• Reptile Band – Grand Rapids
  
• Revells – Grand Rapids
• Reynolds ?
• Rhythm Rockers – Grand Rapids
• River Rogues Jazz Band – Grand Rapids
• Roadrunner
• Rockbillies – Grand Rapids
• Rock Garden – Grand Rapids
• Rock Shop – Holland
• Roger Harcourt Band
• Root Beer Stand Band – Grand Rapids
• Roy Sorenson Group – Grand Rapids
• Ruth and Max Bloomquist Band – Norton Shores
• Ruth Ann and the Invictas – Grand Rapids
• Ruth Ann and the Footsteps – Grand Rapids
• Sands of Time – Lansing Area
• Saharas – Lansing
• Sanger Brothers Band – Holland
• Satan and the Sinners – Grand Rapids
• Schindler Family Consortium – Gaylord
• Sea Cruisers
• Selby Brothers Band – Grand Rapids
• Sessions – Grand Rapids
• Shackleforst – Muskegon
• Shandells – Grand Rapids
• Sh-Boom – Traverse City
• Sheffields – Holland
• Shifters – Traverse City
• Shirey Brothers Band – Holland
• Shirt Tail Relation – Grand Junction, Pullman
• Shondells – Niles
• Silent Bark – Grand Rapids
• Silk on Steel – Grand Rapids
• 6 Pak – Grand Rapids (All Girls Band)
• Small Group Therapy – Grand Rapids
• Smoke – South Haven
• Sneaky Peat – Gaylord
• Songbird – Muskegon
• Sorenson Bros
• Soulbenders – Grand Rapids
• Soundsations – Grand Rapids
• South Haven (MI) Rock Bands
• Spellbound – Grand Rapids
• Squeeze
• Starliters – Grand Rapids
• Stix and Stones – Grand Rapids
• Stolen Horses
• Strangers – Jackie Turner/Curtis?
• Strumble Head
• SUCKERPUSH – Kalamazoo
• Suitcase – Grand Rapids
• Sunrise
• Sunset – Fremont
• Sweet Maya – Kalamazoo
• Sweeter Road – Muskegon
• Tamboo – Grand Rapids – Jazz
• Tetrad – Grand Rapids
• The IV Royals – Grand Rapids
• The All Star Reunion Jam – Photo Album – Westwood at the Crossings
• The Arbors – Greenville/Ann Arbor
• The Assortment – Lansing
• The Balloon Farm – Lansing Area
• The Barons
• The Biggs – Manistee
• The Black Aces of Soul & The Eyes Of Ebony – Grand Rapids
• The Blues Reaction – Greenville
• The Bluzers
• The Bunz
• The Camaros – Battle Creek (All girl group)
• The Capers – w/Ronnie Fray
• The Cedar Creek Band – Grand Rapids
• The Coachmen – Manistee
• The Cones – Grand Rapids
• The Corner Store – South Haven
• The Creations – Muskegon
• The Days Light – Grand Rapids
• The Debutantes – All Girl Band
• The Decisions – Kalamazoo
• The Dogs – Lansing
• The Double Barrel Band – Grand Rapids
• The Epsilons – Grand Rapids
• The Eschelons – Grand Rapids
• The Fabulous Rythem Masters – Morley
• The Fainting Generals – Grand Rapids
• The Fendermen
• The Ferraris – Lansing
• The Finer Things – Benton Harbor
• The Flat Natural Born Good Timin’ Band – Grand Rapids
• The Frightened Trees – Lansing Area
• The Fuzzrites – Grand Rapids
• The Good Lyves – Lansing
• The Good Thing – Reed City
• The Gordon Thayer Band – Grand Rapids
• The Group – Grand Rapids
• The Gize – Grand Rapids
• The Hype – Grand Rapids
• The Inquisition
• The Intruders
• The Judges – Grand Rapids
• The JuJus – Grand Rapids
• The Last Word – Centerline
• The Lazy Blue Tunas – Grand Rapids
• The Lyrics – Allegan?
• The Magic Toy Shop – Grand Rapids
• The Magnatones
• The Masters of Stonehouse
• The Minutemen
• The Missing Lynx – Grand Rapids
• The Moonrays – Grand Rapids
• The Mussies – South Haven
• The Mystic Cycle – Mt. Pleasant
• The New Paris Bakery – Lansing
• The Ones – Lansing Area
• The Outer Vibe – Grand Rapids
• The Patterns – Grand Rapids
• The Plagues – Lansing
• The Quests
• The Rainmakers
• The Rationals
• The Renegades
• The Riots
• The Rocking Revells – Grand Rapids
• The Roy Sorenson Group – Grand Rapids
• The Rude Awakining
• The Saharas – Lansing
• The Sandpipers – Reed City
• The Scavengers – Grand Rapids
• The Seeds of Degeneration – Grand Rapids
• The Shifters – Traverse City
• The Sixth Generation – Niles
• The Sound Gathering – Grand Rapids – Kenny Gordon
• The Tikis – St. Joseph
• The Theatre – Lansing Area
• The Thyme – Portage
• The Tidal Waves – Grand Rapids
• The Trace – Grand Rapids – a spin off from the latest incarnation of Natchez Trace

• The Tremolons – Niles
• The Troyes
• The Turning Point
• The Union Made Band
• The Velvelettes – Kalamazoo
• The Verge – Grand Rapids
• The Weatherhead
• The White Bucks – W.M.S.U. Kalamazoo
• The Wild Woodys – Kalamazoo
• The Willeys – Grand Rapids
• The Woolies – Lansing
• The Yesterpickers – Grand Rapids
• Thirsty Perch Blues Band – Grand Rapids
• Three Bad Jacks
• Three’s a Crowd – Grand Rapids
• TNS Blues Band – Grand Rapids
• Toby Bates Blues Band – Lansing Area
• Tom Carter and the Ramrods – Grand Rapids
• Tommy and the Deuces – Grand Rapids
• Tommy James and the Shondels – Niles
• Tonto & the Renegades – Grand Ledge
• Touchstone
• Tribe – Mt. Pleasant
• Trilogy – Grand Rapids
• Tru-Tones – Grand Rapids
• Two + One – Grand Rapids
• Tyrst – Grand Rapids
• Union Made Band – Muskegon
• Union Street Boogie Band – Grand Rapids
• United Sound – Grand Rapids
• Usual Suspects
• Village Gayte – Muskegon
• Vincent Hayes Project
• Vistor – Grand Rapids
• Vogel Brothers Band – Grand Rapids – Evolved into Dirk Rivers
• Voodoo Chamber – Muskegon
• Warren Peace – Grand Rapids
• Waxies
• Weezil Malone and the King Size Blues Band – Grand Rapids
• West Exit – Allegan
• West Michigan Music Hysterical Society – Grand Rapids, Naubinway
• West Michigan Musicians – Facebook Group
• West River Drive – Comstock Park
• Whirlwind Heat – Grand Rapids
• White Feather – Grand Rapids
• Widows Hatchet
• Wigwam
• Winfield Scott
• Wooden Nickel – Manistee/Grand Rapids
• Wyld  Syde – Grand Rapids
• Xebec – Grand Rapids