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The Plagues
The Plagues were an American garage rock band from Lansing, Michigan who were active in the 1960s (not to be confused with other bands of the period named "the Plagues"). They were led by bass player, principal songwriter, and vocalist William Malone. The group had a local and regional hit with "I’ve Been Through It Before". Malone left the band in 1966 to join the Frightened Trees, as the remaining members formed a new group out of the ashes of the Plagues, the Plain Brown Wrapper. Malone later became a successful Hollywood movie director, whose 2008 horror thriller '' Parasomnia'' included "I’ve Been Through It Before", as well as other songs by the Plagues and other 1960s garage bands. In the intervening years the Plagues work has attracted a following amongst garage rock enthusiasts and collectors. History The Plagues were founded in 1964 in Lansing, Michigan. Their primary vocalist and songwriter was William Malone. Their original lineup consisted of Malone on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lansing
Lansing () is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is mostly in Ingham County, although portions of the city extend west into Eaton County and north into Clinton County. The 2020 census placed the city's population at 112,644, making it the sixth largest city in Michigan. The population of its metropolitan statistical area ( MSA) was 541,297 at the 2020 census, the third largest in the state after metropolitan Detroit and Grand Rapids. It was named the new state capital of Michigan in 1847, ten years after Michigan became a state. The Lansing metropolitan area, colloquially referred to as "Mid-Michigan", is an important center for educational, cultural, governmental, commercial, and industrial functions. Neighboring East Lansing is home to Michigan State University, a public research university with an enrollment of more than 50,000. The area features two medical schools, one veterinary school, two nursing schools, and two law schools. It is the site of the Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Seger
Robert Clark Seger ( ; born May 6, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and The Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s, breaking through with his first album, ''Ramblin' Gamblin' Man'' (which contained his first national hit of the same name) in 1968. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the 'System' from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album ''Live Bullet'' (1976), recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album '' Night Moves''. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garage Rock Groups From Michigan
A garage is a covered structure built for the purpose of parking, storing, protecting, maintaining, and/or repairing vehicles. Specific applications include: *Garage (residential), a building or part of a building for storing one or more vehicles *Automobile repair shop, also called a garage, where vehicles are serviced and repaired * Bus garage, a building or complex used for storage of buses when not in use *Filling station, an automotive service station where vehicles take on fuel or recharge *Multistorey car park, or parking garage, a building serving as a public parking facility Other meanings of garage may include: Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Garage'' (film), a 2007 film by Lenny Abrahamson * ''The Garage'' (1920 film), a film by Roscoe Arbuckle * ''The Garage'' (1980 film), a film by Eldar Ryazanov Video game * ''Garage'' (video game), a 1999 Japanese horror adventure video game Music Groups and genres * Garage (band), a Czech rock band * Garage house, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teenage Shutdown! You Treated Me Bad!
''Teenage Shutdown! You Treated Me Bad!'' (subtitled ''The Teener Side of the Mid-'60s Garage Explosion'') is a compilation album featuring material by underground garage rock musical artists that recorded in the mid-1960s, and was previously available to only a handful of collectors. It is the second installment of the ''Teenage Shutdown!'' series and was released on Crypt Records on October 6, 1998 (''see'' 1998 in music). The album compiles teen garage groups influenced by surf rock, and is somewhat raw and amateurish in its recordings. In comparison to the rest of the series, ''You Treated Me Bad'' is the most pop and folk rock-oriented as the majority of the featured musical artists attempted to appeal to public taste. Musical highlights include "Hurray for Hazel", by Terry Davidson and the Barracudas, which is an instrumental marked by its jangling freeform. Additionally, the Morticians' "It's Gonna Take a While" makes innovative use of fuzz-toned guitar arrangements, and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scream Loud!!! The Fenton Story
''Scream Loud!!! The Fenton Story'' is a garage rock compilation consisting of songs released by Fenton Records in Grand Rapids, Michigan and the assorted vanity labels that it had pressed and distributed for various regional acts, primarily from western Michigan in the 1960s, and is available on identical LP and CD formats.* *Note: The AllMusic review depicts the title of the compilation as having two exclamation points, rather than the three shown on the album cover, so a decision has been made to use three in the title the article--keeping in mind that the quote presented here uses two--but that is intentional not a mistake. The set focuses on basic upbeat and rocking material, but includes a couple of odd and more eclectic expetions. Fenton's founder was musician and entrepreneur Dave Kalmbach, who intended the label to be a place where un-established groups could have a place to record on either the Fenton label itself or on their own vanity labels, which were usually given s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FeardotCom
''FeardotCom'' is a 2002 horror film directed by William Malone and starring Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone and Stephen Rea. The plot details a New York City detective investigating a series of mysterious deaths connected to a disturbing website. Director Malone's second feature for Warner Bros. after the release of ''House on Haunted Hill'' (1999), ''FeardotCom'' was an international co-production among companies based in the United States, Luxembourg, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The film was shot on location in Luxembourg and Montreal, Canada. ''FeardotCom'' was released in the United States on August 30, 2002. ''FeardotCom'' received overwhelmingly negative reviews. ''FeardotCom'' was also one of 22 films to receive an 'F' rating from audiences polled at CinemaScore. It grossed $18.9 million worldwide against its $40 million budget. Plot Mike Reilly is an NYPD detective who is called to the scene of a mysterious death in the subway system. The victim, Polidori, exhibit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creature (1985 Film)
''Creature'' (also known as ''The Titan Find'' and ''Titan Find'') is a 1985 American science fiction horror film directed by William Malone, starring Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward, Annette McCarthy, Robert Jaffe, Diane Salinger, and Klaus Kinski. It features early special effects work by Robert and Dennis Skotak, who would go on to design the special effects for '' Aliens''. Plot Two geological researchers for the American multinational corporation NTI find an ancient alien laboratory on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. In the lab is an egg-like container which is keeping an alien creature alive. The creature emerges and kills the researchers. Two months later, the geologists' spaceship crashes into the space station Concorde in orbit around Earth's Moon, its pilot having died in his seat. NTI dispatches a new ship, the ''Shenandoah'', to Titan. Its crew, consisting of Captain Mike Davison, Susan Delambre, Jon Fennel, Dr. Wendy H. Oliver, David Perkins and Beth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scared To Death (1981 Film)
''Scared to Death'' (also known as ''The Aberdeen Experiment'' and ''Scared to Death: Syngenor'') is a 1980 American science fiction horror film directed by William Malone and starring John Stinson. Plot A monster stalks Los Angeles as a bio-engineered creature called a Syngenor (which stands for SYNthesized GENetic ORganism) and takes refuge in the city's sewer system, going into the streets at night in search of human spinal fluid. The only person who stands in the way of the creature's unstoppable killing spree is Ted Londergan, a former detective turned private investigator. When he is offered a job to look at the case by his former partner, several people on the police force doubt he can help solve it, as he is regarded by many to be a hotshot with a loose temper. As time goes by and the body count begins to mount, Londergan is eventually brought in on the case. Both the police and the public become astonished by the fact that whoever is committing the murders possesses str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House On Haunted Hill (1999 Film)
''House on Haunted Hill'' is a 1999 American supernatural horror film directed by William Malone and starring Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter, Bridgette Wilson, Peter Gallagher, and Chris Kattan. The plot follows a group of strangers who are invited to a party at an abandoned insane asylum, where they are offered $1 million each by an amusement park mogul if they are able to survive the night. Produced by Robert Zemeckis and Joel Silver, it is a remake of the 1959 film of the same title directed by William Castle, and features special effects by famed make-up artists Gregory Nicotero and Dick Smith. ''House on Haunted Hill'' marked the producing debut of Dark Castle Entertainment, a production company that went on to produce numerous other horror films, including additional remakes. ''House on Haunted Hill'' premiered on Halloween weekend in 1999. In the tradition of William Castle's theater gimmicks, Warner Bros. Pictures supplied promotional scratch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rascals
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michigan
Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the largest by area east of the Mississippi River.''i.e.'', including water that is part of state territory. Georgia is the largest state by land area alone east of the Mississippi and Michigan the second-largest. Its capital is Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit. Metro Detroit is among the nation's most populous and largest metropolitan economies. Its name derives from a gallicized variant of the original Ojibwe word (), meaning "large water" or "large lake". Michigan consists of two peninsulas. The Lower Peninsula resembles the shape of a mitten, and comprises a majority of the state's land area. The Upper Peninsula (often called "the U.P.") is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac, a channel that joins Lak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Malone (director)
William Malone (born 1947) is an American horror filmmaker who directed several movies such as the 1999 remake ''House on Haunted Hill'', '' Scared to Death'', '' Creature'', and ''FeardotCom''. After a brief career in makeup and costumes, he attended UCLA film school and moved on as a director thereafter. History Malone was born in 1947 in Lansing, Michigan where, during high school, he played in a Beatles-inspired garage band called The Plagues. The band released several 45 rpm singles on their own label Quarantined Records and on Fenton Records, an independent record label (affiliated with now defunct Great Lakes Studios, in Sparta, MI). Malone moved to California at age 19 to pursue a career in music. However, after a friend's encouragement, Malone found himself getting involved in film and working a job at Don Post Studios, doing makeup and costume work. After attending UCLA film school, Malone soon thereafter directed his first film, '' Scared to Death''. After which he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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