Label: Mr. Nobody Records (????), MN 003
Style: Hard Rock, Rock
Country: Bay City, Michigan, U.S.
Time: 43:11
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 287 Mb
Formed in Bay City, Michigan, in the early 1970s, the power trio Mad Dog developed its unique style of hard rock in the basement of a family home and later in a rented warehouse near the banks of the Saginaw River. Although their only vinyl release was an independently released album, the band played its original material regularly at clubs, bars, road houses, high school dances, and festivals for a decade before finally disbanding.
The Charlebois brothers, Joe (1954) and Bob (1957) were born at Mercy Hospital in Bay City, the very same hospital where singing star Madonna was born in 1958. The brothers grew up in the Banks area on the city’s West Side. Although their parents did not play musical instruments, they listened to records of popular singers like Frank Sinatra, so there was always music around the Charlebois house.
The brothers credit their oldest sister Cindy as an early inspiration. She was a folk music fan and exposed them to the artists she liked. Joe recalled that Cindy bought Joe his very first album, “Got Live If You Want It” by the Rolling Stones. She also brought the first musical instrument into the Charlebois home when she used babysitting money to purchase a piano.
Cindy, who was crowned Miss Bay County in 1964, opened the eyes of her brothers in another way when they saw her on stage, getting all that attention and having her photo in the newspaper. It planted a seed in the minds of Joe and Bob, but the idea of forming a band together would be nine years in the future.
Joe Charlebois started his musical career wanting to play the saxophone. His parents sprang for lessons but he didn’t practice and the instrument soon fell by the wayside. Bob had originally wanted to play clarinet, but he recalled that when he went to his first music class at Lindsay School, he was the only student who did not have an instrument. That ended his school music career.
(full version - michiganrockandrolllegends.com/index.php/mrrl-hall-of-fame/349-mad-dog)
01. Goodnight (03:46)
02. Cold Steel (06:02)
03. Detroit Remabler (06:22)
04. Strange (06:11)
05. We'll Try (02:05)
06. Can You See (08:34)
07. Morroco (04:48)
08. Climbing (05:20)
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