Drinking Black Jack, AC Action, Stuck on You, and their many covers of the-then unknown AC/DC was the Friday and Saturday nite soundtrack of my life back in the late 70's. They Rocked the Silverbird, Main Act, JC's Rock Saloon, Token Lounge and others. I was a bouncer at Harpo's and got to know Gunnar, Jimmy, Charlie and Jack. If any Detroit band was gonna 'make it', it shoulda been them. I was lucky enough to get invited to their house on Garfield Rd. On their fireplace mantle, there were sbout 50 empty Jack Daniels bottles they drank on stage. I barely recall stumbling outta that house in the early morning sunlite, praying I make it home ok. Ahh, the good old days! RIP GUN!
My dad's collision shop ea a across the street. He told me stories about the monkey that strut had .it kept getting loose and creating havoc in neighborhood
Wow, I can't count the number of times I've seen the almighty strut. Jack was the lead singer then and Charlie, oh Charlie dressed all in black playing the bass and rocking those stacks!!! I didn't know gunnar passed, RIP gunnar. He was a great drummer. I spent many nights rocking with the old mighty strut, rocking with Jack at the helm.
I must have sen these guys 1,000 times. Me and my friends would go see them wherever they were playing on the weekends. Always a great fun time. I like the version of Strut with Jack the best.
Yes! I remember seeing this video. I recorded it onto a cassette from this video just so I could crank it on my boom box. I was way too young to go to shows back then but I loved this stuff and still do!
My first "real" concert at royal oak music theater back in 84. Plaster was falling from the ceiling. Lots of joints beer. That was how to be 16.5 in 84 baby. Ears ringing rock and roll hair metal forever
Great band great sound great look...R.I.P my man Gunnar knew him briefly back in the day he taught me things when I was younger as a drummer very cool guy and no ego...sad to see him go but he's rockin with the best in the afterlife much respect!!!!...
Love listening to this reminds me of the '80s so I'm at the suds factory in Ypsilanti a bunch of times going to Ross was ahead of his time when it came to drum design he was one of the first people to get sponsored by Ludwig and having the power Tom's and bass drums those bass drums were cannons
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Been looking for this video since TH-cam first came out. What the hell took you so long to post this!!!. Loved these guys in the 80;s I was the 14 y/o 116-pound rocker in the front row at Freedom Hill and so many others back in '84/'85 . Had a recording of this song that I dubed from WRIF way back too. Lost it for about 10 years or so.. My cousin had stole it. Got the song back and hid a copy in a vault. But this video..I haven't seen it since "The Beat" Like it was yesterday.
Sorry it took so long. I had it on a VHS IU had to dub over. Also have Halloween's "What a nice place" somewhere. I was stage manager for a band that used to open for Strut sometime and I thought they should have been bigger then they were. I think it was WLLZ simulcasted a concert by them that I recorded and used to play in my car cruising Gratiot.
@@TheWilyz2003 I'll play. It was 86. I was there. People bitched that it was too loud and I don't think another rock show was there for decades. The stage was set up on the grass and there wasn't any idea one day there'd be an amphitheater.
Holy Sh*t! Check out that totally Badass song Intro! omg! And having Ronnie James Dio introducing you doesn’t hurt either! RIP Gunner Ross and Ronnie James Dio.
What ever happened to Kiki the other roadie. Remember the girl's of the band. Kimmi was Jimmy's long time g-friend but he married Val with those white pants. Gabriel was Jack's girl.
@@prestonmonroe6219 I was there in summer to fall of 83. It was me, mark and Duff. Yeah I remember the girls. I lost dc email. Last I heard he was in California
@@timelias2103 Tim. Look up steel or Steele Construction. That's Charlie. He was married to a girl I'm pretty sure named Pam Steele. I know Gunner got married and lives downriver in Monroe. He was playing in a band called Send More Cop's. Joey Gatoes from I think Mugsy/ weapons. His kid played Zack the guitar player in School of Rock w. Jack Black. And Mark Andrew's from Seduce. It's weird. Because Strut, Seduce and Mugsy not as good as Seduce or strut but a good band. Where great. But I didn't care for Send more Cop's. Probably because Joey from Mugsy wrote the song's. Tim. I too was around the scene back then. Strut was my personal favorite. Even though Mark Andrews is my whole biological brother I dis owned. I met Van Halen at 17 in 78 and took off with them. 4 World tour's then off with Dave Roth. I think it's Costa Mesa Ca. Charlie lives. I see him once in a while at Home Depot.
@@prestonmonroe6219 Ha ha I can't imagine Charlie at Home Depot . I left in September of 83 cuz I had joined the Navy then I heard gunner was with the Blackfoot for a while then terrible Ted but I didn't care for send more cops either but Gunnar will be always be the best drummer to me .It was hard work but I enjoyed working with them, I mean how many people can say they roadied for the almighty strut .I bet working with Van Halen was cool we miss Eddie may he rest in peace brother didn't know that was Gunners Kid was in School of Rock though that's interesting it's always been on my bucket list to play one song on stage with Van Halen on the drums but now that he's gone it wouldn't be the same.Do you remember The Boyz of Noise. Those guys were at every show. Have we ever met ? I was short skinny white dude that didn't look like much. Mark would set up for gunner and I would hang lights and do the drum sound checks since I could play. I got to play one time with Charlie and Jimmy in Niles Michigan. Charlie will tell you about it, he still laughs about it but not why you would think. Man, I wish I talk with you.
@@timelias2103 we definitely had to cross paths. School of Rock was Joey's kid. Not the Gun. My favorite drummer too. Well.you have a friend in me and in California. Joe has Gunners bass drums hanging up in the old Carmens East / September's/ NY NY. 9 1/2 hover.
These guys use to live next door to us in the late 70 s early 80s to funny we were really young and they had a pet monkey who use to sit on the fence while they laid out in the sun
Its amazing how some packs can feel the same rush and just understands each others touch and locate the steez noone else never again in the whole universe will somehow happen to be the identical copy of something so unreal and eternal that there is no possible chance that it can be bought or pumped as a talent or skill. This Stiff Sneaky Brigade Of Tigers Can Have Pray Anytime They Feel Hungry And There Is No Way Anyone Will Ever Make It Alive After The Heavy Machinery Goin Over Them Bones. Fuckin Respect, World is still not ready for that kind of steepnes even in 21.century its still pumping so damn hard that it can be considered criminally unfair advantage in some higher sound knowledge and can motivate the acceleration of adrenaline so fast and tight you wont be able to chase the rhythm of your engine cause it takes your crank to beyond any other possible most gnarliest power 🔩⚙️⛓️⚓️🛠️⚒️even Mr. Satan will piss his pants when these show up alive and scare those poser horns to dust
Any videos of the original line up? Jack singing? I seen Charlie at Home Depot in Costa Mesa California last week. I got a smirk out of him when I let him know how he was such a part of Detroit greatness.. Love the Velino Jimmy. Hope all you guy's are well.
They went to California and tried. Came back and wrote a "power ballad" to fit in I guess. That's how we got "Summertime with you". Atleast thats what I remember and like they say, if you remember the 80's, you weren't there.
Truth be told. Gunner let's just say.. Kept it from his best friend Charlie he was leaving strut to play for Ted Nugent. Fred Bear song is Gunner. It bummed out Charlie. Strut didn't go to Cali. Charlie did and stayed. Charlie also started playing with Maddam x under lesthen Steele. If Strut did go to California back before Charles Hune or Earl go involved I believe they would of made it larger then Ratt, warrent or bands like quiet Riot. Vendetta use to warm up for Strut. When the label came to see strut, they signed Vendetta. Seduce is the band to thank for opening acts. They were the first band to start having a opening band in the bar's. Otherwise Strut use to play 4 set's a night. I'm just wondering is The Veleno Jimmy playing the same number 3 that David from Seduce once owned also. ? I have the full story on that if it is.
I know your comment was from 3 years ago. But it's always fun for me to see people comment when they're completely clueless. This was not a cliche at the time it was ahead of its time. If you weren't alive at the time you just won't get it. And it's a great song.
@@dougbuck123I was seeing bands in the 70s at places like Bookies. You had the good punk pop bands that had energy that makes real rock and roll like the Reruns, Cadillac Kidz and the Romantics to name a few. Then you had wanna be Ratt/Cinderella bands like this that were immediately forgettable and wrote crappy cliche ridden songs. To each his own.
Drinking Black Jack, AC Action, Stuck on You, and their many covers of the-then unknown AC/DC was the Friday and Saturday nite soundtrack of my life back in the late 70's. They Rocked the Silverbird, Main Act, JC's Rock Saloon, Token Lounge and others. I was a bouncer at Harpo's and got to know Gunnar, Jimmy, Charlie and Jack. If any Detroit band was gonna 'make it', it shoulda been them. I was lucky enough to get invited to their house on Garfield Rd. On their fireplace mantle, there were sbout 50 empty Jack Daniels bottles they drank on stage. I barely recall stumbling outta that house in the early morning sunlite, praying I make it home ok. Ahh, the good old days! RIP GUN!
Loved The Black Jack song and have never been able to find a video or audio of it.
Don't forget the Hofbrau Lounge in Westland!
Too funny, my dad owned Garfield collision across the street. My dad said that struts monkey used to get loose all the time
My dad's collision shop ea a across the street. He told me stories about the monkey that strut had .it kept getting loose and creating havoc in neighborhood
I can easily see Steel Panther covering this... They'd be the perfect band to breath new life into this Detroit classic.
Great Band. I seen these guys several times from the mid 80s n up. I was disappointed that these guys didn't get the recognition they deserved.
10,000% Bro! That made me crazy! Why didn’t RCA, Warner Bros, Atlantic or Epic Records pounce all over this? Unbelievable😢!!!
Rest in peace Gunner Ross.
Gunner Ross aka Andy Rosinski!!! I played with that dude way back in 1974! Great showman!
Harpo's on a Saturday night with these guys!
JC's rock saloon on 6 and Gratiot
Back when real Rock & Roll ruled the world.
The god of metal introducing one of the best from Detroit. Wow!
No that would be Seduce
@@AvsFan32 Seduce IS the best.
I wish we had Detroit bands and bars today
Gimme back harpos ft other 80s. Rock and roll brother. But now we have r b s&out em upnrap clubs
@@michaelbolinskey6751 I agree, shit today SUCKS..
RIP Gunner Ross.
Great memories! And introduced by the man himself. Seems like yesterday.....ok maybe day before yesterday.
Wow, I can't count the number of times I've seen the almighty strut. Jack was the lead singer then and Charlie, oh Charlie dressed all in black playing the bass and rocking those stacks!!! I didn't know gunnar passed, RIP gunnar. He was a great drummer. I spent many nights rocking with the old mighty strut, rocking with Jack at the helm.
I must have sen these guys 1,000 times. Me and my friends would go see them wherever they were playing on the weekends. Always a great fun time. I like the version of Strut with Jack the best.
@JK DETROIT had many a great time with the almighty strut playing!!! Yep loved Jack also
God Damn I Love this Song! Detroit Rock City Baby!
I remember seeing AMS at The Ritz in Roseville
A few times....
Omg lol memories
This is my favirite song from 80's90s Detroit Scene. Excellent Band. 😎
Great fuckin song from a great fuckin decade !
I was hooked when I heard this on 101.1 WRIF..They had a KIX sound...catchy.
The three people who disliked this listen to Enya
Great Era to grow up in the City and suburbs. From Studio Lounge,Frankie's on Plymouth Rd to Blondies in The D. Can't for get Harpos
Tried to never miss a Show,Brought Some Metal To Detroit ...Been a Dam While..Rock On🤘🖤🎸🥁🔥
Halloween was another down at harpos
Love this song.
Oh my gosh!! Dio is so young! I didn't even recognize him! My friend had to tell me it was him, I'm sad to say!!!
Yes! I remember seeing this video. I recorded it onto a cassette from this video just so I could crank it on my boom box. I was way too young to go to shows back then but I loved this stuff and still do!
My first "real" concert at royal oak music theater back in 84. Plaster was falling from the ceiling. Lots of joints beer. That was how to be 16.5 in 84 baby. Ears ringing rock and roll hair metal forever
Rest In Peace Gunner Ross
This is exceptional, what a gem. It deffo needs a flash warning in the title though. Some epileptic metal head could get a surprise at midpoint.
Great band great sound great look...R.I.P my man Gunnar knew him briefly back in the day he taught me things when I was younger as a drummer very cool guy and no ego...sad to see him go but he's rockin with the best in the afterlife much respect!!!!...
Love listening to this reminds me of the '80s so I'm at the suds factory in Ypsilanti a bunch of times going to Ross was ahead of his time when it came to drum design he was one of the first people to get sponsored by Ludwig and having the power Tom's and bass drums those bass drums were cannons
Also sponsored by Zjdilian Cymbals, which he destroyed on a regular basis.
I saw them at the Suds Factory too. Great band. Miss them and the bar.
I've been trying to find their music for years, i don't care what format its on
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RIP Gunner...you rocked
Please what happened to guñner? I live out of state and heard anything
@@deborahhewitt6101 Gunner died from covid from what I heard. Don't remember if it was in 2020 or 2021. I think 2021.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Been looking for this video since TH-cam first came out. What the hell took you so long to post this!!!. Loved these guys in the 80;s I was the 14 y/o 116-pound rocker in the front row at Freedom Hill and so many others back in '84/'85 . Had a recording of this song that I dubed from WRIF way back too. Lost it for about 10 years or so.. My cousin had stole it. Got the song back and hid a copy in a vault. But this video..I haven't seen it since "The Beat" Like it was yesterday.
Sorry it took so long. I had it on a VHS IU had to dub over. Also have Halloween's "What a nice place" somewhere. I was stage manager for a band that used to open for Strut sometime and I thought they should have been bigger then they were. I think it was WLLZ simulcasted a concert by them that I recorded and used to play in my car cruising Gratiot.
According to the interweb, freedom hill hosted 0 concerts in 1984/85
@@TheWilyz2003 I'll play. It was 86. I was there. People bitched that it was too loud and I don't think another rock show was there for decades. The stage was set up on the grass and there wasn't any idea one day there'd be an amphitheater.
@@harleydave3866 Well I did Interviews With Strut and they were opening for Seduce at Papillion's or 24K on Telegraph in Detroit..Token.ETC..Rock On
@@TheWilyz2003 they were there then....saw Halloeen, Seduce,Strut and Weapons all during 84/85 at FH.
Great fucking band. I don't know how DC wasn't always the lead singer.
What ever happen to Detroit Rock Bands
The 80s rocked
Holy Sh*t! Check out that totally Badass song Intro! omg! And having Ronnie James Dio introducing you doesn’t hurt either! RIP Gunner Ross and Ronnie James Dio.
I used to roadie for these guys. Sure do miss the good ole days
What ever happened to Kiki the other roadie. Remember the girl's of the band. Kimmi was Jimmy's long time g-friend but he married Val with those white pants. Gabriel was Jack's girl.
@@prestonmonroe6219 I was there in summer to fall of 83. It was me, mark and Duff. Yeah I remember the girls. I lost dc email. Last I heard he was in California
@@timelias2103 Tim. Look up steel or Steele Construction. That's Charlie. He was married to a girl I'm pretty sure named Pam Steele. I know Gunner got married and lives downriver in Monroe. He was playing in a band called Send More Cop's. Joey Gatoes from I think Mugsy/ weapons. His kid played Zack the guitar player in School of Rock w. Jack Black. And Mark Andrew's from Seduce. It's weird. Because Strut, Seduce and Mugsy not as good as Seduce or strut but a good band. Where great. But I didn't care for Send more Cop's. Probably because Joey from Mugsy wrote the song's. Tim. I too was around the scene back then. Strut was my personal favorite. Even though Mark Andrews is my whole biological brother I dis owned. I met Van Halen at 17 in 78 and took off with them. 4 World tour's then off with Dave Roth. I think it's Costa Mesa Ca. Charlie lives. I see him once in a while at Home Depot.
@@prestonmonroe6219 Ha ha I can't imagine Charlie at Home Depot . I left in September of 83 cuz I had joined the Navy then I heard gunner was with the Blackfoot for a while then terrible Ted but I didn't care for send more cops either but Gunnar will be always be the best drummer to me .It was hard work but I enjoyed working with them, I mean how many people can say they roadied for the almighty strut .I bet working with Van Halen was cool we miss Eddie may he rest in peace brother didn't know that was Gunners Kid was in School of Rock though that's interesting it's always been on my bucket list to play one song on stage with Van Halen on the drums but now that he's gone it wouldn't be the same.Do you remember The Boyz of Noise. Those guys were at every show. Have we ever met ? I was short skinny white dude that didn't look like much. Mark would set up for gunner and I would hang lights and do the drum sound checks since I could play. I got to play one time with Charlie and Jimmy in Niles Michigan. Charlie will tell you about it, he still laughs about it but not why you would think. Man, I wish I talk with you.
@@timelias2103 we definitely had to cross paths. School of Rock was Joey's kid. Not the Gun. My favorite drummer too. Well.you have a friend in me and in California. Joe has Gunners bass drums hanging up in the old Carmens East / September's/ NY NY. 9 1/2 hover.
The funny part my uncle did drumming for them in some songs
These guys use to live next door to us in the late 70 s early 80s to funny we were really young and they had a pet monkey who use to sit on the fence while they laid out in the sun
My dad owned Garfield collision across the street. He would tell me stories about the monkey
Great fuckin post !
Master class Hard Rock
Gunner brought the west coast style of Drumming to the east coast . Super Power hitter and Classic Showman !
Its amazing how some packs can feel the same rush and just understands each others touch and locate the steez noone else never again in the whole universe will somehow happen to be the identical copy of something so unreal and eternal that there is no possible chance that it can be bought or pumped as a talent or skill. This Stiff Sneaky Brigade Of Tigers Can Have Pray Anytime They Feel Hungry And There Is No Way Anyone Will Ever Make It Alive After The Heavy Machinery Goin Over Them Bones. Fuckin Respect, World is still not ready for that kind of steepnes even in 21.century its still pumping so damn hard that it can be considered criminally unfair advantage in some higher sound knowledge and can motivate the acceleration of adrenaline so fast and tight you wont be able to chase the rhythm of your engine cause it takes your crank to beyond any other possible most gnarliest power 🔩⚙️⛓️⚓️🛠️⚒️even Mr. Satan will piss his pants when these show up alive and scare those poser horns to dust
We opened for strutt at least a dozen times, get cleaned up and go out and watch them kick ass, Time fly's
Seen these guys at the Ritz in Roseville near Detroit several times. Loved that band. Gunner who played drums went on to play with Ted Nugent.
Another good Detroit band that didn't break out nationally, like THE ROCKETS didn't.
Any videos of the original line up? Jack singing? I seen Charlie at Home Depot in Costa Mesa California last week. I got a smirk out of him when I let him know how he was such a part of Detroit greatness.. Love the Velino Jimmy. Hope all you guy's are well.
This is the only one I have unfortunately. I used to record The Beat when I was out on Gratiot and watch when we got home.
I was wondering about that guitar. Sure don't see many of those. The only other one I've seen is Mark Farners.
Cool
More cowbell!
Token lounge good old days
2:21 need more cow bell.
Wow!! Thanks for posting
Did you get this from the beat?
Dio opening was fucking cool
Used to record thee Beat on vhs when I was out most likely cruising Gratiot.
Strutt
every weekend! wherever they were we were. What happened? why did they not make it big?
They went to California and tried. Came back and wrote a "power ballad" to fit in I guess. That's how we got "Summertime with you". Atleast thats what I remember and like they say, if you remember the 80's, you weren't there.
Truth be told. Gunner let's just say.. Kept it from his best friend Charlie he was leaving strut to play for Ted Nugent. Fred Bear song is Gunner. It bummed out Charlie. Strut didn't go to Cali. Charlie did and stayed. Charlie also started playing with Maddam x under lesthen Steele. If Strut did go to California back before Charles Hune or Earl go involved I believe they would of made it larger then Ratt, warrent or bands like quiet Riot. Vendetta use to warm up for Strut. When the label came to see strut, they signed Vendetta. Seduce is the band to thank for opening acts. They were the first band to start having a opening band in the bar's. Otherwise Strut use to play 4 set's a night. I'm just wondering is The Veleno Jimmy playing the same number 3 that David from Seduce once owned also. ? I have the full story on that if it is.
Interesting. I thought they were a can't miss band. Ya just never know.
They kept playing covers.
🤘🏿
Yeah, but… Seduce was the best Detroit metal band and they’re still gigging to this day!
5/2023
I HAVE THIS 45.!!!
Who’s the narrator…can’t remember…getting old lol
Dio
Every hair metal cliche there is. It's almost like a parody metal band. Pretty awful.
If you got nothing positive to say...STFU.
In 1980, 81,82 when this is probably from the look was still pretty new and no such thing as a cliche. Kind of ground breaking.
I know your comment was from 3 years ago. But it's always fun for me to see people comment when they're completely clueless. This was not a cliche at the time it was ahead of its time. If you weren't alive at the time you just won't get it. And it's a great song.
@@dougbuck123I was seeing bands in the 70s at places like Bookies. You had the good punk pop bands that had energy that makes real rock and roll like the Reruns, Cadillac Kidz and the Romantics to name a few. Then you had wanna be Ratt/Cinderella bands like this that were immediately forgettable and wrote crappy cliche ridden songs. To each his own.
Awesome upload. You done a service preserving this. MOTOR. CITY. ROCK.