Rip Michael...you'll never be forgotten and your music will always live on...thanks for putting Cleveland on the map in 1983 with Dick Clark on American Bandstand 🙂🎶🎤📺
I would find it hard to believe that anyone who played MSB's Heartland album wouldn't like it. Great music and song writing. This band just wrote great songs! People from Ohio especially relate to their lyrics....we understand "like a cold Ohio night, the turnpike's slick, the snow's as thick as deep".
Michael I drove many a mile listening to you... Especially the song Lover. My favorite line in the song was " thank God for the man who paints the White Lines on the Highway" rest in peace 😇. YOU were definitely Part of my life growing up on the west side of Cleveland. You will be missed Greatly my friend...
Thank you, Michael Stanley, for all the joy you brought to our lives. I can’t imagine growing up without your music and you will be forever missed by your legion of fans. Thank you for all you gave us and our city. RIH.
His music will always be enjoyed!!! I remember seeing Michael during my layover in Atlanta - I was going back home from South Florida to Cleveland - he was on my plane! Nobody there knew who he was, but I certainly did! Cleveland Rocks!!!
RIP Michael.... hoping Clarence welcomes you to the big band in the sky with his sax, you made us all so very proud!! Thank you for the decades of uplifting music when I needed it most...
The sax player is a band member in the Michael Stanley band named Rick Bell not Clarence Clemons let's not create mythology that a black person created everything and that everything started and ended with a black person
Honestly I’ve never heard of this band in my 56 years of compiling my brain with an immense amount of artists and songs and I sincerely apologize to Michael Stanley for never listening to his music while he was on this earth. After hearing of a this musicians passing today I want to say God bless and Rest In Peace Michael. Heaven has another excellent musician in its lineup! “ And the rosewood bitters help me meet the sunshine in the morning and the rosewood bitters help me through the night when I feel blue. “
wow, really, not even, "he can't love you"? or "this town?".... sad, that he is gone, the pride of Cleveland, Oh #RockOnForeverMichaelStanleyGee #ClevelandLovesYou
Im just a girl from Akron always for 45 plus years number one band RIP Micheal thanks for the love all these years now in LA don't miss those cold Ohio night
I still cry every time I listen to some of your songs and it's not because they're bad it's because we loved you so much. From the time I was 16 I followed you. I am now 67 rest in peace dear Michael🙏🎶♥️🎶♥️♥️☮😅❣
Am I the only one who just listens to MSB tracks that Michael himself sung? I never go back to the songs with the other vocalist, and there's quite a few.
Takes me back to 83 going to valley forge high School in Parma heights, those hot summer nights cruising to Wallace lake and Big Creek parkway listening to Michael Stanley so many good times with his music thanks for the memories Michael Rock on
@@LordEagle The Valley!!!! I haven't heard that in Years! When I was a teenager all we did was party & cruise 'the valley'! Thx u made my day with that comment!
Someone in my apartment building in South Florida was telling me he saw a guitar at Hard Rock in Hollywood, FL signed by Michael Stanley from Cleveland! I told him all about Michael Stanley! - I was excited that he found his guitar there! - sure hope his guitar is still there after they remodeled the place!
I will never understand them never becoming a big national group. Not many groups wrote and performed most of their own music. Ohio knows what the rest of the country missed out on and it's their loss. RIP and your music will live on and we will miss you.
So sad to hear of Michael's passing, especially being born in, and living in, the Youngstown/Cleveland area. The Michael Stanley Band, AKA MSB, was a great 80's iconic band, and gift to music. Michael was a very talented song writer, who stayed true to his roots and fans in this area. Great song lyrics and music. Their album Heartland is one of the best albums I ever bought, every song on it is great! RIP Michael, you will always be loved and remembered, especially here! Thanks for all the music!
RIP, Michael Stanley Gee, and thank you. I can't stop listening to his songs ever since last week. He & MSB meant so much to me. I saw him perform last at his concert New Year's Eve 1999 downtown CLE. It was -- fittingly -- a cold Ohio night.
Grew up in Youngstown, OH. Will never forget May 16, 1981, Youngstown State University Major Events Concert-skipped out on my cousin's wedding to set up the MSB concert and met the band. great concert! Michael Stanley was awesome. I am so happy to have this memory!
When we had nothing forever till the clock struck 1980. A modern day Jesus looking man name Michael Stanley bright new life to Cleveland air waves and being a teenager in the area found life through a poet and new music singing get up and keep going. Yes your alive, but are you living? He lit up are cold Ohio nights for years and in my home this holidays season were going down memory lane. Thank you Michael Stanley and all band members that brought it every night. Such a talented band. Johanna, Kevin, Michael all had amazing and different voices. Light a candle and pray a few seconds for Michael's family.
Rock & Roll capital of the world..The MSB represented Cleveland with honor and with some great songs..deserved so much more recognition than they received nationwide ..i never understood how it was possible they were not known nationally in some areas outside of Cleveland..Hearing the bass player is out of Youngstown Ohio was cool..not far from Cleveland..This is my youth right here and i am 69 yrs old now..MSB was a big part of my years listening to Rock & Roll and to this day it still sounds just as great..MSB sold out shows everywhere they played here and in big arenas..RIP Michael and may your gift of song live forever
I always looked forward to hearing his show on 98.5. As I mowed my lawn. His voice! So deep. So welcoming. I really miss him. And his Goodbye note to his fans showed how Deep his heart was. RIP, Dear Michael Stanley. 😔♥️
MSB was a 70's band. They were big here in NE OHIO in the 70's. We all grew up on MSB. They did, however, achieve their greatest commercial success and a wider notoriety in the 80's.
Amazing band. Good songs. I can see why they didn't become national stars, though. They don't have a front man. Someone with a much bigger ego and voice than Michael Stanley who covers the stage and demands that we look at them. Someone who would be insufferable in real life, but reach their absolute peak utility during the 2 hours a night on stage. Huey Lewis is the only 80s pop star who seems remotely normal and easygoing.
@@matto4580 I know. I am from Erie, Pa. I didn't infer they started in the 80's, but with their greatest success in tbe 80's makes them an 80's band in my eyes.
Checking in from Atl... Originally from Lake County, Mentor Painesville, Perry, Madison, Geneva area!! Michael Stanley Band was the essence of our existence back in those days! Still gets my heart pounding, what great music from a bunch of home town guys!! Love The Cars as well!! Cleveland Rocks!!
@Jethro Tull My older brother had a girlfriend who moved from her pot farm down in Athens, they both went to O.U., up to around there...about 1970-1972...when my brother was in service in the Army...I remember the woody interior..sitting on the floor ..we played Elton John's "Your Song" quite a bit..which was new..so i guess i could decipher the date. & my dad drove us over to Shaker to buy a used 1963 black Mercedes from a doctor...& about 1978 my boyfriend & I bought a 1967 VW Bus with camper top that was frozen up, from around those parts.....He refurbished it & we moved down south in it , after the Winter of 1978-9..We ended up in New Orleans, me for 6 1/2 years...The Bus forever.
this was great- loved these guys- saw them multiple times at Blossom back in the day. I knew about the AB performance, but didn't remember them on Solid Gold- very cool!Well done- good memories.....
If the Midwest had a voice, it would be MS. Thank you for all of those amazing childhood memories, Ohio loves you
Rest in peace Michael, you did your town proud.
2 most criminally underrated Midwest rock bands were Michael Stanley Band and Shooting Star.
Rest in Peace Michael Stanley,You will surely be Missed.
🙏❤
You will be missed. The concert season will never be complete again R.I. P
This town gonna be here long after I'm gone....sigh
🙏❤
i know , so sad...Rest in Peace Eternal, Michael Stanley Gee .....#KeeponRockingOnthatBigClubTourInTheSky #ClevelandLovesYouMichael #MSBForever
Amen to that... Rest in peace Michael Stanley
Rip Michael...you'll never be forgotten and your music will always live on...thanks for putting Cleveland on the map in 1983 with Dick Clark on American Bandstand 🙂🎶🎤📺
Cleveland Rocks. RIP Michael.
I would find it hard to believe that anyone who played MSB's Heartland album wouldn't like it. Great music and song writing. This band just wrote great songs! People from Ohio especially relate to their lyrics....we understand "like a cold Ohio night, the turnpike's slick, the snow's as thick as deep".
Still a great album!!! Moved to Harrisburg 30 yrs ago and when I play Heartland, I get homesick!!!
“As thick as Thieves”
Cleveland lost a gem ... RIP
Michael belonged to us Cleveland and he knew he was loved!!! You will always be remembered!! Rest with the best, Michael!!
Rest in peace Michael!! King of Cleveland.
CLE lost its favorite son last week. Mr. Gee you will be missed RIP Michael. WNCX will never be the same.
Michael I drove many a mile listening to you... Especially the song Lover. My favorite line in the song was " thank God for the man who paints the White Lines on the Highway" rest in peace 😇. YOU were definitely Part of my life growing up on the west side of Cleveland. You will be missed Greatly my friend...
Rest in peace, Michael. Your Town will miss you terribly.
God bless the Michael Stanley Band!!! RIP brother. Great music
I love this band. Part of my teenage memories. Still listen to them to this day. I am so happy I got to see them in concert. R.I.P Michael.
RIP MICHAEL,YOU WILL BE SORELY MISSED,THIS IS YOUR TOWN, THANK GOD FOR THE MAN WHO PUT THE WHITE LINES ON THE HIGHWAY
Thank you, Michael Stanley, for all the joy you brought to our lives. I can’t imagine growing up without your music and you will be forever missed by your legion of fans. Thank you for all you gave us and our city. RIH.
His music will always be enjoyed!!! I remember seeing Michael during my layover in Atlanta - I was going back home from South Florida to Cleveland - he was on my plane! Nobody there knew who he was, but I certainly did! Cleveland Rocks!!!
Wow, very cool!! 💞💞👍💯
Michael Stanley finally gets on a national stage and what's he do? Sings about Cleveland! Legend!
MSB is the soundtrack of my life!!
Hard to believe he's gone watching the music videos from AB 1983
Michael Stanley is Cleveland personified 💯
RIP to a Cleveland LEGEND
RIP Michael.... hoping Clarence welcomes you to the big band in the sky with his sax, you made us all so very proud!! Thank you for the decades of uplifting music when I needed it most...
The sax player is a band member in the Michael Stanley band named Rick Bell not Clarence Clemons let's not create mythology that a black person created everything and that everything started and ended with a black person
Dude get your facts right. Clarence did play with MSB a few times. He said MSB was the best band to never make it big. Get your woke crap outt here.
R.I.P. Micheal you will always be missed
Honestly I’ve never heard of this band in my 56 years of compiling my brain with an immense amount of artists and songs and I sincerely apologize to Michael Stanley for never listening to his music while he was on this earth. After hearing of a this musicians passing today I want to say God bless and Rest In Peace Michael. Heaven has another excellent musician in its lineup! “ And the rosewood bitters help me meet the sunshine in the morning and the rosewood bitters help me through the night when I feel blue. “
wow, really, not even, "he can't love you"? or "this town?".... sad, that he is gone, the pride of Cleveland, Oh #RockOnForeverMichaelStanleyGee #ClevelandLovesYou
Completely forgot about them. Heard them back east but never when moved west coast.
You did our town good.we love you.rock and roll capital of the world.......
Im just a girl from Akron always for 45 plus years number one band RIP Micheal thanks for the love all these years now in LA don't miss those cold Ohio night
RIP man, miss you already.
I still cry every time I listen to some of your songs and it's not because they're bad it's because we loved you so much. From the time I was 16 I followed you. I am now 67 rest in peace dear Michael🙏🎶♥️🎶♥️♥️☮😅❣
Am I the only one who just listens to MSB tracks that Michael himself sung? I never go back to the songs with the other vocalist, and there's quite a few.
Thank you Mike
RIP Michael Stanley 😢
Rip MS! Your music has made all us Buckeyes very proud!
Best voice EVER!!!!!!!!! Love that man!😍
i agree...something about THAT voice...absolutely the best in rock .....and that is the fact...no bias about it...
Rock in peace, MIchael Stanley.
Takes me back to 83 going to valley forge high School in Parma heights, those hot summer nights cruising to Wallace lake and Big Creek parkway listening to Michael Stanley so many good times with his music thanks for the memories Michael Rock on
LOTS of GOOD times in The Valley. I'm a west sider,,,,👍👍👍😎
@@LordEagle The Valley!!!! I haven't heard that in Years! When I was a teenager all we did was party & cruise 'the valley'! Thx u made my day with that comment!
Love u MSB!!
Such a great voice. End of an era.
Someone in my apartment building in South Florida was telling me he saw a guitar at Hard Rock in Hollywood, FL signed by Michael Stanley from Cleveland! I told him all about Michael Stanley! - I was excited that he found his guitar there! - sure hope his guitar is still there after they remodeled the place!
Rest in Peace Eternal, Michael...the pride of Cleveland...
Cleveland is your town Michael. Rest in Peace.
He will be truly missed!
I will never understand them never becoming a big national group. Not many groups wrote and performed most of their own music. Ohio knows what the rest of the country missed out on and it's their loss. RIP and your music will live on and we will miss you.
The steel valley loves you and always will!!!!
So sad to hear of Michael's passing, especially being born in, and living in, the Youngstown/Cleveland area. The Michael Stanley Band, AKA MSB, was a great 80's iconic band, and gift to music. Michael was a very talented song writer, who stayed true to his roots and fans in this area. Great song lyrics and music. Their album Heartland is one of the best albums I ever bought, every song on it is great! RIP Michael, you will always be loved and remembered, especially here! Thanks for all the music!
I remember this so vividly. RIP Michael.
Rest in peace Michael 🙏will love you forever 💔💔💚💚
RIP Michael. MSB made it! They’re on American Bandstand. I wore out, literally, my Cabin Fever 8 track . Couldn’t get enough of “The Late Show!
God, I love this band! LONG LIVE MSB🤘
🙏❤😥
Rest In Peace Michael. We love you and miss you. This will always be your town!
What a life what a guy what a band
Loved this song back then and love it still! Cleveland ROCKS!
His music and legacy will long live in Cleveland, Ohio, forever!
He went to my high school....”Let’s get the show on the road,” my favorite song!
I will miss you on wncx!
Absolutely 💯 No Doubt
RIP, Michael Stanley Gee, and thank you. I can't stop listening to his songs ever since last week. He & MSB meant so much to me. I saw him perform last at his concert New Year's Eve 1999 downtown CLE. It was -- fittingly -- a cold Ohio night.
Love you Michael! Thanks for the memories❤❤❤
RIP Michael Stanley💔We love you!
RIP Michael, your greatness will certainly be missed and I will continue to listen as I have since the 80's
Cleveland will always be your town. R.I.P. Michael.
Binging on Michael Stanley and great Cleveland rock and roll memories tonight. Thanks for sharing this video. He will be missed. ❤️
Bingeing?!
RIP Michael you were loved.
Grew up in Youngstown, OH. Will never forget May 16, 1981, Youngstown State University Major Events Concert-skipped out on my cousin's wedding to set up the MSB concert and met the band. great concert! Michael Stanley was awesome. I am so happy to have this memory!
RIP MS.
Michael Stanley RIP
Awsomeness r I p Mike ✌
This will forever get the Heartland on their feet. Unbelievable that this is not used an anthem in many, many cities from coast to coast.
God Bless You Michael and all of are LOST VETERANS. MAY YOU ALL REST IN PEACE
This Town gunna be here long after i'm gone..And we still remember you and love your music Micheal..RIP Sir
Michael was very big in st.louis rosewood bitters is a all time classic on kshe radio station
Love from Pittsburgh ❤️ RIP Michael and condolences to the family 😿
RIP Cleveland Rocks, bb!
OMG I saw MSB 9 times in and around Cleveland, still my favorite after all these years.
The greatest loss rip Micheal
When we had nothing forever till the clock struck 1980. A modern day Jesus looking man name Michael Stanley bright new life to Cleveland air waves and being a teenager in the area found life through a poet and new music singing get up and keep going. Yes your alive, but are you living? He lit up are cold Ohio nights for years and in my home this holidays season were going down memory lane. Thank you Michael Stanley and all band members that brought it every night. Such a talented band. Johanna, Kevin, Michael all had amazing and different voices. Light a candle and pray a few seconds for Michael's family.
sad day for sure,rip mike!!!!
takes me back to high school god I love this band
This is FANTASTIC!!!!! R I P Michael,,,,😓😓😓👍
Worked with him at 98.5......
Swell Guy...... May He Rest........
Lucky guy! I only got to listen to him.
Grew up in NE Ohio and listened to MSB for years. RIP Michael Stanley.
Rock & Roll capital of the world..The MSB represented Cleveland with honor and with some great songs..deserved so much more recognition than they received nationwide ..i never understood how it was possible they were not known nationally in some areas outside of Cleveland..Hearing the bass player is out of Youngstown Ohio was cool..not far from Cleveland..This is my youth right here and i am 69 yrs old now..MSB was a big part of my years listening to Rock & Roll and to this day it still sounds just as great..MSB sold out shows everywhere they played here and in big arenas..RIP Michael and may your gift of song live forever
🙂👍great song!
Rip.😓
You'll be missed! R.I.P.
I went to college in the early 80's in Ohio. I shortly discovered Michael Stanley was OHIO! RIP Michael.
A true treasure from Cleveland! We will miss you as a DJ on 98.5 WNCX!
I always looked forward to hearing his show on 98.5. As I mowed my lawn. His voice! So deep. So welcoming. I really miss him. And his Goodbye note to his fans showed how Deep his heart was. RIP, Dear Michael Stanley. 😔♥️
I am from a small town in Montana. I had a buddy I met at a college in Glendive Montana. He turned me on to MSB. I still love to listen to them.
proud of MSB and OHIO
saw Michael Stanley play with joe walsh at the Tower City shopping plaza downtown in '93-95 Mr Stanley was polished and professional
Joe was drunk as All F ...
Great 80's band..saw them at Clarion State College! So very underrated on the national scene!
MSB was a 70's band. They were big here in NE OHIO in the 70's. We all grew up on MSB. They did, however, achieve their greatest commercial success and a wider notoriety in the 80's.
Matt O You mean "fame" or "popularity," not "notoriety." Notoriety means fame for something bad--not the case here, of course!
MSB is a little generic but I’ve heard worse bands.
Amazing band. Good songs. I can see why they didn't become national stars, though. They don't have a front man. Someone with a much bigger ego and voice than Michael Stanley who covers the stage and demands that we look at them. Someone who would be insufferable in real life, but reach their absolute peak utility during the 2 hours a night on stage. Huey Lewis is the only 80s pop star who seems remotely normal and easygoing.
@@matto4580 I know. I am from Erie, Pa. I didn't infer they started in the 80's, but with their greatest success in tbe 80's makes them an 80's band in my eyes.
Tribe '85, This is my team!!!
Fantastic! Took me right back to high school! Great times and great music!
I was in high school in upper Ohio during this time and MSB was justifiably huge locally at this point.
We heard them down I-77 in West Virginia
Rest in Peace, Eternal....Michael Stanley Gee 3/25/48 - 3/5/21... #ClevelandProudofMichaelStanleyandMSB #KeeponRockingintheSkyMichael
Upper Ohio?
You mean the North Coast.
@@depatterson7357 right....or NE Ohio...
@@AMilo-qm4ed Was using a MSB title. 😉
Cleveland rocks! Love MSB!
Cleveland has a lot of rock and roll musicians of its own!
A lot better than these guys that’s for sure
Checking in from Atl...
Originally from Lake County, Mentor Painesville, Perry, Madison, Geneva area!!
Michael Stanley Band was the essence of our existence back in those days!
Still gets my heart pounding, what great music from a bunch of home town guys!!
Love The Cars as well!!
Cleveland Rocks!!
How funny that Dick had no idea what a steel mill is when he looked at the pic on the album cover.
i was born on the cliff over looking the Flats
@Jethro Tull Lutheran Hospital, lol
@Jethro Tull Wilbur Wright Junior High~ A Flyerette Cheerleader
@Jethro Tull.. I used to make the trek by bus & Rapid to the East, for Ballet & Art classes & work
@Jethro Tull My older brother had a girlfriend who moved from her pot farm down in Athens, they both went to O.U., up to around there...about 1970-1972...when my brother was in service in the Army...I remember the woody interior..sitting on the floor ..we played Elton John's "Your Song" quite a bit..which was new..so i guess i could decipher the date. & my dad drove us over to Shaker to buy a used 1963 black Mercedes from a doctor...& about 1978 my boyfriend & I bought a 1967 VW Bus with camper top that was frozen up, from around those parts.....He refurbished it & we moved down south in it , after the Winter of 1978-9..We ended up in New Orleans, me for 6 1/2 years...The Bus forever.
How can you not love this band! Been a big fan of MSB still to this day!!! Danny Powers so young! Miss Michael !❤️
Always hoped these guys would blow up and become a nationwide sensation!
too obsessed about cleveland they should have moved to los angeles and progressed as a band.
Should have let them play LIVE!
this was great- loved these guys- saw them multiple times at Blossom back in the day. I knew about the AB performance, but didn't remember them on Solid Gold- very cool!Well done- good memories.....