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Rock n roll history in Cadillac

Cadillac News file photo

Gene Simmons, left, Paul Stanley, right, and drummer Peter Criss perform at what was the most memorable homecoming dance in Cadillac.

Behind the scenes of 1975 how the KISS concert really happened
By Mardi Suhs
Cadillac News

CADILLAC Rock n roll

history was made in 1975 when
KISS, a heavy metal band, drove
to a small town in northern
Michigan to join their Homecoming celebrations. Seven
semis preceded them, filled with
everything needed for a full on,
hard driving KISS concert.
This is one of the great
stories in rock n roll history,
stated Jim Neff, a former teacher and coach at Cadillac High
School. This story has been
told countless times, on VH1,
MTV, ESPN and in publications
across the world. And now, Hollywood is making the event into
a movie.
This year, the KISS Cadillac
Homecoming 40th Anniversary
Celebration, Oct. 9-10, will recreate the major events that happened in 1975.
Lets look back at how it all
came about.
In 1975, the fallout from the
anti-establishment sentiments
of the 1960s were impacting the
culture. Music was changing.
The British invasion was over
and heavy metal was emerging.
The New York City band KISS
had their first concert in 1973.
According to author Ken Sharp,
they were about to change rock
n roll forever with their thunderous sound and outrageous
appearance.
In 1975, parents and administrators in Cadillac were dealing
with the challenge of split sessions in the high school. With
more students than classrooms,
juniors and seniors attended
in the morning - freshman and
sophomores in the afternoon,
fragmenting the student body.
And the football team,the
one thing students could rally
around, was struggling. In 1973,
the Cadillac Vikings had a winning season. But in 1974, the
team lost its identity.
Football coaches wanted to
loosen up the team.
At 28, Neff was a huge KISS

Few people knew what

would happen next.

Jim Neff
Former Cadillac football coach who introduced
the team to KISS
n

given tickets for the KISS concert in Saginaw.

That cemented our relationship, said Neff. So when we
found out that KISS would be in
Kalamazoo during the week of
our homecoming, I had the idea
to get KISS to come up for our
pep assembly. Kiss management agreed. Then Neff thought
if they had some equipment,
maybe the guys would pick up a
guitar and play a song. Management suggested a concert.
Few people knew what would
happen next, Neff admitted.
We couldnt tell anybody they
were coming ... We didnt have
any security in this small town.
They had no idea of the magnitude.

Embracing KISS

Soon the entire school was

involved in preparations. The
school band started learning
KISS songs. The art department bought supplies to have
everybody in KISS make up. The
Cadillac News file photo Cadillac City Council approved
a KISS Blvd. sign for the homeKISS frontman Paul Stanley is greeted by fans and media as he arrives in Cadillac.
coming parade.
Late Wednesday night, Oct.
and Paul Stanley.
ing changes, started a winning
fan and the original lead singer
8, seven semi trucks rolled into
They were backstage at a
in Double Yellow Line, his broth- streak. Neff found an address on
the high school parking lot filled
concert and they were thrilled
a KISS album cover and wrote
ers band in Flint.
with amplifiers, flame throwers,
to find out about the team, he
to the management team about
I loved KISS music, he said.
the giant KISS sign and electronsaid. They asked me to call
their success.
I loved the visual presence;
ics.
every Friday night with the
By seasons end (1974), word
they were so different from the
The band arrived by limo
scores.
that their music had inspired
stand and play bands. They
Thursday morning. Students,
At the end of the 1974 season, cheerleaders and the marching
never stopped moving ... I liked the teams turnaround had
their full speed ahead attitude. reached the greasepainted, fire- coaches took 10 players to a KISS band welcomed them in full
concert at Cobo Hall in Detroit.
breathing, blood-spewing fourNeff asked head coach Dave
make up, forming a corridor as
For many, it was their first time the high school band played, I
some, stated the Detroit News
Brines if they could play music
in a big city first time going
in a 1996 article.
in the locker room to motivate
Wanna Rock N Roll All Night.
One night Neff got a call from up an escalator. As the 1975 seathe players. He agreed. The hard
son approached, the team was
driving KISS tracks, plus coach- band members Gene Simmons
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1897 was a year of change for Cadillac and the local lumber industry
steel boiler of one hundred
horsepower capacity which he
will complete in his shops in
Cadillac to be sent to the Oval
Dish Factory at Traverse City.
Mr. Hayes is entrusted with
It was reported early in Jan- most of the boiler making in
uary of 1897 that an increasing this section of Michigan.
From 50 to 75 persons are
number of hardwood logs are
being cut and skidded by farm- being employed at the Cadillac Stave Works. The firm has
ers in the Cadillac territory.
These hardwood logs are being about 500 acres of hardwood
timber in northern Michigan
cut from former pine lands
that had been harvested by the from which to supply materials for the factory. They are
large lumbering companies
using large quantities of elm,
and then later turned over to
basswood, birch and black ash
farmers for agricultural purtimber.
poses. With the increased deAn item on February 4 has
mand for hardwood it is making it profitable for the farmers said that the splendid sleigh
loads of large telephone poles
to cut this timber.
that are seen passing along
The cultural acMitchell Street everyday totivities in Cadillac in
wards Carpenter Cedar Yard
1897 included the conduct of
are taken from the arm of
a dancing school conducted
Andrew Jacobson on section 17
in the city with instruction in
of Clam Lake Township. The
the German and Americanized name of LeLeCotillion on largest one measured nine foot
Tuesday and Friday evenings. four and one-half inches at the
The Cadillac Choral Society is butt and tapered gradually for
a distance of sixty feet. Five
making satisfactory progress
feet had already been sawed
in knowing of its special purfrom the butt. An additional
pose, The development of the
eleven feet had been sawed
local talent of our local vocalfrom the top of the pole before
ists. The group plans to give a
loading on the sleighs.
concert in the spring.
A survey of existing pine
Late in January William
Hayes, the Cadillac boiler mak- and hardwood timber by the
Michigan Labor Commiser was in Chicago to procure
sioner shows the following:
the material for a mammoth
The following is a recap of the
year 1897. Several years ago we
uncovered in the Cadillac News
archives a written recap of several
years.

Wexford County in February

1897 was yet the possessor of
3,700 acres of standing pine
and 120,312 acres of hardwood.
February 25 it was reported
that shipments of lumber from
Blodgett Cummer and Diggins
Yard in Cadillac now amount
to over 3,000,000 board feet per
month.
Telephone poles for the long
distance lines of both Citizens
and Bell Telephone companies
have recently been set from
Grand Rapids to the southern
limit of Cadillac. Both sides of
the roadway are marked with
poles. The extent of service
and the cost of messages over
the rival telephone lines has
not yet been revealed to Cadillac people by April 25.
By March 4 the Cadillac
Pot Ash Works was becoming
quite a profitable industry in
the production of potash. The
potash is made from good hardwood ashes gathered from the
residences and business places
of the city.
The Cadillac Cornet Band
was organized the first week in
March and had leased the hall
over H. E. Hutchinsons Billiard Rooms for practice.
The machinery of the
Wexford Lumber Companys
mill, recently operated at
Hoxeyville, was removed to
Cadillac and loaded on cars

at Sunnyside for shipment to

Pennsylvania.
Construction was progressing in March on the new D.J.M.
Wardells building on Mitchell
Street, a short distance south
of the Harris Street corner.
There were 90 cords of stone
already delivered for the foundation. Four car loads of Ohio
Sandstone have arrived which
will be wrought into ornamental shapes for the front elevation. Two hundred thousand
building bricks have been
purchased from Wilcox Brothers of Cadillac. Contractor
Charles Dutton has started to
make moldings and ornamental joiner work for the Wardell
Block. (Wardell Block was an
unusually attractive building
with the elaborate stone pillars
at the front. It was somewhat
damaged when fire destroyed
the adjacent Russell House
Hotel located at the southeast
corner of Mitchell and Harris
in the early 1920s.)
Supplies of fine maple syrup from the Wexford
County woods were being delivered in Cadillac by the first
of April and the fresh made
article is in good demand.
The building formerly occupied by the Salvation Army
in Cadillac was being put in
readiness the forepart of April
for the coming of the Volun-

Photo courtesy of the Wexford County Historical Society and Museum

Here is a photo of the city park in Cadillac in the late 1800s. In June of 1897 the bandstand had been repaired to allow for speeches and concerts.

teer Soldiers of America. This

group is headed by the son of
the founder of the Salvation
Army who established a new
organization. The former Cadillac Salvation Army group
has joined with several others
in establishing the new organization.
On April 15 20,000 lake trout
were received here on the
Grand Rapids Indiana Railroad train from the State Fish
Hatchery and were deposited
in the two local lakes.
Early in April Cobbs and
Mitchells own logging trains
began running over the Grand
Rapids and Indiana Railroad
from Crofton in Kalkaska
County to their mills in Cadillac. Two trains of logs are
brought from Crofton each day
to Cadillac.
Cadillac sidewalk
builders are procuring
and using a very good quality
hemlock lumber from Charlie
Ballards mill at Pleasant Lake.
Among the new sidewalks is
one sixteen foot plank sidewalk completed in front of the
H.C. Auers Clothing Store.
A story of May 6 said that
delivery teams and wagons of
the Cadillac grocers are the
pride of their owners and their
equipment for the most part
are equal to those in larger
cities. They are seen speeding
along the various streets at all
hours of the day delivering
goods free as far north as Haring and as far south as the Hector Farm. They stop at homes
of those that dwell a long the
Lakeside Driveway and go east
to the Crosby Farm.
A large shipment of fruit
trees were being received in
May for planting by farmers in
the Cadillac area. The superior
quality and large yield fruit in
this locality last year was very
encouraging to those who have
given systematic attention to
securing an orchard. Winter
apples that have been kept until the present time are sold at
a very profitable price.
In May the Harris Town
Sunday School of which Mr.
Charles Barton is superintendent has at present membership of ninety scholars who
are instructed by eight intelligent teachers. The sessions
begin at 3:00 on Sunday afternoon in the First Ward School
building.
By May 13 both of the double
band sawmills of Cummer
Diggins were operating at ten
hours a day, each making a
daily average cut of ninety
thousand feet of lumber.
Carload shipments of potatoes were being made from
Cadillac at prices ranging from
6 to 9 per bushel.
A report in May that all of
the timber recently purchased

ing the church service at the

Presbyterian Church on July ll
by the young lad who operated
the pipe organ blower provided
embarrassment to the organist
and chorister and also amused
the congregation.
On July 21 Remenyi the
most renowned violinist in the
world was to appear at the Cadillac Opera House.
The Cadillac City Council
on July 12 recommended that
the city procure the right to
the ground on which the Clam
River Dam is built. At the same
meeting the Council approved
the construction of a new
bridge across the Clam River
at Mitchell Street.
William S. Hart, the rising
young dramatic star, has included Cadillac in his northern Michigan summer tour
and is supported by a company
of selected strong player, will
appear at the Cadillac Opera
House Thursday evening August 12 according to an item
in the July 22 paper (William
S. Hart later became a famous
movie actor of the silent movie
days).
On July 29 it was stated that
a machine which makes 64
berry boxes a minute is being
tested at the Oviatt Companys
manufacturing works in Cadillac. From a continuous roll
of maple veneer, fresh from
the Oviatt Companys veneer
machine the little box machine
completes its work with bewildering swiftness and wonderPhoto courtesy of the Wexford County Historical Society and Museum ful accuracy. Boxes produced
by the machine ere superior
This photo of the Cobbs & Mitchell Mill shows Lake Cadillac in the background. After the pine forests were generally depleted, companies turned toward
in appearance and strength to
the manufacture of hardwood goods.
the ordinary berry boxes and it
is claimed that the cost will be
later operated a mens clothing ing the requirements for their measure.
in the vicinity of Boyne City
reduced about onehalf.
June 24 ten passenger trains
diploma.
store for many years in Cadilby Cobbs and Mitchells comA report released at the end
Wool in considerable quanti- were arriving at Cadillac
lac).
pany of Cadillac would be
of July stated that during 1896
ties was being sold in Cadillac every day except Sunday on
Late in May of 1897 the pile
cut at Bay Springs with the
there were 304 births in Wexthe Grand Rapids & Indiana
of building stone on the north- in June at an average price of
exception of the hardwood
ford County, 135 of which were
13 per pound, a good increase Railroad (later Pennsylvania
west corner of Mitchell and
was reported as being false.
in the city of Cadillac. During
from the price of the year pre- Railroad and then Penn CenMason Streets has been transThe true fact was that all the
the same year there were 110
tral and in 1978 as Michigan
vious of 7 per pound.
ferred to the adjacent vacant
timber included in that purdeaths, 56 of which were in
Northern Railroad).
The City Council turned
lot. This perm its the proper
chase which is estimated at
Cadillac.
A lengthy story in the News
down an idea to repaint the
11,000,000 feet of pine 7,000,000 grading of Mason Street and
Surplus dirt taken
City Hose House at its meeting and Express on June 24 1897
the construction of a much
feet of hemlock and 4,000,000
from other streets in the city
reviewed the history of the
late in June . The Hose House
feet of hardwood will all be cut needed new sidewalk.
that are being graded is to be
Cummer Family in Cadillac
was a real tall narrow strucThe camp of industrious
into lumber at the Cobbs and
placed on Lake Street during
and their expansion into lumture located on Cass Street in
bark peelers, three-fourths of
Mitchell Mills in Cadillac.
the late summer of 1897 to
bering operations in North
which the firemen dried the
a mile west of White Sand on
All the fire departraise the level of that thorBig Clam Lake (Lake Mitchell) long sections of long fire hose. Carolina and also Florida adja- oughfare.
ments in this section of
cent to Jacksonville.
The dam on the Clam River
will cut the hemlock timber
Michigan and the crack hose
Cadillac City Commission on
In June 1897 the bandstand
teams of other sections are re- from which bark will be peeled below the Oviatt ManufacturAugust 2, 1897 passed a resolufrom the land owned by Cobbs ing Companys works and near in the city park had been receiving invitations to come to
tion approving the securing of
the point where the Ann Arbor paired so that speeches and
Cadillac on the Fourth of July and Mitchell on section 27-34a ninety-nine year lease from
Railroad tracks cross the Clam concerts could be held from
28 and 15 in Selma Township.
of 1897 to participate in the
the Ann Arbor Railroad on
that podium.
River was not repaired at the
An ordinance was introHose Team Tournament which
land adjoining the railroads
During the latter part of
time it was damaged during
duced in May to prohibit the
is being arranged as a special
bridge across the Clam River
the high water season and now June 1897 the Gaston Sawmill
northbound passenger trains
feature of Cadillacs July 4th
on which to construct a new
in Harrietta burned to the
from obstructing Harris Street the dam structure has so far
celebration.
dam to take the place of the
ground.
disappeared as to deprive the
crossing while the train waits
It was reported May 20 that
former Dutcher Dam which
A new record for water
Oviatt Company of a water
twenty minutes so that the
Chris Jorgenson, the present
had been destroyed.
pumping by the Cadillac Water
pond in which to float its logs.
owner of the Kieldsen Farm is passengers may visit Cadillac
An August 19 report was as
Company was reached July 7,
The Board of Health is now
promoting the introduction of restaurants for dinner.
follows: The shipments of tan
asking the City Council to take 1897 when 1,600,00 gallons were bark over the Ann Arbor RailThe High School
Holstein Cattle in this locality
pumped during a twelve hour
immediate action in the matand has several splendid look- commencement in June
road from Cadillac are quite
period.
ter of controlling the water in
ing animals that stock growers 1897 found nine young ladies
heavy at the present time. MilAn extended nap durthe lake outlet as a sanitary
much admire (Chris Jorgenson and one young man completwaukee is the place shipped to

Leading Businesses

from all points on the Ann Arbor Road as far south as Marion and many carloads carried
to Frankfort and then transferred to the car ferrys which
take it across Lake Michigan.
A large 10 bark operation was
being conducted along the Ann
Arbor and Selma Township
by Cobbs and Mitchell from
hemlock trees harvested in
that area.
Nearly a half million splendid brick have just
passed through the burning
process in the kilns of Wilson
and Millers brick works at
Harrietta.
Ice Skating parties have realized considerable sport upon
the little lakes southeast of the
city, east of the cemetery, for
ice has formed sufficiently solid to support those who have
ventured upon it. The ice on
the two large lakes is too thin
to be safely used for skating
purposes as of December 16.
John Borne by mid December had completed construction of a new drying shed at
Cobbs and Mitchells number
one mill. The structural views,
in connection with the hardwood lumber manufacture
now being inaugurated here by
Cobbs and Mitchell. Borne was
also putting a new foundation
with new sills under Cobbs and
Mitchells handsawmill number two at Sunnyside (what
was known as Sunnyside was
on the south side of present
Lake Cadillac near the north
end of Barbara Street).
Cummer and Diggins Company had arranged just before
Christmas of 1897 to provide
a turkey to each family represented among their workmen
at their mills and camps, about
250 in all. The turkeys were to
be supplied through Peoples
Market which had on one day
550 dressed turkeys suspended
from the ceiling in a semicircle in the market.
The commencement of the
hardwood cut at Cobbs and
Mitchells number one mill
was stated in December to
be the formal inauguration
of Cadillacs active era as a
hardwood manufacturing
city. The number one mill will
henceforth continue to work
on hardwood and hemlock until the large timber holdings of
Cobbs and Mitchell in that line
are exhausted, a condition that
is removed from the present by
many years. The children of
today will be grown men and
women ere this second stage of
Cadillacs experience as a lumbering center will have wained
or weakened and in the meantime its development in other
directions ensure for Cadillac
persistently a better and more
prosperous future than even
its happy past has been.

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KISS gave more than a concert during its homecing stop 40 years ago. KISS band members
played a little football, went to class and even participated in the marching band.

KISS made unique, lasting connection to Cadillac

Continued from page 1
As preparations for the
concert began, details like
finding a transformer and
sending a car to Clare for
dry ice (special effects) are
stories in their own right.
Neff told the road crew to
put down the chainsaw.
They were trying to fit
the KISS sign through the
small door frame into the
gym.
KISS visited the police
and fire departments and
classrooms. Late that
afternoon, they attended
the pep rally and bonfire,
where Simmons stood on
the limo and spit kerosene
into the gasoline soaked
structure, causing it to
burst into flames. Afterward, they performed in
the gym, where they gifted
Cadillac with the first
KISS Snowstorm. When
the concert ended, they
released tons of confetti.
www.neffzone.com/kiss/
KISS-Snowstorm.html.
Friday morning, band
members attended a civic
breakfast, where school
officials, city leaders and
businessmen, in face paint,
presented KISS with the
Key to the City of Cadillac.
Later that morning, they
rode a KISS-themed float
in the Homecoming parade
down main street, blasting
cuts from the ALIVE! album. The parade led to the
Viking Memorial Stadium
for the football game.
Thats when the band
pulled their biggest surprise. A helicopter flew
overhead, descended onto
the field, and KISS said
goodbye, dropping autographed leaflets in their
wake, Cadillac High
KISS Loves You.

Uniting the
student body

Back then, there were

two different elements of
the student body, the jocks
and the freaks, stated
Neff. These were two
diverse groups. One was

interested in athletics, and

one group never went to
the games and events.
Principal John Laurent
tried to unite the divided
student body but nothing
worked.
I didnt even know who
KISS was when Jim Neff
asked me for permission
for them to visit, Laurent
said. I got permission

from Bill Smith, Superintendent ... we had a press

conference with KISS and
they got the kids to come
together. It was something
I couldnt do. KISS brought
the school together. The
rowdy kids lined up in
tuxedos for the concert and
they all came together. It
turned out to be a wonderful week.

Everyone in the student

body participated and to
this day, the event is something they all have in common.

KISS impact

KISS made a huge impact

on Cadillac, one that residents will never forget. But
Cadillac impacted KISS as

Best In
Sight

well.
Music historian Ken
Sharp touches on this
in his book, Nothing to
Lose, The Making of KISS
1972-1975, stated Neff. In
1975, the group was just
making enough money
to stay afloat. Their road
show cost so much, they
were taking jobs all over
the place, both in small
and big venues. Theres
significance in the Cadillac
event.
KISS had just released
KISS ALIVE!, their first
live album. Neff believes
these two events, Cadillac,
and the album release,
helped launch the band to
national prominence.
I like to think Cadillac
was a major event in the
world-wide launching of
KISS, he said. Without
Cadillac, they might never
have survived. And then
he smiled. Well, he admitted. I might have overstated that a bit.
On a KISS reunion tour, a
fan from Cadillac drove to

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and sat close to the stage.
During the concert, he held
up a paper sign with one
word, Cadillac.
The story goes that
when Gene Simmons saw
that sign he said to the
audience: Cadillac High thats why we are here.
Thats an acknowledgement of the millions in
free publicity they got from
the visit, added Neff. And
the fact that the story has
gone on for 40 years. They
have a special place in
their hearts for Michigan,
Northern Michigan. Without that core of fans, they
would not have achieved
this success, 90 million
albums sold world wide.
Maybe they feel the genesis
of that was Detroit and
Michigan and Cadillac.
Proceeds from the previous visit and this years
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Cadillac

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231-876-WOOD
(9663)

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