Through This World The Plagues 1966

The Plagues... A Michigan Garage band from 1966 from William Malone's Parasomnia. A new fantasy- horror-thriller that makes use Michigan rock bands from the Mid-1960s including the Plagues The Bossmen, and The Sheffields. The Plagues, whose members were Jim Hosley - Rhythm Guitar, Van Decker- Lead Guitar, Bill Malone on Bass and Phil Nobach-Drums had local charts hits. Recently a single from this band sold for a whopping $900.00 on Ebay. Parasomnia also feature the amazing artwork of the Late Polish Surrealist Zdsilaw Becksinksi

[@newhotman1001]

Today is Mother's Day and I ran across this on my favorites section. My mother liked this song as well as many Beatles songs. If you grew up in Lansing in the mid 60's you knew who the Plagues were along with the Ones, the Saharas, the Poor Souls, Tonto and the Renegrades and the others that played the area. The Plagues were my favorite local band and it is too bad that the draft broke this band up.

[@newhotman1001]

I had some friends over tonight and played this for them. A couple of them remembered the Plagues after I reminded them that we attended a concert at Everett High School in 1966. Another friend remembered seeing them at Logan Center at the Battle of the Bands and even remembered that we wore striped t-shirts like the Lovin' Spoonful wore. This spawned a long talk about growing up in Lansing, MI and how much fun we had then.

[@doctorofenglish68]

They were very talented and what is really cool is that Lansing had several garage bands that were very good.

[@newhotman1001]

The Plagues were from Lansing, MI and the lead singer, Bill Malone, went to Everett High School. Van Decker and Jim Hosley went to Sexton but I can't remember where Phil Nobach went. I went to the concert at Everett High School in 1966 called the Quarantine Review. This record was released on Quarantine Records. They had a release called That Will Never Do as a follow up to this. They were at the summer Battle of the Bands at old Everett field, Colonial Village, Pro Bowl & Logan Center.

[@newhotman1001]

I didn't go to school at Everett so you wouldn't know me. Plus, I remember that Everett was a really big school with lots of kids

[@newhotman1001]

I had to stop the video and then I saw the Kewpee's sign. Thanks BHart for pointing that out. Lansing doesn't look anything like that in that location anymore.

[@newhotman1001]

I am surprised that there isn't another comment on this great song from the Plagues. I saw them several times while growing up in Lansing, MI where they were from. They were terrific performers that played in many Battle of the Bands and were one of many bands that were in Lansing at that time. Thanks for posting this song that brings back so many memories of growing up in a great time and a great city like Lansing.

[@newhotman1001]

The original WILS was on N. Washington just past Shiawassee and Kewpee's was on W. Shiawassee between N. Washington and N. Capitol. Remember Kewpee's had a dirt driveway and you could drive up and get the hamburgers that were the greatest. It was always crowded inside and I went there for lunch often when I went the Lansing Community College.

[@paulmessis1985]

Plagues are an ace band, with consistently great discography, that Rocky guy below, clearly hasn't heard 'I've Been Through It Before'... that song is one of the best of the 60s American garage sound... To the original poster, would you be able to email a pic of The Plagues' last show in Lansing poster, I would love to re-print and have as a poster on my wall.

[@MrRayome]

Thank you for clearing that up! I saw the Kewpee bldg and tried to remember where it was. I knew it was close to the Gut. From what I'm seeing you got me by about 5-10 years. I was only about 13-14 years old when I hung out at the Woolies house on Willow. I used to mow their lawn.

[@Michael-ev2xu]

Van decker was actually my college professor in music here in the imperial valley and I gotta say Dr. Van is one hell of a musician

[@valeriegriffin7021]

Dr. Van recently passed away. Such a creative!

[@Michael-ev2xu]

@@valeriegriffin7021 that is so heart breaking definitely inspired me to be a better musician and song writer

[@valeriegriffin7021]

@@Michael-ev2xu I'm going to make a memorial slideshow for Van and will post to KZbin and my Vimeo accounts when the memorial is over.

[@stasiekwrona]

Beautiful song. Greetings from Poland, Central europe...

[@scorpio8716]

Thanks

[@RockNRollJon]

Just watched the movie Parasomnia , there were a couple Plagues songs on the soundtrack . Good music !

[@dacdouglas48]

She appears in the beginning where she is in full view at the 39 second mark - Douglas Colwell

[@ianswanson5022]

R.I.P Van Decker

[@stasiekwrona]

Great song

[@haxanthrobo]

oh man....That's great! .

[@TVWireTV]

How infectious! ;-) --SLW

[@MrsOliva]

Потустороннее звучание ! Как будто пробрался в своё прошлое и включил радиолу-проигрыватель в детской комнате в далёком 1985 году.

[@tom66909]

First time I heard of them was on the Fear Dot Com soundtrack & it was timeless. Love this band.

[@newhotman1001]

One last thing, I am trying to figure out where the location is where they are running at the end of the video. It looks like maybe W. Kalamazoo or maybe W. Saginaw St. The Porter Realty signs are pretty cool since they are no longer in business. Anyone know?

[@Guitarplar]

I must know some of you guys. Brian Amato, Everett, class of '65? Who are you guys?

[@songboy765]

BHart75, didn't The Plagues make some recordings at Fenton Records in Sparta, MI ?

[@eightmileshigh]

2 singles in 1966

[@newhotman1001]

Sorry Rocky, but this group was pretty popular along with the Ones, Poor Souls, the Saharas and others. I don't understand your anger toward them; all they were trying to do was to crack into the music business.

[@dacdouglas48]

who was the cute girl in this video?

[@gilmaralvessantana3176]

The herman hermits...kkk