Talk:Dennis Robbins

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The Rockets did not become the Detroit Wheels.

The Detroit Wheels were a band with Mitch Ryder as it's singer. As in "Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels" They had several hits in the 60's. The Wheels disbanded in the mid to late 60's. Both Jim McCarty and Johnny the Bee Badanjek were members of The Detroit wheels. After the Wheels disbanded McCarty joined Cactus. Bee and mitch later formed a new Group Named "Detroit"

After Cactus and Detroit It was McCarty and Bee that later formed the rockets in around 1972. The rockets however were an entirely different band from the Detroit Wheels. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.238.237.138 (talk) 05:18, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

The rockets and the detroit wheels share a page because someone put them on the same page. They are not that closely linked. They should not be on the same page. The rockets were formed by two former members of the Detroit wheels but were a completely seperate band with all different players except McCarty and Bee, and also a completely different sound.

To say that the rockets later changed their name to the detroit wheels or the wheels later changed their name to the rockets is completely false. What is the point of having an information source if it is false. The information on this page is flat out wrong regardless of rules or protocal.

I have the Rockets entire catalog. I also have much of the Detroit wheels stuff. I own a very good book on the subject of Detroit music.

For the record I was the one who wrote what little there is of the rockets and someone later put it on the same page as the wheels because there was other bands over the years who have used the name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.238.237.138 (talk) 15:47, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

What your saying is akin to saying paul McCartney and Wings would later change their name to the Beatles.

The wheels came before the rockets and they weren't the same band with a different name. Your statement "The Rockets (which would later change its name to The Detroit Wheels).[1]" Is wrong.


Look at the credits for these two bands and you will see different names except McCarty and Badanjek. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.238.237.138 (talk • contribs)

Look, it is this simple.

"The Rockets did not later change their name to the Detroit Wheels" The Rockets came after the Detroit Wheels and was a different band formed by two of the former member of the wheels.

Something that is so called "verifiable" and wrong needs to be corrected not perpetuated.

http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=3550 http://web.archive.org/web/20050210015819/http://www.freep.com/news/obituaries/gilb4_20010804.htm http://www.johnny-bee.com/biography.htm http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=6708 http://mitchryder.com/?page_id=9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Ryder

What source says that The rockets later changed their name to The Detroit wheels? The cited source in this article does not say that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.238.237.138 (talk) 12:44, 18 February 2008 (UTC)