Ronnie Greb

Guitarist Ronnie Greb — never to end up being confused using the jazz drummer from the same name, of the previous era — made his main contribution to recorded music while an associate of Mike & the Modifiers. The second option music group, a Detroit-based quartet, experienced the distinction to be the 1st white group authorized to Motown Information. Given birth to in 1943 in Detroit, Ronnie Greb reached his teenagers just as rock and roll & move was overpowering the airwaves nationally. The performers he cites as the best impact on him musically had been Chuck Berry and Duane Eddy. By the finish from the ’50s, he’d adopted the guitar so that as the new 10 years opened, he became a member of vocalist/composer Mike Valvano, whom he understood from his community, in the group that became Mike & the Modifiers. Valvano, specifically, was always employed in numerous capacities round the Motown offices, and Greb recalls becoming present when the Curves cut “Perform YOU LIKE Me.” The group was on bundle tours with lots of the early Motown functions, but by 1964 they’d split up. Valvano (who passed on in 2002) was the just member to take pleasure from a long-term profession in documented music — like a composer and maker, among additional capacities — but Greb was still playing his acoustic guitar in regional music occasions in the first 21st century, but still pleased with his use the band.