The Third Power was described by some as Detroit's answer to Cream.  Well, they were a three-piece, and their live act was said to be a lot heavier than their sole album release 'Believe', but comparisons to Cream are a stretch, at best. The group most likely  thought they’d clinched a good deal getting signed to the illustrious Vanguard label, but allegedly the label found their product too heavy for its generally folky tastes and declined to give it any support at all, and in true Robscurities fashion dropped the band almost immediately after its release.

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Although the band faded into history, their guitarist, Drew Abbott did not.  Does his name sound familiar?  If it does, it's because he went on to success as the guitarist in Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band.

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Check out this interesting quote from an interview with lead vocalist Jem Targal:

What was your most memorable Third Power gig and who did you share the stage with on that occasion?

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*** GOOSE LAKE *** – “MICHIGANS” !!!*WOODSTOCK*!!! 1970… Four Day Concert “”” 250,000″”” +++ people there *MC-5* – *IGGY and the STOOGES* ( we played after the Stooges Saturday night ) – Mountain* – Rod Stewart and the *Small Faces* – *Joe Cocker* – Tee Garden and Van Winkle – *SRC* – *Jetho Tull* – *Savoy Brown* *Ten Years After* – Savage Grace* – James Gang – Alice Cooper – Bob Seger – Chicago – Brownsville Station – Flying Burrito Brothers – Flock – John Drake Shakedown – Mighty Quick ….. !!!*THIRD POWER*!!! got to “Play” *TWICE* … one of the other *Acts* couldn’t make it at the last minute Sunday … SOOOOO they asked !!!*THIRD POWER*!!! to “””PLAY AGAIN””” …so we got to play both at night and during the day … ***COOOOOLLL*** … The *View* from the Stage was ***AMAZING*** both Day & Night time … When they spun the “””ROTATING STAGE””” around after THE STOOGES set *DREW* started playing the !!!*SCREAMING*!!! guitar intro to “””GETTIN TOGETHER””” … and ***IGGY*** had gotten the crowd so worked up … they were tearing down the plywood boards off the fence surrounding the stage … these Gnarly faces were peering thru the fence screaming !!! … Our manager ***LLOYD*** suggested we calm things down by playing our version of ***LITTLE DRUMMER BOY*** … !!! WOW !!! did that work … as we got into it … things became ***BEAUTIFUL*** you could hear a “””PIN””” drop ……. and “””EVERYONE””” lit up candles flashlights – lighters it looked like the ***MILKY WAY*** of ***STARS*** … it might have been the First time that ever happened at a Concert !!! … we always played ***LITTLE DRUMMER BOY*** at our shows because we wanted “””CHRISTMAS*** to be an all year long message !!! … I’d need another whole article for “ALL” the other stories from that ***WONDERFUL WEEKEND*** !!!