The Movin' Violations
1966-1968

In 1966 the WeeMen were formed. In 1967 the name was changed to the Movin' Violations. Left to right: Rich Gleim (Drums), Bill Hutchison (Guitar), Fritz Gericke (Guitar), Roger Hassman (Vocals) In 1966 I met Fritz Guhrke in high school who played guitar and asked if I was interested in playing with a band. Well how could a young aspiring guitarist turn that down? He introduced me to Roger Hassman and Rich Gleim and it was a done deal! Roger sang and sounded like Eric Burton and Rich played drums. That was the beginning of the WeeMen. After a couple of battle of the bands and being beat by bands that had a bass player, we decided we needed another member. Ya, believe it or not we didn't have a bass player. Roger tried to learn to play bass but his singing suffered because of it. Also Roger was a great showman. He would go out into the audience singing , dancing, rolling around the floor, what ever it took to rev the crowd up, and it did. After asking around we found Vick Maslanka who played bass guitar. Vick was too cool, always wearing sunglasses a black leather vest and his hair slicked back. Now that we were complete we changed out name to The Movin' Violations. We ended up being a pretty popular group in the area and started playing a lot. We played The Battle Of The Bands, Tennis Court Dances, High School Home Coming dances, Prom, etc. Life was good, we were a band!

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The Movin' Violations in 1966 playing T.F. South Homecoming

The Movin' Violations in 1966

The Movin' Violations in 1967 playing event at the Lansing K of C's

Jamming with some of the US Rebels 1967