Music / Business & brands
Punch Andrews
· manager, record producer, club owner
Detroit-based manager and producer who ran the Hideout teen clubs in the 1960s and guided Bob Seger's career for more than fifty years.
- Birth name
- Edward Andrews
- Also known as
- Edward Andrews · Eddie “Punch” Andrews
- Detroit years
- 1960s–present
- Field
- Music, Business & brands
01 / The Detroit story
The Detroit story
Eddie “Punch” Andrews played in the Decibels, Bob Seger's first band, in 1961, but his lasting role was behind the scenes. In May 1964 he and Dave Leone opened the Hideout, a teen club in a Harper Woods VFW hall, followed by other Hideout clubs around metro Detroit. Local garage bands such as the Underdogs, the Pleasure Seekers and Seger's early groups played there, and the clubs spawned their own label, Hideout Records. Andrews became Seger's manager and co-producer, and the two founded Palladium Records; by his own account he named the Silver Bullet Band in 1974 when a name was needed in a hurry. He co-produced Seger's classic albums from Night Moves on, kept Seger's business rooted in Michigan, and later managed Kid Rock and, in the mid-1990s, Grand Funk Railroad.
Highlights
- Co-founded the Hideout teen club in Harper Woods (1964)
- Bob Seger's manager for more than fifty years
- Co-producer of Seger albums including Night Moves and Against the Wind
- Named the Silver Bullet Band (1974)
- Also managed Kid Rock and Grand Funk Railroad
02 / Their Detroit places
Their Detroit places 1
Where they lived, worked, performed and liked to hang out. Closed and demolished places stay here too, because they are part of the city's history.
Founded · 1964–1960s
The Hideout
Closed
The first Hideout, a teen club in a VFW hall at Harper and Beaufait, opened in May 1964 by Andrews and Dave Leone; Bob Seger, Mitch Ryder, Ted Nugent, Glenn Frey and Suzi Quatro all played there.