The Pleasure Seekers (band)
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Patti Quatro, Arlene Quatro, Eileen Biddlingmeier, Diane Baker, Suzi Quatro
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| Also known as | Cradle |
| Origin | Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Genres | Garage rock |
| Years active | 1964–1973 |
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| Associated acts | Fanny |
| Website | quatrorock |
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The Pleasure Seekers was a 1960s-era, all-female garage rock band from Detroit, Michigan. The band morphed into Cradle, changing direction musically. They are known due in large part to the later prominence of bandmember Suzi Quatro.
According to Suzi Quatro in her memoir Unzipped, the sisters searched through the dictionary for a name for their band and on coming across "hedonist" used the definition "pleasure seeker" to come up with "The Pleasure Seekers".
Patti Quatro (born Patricia Helen Quatro, March 10, 1948, Detroit, Michigan, USA) formed The Pleasure Seekers in May 1964, and they were Suzi Quatro's first band. After a few weeks practice, Patti dared Dave Leone to give them a slot at his popular teen night club, The Hideout in Detroit. He put them on stage two weeks later, and they soon became well known and gaining momentum in the burgeoning and exploding Detroit music community, playing concerts and teen clubs with Ted Nugent, Bob Seger, and others.
The original band included Suzi Quatro and Patti Quatro, Nancy Ball (drums) (born 1947, Detroit, Michigan, USA), Mary Lou Ball (guitar) (born 1950, Detroit, Michigan, USA), and Diane Baker (born 1947, Detroit, Michigan, USA), whose father was in Art Quatro's band, on piano. Later on in April or May 1966 Arlene Quatro (born Arlene Sue Quatro, November 26, 1941, Detroit, Michigan, USA) replaced Diane Baker on the piano. Sheryl 'Sherry' Hammerlee (born 1949) joined the band on rhythm guitar in January 1966. Nan Ball played drums until ca. October 1966 when Darline Arnone (born Darline Sue Arnone, 1950, Detroit, Michigan, USA) (ex-The Loreleis) joined the band and stayed until late (December?) 1969. Arlene Quatro's husband, Leo Fenn, managed the band. Pami Bedford (born Pamela Kaye Bedford, 27 July 1947, Detroit, Michigan, USA) (ex-The Loreleis), joined the band on rhythm guitar in August 1967, replacing Hammerlee.
The band had their first record out in 1965, when Suzi Quatro and her sister Patti Quatro were 15 and 17 years old, respectively, on the Hideout label. Both sides of their first single – "Never Thought You'd Leave Me" b/w "What a Way to Die" – have some prominence; the former is included on Highs in the Mid-Sixties, Volume 6, while the latter was featured in the cult film Blood Orgy of the Leather Girls (1988). Both songs (lyrics by Dave Leone) are included on the compilation album Friday at the Hideout, which offers a retrospective of Hideout Records, and charted regionally for the band.
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