Michael Bruce Information

Use tab to navigate through the menu items. So much goes on in the world of Michael Bruce. From tours to musical updates. To be the first to know whats happening with this hardworking and talented Musician, check out the coverage below. Michael Owen Bruce was born to Alvin and Ruth (Owen) Bruce. The Bruce and Owen families had moved to Arizona from Kansas. The family ancestry includes Cherokee, Scottish, Irish, English and Norman French. Ruth's father, Clarence Glenn Owen, was a veteran of World War I and also a professional baseball player: "Blacky" Owen. "Al" was in the military during the 1940s and Ruth played piano on the radio and performed for many U.S.O. functions. After the military, "Al" worked for The Coca-Cola Company. Michael and his brothers, David and Paul, attended North High School in Phoenix, Arizona. Michael Bruce began his professional music career in the mid-1960s. Like so many young people of that time, he found a fiery inspiration in The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. After playing with The Trolls, Michael became part of Mick Mashbir's (who later played on Billion Dollar Babies and Muscle of Love and also went to Camelback High, the same high school as Neal Smith) band The Wildflowers and started taking lessons. Four songs were recorded by this group ("A Man Like Myself", "On A Day Like Today", "More Than Me" and "Moving Along with the Sun"). Mick had a place in the desert where they rehearsed but it was also a party place and the Alice Cooper gang would hang out and party. According to Bruce, the masters were bought from a man in Phoenix by Bear Family Records (a Germany-based independent record label that specializes in reissues). There was another short-lived group that Michael was a part of called Our Gang (Our Gang also featured North High School friend and member of The Tubes, Bill Spooner). They made no known recordings. In 1966, Michael replaced John Tatum in a Phoenix band called The Spiders, featuring Glen Buxton, Dennis Dunaway, John Speer (replaced by Neal Smith), and Vince ...