The Prime Movers were an American blues band based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, which was formed in 1965.

Wynn left a short time later and was replaced by James Osterberg,[1] who would later become famous as Iggy Pop.

As time passed, the Prime Movers became kind of the elder statesmen in the burgeoning Ann Arbor music scene, working with the younger groups, and playing with visiting artists like Jerry Garcia.

[2] In the Midwest, the band played at Detroit clubs like the Grande Ballroom, the Living End, the Chessmate, and the Wisdom Tooth.

Bob Sheff briefly joined Iggy and the Stooges in 1973 and went on to become an avant garde composer and musician who collaborated with John Cage, Laurie Anderson among others under the pseudonym Blue Gene Tyranny.