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MC5 was an American rock band formed in Lincoln Park, Michigan, in 1963. The classic line-up consisted of vocalist Rob Tyner, guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred "Sonic" Smith, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson.
Jul 31, 2009 · MC5 - Kick Out The Jams (1972) Along with Iggy & The Stooges the Michigan based MC5 (= Motor City 5; Motor City = Detroit) was one of the first bands who started a prototype of what would...
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- Kick Out The Jams (1969) Topping our list of the best MC5 songs, Kick Out The Jams is possibly the most incendiary recording of all time – a song to start riots to, as it quite literally did at MC5’s de facto home, Detroit’s Grande Ballroom.
- Looking At You (1970) First recorded in 1967 and released, the following year, as their lo-fi second single, MC5 returned to Looking At You again for Back In The USA.
- The American Ruse (1970) The high-water mark of their supercharged rock’n’roll sound (did they invent power-pop as well as punk?) , this straightforward Chuck Berry-esque rocker attacks what the group saw as the hypocritical idea of freedom espoused by the US: less “land of the free”, more land-of-police-beatdowns-and-cheap-shiny-goods.
- Skunk (Sonicly Speaking) (1971) Closing MC5’s final album, High Time, Skunk (Sonicly Speaking) is the group’s jazz-rock fusion fully realised. Effectively a bar fight set to music, the musicians all pile in on one another once drummer Dennis “Machine Gun” Thompson has kicked things off with a minute-long solo (you can imagine Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie paying attention years later).
Kick Out the Jams is the debut album by American rock band MC5. It was released in February 1969, through Elektra Records . It was recorded live at Detroit's Grande Ballroom over two nights, Devil's Night and Halloween , 1968.
May 10, 2013 · 8.6K. 1M views 11 years ago. MC5 playing Looking At You live at Tartar Field on Wayne State University Campus in Detroit on July 19th, 1970 TURN YOUR VOLUME UP NOW!
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Mar 9, 2022 · A full 51 years after the release of the band’s last album, Kramer has announced that a new album of original MC5 songs will be released in October via Ear Music.
Apr 26, 2011 · The MC5 is an American rock band formed in Lincoln Park, Michigan and originally active from 1964 to 1972. The original band line-up consisted of vocalist Ro...
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