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MC5 was an American rock band formed in Lincoln Park, Michigan, in 1963. [5] [6] The classic line-up consisted of vocalist Rob Tyner, guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred "Sonic" Smith, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson. MC5 were listed by Parade as one of the best rock bands of all time [7] and by VH1 as one of the ...
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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May 10, 2013 · 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!MC5 - Ramblin' Rose (1...
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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).
To end the conflict and to avoid further financial loss, Elektra dropped MC5 from their record label. Later the same year, Jefferson Airplane recorded the song "We Can Be Together" for their Volunteers album, a song containing the word "motherfucker".
Nov 27, 2017 · Best quality video on the web. Chronological playlist with all songs from channel • History of Rock Music - Most powerful... Best live performance of MC5. (live in Detroit). They wearing usual ...
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Feb 2, 2024 · The legendary Detroit proto-punk guitarist and political activist passed away from pancreatic cancer in Los Angeles. Kramer was a member of the MC5, one of the most influential bands in rock history, and a founder of the Jail Guitar Doors charity.
