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Feb 3, 2024 · In a 2018 interview, late MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer explained the development of one of the most untamed, revolutionary rock bands of all time. In a 2018 interview, late MC5 guitarist Wayne ...
Jul 31, 2009 · 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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Feb 2, 2024 · Updated 4:35 PM PDT, February 2, 2024. NEW YORK (AP) — Wayne Kramer, the co-founder of the protopunk Detroit band the MC5 that thrashed out such hardcore anthems as “Kick Out the Jams” and influenced everyone from the Clash to Rage Against the Machine, has died at age 75. Kramer died Friday at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles ...
Feb 2, 2024 · The heart of the wall-shaking sound of the MC5 (the name was short for Motor City Five), formed in Lincoln Park, Mich., in 1965, was the twin-guitar attack of Mr. Kramer and Fred (Sonic) Smith.
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. He’s shared a preview of a ...
Dec 12, 2020 · 1: 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. Revelling in the beauty of a great MC5 gig, Tyner self-sermonises with all the hellfire he can ...
MC5. Rock revolutionaries and progenitors of punk, with a musical and political stance that crystallized around sex, drugs, and rock & roll. Read Full Biography. STREAM OR BUY: Active. 1960s - 2020s. Formed. 1964 in Lincoln Park, MI. Genre.
