Sometimes I have to re-watch this video to experience some of the most exciting, visceral rock ever caught in action! It's a soul recharging jolt to the nervous system. I about 4 years old when this was filmed, but I'm so glad this kind of material has been shared on RUclips.
I wasn't born yet...6 months later. Didn't totally appreciate the magnitude of these cats in their peak until seeing this. Totally blows away the wanky brits...they couldn't really be contained in a studio. Where is the other two songs??
Hey @ronbo11 - These songs are all I could find when i did my search online. The complete footage is owned by a corporate licencing co. that has a sample video online with licencing information also...
I was there. Let me say that if you wanted to spend a great night, it would have been at the Grande Ballroom. Line up: The Stooges, MC5 and, of course, The Rationals. No better music. At 78, I still love all of them! Rock on! Miss you dear friend Fred Sonic Smith...always.
I wasn't there for it, too young, but I remember these guys very fondly. One of the early favs in my collection. I was two when this concert was filmed (had a rockin and rollin mom)
has to be one of the best I was there's going lmap. What a set. Crowd is stunned. People looking to understand the birth of punk need to study Ann Arbor 69.
Hey great story personal story! I really appreciate the comment here... If you have any other stories about you father and his experiences with JC & the MC5, I'm sure we'd all enjoy reading 😎
Awsome as a little girl growing up in Davison MI. I heard John Sinclair in a march on maint st.!!! YAYYYY lol he just passed away a few months ago MAY HE R I P.
I'm Black, 66 years old and digging this also-there's nothing like it in this world anymore-and-another reason I'm proud to be from Detroit(yes, was born and raised here). Didn't know about this group then, but have since found out a little bit about them-too bad I didn't become more exposed to this group's music! 10-4-24.
They plays and sounds like a dream rock band. Beautiful riffs and powerful tone, but incredible rhythm section with Dennis and Michael. Great songs and fabulous singing by Rob
@@jamiehovis7722 You don't know what you're talking about, the bass player is very good; lyrical, with chops-and solid-you couldn't ask for a better bass player than this, and I ought to know because I've been playing the instrument for over 40 years(actually started playing the instrument over 45 years ago)... i mean one doesn't have to play like Stanley Clarke or Billy Sheehan to be considered good-those guys are exceptional and if that's your standard by which you judge all bass players, I think that's an unfair(and moronic) standard by which one judges all other bass players-and I'm just curious, who would be considered good by you? 10-4-24.
@@charlesbrazell2136 he doesn’t even lock in with the drummer. Sometimes he’s literally playing nothing, at other times it’s literally random notes. The guitars are so loud and musical, likewise with the drums and vocals, that it doesn’t matter too much but it would be better if he had the fundamentals down. He’s not even good by punk rock standards. Even Dee Dee Damone locked in with the drummer. I also read Wayne Kramer book. He too thought the bass sucked. They eventually fired him. Wayne plays bass on their studio albums back in USA and high time. He’s only on their first live album.
@@jamiehovis7722 It's funny, you are the only one to put down these very fine musicians; of all the comments I've read so far, you are the first to condemn their level of musicianship-and by the way, just who does rate in your opinion? Secondly, I googled a little bit of info on the history of the MC5-Wayne Kramer, in criticism of the group's first album, criticized everybody in the group BUT THE BASS PLAYER, Michael Davis-and-after Davis left the group, it appears they went through three other bass players in a relatively short period of time, to find someone who could apparently, equal the fine work that Davis had done while he was with the group! And if it's true that Davis was fired from the group, I'm willing to bet it wasn't due to his lack of musicianship! And as far as his "fundamentals" go, I won't even dignify your questioning his musicianship on that level with a response on my part-I'll let someone else who sees this respond to your IGNORANT STATEMENT about Michael Davis' lack of fundamental training, which he obviously had! So I wonder now, where you're really coming from with all of this put down of the bassist, and it appears the rest of the group also-by the way-I think PUNK-ROCK SUCKS; not much to it if you ask me; been listening to/aware of stuff like that for over forty years, and I remember groups like the Dead Kennedys and the Plasmatics and what have you; nothing challenging to it, instead, the same old 100 mile per-hour lines(tired sounding) that they've been playing for the last over forty years! And talk about loud-those cats are probably the loudest musicians of all the musicians there are! You can't hear the bass player for all of the LOUD, SCREAMING GUTIARS that are playing, as the bassist and everybody else is playing, so don't give me that crap about the MC5 being too loud; on the contrary, I think you are a jerk who looks for an opportunity to condemn real art-which everybody else clearly sees is art, but you! And as far as the bassist not locking in with the drummer, I think he does, and I don't hear "random notes", on the contrary, I think it's YOUR LACK OF MUSICAL EXPERIENCE that shows, as you've conveyed in your response-and as I've said, it shows that you really don't know what you're talking about! And you said: "The guitars are so loud and MUSICAL"! What kind of IDIOTIC statement is that! Guitars are supposed to be "musical", the same as every other instrument that has ever been created, and from what I hear in this video, they are doing a great and kick-ass job at it, and apparently everybody else thinks so but you! And they don't sound that loud to me! I've heard louder, believe me I have! Furthermore, what is wrong with being as you put it, "musical"? That's like saying it's wrong to "doctor", about anyone who is a doctor! That therefore, is the objective of all musicians, to be musical, and so I wonder, as I've said, just where you're coming from, because your statements not only reflect someone who obviously, DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT, but maybe, you are a BITTER AND CONDEMNING PERSON-to find fault in that which everyone else-certainly most people in this world-find beauty and joy-one thing's for sure, I wouldn't ever want to be you. 10-4-24.
@@charlesbrazell2136 it’s musical in the sense it takes up most of the sonic space. Bands like the Beatles or nirvana the guitar is doing less. The bass was also criticized . Are you referring to their first producer? Again I’ve read the hard stuff by Wayne Kramer. He even talks about how he “never listened to the bass before”. That’s why Wayne Kramer plays bass on their first studio album! Michael wasn’t cutting it. In fact Michael was doing heroin while the group was recording back in the USA.
I was there, the 5 were rocking it hard. It was a weird concert at the Wayne State Football Stadium. Me and my friend hitchhiked down to the show, we lived in the outskirt suburbs of Motown. In the background you can see cars going by on the Lodge Freeway, heading downtown and out of town. Most young people in this crowd were buzzed one way or another, the music alone was a trip. Kick Out the Jams was the punchline we all waited to hear and watch. Place went nuts. Back in the day.
Was born in 70. This music was on the radio all over! My brothers were much older than me, and they had no problem introducing us to rock n roll ! Still listen to 70s rock and till I die I will! Rock out my brothers and sisters!
@@itjustlookslikethisthat's the second time that I've seen you demean the MC5. You seem to think that longevity or selling out a stadium equals quality. Shame we won't both live for another hundred years because I bet you that by then all the bands you could name as the best won't be as influential to bands in the future as the MC5 will be! If you look at the influences of new up and coming bands although they will mention some obvious outfits like the Beatles as an influence they will more consistently mention more obscure outfits like the MC5, the Stooges, Django Reinhart, Zappa, Ian Dury, Shonen Knife (one of Kurt Cobain's favourites), Link Wray, even the Shaggs. Legacy will never be as important in music as the feeling that creeps up your spine!
@@keldsleepnot7961Right you are! In this ultra-stupid culture the more money you have the better a person you are. But really, thirty years from now which band will be remembered more---MC5/Stooges etc....or Journey/ REO Fartwagon/The Doodie Brothers etc? That is of course addressed to those bozos, not to you! As I've said, you have your finger on the REAL pulse out there. Great comment!
I saw them the same year, 1970, at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, MI. I was a senior in HS and a local group named Walrus opened for them. I had a Ford van and was a sort of part-time Roady for them. Helped with their set up and got to hang out back stage. MC 5 guys were all cool and friendly, and the show was incredible. Kick out the Jams, motherf*%#ers!!!
And there'll never be anything like this again in this world-why? That's another story, other than to say Disco music and Rap or Hip-Hop were instrumental in bringing about the death of ALL real and creative music in this country(and throughout the rest of the world). I also miss going to the record stores and buying the latest albums by my favorite artists, after hearing their latest jams on the radio...we'll never get those days back, I'm sorry to say. 10-4-24.
It is very beautiful that drummer Dennis "Machine Gun" Thompson, loses a stick about 4 seconds into the performance. Rock'n'Roll. Also, props to the young lady in the intro. No BS, just a nice intro.
So nice to hear the lesser known single "Looking At You". I have the studio release of it on a Michigan Brand Nuggets compilation album. Pure rock and roll.
MC5 had serious players. They enjoyed what the brits would call ‘taking the piss’ out of the music scene at the time, which was actually a very healthy and creative time. Their drummer was phenomenal and of course there’s Wayne, the consummate showman. Their fantastic sounding live album had a huge impact on me and no doubt many other rockers. Love the MC5!
In July, 1970, I was across the Detroit River, in Windsor, ON, Canada. Saw the MC5, Stooges, Rationals, Brownsville Station all the time. Wow! Right after this day in August 1970 was the Goose Lake Music Festival, Michigan's version of Woodstock. MC5 was there, and Iggy, and Alice Cooper, all the big rock bands of the day, including Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, Jethro Tull, Chicago, Mountain, and so on . . . Wayne Kramer kicks ass on this video! Those were the rockin' days.
One of the great disappointments of my life was meeting Wayne Kramer, because I really didn’t know anything about the MC5 when I met him, so I just shook his hand and said hello, 20 years later, I started seeing videos like this, it really hurt to know that I was in this man’s presence, and could not sing his praises to him, I really really wish I could have that moment back now, when you are a rock god, I’m so bummed
One of the motorcity greats that were ahead of their time. I grew up listening to these guys my uncle hung with them before and while they were big and has a bunch of stories of what went on backstages and at parties these guys were hardcore party animals
I met Dennis Thompson at the Harmony House out in Taylor, MI. back in 1997, he introduced himself to me. Really nice guy, told him I really liked Sister Anne and songs of that nature.
Man I could watch Fred crank out those hard rhythms on his guitar all day. He was the powerhouse in the band. Wayne had drama, but Fred had the groove.
Soy Rokero desde los años 60s! Conozco prácticamente las mejores bandas Americanas he inglesas de esas decadas. Ninca habia escuchado este este *Extraordinario* grupo de Detroit.. *dobte todo afmiro la increible guitara del primer vocalista, con esa magnífica voz tan aguda, y el dominio totsl de ñs guitarra.. No se que fue de estos Chicos pero se metecen estar en el salon de la fama del Rock. Insisto dobre todo el requinto de voz sguda es un genio total.. Saludos desde México.
there's only 5 songs in the setlist: Tartar Field on the Wayne State University Campus Ramblin' Rose Kick Out the Jams Looking at You Motor City Is Burning Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa)
Geez. I lived in Florida at that time. But my Dad lived in Detroit so I was exposed to this music on the “underground” FM radio stations of that time. Here am I wishing I still had that energy…. I still do! Kick out the Jams! (Deleted)
Just came across this video and realized that I was at this concert. I had always had a vague memory of an outdoor concert in the Wayne State area in the summer of 1970 but could never quite place where it was exactly or who played. I appreciate this being available to see. Reminds me of seeing the footage a couple of years ago of another concert that summer I attended in Cincinnati at Crosley Field headlined by Traffic.
I had a compilation of rock on a 8-track. One of the songs was Kick out the Jams! I was 14 when this happened but the tape was a couple of years later.
I think this was the Concert that made the MC 5 Famous - they blurred the beginning of Kick Out The Jams - because I doubt if they did it twice. Detroit Cops back then were Big and Mean and they didn't like Hippies - I'm sure The Big 4 (4 Detectives in a Big Black Chrysler) had a word with the young fellas 😇
Listen Swamp Rats Psycho from 1966.And many mid 60 garage punk bands.... Punk definitely didn't start with Ramones Pistols Clash and all ur other assumptions!!
@@matthewtaylor7355 If you loosely define all hard rock as "punk" sure. The 1975 to 1977 rise of actual punk rock was a reaction to the overly produced and crappy prog and mainstream '70s rock. It was the attitude to get back to basics. Of course, The Stooges, and MC5 here, among others had similar rhythms, they weren't really punk.
These guys had quite a few moves - I don't think the crowd knew how to respond to them. The guitarist on the left is a true showman - amazing - I always liked that song "Human Being Lawnmower".
WAVX Tubeworks was a blast. Being that it was simulcast on the radio was a huge deal back then. I first saw Alice Copper there billed as “ from Hollywood California, Alice Cooper!” I’m pretty sure Gail there is Gail Perenteau.
Where there is one, there usually are about ten to twenty others bands that we never got to know about-for whatever reason; thank God then, for the wonderful invention called the internet, which now enables us of the present day and time, to finally become exposed to such classic and kick-ass musicians such as the MC5! 10-5-24.
I was there. It was phenomenal! 10 1/2 years later i got into Destroy All Monsters with Mike (and Ron Asheton). That lasted two gigs. Then they tossed my autistic ass along with my keyboards outa there. Autism sucks more than anyone knows. It's a life sentence. I'm just glad this scene was there. In 50 years we have gone backwards a thousand years.
Deep Purple and Black Sabbath are awesome. That goes without saying. But c'mon, these guys are so fuckin cool, they make those bands look like a loaf of bread in a bucket of piss. How the fuck were these guys not HUGE?!?
Unfortunately, greatness in this world sometimes gets overlooked; thank God for those who were able to preserve this historic performance on video, and present it to us in the present day and time, all these years later! 10-4-24.
Sometimes I have to re-watch this video to experience some of the most exciting, visceral rock ever caught in action! It's a soul recharging jolt to the nervous system. I about 4 years old when this was filmed, but I'm so glad this kind of material has been shared on RUclips.
I wasn't born yet...6 months later. Didn't totally appreciate the magnitude of these cats in their peak until seeing this. Totally blows away the wanky brits...they couldn't really be contained in a studio. Where is the other two songs??
This before heavy drugs, money, etc. drains out the soul...
Hey @ronbo11 - These songs are all I could find when i did my search online. The complete footage is owned by a corporate licencing co. that has a sample video online with licencing information also...
Me to!!!❤
I was almost 13 when MC5 came out and the one hit I remember, Kick out the jams. Took me years until I figured out what jams were. 😀🎵
The sheer, ecstatic exuberance of Wayne Cramer's rock and roll energy will always be an effing sight to behold. RIP.
RIP MC5
You were light years ahead of your time 💔
Did they sell out the forum in Los Angeles, Noooooooo, enough said
RIP Wayne. The MC5 changed my life for the better and I’ll never forget it. Kick out the jams, MOTHERF****RS!!
I did not know he died! Recently read his book, "The hard stuff" - if youre into Rock Music, it´s mandatory!
He sucks. The bassist, drummer and other guitarist were doing all the real playing. He was just showing off and not actually doing anything.
@@richsackett3423 It's not like the MC5 were a polished Rock band. They were like the Stooges. Crank it Up and go for it Detroit style!!
Brothers and sisters
The other version
I was there. Let me say that if you wanted to spend a great night, it would have been at the Grande Ballroom. Line up: The Stooges, MC5 and, of course, The Rationals. No better music. At 78, I still love all of them! Rock on!
Miss you dear friend Fred Sonic Smith...always.
I wasn't there for it, too young, but I remember these guys very fondly. One of the early favs in my collection. I was two when this concert was filmed (had a rockin and rollin mom)
At 71, iI still love it! Dee-troit was the HOME of rock & roll.
has to be one of the best I was there's going lmap. What a set. Crowd is stunned. People looking to understand the birth of punk need to study Ann Arbor 69.
@@missjoshemmett RUSS GIBB BROUGHT THIS TO DETROIT
The Frost...and that band from a2 that had a farm full of pot...they got time for that..hit was WHO DO YOU LOVE....
My dad knew John Sinclair- their manager- says he was like 7 ft tall 🤣-more than likely, my old man was at this show. ROCK IN HEAVEN, Dad❤️🙏☮️😎🕊
Hey great story personal story!
I really appreciate the comment here... If you have any other stories about you father and his experiences with JC & the MC5, I'm sure we'd all enjoy reading 😎
He was only seven feet tall figuratively. John was a legend. I met him but once. Really nice guy.
Awsome as a little girl growing up in Davison MI. I heard John Sinclair in a march on maint st.!!! YAYYYY lol he just passed away a few months ago MAY HE R I P.
I'm Black, 66 years old and digging this also-there's nothing like it in this world anymore-and-another reason I'm proud to be from Detroit(yes, was born and raised here).
Didn't know about this group then, but have since found out a little bit about them-too bad I didn't become more exposed to this group's music! 10-4-24.
Hopefully were were exposed to all that good Motown from those years, like I was.
RIP, Brother Wayne.
They plays and sounds like a dream rock band. Beautiful riffs and powerful tone, but incredible rhythm section with Dennis and Michael. Great songs and fabulous singing by Rob
The bass player sucks. Drummer is good though.
@@jamiehovis7722 You don't know what you're talking about, the bass player is very good; lyrical, with chops-and solid-you couldn't ask for a better bass player than this, and I ought to know because I've been playing the instrument for over 40 years(actually started playing the instrument over 45 years ago)...
i mean one doesn't have to play like Stanley Clarke or Billy Sheehan to be considered good-those guys are exceptional and if that's your standard by which you judge all bass players, I think that's an unfair(and moronic) standard by which one judges all other bass players-and I'm just curious, who would be considered good by you? 10-4-24.
@@charlesbrazell2136 he doesn’t even lock in with the drummer. Sometimes he’s literally playing nothing, at other times it’s literally random notes. The guitars are so loud and musical, likewise with the drums and vocals, that it doesn’t matter too much but it would be better if he had the fundamentals down. He’s not even good by punk rock standards. Even Dee Dee Damone locked in with the drummer.
I also read Wayne Kramer book. He too thought the bass sucked. They eventually fired him. Wayne plays bass on their studio albums back in USA and high time. He’s only on their first live album.
@@jamiehovis7722 It's funny, you are the only one to put down these very fine musicians; of all the comments I've read so far, you are the first to condemn their level of musicianship-and by the way, just who does rate in your opinion?
Secondly, I googled a little bit of info on the history of the MC5-Wayne Kramer, in criticism of the group's first album, criticized everybody in the group BUT THE BASS PLAYER, Michael Davis-and-after Davis left the group, it appears they went through three other bass players in a relatively short period of time, to find someone who could apparently, equal the fine work that Davis had done while he was with the group! And if it's true that Davis was fired from the group, I'm willing to bet it wasn't due to his lack of musicianship!
And as far as his "fundamentals" go, I won't even dignify your questioning his musicianship on that level with a response on my part-I'll let someone else who sees this respond to your IGNORANT STATEMENT about Michael Davis' lack of fundamental training, which he obviously had!
So I wonder now, where you're really coming from with all of this put down of the bassist, and it appears the rest of the group also-by the way-I think PUNK-ROCK SUCKS; not much to it if you ask me; been listening to/aware of stuff like that for over forty years, and I remember groups like the Dead Kennedys and the Plasmatics and what have you; nothing challenging to it, instead, the same old 100 mile per-hour lines(tired sounding) that they've been playing for the last over forty years! And talk about loud-those cats are probably the loudest musicians of all the musicians there are! You can't hear the bass player for all of the LOUD, SCREAMING GUTIARS that are playing, as the bassist and everybody else is playing, so don't give me that crap about the MC5 being too loud; on the contrary, I think you are a jerk who looks for an opportunity to condemn real art-which everybody else clearly sees is art, but you!
And as far as the bassist not locking in with the drummer, I think he does, and I don't hear "random notes", on the contrary, I think it's YOUR LACK OF MUSICAL EXPERIENCE that shows, as you've conveyed in your response-and as I've said, it shows that you really don't know what you're talking about!
And you said: "The guitars are so loud and MUSICAL"! What kind of IDIOTIC statement is that! Guitars are supposed to be "musical", the same as every other instrument that has ever been created, and from what I hear in this video, they are doing a great and kick-ass job at it, and apparently everybody else thinks so but you!
And they don't sound that loud to me! I've heard louder, believe me I have! Furthermore, what is wrong with being as you put it, "musical"? That's like saying it's wrong to "doctor", about anyone who is a doctor! That therefore, is the objective of all musicians, to be musical, and so I wonder, as I've said, just where you're coming from, because your statements not only reflect someone who obviously, DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT, but maybe, you are a BITTER AND CONDEMNING PERSON-to find fault in that which everyone else-certainly most people in this world-find beauty and joy-one thing's for sure, I wouldn't ever want to be you. 10-4-24.
@@charlesbrazell2136 it’s musical in the sense it takes up most of the sonic space. Bands like the Beatles or nirvana the guitar is doing less.
The bass was also criticized . Are you referring to their first producer? Again I’ve read the hard stuff by Wayne Kramer. He even talks about how he “never listened to the bass before”. That’s why Wayne Kramer plays bass on their first studio album! Michael wasn’t cutting it. In fact Michael was doing heroin while the group was recording back in the USA.
I love all three of their chords
I was there, the 5 were rocking it hard. It was a weird concert at the Wayne State Football Stadium.
Me and my friend hitchhiked down to the show, we lived in the outskirt suburbs of Motown. In the background you can see cars going by on the Lodge Freeway, heading downtown and out of town.
Most young people in this crowd were buzzed one way or another, the music alone was a trip. Kick Out the Jams was the punchline we all waited to hear and watch. Place went nuts.
Back in the day.
One of the earliest, and most interesting of American Heavy rock bands. RIP to all five of these legends.
Was born in 70. This music was on the radio all over! My brothers were much older than me, and they had no problem introducing us to rock n roll ! Still listen to 70s rock and till I die I will! Rock out my brothers and sisters!
Those Marshall stacks.
which everyone used, what's your point?
@@itjustlookslikethis yea those marshall stacks man
Simulcasts, ah, memories!
That was fun
The MC5 lives more in one song than most people do in their whole fucking lives
So, is that the reason they didn't last?
@@itjustlookslikethisthat's the second time that I've seen you demean the MC5. You seem to think that longevity or selling out a stadium equals quality.
Shame we won't both live for another hundred years because I bet you that by then all the bands you could name as the best won't be as influential to bands in the future as the MC5 will be!
If you look at the influences of new up and coming bands although they will mention some obvious outfits like the Beatles as an influence they will more consistently mention more obscure outfits like the MC5, the Stooges, Django Reinhart, Zappa, Ian Dury, Shonen Knife (one of Kurt Cobain's favourites), Link Wray, even the Shaggs.
Legacy will never be as important in music as the feeling that creeps up your spine!
@@keldsleepnot7961Right you are! In this ultra-stupid culture the more money you have the better a person you are. But really, thirty years from now which band will be remembered more---MC5/Stooges etc....or Journey/ REO Fartwagon/The Doodie Brothers etc? That is of course addressed to those bozos, not to you! As I've said, you have your finger on the REAL pulse out there. Great comment!
Most of that crowd were absolutely stunned into submission.
Saw them open for Grand Funk RR at the Ludlow Garage in Cincinnati around this time. A memorial experience to say the least,! Haaaa
I saw them the same year, 1970, at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, MI. I was a senior in HS and a local group named Walrus opened for them. I had a Ford van and was a sort of part-time Roady for them. Helped with their set up and got to hang out back stage. MC 5 guys were all cool and friendly, and the show was incredible. Kick out the Jams, motherf*%#ers!!!
Hedgcock Fieldhouse?
I think that was what it was called. On NMU campus, where the basketball team played. Did not go to school at NMU.
For all you young people, This is ROCK AND ROLL!!! Simple in your face!!! Fuck yeah!!!
Fuckin' A!😂
And there'll never be anything like this again in this world-why? That's another story, other than to say Disco music and Rap or Hip-Hop were instrumental in bringing about the death of ALL real and creative music in this country(and throughout the rest of the world).
I also miss going to the record stores and buying the latest albums by my favorite artists, after hearing their latest jams on the radio...we'll never get those days back, I'm sorry to say. 10-4-24.
This is the essence of Detroit. Greatest rocknroll town ever.
The Band your parents warned you about.. Mc5 and the Savoy Brown Boogie our old house party jams at 10 Volume
turn it on LOUD setting 👍
Raw Sienna
It is very beautiful that drummer Dennis "Machine Gun" Thompson, loses a stick about 4 seconds into the performance. Rock'n'Roll.
Also, props to the young lady in the intro. No BS, just a nice intro.
*R.i.P. Brother Wayne. Last man standing...'Machine Gun'.
Green Day has a song about that.
RIP Machine Gun 💔
So nice to hear the lesser known single "Looking At You". I have the studio release of it on a Michigan Brand Nuggets compilation album. Pure rock and roll.
Used to practice in a garage near where I lived as a kid and we could hear them from 8 blocks away as if they were in front of us
RIP Wayne Kramer, a true humanitarian and gentleman.
MC5 had serious players. They enjoyed what the brits would call ‘taking the piss’ out of the music scene at the time, which was actually a very healthy and creative time. Their drummer was phenomenal and of course there’s Wayne, the consummate showman. Their fantastic sounding live album had a huge impact on me and no doubt many other rockers. Love the MC5!
In July, 1970, I was across the Detroit River, in Windsor, ON, Canada. Saw the MC5, Stooges, Rationals, Brownsville Station all the time. Wow! Right after this day in August 1970 was the Goose Lake Music Festival, Michigan's version of Woodstock. MC5 was there, and Iggy, and Alice Cooper, all the big rock bands of the day, including Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, Jethro Tull, Chicago, Mountain, and so on . . .
Wayne Kramer kicks ass on this video! Those were the rockin' days.
Raw power and mesmerizing showmanship. Fuckin' legends!
Before the Ramones there was MC5
One of the great disappointments of my life was meeting Wayne Kramer, because I really didn’t know anything about the MC5 when I met him, so I just shook his hand and said hello, 20 years later, I started seeing videos like this, it really hurt to know that I was in this man’s presence, and could not sing his praises to him, I really really wish I could have that moment back now, when you are a rock god, I’m so bummed
Relax- sounds like that’s the only important thing in your whole existence
@@froglobster I also masturbate
One of the motorcity greats that were ahead of their time. I grew up listening to these guys my uncle hung with them before and while they were big and has a bunch of stories of what went on backstages and at parties these guys were hardcore party animals
MC5 were nothing compared to Grand Funk.
At the beginning the 2 guys in back of the singer were smoking a joint.
@@allanjechorek4381
😂 I saw that too. Hey back then we all did.😊
@@richhopson6063 Yep
I met Dennis Thompson at the Harmony House out in Taylor, MI. back in 1997, he introduced himself to me. Really nice guy, told him I really liked Sister Anne and songs of that nature.
My dad had a ‘fro that could rival Rob’s 😂❤️☮️✊🌅🕊
THIS is pure. raw. original. fire.🔥
Cannot sit still while watching this much energy!
Man I could watch Fred crank out those hard rhythms on his guitar all day. He was the powerhouse in the band. Wayne had drama, but Fred had the groove.
Yea,,Crystal meth and Vaseline soles.🤪
Look out m Jackson
The entire rhythm section were phenomenal players. In a section, nothing works if there is any slacker.
MC5...these guys will get you going on a Sunday morning like today...so awesome!!😎
RIP legendary Wayne who had all the guitar chops
Soy Rokero desde los años 60s!
Conozco prácticamente las mejores bandas Americanas he inglesas de esas decadas.
Ninca habia escuchado este este *Extraordinario* grupo de Detroit..
*dobte todo afmiro la increible guitara del primer vocalista, con esa magnífica voz tan aguda, y el dominio totsl de ñs guitarra..
No se que fue de estos Chicos pero se metecen estar en el salon de la fama del Rock.
Insisto dobre todo el requinto de voz sguda es un genio total..
Saludos desde México.
1:34 the dude in the background taking big hit off of a joint then handing it to someone else...
1:41 for the rest of us.
1971 .... Jr. Year. Picked music appreciation as an elective. Let's just say Miss Oakes, and I didn't see eye to eye. Cha cha cha....
there's only 5 songs in the setlist: Tartar Field on the Wayne State University Campus
Ramblin' Rose
Kick Out the Jams
Looking at You
Motor City Is Burning
Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa)
Geez. I lived in Florida at that time. But my Dad lived in Detroit so I was exposed to this music on the “underground” FM radio stations of that time. Here am I wishing I still had that energy….
I still do! Kick out the Jams! (Deleted)
I saw them a month later at the Goose Lake Festival. Anyone else...?
My girlfriend and I saw the MC5 at the Olympia, it was crazy cool.
I just can;t stop watching this. What a band!
I was a junior at WSU in 1970 and hanging out at Alvin's Deli on Cass. Saw MC5 at Grande Ballroom.
Alvin's!! Many great memories! Damn good corned beef sandwiches!
The most UNDERATED band of all time.
More overuse of the word underrated
Another example of the “underrated disease” on YT
@@MD-lf3gt Your comment demonstrates how overrated you consider your opinions.
@@FarRite5921 why did you delete my comment? And is that Franco, are you a farrite fascist?
The word underrated is overrated
Gail is a very groovy chick - She's a blast from the past.
Rip wayne
You gotta love the dropped stick in the intro!
WOW. That was some time to live in!
They suck !!! Lol...
Dennis looses 2 sticks in 20 seconds
❤
I was 13 and there!!!
Just great awesome rock keep on watching, ❤
It's not protopunk, it's not protometal it's Detroit trock and roll
Just came across this video and realized that I was at this concert. I had always had a vague memory of an outdoor concert in the Wayne State area in the summer of 1970 but could never quite place where it was exactly or who played. I appreciate this being available to see. Reminds me of seeing the footage a couple of years ago of another concert that summer I attended in Cincinnati at Crosley Field headlined by Traffic.
I had a compilation of rock on a 8-track. One of the songs was Kick out the Jams! I was 14 when this happened but the tape was a couple of years later.
I think I may have had the same on an album.... Around the same age....that's the first time I heard Kick out the Jams or of The MC5....
I think this was the Concert that made the MC 5 Famous - they blurred the beginning of Kick Out The Jams - because I doubt if they did it twice. Detroit Cops back then were Big and Mean and they didn't like Hippies - I'm sure The Big 4 (4 Detectives in a Big Black Chrysler) had a word with the young fellas 😇
This is what pure, raw rock sounds like. You very rarely see concerts anymore that have the same hard energy that the MC5 had.
Saw them open up in 1968 for the who I’ll never forget that Concert
A whole lot of energy , I whish I could have tripped through there . This is a good use of youtube , Right 0n :) QC
This had me at "MC5"
DETROIT!
my home town since the 1950s
Kramer and sonic smith lit the stage on fire.
KICK OUT THE JAMS, MO-FO'S
The pioneers of "punk" rock.. 💪
Die Jungs waren viel zu gut um in den Punk-Topf geschmissen zu werden! Lächerlich!!!
Listen Swamp Rats Psycho from 1966.And many mid 60 garage punk bands.... Punk definitely didn't start with Ramones Pistols Clash and all ur other assumptions!!
@@matthewtaylor7355 l'am a Old-School Metal-Head! Nevertheless-Punk ist Junk!!
@@matthewtaylor7355 If you loosely define all hard rock as "punk" sure. The 1975 to 1977 rise of actual punk rock was a reaction to the overly produced and crappy prog and mainstream '70s rock. It was the attitude to get back to basics. Of course, The Stooges, and MC5 here, among others had similar rhythms, they weren't really punk.
These guys had quite a few moves - I don't think the crowd knew how to respond to them. The guitarist on the left is a true showman - amazing - I always liked that song "Human Being Lawnmower".
Talk about energy.
Long Live MC 5..Long Live Patti Smith..n.. HORSES !!!!
Sadly, he was the last surviving member of the band. R.I.P. to the whole group.
The astounding thing is that the crowd are mostly just standing there!
ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS !!! 👍
Heaven is kicking out!!
i want a mind wipe
then i want to be sent back in time and space to this concert and experience it for the first time
On fire 🔥
I'm 58, feel 15. Birthday punks
WAVX Tubeworks was a blast. Being that it was simulcast on the radio was a huge deal back then. I first saw Alice Copper there billed as “ from Hollywood California, Alice Cooper!” I’m pretty sure Gail there is Gail Perenteau.
i cant believe this priceless of course
Now that’s real Rock and Roll
This is a band old kids on the block can be proud of.
They were pioneers along with the early phase of Blue Cheer. Had to be more than two bands doing this then. I would love to hear about them.
Where there is one, there usually are about ten to twenty others bands that we never got to know about-for whatever reason; thank God then, for the wonderful invention called the internet, which now enables us of the present day and time, to finally become exposed to such classic and kick-ass musicians such as the MC5! 10-5-24.
This music is so manic.
I was there. It was phenomenal! 10 1/2 years later i got into Destroy All Monsters with Mike (and Ron Asheton). That lasted two gigs. Then they tossed my autistic ass along with my keyboards outa there. Autism sucks more than anyone knows. It's a life sentence. I'm just glad this scene was there. In 50 years we have gone backwards a thousand years.
BEST. FUCKING. BAND. EVER.
If you’re going to say it’
Say it like it should be MF
My dad was a student advisor at WSU at that time...
I think I saw him in the crowd LoL!
Those guitars are way cool!
The precursor to the moon walk at 2:16
Roger waters smoking at the backside
What time mark ? I gotta see that
@@brettholtslander2704 1.42,look at to the singer's back
@alialcnkaya8694 good eye. That's cool
@@brettholtslander2704 thank you so much greetings from Turkey.
@alialcnkaya8694 Michigan here brother
Wish I could have seen 'em live.
Where are all those guitars right now??? Asking for a friend!!!
In the beginning was the MC5. They were the godfathers of punk!
Muito foda!!!!!!
I realize I am kind of randomly asking but does anyone know a good site to watch new tv shows online?
I get a kick out of the "hangers on" standing around the Marshall stacks, air-guitaring and generally acting cool.
These dudes ruled
I kove whe everyone stands up
Deep Purple and Black Sabbath are awesome. That goes without saying. But c'mon, these guys are so fuckin cool, they make those bands look like a loaf of bread in a bucket of piss. How the fuck were these guys not HUGE?!?
Unfortunately, greatness in this world sometimes gets overlooked; thank God for those who were able to preserve this historic performance on video, and present it to us in the present day and time, all these years later! 10-4-24.