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- A true fan favorite! In genuine Motor City fashion, here's the MC5 in an unparalleled afternoon of raw rock and roll as they kick out the jams to the backdrop of a busy Detroit highway. This is the finest quality ever found on the world wide web!
I'm going to make a comment here about this video/audio master. It came to my office preserved with the edit of "mutherfuckers". We focused more on the quality of the video and audio rather than the fact that the lead vocal had been altered with that millisecond of silence. So .... let's rock. w.
Thank You Brother Wayne. Please know that people still love and kick out the jams to the Five. Take Care.
Rock on, Brother Wayne! This is a truly great performance.
It's a small alteration in a long performance, and it's better to have the performance preserved rather than not. However, it should be fully restored. The edit is an abomination.
At least they didn't edit out that classic footwork. Best to you, Brother Wayne.
I never tire of watching this performance. Never.
I am a Black 64 year old man born and raised in Detroit. I have always loved Detroit rock and roll ( and Hendrix ). I was at this concert at Wayne State U. I was lucky to see the great Motor City 5 many times, they were the GREATEST LIVE BAND EVER !! That’s means a lot because in Detroit in those days, we saw all of the top groups on a regular basis. Grand Funk, Zep,Hendrix,The Who, Black Sabbath,Johnny Winter,Funkadelic,Santana - I saw the New York Dolls open for Kiss @ the Michigan Theatre before the both hit big. Man those days were AWESOME!! But NOBODY commanded an audience and stage like the GREAT MC5 (Rob Tyler and I both had big Afros also) PEACE.
Did you see the Amboy Dukes in 69? I seen them on the steps of the Detroit library. I was 13 at the time. I was standing next to a huge black guy with a bullwhip around his shoulder maybe it was you:) I was a skinny white guy a little scared and he looked down at me and smiled and all my fears melted. That was before I seen Jimi at Cobo. I used to go to the East Towne lots. A friend of mine had a big afro too. We used to hide joints in his hair going before over the border from Windsor:) Lots of great memories going to Detroit:)))
Except Tyner's Afro was a perm!
Len Colby True, but was still great.
@@lencolby4605 That's not what Wayne Kramer said in his book, he said Rob used to try like hell to straighten it but the fro just came right back. That's what he said in his book anyway.
@@lencolby4605 yeah as in his hair was permanently kinky ALL his life , and so fucking what !
R.I.P Wayne Kramer. The power of your music will live on forever.
Just heard and had to come back to this beautiful clip immediately. So privileged to have seen them, what, 15 years or so agoÉ With Mark Arm and Evan Dando singing. What a show! I caught one of Dennis Thompsons discarded, broken sticks and had him sign it. Still have it too. Fuck. Rest in Power, Brother Wayne. They threw the mold away after you, boy, goddamn.
Rip Wayne! Damn it. Kick out the jams in the afterlife
@@gravelevel3084 Came here cuz I just heard about it, too. Fuck.
Right on man. He was awesome.
I've come back to this show again and again just for another dose of sheer rocking power. And now I've learned that Wayne is gone . So sad, but you know, man, you've changed me and spoken to so many lives. Thank you, my brother!
Black Rocker here, I never thought my wonderful memories of Brother Wayne Kramer and the mighty MC5 would garner the most likes for this video masterpiece. I am truly , truly DEVASTATED to hear of the passing of my favorite live group’s awesome guitarist, Brother Wayne. He was more than an amazing musician. The MC5 shows were a promise that WE , Black and White, could ALL be brought together by the mighty power of the “5”. The 5 and Wayne will always be my favorites and I will spend this day listening to them and reminiscing about those glorious days. PEACE ☮️
Wonderful testimony. The 70's were something. We've stepped back and it's sad, almost by design.
@@sirgalahad3574 Thanks man appreciate it 👍🏾🎸
Beautiful
Me too!
A true testiment of affection from a true fan of the MC5 and Wayne Kramer, the larger than life musician and humanitarian. Thanks for this.
RIP Wayne, the world is a much sadder place today. I've watched this video a million times and will watch it a million more.
I can't stop watching it
The Greatest...
@@peterwhite507 Same here.
I never get tired of seeing it either, I see something new every time I see it. My boys were very limber.
Fabulous band.
You won't believe this, but a month or so before this show in Ohio, the MC5 played my senior Prom. I kid you not. It was May of 1970, the Mckeesport Pa. High School class of 1970 Prom at the Rostraver Gardens , not far from Mckeesport. It was a crazy night. They didn't go on until about 4 in the morning and saved Kick Out the Jams till last. As soon as Rob Tyner said motherf#@#er, our Vice Principal pulled the plug on them. Show was over! Their sound system blew the doors off of the hall, and our teachers were going nuts. No one was prepared for what they were seeing. And the young teacher who ok'd the booking of the MC5 nearly got fired. It was a night i still smile about 51 years later.
That's incredible! As an Ohio boy, I can't imagine getting the MC5 as our prom band..lol.
did they just play Teenage Lust over and over?
My Uncle, Leo Thomas, was in the McKeesport drum line and played in a local rock band. He worked at Bechtel-bettis his entire life and died when he was only 52 about 15 years ago from mesothelioma. My entire family is from McKeesport/Glassport but I moved to Florida when I was young. Does he sound familiar to you? They were from a place called "Crawford Village". You guys were around the same age.
@@The_OneManCrowd Yes I remember that name and I will look in the yearbook to see if he graduated with me. There were 840 kids in my class so its hard to remember everyone. Thanks for replying.
@@jimray4428 Very cool thanks. Everyone is gone now my mom was the last of us she lived in Westmoreland County out in the country but passed over five years ago. I have no connection to the area anymore but vividly remember mom driving us to McKeesport and the smell of the coke mills across the river. My grandmother worked for Joe Winzeck catering for years and we would eat there when we'd visit. Seems like another lifetime ago now.
"I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet...but your kids are gonna love it."
M J Fox...end quote...
Totally, it's like these guys were 10-15 years before their time... This was 1970...
Shades2 more likely 7-8 years ;)
True. In fact, this is the only group I ever heard Joey Ramone speak favorably of.
Back to the Future level shit, amazing!
Thank you Wayne Kramer. You’ll be missed🌹
Fantastic video from 1970. In 1970 I was 21 and now I'm 75.....MC5 still blows my doors off.
ROCK ON!!!!
Get it 🤘🔥🤘
Me too!!!🎉❤!!!
Groovy!
How in the BLUE HELL are they not in the R&R Hall of Fame??? Punk long before punk became fashionable.
NO SHIT!!! I've SHOUTED that for fourty years! Maybe more!
Damn straight. MC5 and Stooges were the spark that inspired many of us to start bands back in the day.
The godfathers of punk rock, definitely the spark that lit the flame
Fuck that establishment shit. MC5 don't pimp for nobody.
@SERVEewerIDOLonEWERknees If you believe that MC5 are a proto-Metal band, so you have to listen to their full discography. THEY ARE a fucking Punk Rock band. They song Teenage Lust is a good example. Punk didn't begin in 76. In 70/74, the term was already used for exemple by Yves Adrien (to speak about The Stooges and MC5) in the 1973 January numero of the magazine Rock'n'Folk
If you notice there are more than a few BLACK ROCKERS in the crowd. I was one of them. My friends and I would would get some Boone’s Farm and some herb and go see to these fantastic Detroit bands & the national acts at The Olympia, Cobo Hall (at a KISS concert I sat on stage - on Ace’s side - on the tour after their 1st live album) , Birmingham Palladium, State Fair grounds,Masonic Temple etc. Many times saw - Bob Seeger, Frijid Pink, SRC , Mitch Ryder, Stooges, I even saw Wayne Cochran ( u must see him on RUclips)and of course the mighty,mighty MOTOR CITY 5 !!. We all loved each other back then. The White kids treated us great, we had Great Times !! One of my best friends back then and fellow Black Rocker and concertgoer was Comedian/ Actor - David Alan Grier ( he was on Jimmy Kimmel last night). Man, GOOD TIMES IN MOTOWN !!
Dude, rock n roll isn't a matter of your colour. I'm a muso and I don't give a rats arse If the blokes in the audience are black, white or blue. There's no space left for racism at a rock concert. Anyone who thinks different can kiss my arse and that's all I gotta say about that.
Rock on dude!
Did you ever see Death play?
I remember those beautiful times as well. My kids don't believe me when I tell them that race wasn't a thing back then. Oh how I miss that easy, blissful love we felt for one another. And then i always point my kids to...Jimi Hendrix?????? Love from the UK
Carol Wolf : You are 100% correct. Luv u back.
Well, the MC5 was associated with the White and Black Panthers after all.
Every couple of months I watch this again and always end up thinking “holy shit”
I do too. I was there in front and can see what I looked like when I was 17 during 'Looking at You'.
@@onethumbpicker … and I think 'what crap'
Still don't see the big deal
me too
@sha broussard
I agree with you about the music not being "dangerous" but then I don't think that any music is. I think there's a lot more going on here than "coke" though.
Doesn't matter how many times I've seen this this is the epitome of rock n roll. Loud and passionate.
My family leaves when I "kick out the jams."Except my kids.
Ya baby
Holy shit…the best rock film ever. Watched many times,still makes me wanna break some furniture at age 70.
68 and almost did...but it would't break!
I’m 70 as well. First time I’ve seen a video of the MC5 performing live. Just like you noted, my first reaction was holy shit! Geeze that energy on a live stage is a TKO!
RIP Wayne. Your importance to Rock cannot be overstated. Forget Jann Wenner and the hall of fame. We, your fans, will always love you.
I admit I’m very late to the party for the MC5, I’ve watched this video 40 times in 30 days. It’s like a triple espresso of raw energy
Fuk yeah it is!😉
Me too, absolutely brilliant!
I'm only 69 yrs. old, but I think they did more than high energy coffee?
Better late than never! 👍
Wayne playing Rambling Rose here is the perfect representation of the power of youth at its rawest state.
The fancy footwork on the stage to.
Well said.
also the power of Marshall stacks
This is ten and a half minutes of the greatest footage in music history. I can't tell you how many times I come back to this or suggest it others.
I think the same
This is fucking incendiary.
R.I.P. Brother Wayne Kramer
I just want to thank the photographers who filmed this and whomever saved the films for prosperity. I know how much work it all is. Thanks for the upload too.
You mean ... 'for posterity'.
Videotape
@@KurtSlotkowski-hj8jd
do you mean that you lack the imagination to realize that - as long as it is obvious from what a person says what they mean - it really does not matter what fecking words that they use ??
altho it is a shame that somewhere along the way some cunt has come along and removed the word "motherfucker" at 2:59 ..
Yeah, and videotaping something in those days was pretty cumbersome. You had to haul around those clunky camcorders.
Shout out to your dad at 0:25 chiefing a monster hit off that doink
Toastrodamus dood is out there in amish for sure
BUSTED!
Stoney O'Brien escorting the stage crasher off the stage too during kick out. Wow man
Roger Waters
@@hahdhsjsjrkfn ha! It's his little punk-rock brother...
Never heard of the MC5 until a few days ago. They're more captivating than most famous rock group performances because they're a spontaneous powerhouse!
Welcome!
same here !!!! and hour ago i watch a ramones documentary and mention new yor dolls and mc5 and then giving a listen to this bands.....blow my mind !!! this rocks...... and only happen 50 years ago!!
They make punk look tame.
Met em !!!! Was here !;!!! My friends sister dated Wayne. Downriver mi. His guitar playing sidestep is priceless.
Rob Tyner has got to be one of the all-time underappreciated frontmen in Rock history!!
That sideways moonwalk at 00:56!!!
@@Charlie_Tango_Radio That's Wayne Kramer...the owner of this channel. Rob Tyner is the lead singer with the afro.
This recording of the mighty MC5 is so epic and powerful. The Band seemed it could’ve burst into flames by the sheer energy displayed onstage
As great a r&r performance ever recorded.
"could’ve burst into flames" ......What's the scientific term for that....."spontaneous combustion" ....they certainly were in danger of that ......💨🔥
@@PAULLONDEN sheer energy and power, cheers!
Master of Surf Guitar Dick Dale once spoke of how he wanted to explode on stage from the sheer power of him and
His guitar.
These Destroyt Beasts epitomize that.
Those that rock as hard as Dick Dale, Kramer, Sonic, Bon Scott, Lemmy all should explode or spontaneously combust when it is their time to go. It’s just the rock n roll thing to do.
A place to go once time travel is invented ✌️
Yeah, sign me up for that trip!
@@roloa7741 Me too. My bags are packed.
sure as fuck want out of this worthless generation
AvalonDreaming Heh heh heh, good for you Avalon! I’ve still not received a ticket tho. You?
Rolo A No ticket for that show but funny you ask this- I received my Stones tickets just yesterday! May be thier last tour. Wouldn't exactly be the same though. Imagine a concert hall, let'let's just say the Fox Theater in Detroit., a room full of people who just dosed, and some of this coming through the speakers. I imagine we could get back min time that way. Lol! No brown acid though!
70s was a great time to be alive living when rock could roll.R.i.p Wayne
When wayne kramer starts dancing at the beginninig of lookin at you, he looks like the coolest rock star ever, not givin a f***. Robs vocals are great too.
Totally agree...and you can bet that Rob couldn't hear himself at all and yet his vocals were right on! Cheers from Canada!
They seem like they don't give a shit but they know exactly what they doing. Order through chaos. Their performance is a masterpiece.
This reminds me of Back to the Future when Marty McFly started shredding in front of people who’d never heard anything like that before. Same shit here
Great comparison!!!
Wayne Kramer's Ramblin Rose tickles my stomach😂.....especially when he does that sideways moonwalk during the solo.
I saw MC5 many times in the '60s and we thought it was the greatest music in the world. Now they have bigger amplifiers and such. In context, this was 2 months after the Kent State University shootings, which I was at, and 4 students were killed and 9 wounded. One of those killed was Allison Krause, my roommates girlfriend. We were radical as hell back in those days. We hated the establishment and wanted peace in Viet Nam and freedom for the people. I lived in Detroit and then my parents moved to Cleveland but I kept going back to Detroit for concerts. I think I saw every group in America and the music was just oozing out of Detroit. There was some really good hashish that was coming in from Windsor, Ontario, and we got really high. Ted Nugent, Bob Seeger, J. Geils, all Detroit bands and on and on. I used to hitchhike everywhere and I was at the Chicago Democratic Convention in 1968, too, where we almost shut down the convention because the cops were beating so many people. I'm not trying to glorify this era, I'm just saying it was one hell of a trip to be seeing it all happen back then. Every day was exciting and exhilarating. I can't forget those times.
Thank you...love to hear good lived stories
John you're a national treasure - thanks for the insight. 🤘
k. so. why's there a confederate battle flag on one of the amps?
@@RichardMcLamore Because it stood for rebellion. Thats all. Don't turn it in to something it wasn't. Look at the mixed crowd all enjoying the music. That is what it should be about. Those times were much more divided than now politically. You are child's play compared to protests back then.
@@RichardMcLamore It's rebellion. Its better than all of the multivariant alphabet flags that are establishment now.
This should be mandatory viewing for anybody wanting to start a band. This is how it's done folks!!
And I listen and watch!🙋🇮🇹🤳😉🙏👏👍🍾😎
Fuckin A, right!!
:)s ... Amen Brother !
But don't look surprised when your band implodes in four years.
Doesn't antimatter , how did that saying go ? "Better To Burn Out Than Fade Away" ?
Absolutely!
My dad was your manager from '69 when John Sinclair was thrown in jail, until when my dad died in March of '71. I was at this show when I was 11, because my dad got you guys booked for it. I remember crouching down right behind the stage, trying to sorta get underneath it with my fingers in my ears, in an attempt to preserve what was left of my hearing. This clip was shown in that local Detroit music show Detroit Tube Works, plus that show was syndicated, so it was kinda a big deal at the time. He also booked that all day benefit concert for John Sinclair and Mother Waddles in '70 at the Grande Ballroom, and you guys were the co-headliners with John Lee Hooker, who my dad also managed. That show also had The Bob Seger Experience, and The Amboy Dukes with Ted Nugent. I was at that one too. I think that may be the clip you have on your archives playlist, because the date is right.
thanks for sharing!!
Brother Wayne. Your MC5 influenced the influencers of some of the most powerful genre's in modern music. Punk rockers and metal heads, bang your heads to this man. RIP
Es exacto lo que usted dice. Muchos comentarios solo mencionan al punk cuando es evidente su contenido de rock pesado (hard rock y heavy metal).
Igual disfruto de ambas manifestaciones de rock.
This was LOUD, SLOPPY, out of time, out of key and 100% attitude. This is real rock n roll.
Spot on.
I was born in 1985. I grew up with this music. I can't watch this clip over and over and over for next several decades like how I have been doing already !!
@Anderson Cooper You must be on fucking drugs
Exactly!!
@Anderson Cooper well said
Just found this. OMG. I'm 67 years old, an old Detroiter girl who "had" to watch these guys like 20 times because they were ALWAYS the front band for anybody who was Somebody, when they played at The Grande Ballroom on Grand River, or at an outdoor music festival. Now it's important to understand that we ran with the most sophisticated crowd that there was in Detroit at that time and we HATED MC5. We HATED them. We thought they were TRASH. We went outside to smoke when they came on stage. "EEEUUUUWWW, them again!"
Well I'm here to tell you I'm contrite. I'm shocked and embarrassed. I'm here to tell you that we didn't get it. The MC5 were only 30 years ahead of their time.
But some Detroiters DID get it, but maybe you had to be a genius to be in that crowd. In other words, I think this is where Jack White got a good bit of his singing style.
Van Gogh didn't sell even one painting in his lifetime. And I was too dumb to understand this music.
Didn't have to suck it. Just looked at it.
NO your first reaction was right - Trash!
hey,between two thighs,we were the grunge dudes you probably saw smokin weed all the time
Between Two Thighs. Gotta love it.
MC5 tried to tell you, you didn't listen, devo tried to tell you, you still didn't listen, history repeats itself.
RIP Brother Wayne. Thanks for all the great music and your pioneering in attitude and action
RIP Wayne,your influence was monumental. You guys pushed the boundaries of rock and roll.
When life is beating you down or you're depressed, come to this video and get a JOLT of pure Rock N Roll energy for your Soul and be revitalized! Works for me. Every time!
For me too ,every time I am bad I come here to this show
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke! Still no MC5? WTF?
Gary Schenk Agreed. No RRHOF inclusions or exclusions can be taken seriously while the contributions of MC5 AR ignored.
Gary Schenk Ya! what the hell is up with that? No Grand Funk, no Humble Pie, no Iron Maiden, no Blue Oyster Cult...
They are mentioned and featured throughout in many of the exhibits. Like the big map of the country that shows what states have what bands. They seem to acknowledge their importance, yet no official nod?
It’s easier to swallow as the “Pop Music Hall of Fame”
Gary Schenk they’d probably turn it down,
Wayne had the greatest guitar player dance moves, always loved his 'mashed potato' across the stage, fine times indeed!!!
There has been so many classic rock moments but this really has to be the one. It really shouldn't be this good, how the hell does Wayne Kramer get so funky, how does the sonic levels just keep soaring and the audience just miss it. But there are some deep souls who realise that they are witnessing genius. Oh my God- Detroit this is the shit. And I come from New Zealand, but I respect every moment of this. This is a treasure. What I love it reminds me of every wonderful moment when you are young and you try to explain some band or groove you experienced, but it is impossible to recapture- this clip recaptures every single stunning moment of youth and its essence. Thank you for releasing this and long may it exists.
This was like a shot into outerspace. Back then stores were closed on sunday, compared to today, you just can't. if these guys would have walked through my downtown back then, anyone who would have saw them would have probably crossed the street to avoid them. i know. those were the times. music was progressing fast back then, i think people had a hard time catching up. MC5 was ahead of the times, but they sure brought some of us up to speed! back then most middle aged people listened to polka, big band, or country & western, and cast a stern eye on anything more than bubble gum pop. your whole family would probably take a dim view of you just for listening to anything like this. sensoreship and chastisement abounded back then! i think a lot of bands got put off because of this. another big Detroit band, Bob Seger System came out with tales of lucy blue. 5 years later that would have been a smash, but they toned it down a bit and eventially became a hit. The MC5, probably more than any other band, brought me out of the plastic bubble gum era. a big thank you to them!
...gotta be the best MC5 clip I've ever seen. One of THE greatest rock bands of all time, end of story/case closed...gotta love Brother Wayne Kramer's James Brown slide off the stage at the end of "Ramblin' Rose"...
There's videos of Lou Reed around this time also doing a full-on James Brown mic moves etc.
During Ramblin' Rose Kramer does an extended foot shuffle to his right twice (@middle/end) that's straight up James Brown. It's so natural and just part of his awesome stage schtick. That foot move makes me laugh everytime I see this clip. Great energy, great band...
And he does it over a cord without tripping!
Moonwalk. But what ever happened to the faux Afro man after him?
That friggin killer bass holds those songs together as everything else goes into complete chaos. Amazing Detroit bluesy rock.
Michael Davis is underrated
Great tone between the guitar parts.
The 70s is when electric bass was the most important instrument in the band.
Yeah bro ... we bassist's always... always hold it Together!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
true, but also Fred's beastly rhythm guitar and aggression, Happy Birthday Fred Sonic Smith 😍 a true legend! A beast!
Am 64. Raised in Detroit. Am white. Love . We had great music. The best Rock and roll. The best Sou! Motown.Smoky. Temptations. Seger
Nobody cares you’re white.
It’s hilarious how on every LEFTIST political band everyone instinctually mentions what race they are. Leftism creates more racists than Rightists ever could.
This might be the single most important "artifact" of rock and roll in existence
As an amateur bass player, I can't even imagine what it would be like to be in a band with Wayne Kramer & Fred Smith. Mind blowing...
Guy in the back hitting a joint then tried to pass it to the black dude with the big fro. Forever caught on tape. Awesome.
If you look just before, the black dude had it first- hitting it hard! He must've passed to the white dude when the camera cut away and when he tried to give it back he said "I'm good!" Lol.
That was a cartoon toke! Only big boys need apply.
🔥
time stamp?
Se está dando un toque....... pacheco
I saw them in London at the greyhound Croydon and it’s impossible to convey the buzz there was about mc5 amongst all us heads -great memories . We just had hippy bands until. They came and I always call it the American invasion. Because that room was full of a lot of people who went on to be in well known punk bands a few years later . This band lit the fire ..
Wilco Johnson
reffoelcnu alouncelal I'm actually writing a book about the south London music scene and its history. I'm glad that mc5 came here.
Of all the rock and roll immortalized on film, this footage is easily in the top ten of the best. This footage is important. It is American history. Every student should watch and learn. No lectures. This is excitement! The MC5 were a drug in itself. No need to take substances when the electricity this band was putting out was getting everybody off. The reverberations can still be felt by watching this. I suggest calling it The MC5 test. Put every rock and roll band against this standard. Pass or fail.Thank you Mr. Kramer for your service to our country. You and the rest of the 5 deserve the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Salute!
This ^^^
I would only add that their contributions to Far Left Radical Activism, is also equally deserving of study and historically respectful awe!
great jams, but the radical political views are the product of all the drugs they were on.
riverratbond007 buulshit.
Back that garbage! They were actually the targets, if not the reason for Nixon's racist, anti left agenda couched as the drug war, but they indulged pot, and that's it, so, please, fuck off, poser!
I concur wholeheartedly with your assessment.
Ramblin Rose vocals sound a bit like Brian Johnson of AC/DC. I wonder if he got some of his inspiration from MC5?
Wayne Kramer is simply mesmerizing . He does moves few white guys can get away with and he has it in spades
Anyone know what type of axe he's playing?
@@gms9655 I'm not a guitar expert , but it looks like an AMPEG Dan Armstrong
@@noelabrera6634 Thank's, I looked these up and most are see-through lucite. It does have a similar shape though. I like guitar players who dare to be different. Not just the typical Fenders & Gibson's...
P
Not used by many .Off the top of my head the only other guitar player I remember that uses an Armstrong is Greg Ginn of Black Flag
Try going on stage to play your set after THAT.
drapedup76 in the words of David Essex "I don't think so"
Led Zeppelin did! and kicked their asses..
Touche!!!!
The Stooges or Fugazi,maybe?
Really? Post it!! Oh, wait, nope.
Watching on July 19th, 2020, 50 years to the day after this was shot.
Wonder if that kid's ears at 4:33 ever recovered- must be in their mid 50's now.
july16, 2021 and till i can't!
And yet sadly they continue to be denied access to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But ABBA, Dolly Parton [against her will] and Harry Belafonte are in. The Hall has lost it's compass.
I am there at the front of the stage on the far left of the screen! My brother Charlie is there too at times. I was an engineering student at WSU and saw the MC5 at the Grande Ballroom and other venues 22 times. After a career at Chrysler (engineer on Jeep and Dodge and Ram truck) I retired to San Diego. Thanks Wayne Kramer for your amazing documentary about your home-grown radical innovative band that was so loved by us in the 313. Thanks to drummer Dennis Thompson and band manager John Sinclair who are still with us today, for making my youth so charged with exciting music. Thanks to the DJ's at WABX, one of the premier underground rock radio stations that I visited many times in the historic art deco David Stott Building. My sister married DJ Jack Broderick. She met him riding up the elevator with me to the 33rd floor to loan Dan Carlisle my reel-to-reel tapes of WABX for his 5th anniversary show in 1973. Grateful to have experienced this progressive era including 1968 which was as tumultuous as 2020.
Man, that's awesome!
Cool tale thanks😊
Are you the one wearing glasses Larry?
This is an amazing story!
My first live rock concert. What a way to start. Changed my life.
Pretty badass if you ask me!
Lucky dude!
Fuckin A
Same here!!
First concert? Could never be beat!😂
I’ve rarely seen anyone in the groove than Wayne Kramer. Good god. The whole band, but Kramer has a higher gear than pretty much anything I’ve encountered!
He was a savage out there. He still performs these days.
He is a great guy also.
RIP Wayne Kramer- MC5 were SO ahead of their time it’s crazy
Did you see Machine Gun break 2 sticks in the first 5 seconds?
Yes! I have finally found a rock'n'roll band with BALLS
At the Drive-In and MC5 had the best, purest rock n roll energy.
Jepp...
Especially the drummer😂
If you want to hear other bands with balls of the MC5, check out Black Flag, The Stooges, The Replacements first 2 records, and The Rollins Band. Let's put Black Sabbath in there for good measure also. Rock out my friend! Long live real music!
MC5 changed my life. End of. Detroit gave us MC5 and the Stooges. Ya'll rock.
The MC5 was the "catalyst" that changed the course of my life. I shudder to think of where I would have gone. It would not have been good.
Thanks Detroit. From Scarborough, North Yorkshire. ☮️
;)s ... I Highly C;oncur, Life became exciting ! The great Motor C:ity had ALL the great Musicians n Music.
I am 66. Have been trying to tell young people some of what the 60's were like.
This video states my case.
Preach brother
I am one of those young people but I’d give everything even my life to go just for a single day in 1969 at the rock and roll show i wanted to go
@@renatohebeja2665
Concerts were all over the place in every configuration you can think of. There were places, block by block, just about everywhere in most cities and towns that had live music. You could say we took it for granted.
Vietnam had a lot to do with it.
Napster, the Internet killed it along with cable TV, tougher drunk driving laws. Controversial tech like auto tune and DAW software that requires little music knowledge didn't help.
I was a working pro lead guitar player from 68 to 95. IMO, 95 was when it was gone for good ..,.
But, It was a lot of fun as a job while telling the "man" to you know what!
@@Instramark I have studied everything from 1966-1992.I listen only to this period that was not even born.I like a lot the late 60s,early 70s pure rock and roll peace love anti war.I play guitar as well my hero is Alvin Lee(ten years after).Saw the Woodstock for the first time in 2008 when I was 6 years old.I see many consider MC5 as punk but I don’t think so.The duo smith Kramer have a lot of solo that punk don’t have solo,it’s a different energy this never seen to any other band of the era
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Wow! Alvin Lee! His Woodstock performance still stands a lotta ground.
It's not that all music has to be rock because it doesn't. It's just a shame there is so little venue.
I do think that folks your age are capable of desiring to place emphasis on the live scene.
It's way cool to dial up you tube and learn modes in a day but playing regularly in front of an audience builds a different set of chops and skills.
What is your guitar and amp. Do you even use an amp? Are you acoustic also or only?
Dude, look at the distance from the audience to the band !!! None. This is a real f***ing rock show.
Gentle Giant rules.
I once met the Rev. Charles M. Young, who wrote for Rolling Stone, at a Dead Boys show at CBGBs. He had written the first cover story for RS that took the Sex Pistols seriously. I asked him what was the most exciting show he ever saw and he said it was the MC5.
Hank Hoffman Doesn't surprise me one iota. Not many bands can play at this level of intensity. I'm getting addicted to this freaking video!
Was that the story with the title?...The dance band out to destroy the world??? If so that is what made me wait for the Pistols album to come out..Lights out after that
friardave, Yes, indeed that was the story. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-sex-pistols-in-texas-56673/
A saying in Detroit, If you say the Rolling Stones are the best band (A)live, you never saw the MC5.
@@friardave2580 Yes, that's the Sex Pistols story that Rev. Charles M. Young wrote. Anyway, he thought the Pistols were very exciting but that MC5 were #1.
I have an old cigar box filled with ticket stubs from the late 60's and early 70's - you know, back when rock and roll had some balls. The MC5 were without a doubt the most dynamic band on stage back then! Awesome video, Wayne - thanks!
Wayne. A month and a half prior to this show, May of 1970, you guys came and played the senior prom for McKeesport, Pa. class of 1970. What a night that was. You guys showed up around two in the morning and mingled with us clean cut high school kids. It was easy to pick the band out from the rest of,the crowd. The MC5 went on around 4 am and tore the place up. The loudest shit we ever heard in such a small venue. You saved Kick Out the Jams until last, thank God. As soon as Rob said motherfucker, our assistant principal pulled the plug on you and the show was over. It's a night that I still tell people about 47 years later. The people I tell who knew who the MC 5 were refuse to believe that you actually played our prom. Thanks, Wayne, for a great memory and for still being out there.
I am still coming to terms with the loss of wayne, he was and mc5 will forever be my biggest musical influences, he was the guy i wanted to be, im an old man now, that hasnt dampend my spirit.
Drummer is so good- pile drivin with some great fills! keepin the 5 in drive!
Thats right!
Nice playing, one crash, and one ride, sounded HUGE ! 😆
Probably the most underrated band of all time. They were magnificent.
first punk band ever! they were so ahead of the curve
The obligatory, tiresome underrated band comment.
They have been critically acclaimed, sited by countless bands as a massive influence and achieved a huge cult following, so what the fuck is your definition of underrated exactly?
Please stop.
that would be X, though here are one of their godfathers
@Anderson Cooper in every comment of rnr lol evn in acdc i was like wtf🤣
Indeed. Well said.
This just highlights how bland music has become in the modern age. Nobody rocks like this any more. If somebody did I have a feeling that there's an audience out there just waiting for it. We need this kind of attitude now.
This is the best performance of any band ever to be captured on film in the history of music.
Hyperbole anyone?
jajajjaja
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You just need to look at the faces in the crowd....they are in various states of astonishment. To give some context, in the US Top 10 July 1970 you had Three Dog Night, The Carpenters, The Beatles (The Long & Winding Road), The Temptations & Freda Payne - then these guys take the stage. LOL! Watch this and then realise The Rolling Stones were not the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world at all.....
Well put. Same said for the Stooges:)
Mostly correct, but no more amazing then hearing Black Sabbath in 1970.
There were changes afoot back then. And then came Sabbath, Zeppelin, Deep Purple, UFO et al and the world was never the same. This is coming from a (then) 10 year old who was learning classical piano and taking lessons. Then I heard Motown records, and then Sabbath and Zeppelin and unfortunately I stopped playing piano back then because my teacher refused to teach me R&B and or rock. So 20 years later I picked up an electric guitar!
1966...ruclips.net/video/6An7KGK6U3c/видео.html oh and this band had Manson killer Bobby Beausoleil as a member....now that's harder than the Stooges or MC5.
@@gel6988 I had an older brother so at 10 I was listening to Freak Out, the Stones, Beatles. Then moved to the Detroit area then Motown and all the rest that followed:)
If you don't like this, you don't like rock n roll. It's that simple.
Ditto
Or music in general.
this is straight up rock and roll. No frills, no smoke and mirrors, no fucking light show. No bullshit. Just straight up rock. @@mctavish23
U got that right. Totally underrated
Mike Fropmozzle I just saw this video and was thinking that this is about as rock n’ roll as you’re gonna get. The side shuffle at the start of the solo. At you kidding me?!
they were really incredibly sickening hardcore for 1970. It seems almost unreal.
The best 10 minutes and 24 seconds on RUclips!
:)so True !
Si señor!!!
Back when the angry midwestern working class had balls, instead of retreating into a haze of gluttony, opiates and sportsball viewing. White Panthers y'all.
Techne Digest Now they all brainwashed by trump and think he is the White Messiah. Now they know he is just a corporate crook and traitor!
Dude .....I saw your homepage. Apparently your into racial IQ testing. Problem with that is that from a DNA perspective 75% of African Americans have European DNA. I have over 27% myself. I am African American. Also my IQ is genius 133-155 range. I don’t live in a rural trailer park or my mother’s basement. You keep watching those supremacy videos .....I hope it makes you successful in life. But I am telling you that in the “real world” you get mentally challenged by anyone today. You think you’ve made it because of your epidermis? You keep believing those 19th and early 20th century myths.
You nailed it!
Ahh, The MC5 were very gluttonous with their opiate consumption, the bassist in this vid was fired for being to bad of a junkie and Kramer himself got strung out for awhile.
@@pittsburghpirate58 white Panthers was at least intended to be allied with the Black Panthers. Pretty unfortunate name though I think, makes it seem like they were opposed to the Black Panthers, but they were trying to back em up!
Did you see the roadies passing the joint around. How dare they do whatever they want and live free.😋
Mike Moats yeah...f¥&& em, how dare they....in 2020, would he be taking pictures for his Instagram feed? Nah...probably chilled..
And no one in the peanut gallery here notices or cares there's a Confederate Flag sticker on the Marshall Amp behind Fred. Back then it was no big thing as now it's ridiculously out of hand. You can't change history good or bad, The MC5 had it in droves when it came to pure in your face American rock n roll. That's another thing you can;t change. Rock On .
The white guy is a family member. He wasn't a roadie for MC5, but he worked for the school.
Rest in peace, drummer Dennis Thompson, the last surviving member of the band (thus ending it).
For all that’s in it, probably my favourite 15 minutes of ANYTHING!
Kf Clarke Hahaha, I’m starting to feel that way too!👍🤩😃
Screw the R&R Hall of Fame... no Mc5, no BOC, no Grand Funk, no Iron Maiden, no Humble Pie... They're too good for it!
This is high voltage, white knuckled, bare boned, rock n roll at its finest, it doesn't get any better, brothers and sisters!!! This is the greatest Rock N Roll footage on the planet!
On the other hand--if there were a METAL Hall of Fame--ALL those bands you named get in (no doubt about it!)
This footage just gives me LIFE!
Can’t believe I never even heard of them but the eighties were the bad years for me. Just listened because he died, amazing rock n roll! What a mover, what a sound! RIP
It's never too late to discover great and important music.
PS The Damned do a great cover of Looking At You. Might wanna check them out too.... ;)
MC5 The Black Rocker here, One of my FAVORITE live jams I saw the “5” play was BLACK TO COMM . You must check out any live versions of this power if you can on you tube. PEACE 🎸🎸🖤
I am a 68-year-old white guy living in Texas and I remember when I first heard this song 50 years ago. It grabbed me by the throat then, and it does again today. These guys were greatness. I am sick of Instagram heroes. You can have the digital, I'll stick with the original.
age is just a number, u r what u feel x never STOP Loving,,x
Im a 41 year old white guy living in Virginia and I remember when I first heard this song this year. It grabbed me by the adams apple today and it does again today. These guys were legendary. Im sick of tic tok duchebags. You can have the analog, il stick with the slick.
This will just never get old!!!! Pure wild rock'n'roll!!!!
MC5, Seger, Iggy and Motown. Wow!! To be a Detroiter. Love it
10 minutes of bulldozing a crowd that got caught like a deer in headlights...and Dennis on drums , killer
Well bugger me with a fishfork!
These guys are just kick arse!
After enjoyin' this I need to find more about these dudes. This is fuckin' spot on! This is the definitive hardrock band in my eyes!
The who my arse!
Aussie!!!
What a blast! Knew 'Lookin At You' from the Damned. Wish I'd looked up original artist long ago. Have heard MC5 praised by many punk bands. Crowd looks rather stunned, lol. Such a presence! Wayne's so rockin it & Rob's delivery is xlnt!!!
Wayne- those moves….YOU ARE responsible for air guitar… the rock and roll world thanks you!
the crowd is dumbfounded by the utter rock they are being served. there's no precedent to the MC5 and they're ability to slay.
gabe baldwin ditto you can tell they've never seen anything like mc5 before no doubt a tribute of sorts the audience being stunned like they were
That's because there wasn't anything like the MC5 before! This was 1970, all that was in the charts was weak-sauce, peace & love, hippie, rubbish. This was the first rumblings of punk rock. Loud, brash, in your face, pure, balls-to-the-wall, energy.
Well, there was The Who, who was at their manic peak in 1970.
Transport a band like them to the modern era (post 1990) and there would be some of the biggest mosh pits you ever saw slamming to their tunes! None of these stoners staring at them like zombies
Well said !
I'm a 60 years old french drummer.
I'm still playing on stage and making records.( Selling it IS another story)
All this started with the MC5.
It changed my life forever.
53 years ago today. I remember it fondly. It shaped my musical taste to this day
That was fucking awesome!!
The rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame should be in Detroit not Cleveland!
I C:oncur, The Motor City !
To be fair the R&R hall of fame is pretty crappy. Maybe that version belongs in Cleveland.
can’t have shit in detroit
No, it should be in Mississippi or Alabama because that is where Rock n Roll started, with the blues.
The rock hall should be at the bottom of Lake Superior. F@%*kin joke that it is.. We real music consumers in Cleveland loath that turd on the lakefront
Lightyears before their time.... truly amazing
I never heard any MC5 music before in my life. Now will never forget them!
Man, that is some high energy Rock n' Roll, to the max! Thanks for this. The MC5 are a better band than I remember. Glad I saw this.
RIP Wayne Kramer.
Stumbled across this video, while scrolling for daily local new. Sitting my office at work, reminiscing my I’ll spent youth listening to MC-5. The 70’s were awesome.