This was one of the first concerts I went to,it was a free concert from wabx.I took the bus from Rosedale park,detroit.I was 14 years old and went with a friend,Bob Holly.We were totally blown away.Also Cat fish Hodge played and Savage Grace.First time smoking hash.
I was at that concert. A lot of the crowd were Wayne State students, thats mainly what you're seeing. There were smaller groups of we "street freaks" mixed in. I was on the right of the stage, and not in any of the video, as it only shows left of stage. There were a number of great concerts that summer, not only at WSU, but also at Goose Lake, Mi. State Fairgrounds (saw Bonzo Dog there) and the Grande Ballroom on weekends. Detroit Rocked!
This video is amazing. Love how you can see the cars going by on I-94 in the background. Either 94 or The Lodge. Cool part of Detroit history. The field this show was shot at is now a housing project. Groovy!
Only 25 times? For me, maybe easily 125 times, or 225, including the live show, taking the Grand River bus from NW Detroit the week after I turned 15 years old.
@@rocknroll_jezus9233oh really? That makes quite a difference… you probably don't remember but KOTJMFs came out in early 69. Spare us the technicalities, St James is right. MC5 are the fathers, sons and holy ghosts of everything wild, and then Iggy and Ron proceeded with the ceremonies- i ' m a Sabbathead but MC5 were something else ( and so said Ian Fraser Kilmister, oh yeah…)
@@rocknroll_jezus9233 You got to understand that this concert was farther into their career. They were underground and the beginning of Metal in America. They were around before Hendrix and Ozzy just not as well known and were Blacklisted from Radio and TV. I had older cousins and Uncles that brought this stuff around in it's bootlegged form. People used to record on Reel to Reel machines and share these tapes and re- record them and pass them on. Metal in America and Punk began in the Midwest not on the Coasts. The closest thing to it was coming out of the South. Some of the Swamp rock that was hard and driving with some metal Blues electric guitar and a fast beat. I t did not have the exposure in America like it did in Europe , especially England in that time period. It took off like wildfire on the underground through the middle of America. MC5 were the Grandfathers of early metal and Black Sabbath and Led Zepplin were God Father and Great Uncle of it. Give credit where credit is due. Ted Nugent came from the same area as did many others. Detroit birthed a lot of angry energetic hard driving musicians and groups. I am a fan of all Metal groups in one way or another. I came into it in the late 70's but my older relatives already were playing the classics. 💪
I had heard of MC5, but that was about all. Then I saw this video a few months ago and was like,'Holy shit, where the hell did this come from, what planet have I been on?'. Anyway these guys were the bomb, and this performance is really high energy, Jack C. isn't exagerating, thank God somebody filmed this.
Believe it or not, this band played my high school senior prom two months before this show. It was May of 1970 and the McKeesport, Pa. Senior class booked these guys to play our prom. We had heard of them and a lot of us bought their live album before the prom , but we had no idea about what was going to happen. They came walking in around 2a.m. and no one knew what was coming. They kind of stuck out in the crowd. After a couple of warm up local bands, they took the stage around 4a.m. Loud doesn't accurately describe their sound. Wayne Kramer did Ramblin Rose to open the set and thankfully, they left Kick Out the Jams until last. As soon as Rob Tyner said motherfucker, our vice principal pulled the plug and cut off the power. Show over. Naturally, we students loved it and the Administration hated it. A very memorable evening and one I will never forget.
Jim Ray Shocking that you learned a new word from this band that night ! A word that you had never heard before!😂😂😂! And I guess the vice principal didn’t catch ‘ The more you suck it the more it grows’!
Without a doubt one of the bands that I wish I was old enough to have seen in person. Just pure energy on stage. Every time I drive by this spot off the freeway I think of this video.
I was there, folks. unfuckingbelievable.............I really remember the ENERGY that permiated the place...............what a pleasure it was to witness and feel the vibe there!!!!
I was only 5 years old when this happened, but I think I see my dad's 4 door Pontiac Laurentian driving eastbound on I-94 behind the stage, taking our family to Windsor to see my Grandma and Grandpa. I don't obviously, but it could've very well happened as we drove from Dearborn to Windsor a lot.
What a fucking band! So far ahead of the curve. As Rob Tyner so aptly put it- "We were punk before punk,we were metal before metal,we were new wave before new wave. We were even MC before Hammer!" I have had the pleasure of meeting Brother Wayne Kramer on a few occasions,and also got to meet Dennis and Michael when they brought the D.T.K. tour to Denver. Living legends!
@Jack Burton Sorry, you just can't beat Detroit. MC5, The Stooges, Funkadelic, Grand Funk Railroad, Ted Nugent & Amboy Dukes, Bob Seger, Rodriguez, Brownsville Station, Rare Earth, Death, SRC and not to mention all of Motown.
@@andrewdkussmaul Can't forget SRB!!! Sonic's Rendezvous Band. And also the White Stripes. And so much more. As I always say there must be something in the water man.
My God, what a performance. Never saw the MC5, but I've been to a few gigs almost this great. Something catches fire and the whole show moves to a different level. You know you're witnessing history and you just want to bottle it.
tks for putting that high-quality video available! also... someone once gave me a bootleg tape of an MC5 accoustic concert in NYC 1970: anyone ever herd that one?... thanks you!!
justave dean, I agree, but would push your figure to at least 99%, and to quote Wicked Wilson Pickett, little known fact, also got his start in Detroit, "99 1/2 Just Won't Do," I'm sure "The Five," as they were affectionately known in my home town of Detroit, could also kick butt on Funky Broadway. Pathetic Rolling Stone and all the weeny San Francisco writers and DJ's panned both the MC5 and Stooges first records. Creem Magazine had balls and knew the score, Dave Marsh, Lester Bangs, and others digging it, of course. Believe it or not, I got a year's subscription and free Stooges' Fun House album for $5 around 1970. Arrived in a plain brown wrapper, which unfortunately got intercepted permanently from the mailman when my mother found a few 4-letter-words and bare titties in it while I was in class at Cerveny Junior High or Catholic Central High School. I can honestly tell you, being there in NW Detroit during those days, living near the Mouse House run by the super cool and nice immigrant parents of Stanley House, Motor City denizens could have cared less, and hardly a soul would have the left this show or an MC5 or Stooges Grande Ballroom or Ann Arbor Sunday park concert to go see the Airplane or Dead. Not even for Janis and Big Brother. But a few LA bands like The Doors and Spirit were pretty damn cool, I'll grant you that, and MANY British bands. But one SF band I would have loved to have seen live was Sly and the Family Stone. Stole the Woodstock soundtrack from all else, including Jimi, IMHO. Heavy airplay on WABX and Keener FM.
originalmrjojangles - You know, of course, that Rolling Stone gave good bands bad reviews because they were trying to manipulate the kiddies into listening to what Jann Wenner wanted them to hear. All you have to do is look at the RRHOF to know that this is true. I never read Rolling Stone......always, always Creem.
@@originalmrjojangles incredible. It's interesting to think what the dynamic was like between music listeners back then. You physically carried your music everywhere. People were closer to the music with albums and 45s, tapes even. In other words, you knew what you were into! And with some of the bands that the MC5 performed with, like the Velvet Underground talk about the interesting crowds! Sly and Family Stone's set at woodstock is stunning I totally agree. JIMI's set is mind-bending!!
Blows me away every time I see/hear this clip. Lemmy said to check out Wayne kramer if I ever wanted to hear a very great guitar player. Fuck... Was he right!
A blast, just five guys having fun and not realising they were breaking new ground and this wouldn't be the norm for about another 5 years ... this level of intense energy and attack.
Their energy along with their[MC5]incredible desire to play the music that believed in is rarely found with bands today. The audience is not only engaged but also a necessary element that MC5 feed from to arrive at the intensity that they play at. MC5 was a force to be reckoned with, as their music is a testament to. The US Feds and State departments were very worried that MC5, along with their followers would start a revolution. Not just a great band of their era, none the less, a band that will be remembered forever.
NO WAY!!! I was at ALL the WSU Tartar Field FREE concerts, and many MC5 performances. It was a Hot and Muggy July day, and their were other Detroit bands that played earlier in the afternoon. I remember it differently--like everyone having a Great Time!!!
Here's the complete Lineup of bands 7-19-70. Catfish Hodge--Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen---Frut---MC5----Savage Grace. The reason Savage Grace headlined was like the old adage, you're only as good as your last hit--haha. Savage Grace had redone Dylan's 'All Along the Watchtower', and it was up in the charts. Back then, it was a cut throat mad dash to stay on top!!! This is when..."MUSICAL DINOSAURS ROAMED THE EARTH!!!!! hahaha.
I've watched this video hundreds of times and I still can't fathom how the crowd is so apathetic to all the energy. They probably weren't headlining, but this was a great performance.
The words to “Lookin at you”,what are they again?What a dull grey day next to the highway @Wayne st. Crowd seems nervous distant.Was that Lester Bangs dancing on stage?I sensed bad vibes in the air like the 60’s were burning out.Band kills it.....
The first time I'd seen this was on Channel 56 (Detroit's PBS affiliate) on a Sunday afternoon 2 weeks before "High Time" came out in 1971. I was 14. I remember watching it on my parent's little portable TV in their bedroom upstairs. Ma yelled up to me: "Che fa?" (Italian for "what are you doing?"). "I'm watching educational TV, Ma!", I said. "You're a good girl.", she said. I thought: "That's not all I am, Ma. I'm in heaven!"
I'm sure if they were offered a chance to travel time to this era of mosh pits, performing to more receptive crowds slamming to their every move on stage, and feeding off that energy, they would have GLADLY taken up that offer and leave behind the stoned out crowds of 50 years ago
Random fact ... the dude standing stage right side with the long sleeve shirt with stars on it .... same shirt Bill Ward wears in the Black Sabbath live in Paris 1970 video.
Detroit #1, just 1 year after Woodstock and look what we Yankees came up with. Take T-H-A-T Rolling Stones, take that The Who, take that Led Zeppelin, can you keep up with MC5??? They're going at the speed of light!
Natalia Putina, I love you so much for posting this, I wish we knew each other personally and were friends. A couple more things about The MC5: Many of us Detroiters didn't even know these were not the given names of few, if any, of the band members, They were almost to a man Polish, from Catholic schools in Hamtramck, Lincoln Park, Detroit area all. They had all those hard to pronounce Polish names, unless you had friends of Polish heritage, like many of us did. It's all online on a site or two. LOL - I'm Irish Catholic and Hungarian Catholic, with a good dose of Romanian Gypsy, I was told, no doubt true! Are you Russian? My only trip to the old Soviet Union, I was blown away and surprised by the street kids listening to AC/DC and the Ramones in a poor Moscow hood, while playing guitar, and painting graffiti under a bridge, skateboards too, naturally I had a bottle of vodka with me I offered to share with them. Great times. All the Best to You - Joseph
That was a nice comment, originalmrjojangles! I didn't realize so many of them were Polish. It makes me extra proud of them, being half Italian and half Polish myself.
Mauroleiicus He didn't toss em, the sticks jumped out because they were sick of him beating them so hard against the drums. The drums didn't like it either, but they were nailed down and couldn't move. Ow!
Wayne Kramer's guitar haunts my dreams!!!!! Someone please post what kind of guitar he's playing. I know he became famous for his "Flag Stratocaster" but I don't recognize the make on this one. PHENOMENAL PERFORMANCE!!!!
Drummer lost two sticks in under 25 seconds. Fuck yeah! Let's hear it for the drummer man. What ya wanna' be when ya grow up son, Dennis Thompson pa, Dennis Thompson.
Mc5 first of all super rock. Wonderful! Imagine now (2023) a rock concert or music suddenly made on the street, it would be total boredom, only smartphones, stupid rules and loneliness
If you only heard this band's studio tracks....you haven't heard them AT ALL! They put SO MUCH of themselves into this show, as if it was the last show of their lives! If only more people knew how ground-breaking this band was. Punk has NOTHING on this band's intensity!
After I left that day I got pulled over by the Oinkers. They told me I ran a stop sign. But somehow they didn't ticket me. Then when I looked again at the intersection, there was no stop sign there!
16 years old and I was there. Great times for Detroit local music sound in the late 60's and early 70's.
This was one of the first concerts I went to,it was a free concert from wabx.I took the bus from Rosedale park,detroit.I was 14 years old and went with a friend,Bob Holly.We were totally blown away.Also Cat fish Hodge played and Savage Grace.First time smoking hash.
phenomenal!!! a real treat huh? Lets bring this back!!!
This is one of the best pieces of live footage ever shot on film
ever!!!! so vital!!!
Too damn SHORT!
Every time I watch this footage it gives me goosebumps and makes me want an old Marshall head. The MC5 were a FORCE
explosive time wish i was there
I was at that concert. A lot of the crowd were Wayne State students, thats mainly what you're seeing. There were smaller groups of we "street freaks" mixed in. I was on the right of the stage, and not in any of the video, as it only shows left of stage.
There were a number of great concerts that summer, not only at WSU, but also at Goose Lake, Mi. State Fairgrounds (saw Bonzo Dog there) and the Grande Ballroom on weekends. Detroit Rocked!
amazing!! I would love to talk about what Detroit was like during that era. I really hope the Grande holds shows again someday.
Literally one of the finest displays of rock n roll ever
Not every day does one get a chance to see BOTH Punk and Metal being invented onstage! Great performance -- thanks for posting.
Punk yeah but Metal? I'd say no, Black Sabbath already released their debut album as well as Led Zeppelin 1 and 2 being out and about
Yeah, not metal so much... I'd look to Blue Cheer for that
MC5 rockin like hell here. These guys were rockin this hard in 1968. Crazy stuff.
visionaries !!!
This video is amazing. Love how you can see the cars going by on I-94 in the background. Either 94 or The Lodge. Cool part of Detroit history. The field this show was shot at is now a housing project. Groovy!
love the cars going by right!! you're saying there is housing on that same field now?
The Lodge, I believe, fwiw.
I've probably watched this 25 times or more over the years...blew my mind every time!
+Rob Robichaud This and the Beat Club sessions is something i too often come back too.
Only 25 times? For me, maybe easily 125 times, or 225, including the live show, taking the Grand River bus from NW Detroit the week after I turned 15 years old.
@@0Imtheslime0 beat club sessions are top !!! super psych'd - out Kick Out The James middle section!!!
It NEVER gets old!
Best video of the MC5 on RUclips. Dare I say one of their best performances captured on film. Awesome!!!
remarkable
Absolutely!
The audience looks stunned. Incredible intensity. Incredible energy. Incredible band.
brilliant
a huge moment in rock history - the birth of both punk and metal - and only a thousand people have watched this on RUclips? Wow.
Punk yeah but metal? Black Sabbath already released their first album as well as Led Zeppelin 1 and 2 already being out and about
@@rocknroll_jezus9233oh really? That makes quite a difference… you probably don't remember but KOTJMFs came out in early 69. Spare us the technicalities, St James is right. MC5 are the fathers, sons and holy ghosts of everything wild, and then Iggy and Ron proceeded with the ceremonies- i ' m a Sabbathead but MC5 were something else ( and so said Ian Fraser Kilmister, oh yeah…)
@@rocknroll_jezus9233 You got to understand that this concert was farther into their career. They were underground and the beginning of Metal in America. They were around before Hendrix and Ozzy just not as well known and were Blacklisted from Radio and TV. I had older cousins and Uncles that brought this stuff around in it's bootlegged form. People used to record on Reel to Reel machines and share these tapes and re- record them and pass them on.
Metal in America and Punk began in the Midwest not on the Coasts. The closest thing to it was coming out of the South. Some of the Swamp rock that was hard and driving with some metal Blues electric guitar and a fast beat.
I t did not have the exposure in America like it did in Europe , especially England in that time period.
It took off like wildfire on the underground through the middle of America. MC5 were the Grandfathers of early metal and Black Sabbath and Led Zepplin were God Father and Great Uncle of it. Give credit where credit is due.
Ted Nugent came from the same area as did many others. Detroit birthed a lot of angry energetic hard driving musicians and groups.
I am a fan of all Metal groups in one way or another.
I came into it in the late 70's but my older relatives already were playing the classics. 💪
@@desertdan100 I no longer am that hard headed and narrow-minded with genres. Infact they do not exist
Thank gawd somebody filmed this!
Yea man.This is some great stuff.
Jack C. Lamb
Dose the whole gig exist, do you know? ?
I dont know. This is pure gold. Different camera angles, set up to record a real event. There must be more, somewhere.
Right, I've been trying to find the gig but no luck... But this is just SMOKIN'!!! The MC5 just staight up KICK ASS!!!
I had heard of MC5, but that was about all. Then I saw this video a few months ago and was like,'Holy shit, where the hell did this come from, what planet have I been on?'. Anyway these guys were the bomb, and this performance is really high energy, Jack C. isn't exagerating, thank God somebody filmed this.
Believe it or not, this band played my high school senior prom two months before this show. It was May of 1970 and the McKeesport, Pa. Senior class booked these guys to play our prom. We had heard of them and a lot of us bought their live album before the prom , but we had no idea about what was going to happen. They came walking in around 2a.m. and no one knew what was coming. They kind of stuck out in the crowd. After a couple of warm up local bands, they took the stage around 4a.m. Loud doesn't accurately describe their sound. Wayne Kramer did Ramblin Rose to open the set and thankfully, they left Kick Out the Jams until last. As soon as Rob Tyner said motherfucker, our vice principal pulled the plug and cut off the power. Show over. Naturally, we students loved it and the Administration hated it. A very memorable evening and one I will never forget.
🤘🤘🤘🤘✌️✌️
Jim Ray Shocking that you learned a new word from this band that night ! A word that you had never heard before!😂😂😂! And I guess the vice principal didn’t catch ‘ The more you suck it the more it grows’!
you made my day hearing this.
Wow
Boat Axe the more you suck it the more it grows isn’t the official lyric Mr Wayne Kramer substituted it at this concert
Without a doubt one of the bands that I wish I was old enough to have seen in person. Just pure energy on stage. Every time I drive by this spot off the freeway I think of this video.
This is the best video on the internet.
I was there, folks. unfuckingbelievable.............I really remember the ENERGY that permiated the place...............what a pleasure it was to witness and feel the vibe there!!!!
+jp lujack I hate you because you were there :):).. I wish i could see the end og 60ś early 70ś. I feel so born in the wrong decade
+jp lujack AWWW LUCKY YOU!!!!
Damn. i wish i was there too! if i was i'd meet you
audience looks like they were stunned by cattle prods
I was only 5 years old when this happened, but I think I see my dad's 4 door Pontiac Laurentian driving eastbound on I-94 behind the stage, taking our family to Windsor to see my Grandma and Grandpa. I don't obviously, but it could've very well happened as we drove from Dearborn to Windsor a lot.
I spent the last hour crying b/c of the memories that this brought.
It calms down my anxiety...
What a fucking band! So far ahead of the curve. As Rob Tyner so aptly put it- "We were punk before punk,we were metal before metal,we were new wave before new wave. We were even MC before Hammer!" I have had the pleasure of meeting Brother Wayne Kramer on a few occasions,and also got to meet Dennis and Michael when they brought the D.T.K. tour to Denver. Living legends!
Rock from this era and mid 70's are so pure.
No other city in the world has produced more good music than Detroit.
@Jack Burton Sorry, you just can't beat Detroit. MC5, The Stooges, Funkadelic, Grand Funk Railroad, Ted Nugent & Amboy Dukes, Bob Seger, Rodriguez, Brownsville Station, Rare Earth, Death, SRC and not to mention all of Motown.
@@andrewdkussmaul Can't forget SRB!!! Sonic's Rendezvous Band. And also the White Stripes. And so much more. As I always say there must be something in the water man.
You think you're in any way close to knowing which music was produced in each place.
@@roy_for_real2674 in terms of contemporary music, he's really not wrong
@@stephenkane2464 You got 34 million people living in Tokyo.
Rest in Power, Brother Wayne!
Super bummer! Never saw him live, but he epitomized guitar God as much as Page or Townsend.
Great Band! Great Video!! Finally, I have seen them play. Thanks
My God, what a performance. Never saw the MC5, but I've been to a few gigs almost this great. Something catches fire and the whole show moves to a different level. You know you're witnessing history and you just want to bottle it.
a sight to behold!!!
Best fucking band ever.. Rest in peace Brother Tyner..
tks for putting that high-quality video available! also... someone once gave me a bootleg tape of an MC5 accoustic concert in NYC 1970: anyone ever herd that one?... thanks you!!
Robin tyner was so overlooked as far as vocal skills.. rip Robyn and Fred ‘sonic’ smith
One of the greatest rock performances in the history of the world, I like to watch this at least once a week - it makes me so happy.
enjoy the dose!!
FANTASTIC ... PURE ENERGY !!
Wayne Kramer does a great James Brown shuffle. The MC5 kicked ass!
coyoteandroadrunner1 I would pay Wayne to kick my ass while he plays....:). Hear that Wayno???!!!!
Sick move, I would have been going mental if I was there. Sober or stoned.
hell yea!!
This blows away 90% of live music almost 50 years later.
justave dean, I agree, but would push your figure to at least 99%, and to quote Wicked Wilson Pickett, little known fact, also got his start in Detroit, "99 1/2 Just Won't Do," I'm sure "The Five," as they were affectionately known in my home town of Detroit, could also kick butt on Funky Broadway. Pathetic Rolling Stone and all the weeny San Francisco writers and DJ's panned both the MC5 and Stooges first records. Creem Magazine had balls and knew the score, Dave Marsh, Lester Bangs, and others digging it, of course. Believe it or not, I got a year's subscription and free Stooges' Fun House album for $5 around 1970. Arrived in a plain brown wrapper, which unfortunately got intercepted permanently from the mailman when my mother found a few 4-letter-words and bare titties in it while I was in class at Cerveny Junior High or Catholic Central High School. I can honestly tell you, being there in NW Detroit during those days, living near the Mouse House run by the super cool and nice immigrant parents of Stanley House, Motor City denizens could have cared less, and hardly a soul would have the left this show or an MC5 or Stooges Grande Ballroom or Ann Arbor Sunday park concert to go see the Airplane or Dead. Not even for Janis and Big Brother. But a few LA bands like The Doors and Spirit were pretty damn cool, I'll grant you that, and MANY British bands. But one SF band I would have loved to have seen live was Sly and the Family Stone. Stole the Woodstock soundtrack from all else, including Jimi, IMHO. Heavy airplay on WABX and Keener FM.
originalmrjojangles - You know, of course, that Rolling Stone gave good bands bad reviews because they were trying to manipulate the kiddies into listening to what Jann Wenner wanted them to hear. All you have to do is look at the RRHOF to know that this is true. I never read Rolling Stone......always, always Creem.
@@originalmrjojangles incredible. It's interesting to think what the dynamic was like between music listeners back then. You physically carried your music everywhere. People were closer to the music with albums and 45s, tapes even. In other words, you knew what you were into! And with some of the bands that the MC5 performed with, like the Velvet Underground talk about the interesting crowds!
Sly and Family Stone's set at woodstock is stunning I totally agree. JIMI's set is mind-bending!!
Fuuuuuck. That video is as old as I am. I was 15 before i even ever heard of these guys. Best reason for a time machine ever!
Blows me away every time I see/hear this clip. Lemmy said to check out Wayne kramer if I ever wanted to hear a very great guitar player. Fuck... Was he right!
these guys were just fucking incredible. thanks for the great upload. good god!!!
A blast, just five guys having fun and not realising they were breaking new ground and this wouldn't be the norm for about another 5 years ... this level of intense energy and attack.
I'm from Michigan Detroit rocks need I say more they've been doing it since the 60s
truly revolutionary
it's been 50 years and this still is cutting edge
Their energy along with their[MC5]incredible desire to play the music
that believed in is rarely found with bands today. The audience is not
only engaged but also a necessary element that MC5 feed from to arrive
at the intensity that they play at. MC5 was a force to be reckoned
with, as their music is a testament to. The US Feds and State
departments were very worried that MC5, along with their followers would
start a revolution. Not just a great band of their era, none the less,
a band that will be remembered forever.
And to think over 10 years prior to bands like The Ramones.
Incredible footage, when everyone stands up at 3:08 brings tears to my eyes...should be played in schools this.
seriously!!!! milestone!!!
the fact i can’t share this with anyone i know just makes this so much better
look at crowds faces, everybody looks so blown away by the perfomance
+Real Strat Frightened is the word.. Tyner scaring the shit out of the people..
+Real Strat there were these funny looking cigarrettes bein' passed around.
NO WAY!!! I was at ALL the WSU Tartar Field FREE concerts, and many MC5 performances. It was a Hot and Muggy July day, and their were other Detroit bands that played earlier in the afternoon. I remember it differently--like everyone having a Great Time!!!
Here's the complete Lineup of bands 7-19-70. Catfish Hodge--Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen---Frut---MC5----Savage Grace. The reason Savage Grace headlined was like the old adage, you're only as good as your last hit--haha. Savage Grace had redone Dylan's 'All Along the Watchtower', and it was up in the charts. Back then, it was a cut throat mad dash to stay on top!!! This is when..."MUSICAL DINOSAURS ROAMED THE EARTH!!!!! hahaha.
uh...ahhh-choo.........whacos...just a bunch of wacos around here...
Such power and attack. Amazing.
I've watched this video hundreds of times and I still can't fathom how the crowd is so apathetic to all the energy. They probably weren't headlining, but this was a great performance.
chicanochrist dude this in sure would be like seeing metalica in 1967 the energy is too good to even fathom.
so pure. bring this crowd back!! totally enthralled by the music. not a cellphone in sight
The world wasn’t quite ready yet for them .
For real. Although the crowd gathering is so refreshing here.
It still isn't.
Whew!!! High Energy Rock n Roll!!!! Wayne Kramer was on FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tartar Field Forever. Bring Back the Tartars. VIVA Tartaria.
MC5 - ROCK'N'FUCKIN'ROLL GODS!
DOES THIS AWESOMENESS STILL HAPPEN TODAY??? WHEN? WHERE? WHO!!!?
Ya gotta do it yourself.
Helsinki, Finland
No other band I can think of ever played with such fury!
Ramones in ‘77 in England, maybe. This is wilder, that’s more focused. Pick your poison.
That guy on the side of the stage wearing glasses playing air guitar is priceless.
FANTASTIC!!! Sharing a joint !!
A free gig by a band from the community for the community is the best. Rock and Roll is currently hibernating.
keep them out of the hall of fame. they deserve better
Peter Nolan Smith Best, most truthful, most correct comment on the internet!
sTARt a new ONe.....call it "tHe haLL of Mc5"
they made the hall of fame
Hell YEAH
The greatest rock 'n' roll band ever....
Fn best band in history. MY GOD.
The best biggest greatest high energy kick ass band EVER!!!!!!!!!!
love the modest stage. they'd play anywhere !!!!
rip to a king, Wayne Kramer
Super bummer!
The words to “Lookin at you”,what are they again?What a dull grey day next to the highway @Wayne st. Crowd seems nervous distant.Was that Lester Bangs dancing on stage?I sensed bad vibes in the air like the 60’s were burning out.Band kills it.....
The first time I'd seen this was on Channel 56 (Detroit's PBS affiliate) on a Sunday afternoon 2 weeks before "High Time" came out in 1971. I was 14. I remember watching it on my parent's little portable TV in their bedroom upstairs. Ma yelled up to me: "Che fa?" (Italian for "what are you doing?"). "I'm watching educational TV, Ma!", I said. "You're a good girl.", she said. I thought: "That's not all I am, Ma. I'm in heaven!"
Excellent
People talk about Jackson's "Moonwalk", but it aint got nothing on Waye Kramer's "foot glide"! All this while playing a guitar!
it's a clubfoot glide like the Devil himself would perform… and Lord Byron too quite so naturally...ahah
@@karllux-d6g hell yea!
@@TerryKott right!!!
them boys fkn rock
this still makes the hairs on my neck stand up straight! its so rockin...
unreal right???
Hell, yes.
you said it
The crowd is freekin hypmotized ! Except for the dude that got pushed off stage...hahahha!!!
Wow. I was going to Wayne State during this time. Don't remember this event... too busy studying as a premed student
are you successful now
I'm sure if they were offered a chance to travel time to this era of mosh pits, performing to more receptive crowds slamming to their every move on stage, and feeding off that energy, they would have GLADLY taken up that offer and leave behind the stoned out crowds of 50 years ago
great hypothetical scenario. the band definitely aided in generating those types of crowds early on allowing for the progression to begin.
If this performance was at 1991 lalapalooza, they wouldve needed the national guard for crowd control...pure fire!
ignition !!
love how kick out the jams gets faster & faster! Thats me, when "you feel it, yeah"
De la pure énergie Rock!
Rock n roll needs to be central to our culture again
Random fact ... the dude standing stage right side with the long sleeve shirt with stars on it .... same shirt Bill Ward wears in the Black Sabbath live in Paris 1970 video.
this is a kick ass performance!
That is some high energy performance.
Like Wayne says 'Come ON!'
145k views? Really? Good thing I never heard this until I was 61. This would have changed a lot of things....
Detroit #1, just 1 year after Woodstock and look what we Yankees came up with. Take T-H-A-T Rolling Stones, take that The Who, take that Led Zeppelin, can you keep up with MC5??? They're going at the speed of light!
UNDOUBTEDLY.
the greatest
an earth colliding asteroid of rock and roll
Those were the days!
best band ever
Natalia Putina, I love you so much for posting this, I wish we knew each other personally and were friends. A couple more things about The MC5: Many of us Detroiters didn't even know these were not the given names of few, if any, of the band members, They were almost to a man Polish, from Catholic schools in Hamtramck, Lincoln Park, Detroit area all. They had all those hard to pronounce Polish names, unless you had friends of Polish heritage, like many of us did. It's all online on a site or two. LOL - I'm Irish Catholic and Hungarian Catholic, with a good dose of Romanian Gypsy, I was told, no doubt true! Are you Russian? My only trip to the old Soviet Union, I was blown away and surprised by the street kids listening to AC/DC and the Ramones in a poor Moscow hood, while playing guitar, and painting graffiti under a bridge, skateboards too, naturally I had a bottle of vodka with me I offered to share with them. Great times. All the Best to You - Joseph
That was a nice comment, originalmrjojangles! I didn't realize so many of them were Polish. It makes me extra proud of them, being half Italian and half Polish myself.
awesome
How many sticks does Dennis Thompson throw away, man? What the fuck! Amazing footage and sound.
Mauroleiicus He didn't toss em, the sticks jumped out because they were sick of him beating them so hard against the drums. The drums didn't like it either, but they were nailed down and couldn't move. Ow!
10:10 sounds a bit like "Spirit Of Radio" by Rush
You mean "Spirit of Radio" sounds like them.
all of it sounds like so many things
Wayne Kramer's guitar haunts my dreams!!!!! Someone please post what kind of guitar he's playing. I know he became famous for his "Flag Stratocaster" but I don't recognize the make on this one. PHENOMENAL PERFORMANCE!!!!
Ampeg Dan Armstrong guitar
RIP Wayne Kramer
Fucking glorious! Long live MC5!
Down on the Street...............I'm Loose......
greatest album of all time
hell yes!!
Drummer lost two sticks in under 25 seconds. Fuck yeah! Let's hear it for the drummer man. What ya wanna' be when ya grow up son, Dennis Thompson pa, Dennis Thompson.
Guy pushed off the stage? If still alive is probably pushing 80. Time flies. After all, only Dennis Thompson remains. Wayne died today.
Super bummer!
Mc5 first of all super rock. Wonderful! Imagine now (2023) a rock concert or music suddenly made on the street, it would be total boredom, only smartphones, stupid rules and loneliness
If you only heard this band's studio tracks....you haven't heard them AT ALL! They put SO MUCH of themselves into this show, as if it was the last show of their lives! If only more people knew how ground-breaking this band was. Punk has NOTHING on this band's intensity!
Your not listening to the right bands...
they gave it all every performance
''The more you suck it the more it grows'' LOLLL
If the police were watching - saying stuff like that on stage got you arrested back in the day....
Steve O And made to suck it before getting to the jail....ugh.
After I left that day I got pulled over by the Oinkers. They told me I ran a stop sign. But somehow they didn't ticket me. Then when I looked again at the intersection, there was no stop sign there!
Yup, they are..
Wow, amazing walk at 0:56 yeah baby, chuck would a liked this.....
In case anyone is wondering, at the start of ‘Kick out the jams’ he says “ Motherfuckers”.
That little Ricky sounds quite good coming of of that Marshall stack.
Keep playin' their 3 records at the store I'm working... Since 10 years. Working days are way better with the MC5. Try it!
totally agree!!!