#MC5 Kick Out the Jams

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THE MOTOR CITY BECOMES UNLEASHED IN EARLY '69 -- RAMPAGING THEIR WAY INTO THE BAY AREA.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a full-page ad for "Kick Out the Jams," the debut album by American rock band MC5 [MOTOR CITY 5], released in February 1969 by Elektra Records.

PIC #2: Concert poster design for the MC5, [utilizing the band's debut album cover art] for a string of live dates at the so-called "Straight Theater" in the Bay Area, CA, on March 14-16, 1969.

Sources: https://psychedelic-rocknroll.blogspot.com/2009/05/mc5-kick-out-jams-powerful-rocknroll-us.html & Poster Scene.

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Rest in Riffs, Wayne Kramer

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MC5 - Kick Out The Jams

R.I.P. - Wayne Kramer

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Kick out the jams!

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MC5 Co-founder and Leader Wayne Kramer Dies at 75

Wayne Kramer, the guitarist, singer and songwriter who co-founded and fronted the massively influential MC5, has died, his family said.

Kramer, who reformed the band in 2018 after a stint in prison in the 1970s and subsequent solo career, was 75 and died Feb. 2 from pancreatic cancer, the family’s statement said.

“He will be remembered for starting a revolution in music, culture and kindness,” the family said.

Alice Cooper mourned his “longtime friend - and sometimes collaborator” on social media: “Wayne Kramer. R.I.P.”

“He was my favorite person in the world,” Jill Sobule said of Kramer. “So beloved. I was lucky to have him in my life.”

Outside of his music career, Kramer founded Jail Guitar Doors, which provides acoustic guitars to incarcerated people.

“Rest in power to a brother who dedicated his life to being part of the solution,” Third Man Records said in a statement.

The MC5 released three LPs during its initial 1969-1972 run and is best known by the public for “Kick out the Jams.” Musicians felt the impact more deeply.

A “saddened” Vernon Reid ticked off Kramer’s many guises: “Punk-rock pioneer. Inmate-rights reformer. Author. Human-rights activist. Anti-violence advocate. Guitar badass. And major dude.”

Kramer was “the greatest man I’ve ever known,” Tom Morello said, adding that every time he’s in the studio, “the rawest, fastest track ha(s) the working title ‘MC5.’”

“Whenever and wherever any of us kick out the jams, Brother Wayne will be right there with us,” Morello said.

Or as the Dictators put it: “No MC5, no Dictators.”

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One of, if not the earliest known photo of Dennis "Machine Gun" Thompson performing with MC5 on Boblo Island in Detroit, MI in 1965.

Photo by Emil Bacilla

RIP Dennis Thompson, the final surviving member of MC5 September 7th, 1948 - May 8th, 2024

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MC5 'Kick Out the Jams/Empty Heart' French TV from 'Thunder Express' 1972

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Kick out the jams motherfuckers!!!

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RIP wayne kramer

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MC5 - Kick Out The Jams

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Kick Out The Jams - MC5 - 1970

Good morning and happy Monday. Another day without a theme. If you have something you want me to play send an ask.

Be Safe Be Kind And Be Awesome

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Kick Out the Jams (1969), Back in the USA (1970), High Time (1971), MC5 

It’s tough to think of Detroit being a centre of global industry and culture, given that today the city seems as far fallen from grace as Baghdad, Persepolis, Carthage. And yet it’s in that context that the Motor City 5 helped ignite a movement in western pop that, a half-century later, is still thriving. MC5 are known as the propulsive and wide-eyed front runners of (proto) punk, but I personally love how their records audibly show the ‘roll’ being eked out of ‘rock ‘n’ roll’. Like much very early punk, the band’s music lays a path showing the formation of some of my favourite styles of music; unlike much early punk, I actually enjoy quite a bit of MC5. Political urgency with a touch of youthful, goofy naivety and without punk’s faddy narcissism/nihilism, it’s easy to get swept up in MC5’s authentic belief in action – as well as, of course, these releases’ uncontainable energy.

Pick(s): ‘Motor City Is Burning’, ‘The American Ruse’, ‘Miss X’

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Monster Magnet - Kick Out The Jams / MC5 cover (Bizarre Festival 1998)

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Kick Out The Jams!

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MC5 - “Kick Out the Jams” 1970 (colourized) Posted by @punkarchive_ on instagram