#Mc5

[punkrockhistory]

55 years ago

Back In The USA is the debut studio album (and second album overall, following 1969's live album Kick Out the Jams) by the American rock /proto punk band MC5, released January 1970

[batteredshoes]

Rest in Riffs, Wayne Kramer

[boundlesshousamo]

Merry Christmas everybody!

The gang decided to visit the Christmas market, stopping by Choji's stall to buy some candied apples.

While Ryota was lost in his own world, savouring the deliciously glazed delight, Ebisu picked out apples for the rest of his friends - unaware that Haru was about to ambush him with a snowball.

Luckily for him, Furufumi - ever prepared with a book in hand - stepped in to protect his boyfriend from the wintry attack.

Meanwhile, Hotei and Takeminakata, unusually lovey-dovey, seemed to be caught up in the magic of Christmas.

-Perhaps that's just what holiday bliss does to couples?

[affiches-concerts]

MC5, Scot Richard Case, 1967

[chrisgoesrock]

MC5 - Advertise Poster US 1969

[meetmeinthesandbox]

RIP brother Wayne.

[undergroundrockpress]

MC5/ 1969.

[red-steampunk]

@boundlesshousamo @dorokora

[killcityarchive]

MC5 headed to the stage at the Midwest Rock Festival. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1969.

Photo by Allan Lee Cross.

[oldmanpeace]

[musickickztoo]

RIP Dennis Thompson 

September 7, 1948 – May 8, 2024

[punkrockhistory]

55 years ago

#KnowYourRoots

MC5 - Kick Out The Jams (1972)

[pop-art-sixties-seventies]

Chambers Brothers, MC5, Thyme, 1967

Art by Gary Grimshaw

[svitoshitpost]

Mcr, can you hear me? It's pretty cruel of you to open up ticket sales for concerts I can't get to on my birthday. Do something about it (plz)

[doyourememberrocknrollradio]

MC5 - Kick Out The Jams

R.I.P. - Wayne Kramer

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

MC5 - Saginaw Civic Center, Saginaw, Michigan, January 1, 1970

Since we said goodbye to John Sinclair yesterday, let's say goodbye today to Wayne Kramer, the MC5 co-founder also passed away this year. The Motor City 5 at the dawn of the damn 1970s! Things were gonna get darker during the decade ahead of them, but onstage in Saginaw on New Year's Day, they sound like true rock n roll gods.

The band's second LP, Back in the U.S.A., would be released a couple weeks later, and the band tears through a fair amount of that LP, in addition to plenty of stuff from the debut. Kramer is on fire throughout, dueling marvelously with his six-string comrade Fred "Sonic" Smith, kicking out the jams like there was no tomorrow. Maybe there wasn't any tomorrow.

Wayne Says: The MC5 took a different tact. Although we loved Miles, we plugged into the more angry and the more passionate visceral free jazz movement of the late '60's- the music of Coltrane, Ornette and Albert Ayler and Sun Ra. Joseph Jarman (Art Ensemble of Chicago) lived next door. This was the community that we had. We were all sharing this sense of what was happening in this off-shoot of jazz that seemed to parallel what we felt what was happening conscious-wise in the streets. They were way more committed and way more passionate than what Miles did. What we were really trying to do was, in my opinion, the same thing. There was no difference between what Joseph Jarman and Charles Moore and the MC5 were doing even though we came from a guitar rock perspective and they came from a traditional jazz perspective. We were all trying to get through that door that Sun Ra opened up, that Ayler opened up, that Coltrane opened up, that Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp opened up. That was the music that inspired (us). That's what we were striving for.