charlie dundar Posted June 4, 2001 Share Posted June 4, 2001 I WAS JUST PUT ON TO THESE GUYS A YEAR AGO.THE MOTOR CITY 5 RELEASED THEIR EARLY STUFF AROUND 1967.THEY WERE A KICK ASS POWERHOUSE ROCK 'N ROLL BAND FROM THE DETROIT THAT PRETTY MUCH INVENTED THE''GARAGE ROCK''SOUND.THEY HAD HIGH ENERGY SHOWS,GREAT SONGS,AND INTERESTING POLITICS.THEY INSPIRED SUCH ACTS AS AT THE DRIVE IN.IT SEEMS HOWEVER THEY ARE PRETTY MUCH OVERLOOKED IN THE HIPPIE MUSIC HISTORY...EVEN THOUGH THEY WHERE VERY REVOLUTIONARY,AND AHEAD OF THERE TIME.IS ANYONE ON HERE FEELING THESE GUYS?I PERSONALLY LOVE THE SONG''THEHUMANBEINGLAWNMOWER''WHICH WOULD BE SICK IF IT WERE RELEASED TODAY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willy!wonka Posted June 4, 2001 Share Posted June 4, 2001 defanate over-look...I got an album back home I'VE OVER-LOOKED for ever.....my loss but I'll defenately check it out then I'll give you input of how much the rock... sounds like they were ahead of thier time.... good lookin out peace brah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terorist Posted June 4, 2001 Share Posted June 4, 2001 MC5 make every "popular" band round today look like pussies...they were the real fucking thing. and if you ever have chance, check out Iggy Pop live...still a complete freakshow live. Jello Biafra got all his moves from Iggy, just like Michael Jackson stole all his moves from James Brown. peace, ak ------------------ www.terorist.cz/magazine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mental invalid Posted June 4, 2001 Share Posted June 4, 2001 "i give you a week before you ditch that name haha... your just asking for dick riders..."-seeking hehehe...no doubt, use sunglasses and a fake nose...roe ...ok -kick out the jams it is...thanks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phax Posted June 4, 2001 Share Posted June 4, 2001 You better own Iggy and The Stooges "Stooges" too... same era, similar sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jointhedotz Posted June 4, 2001 Share Posted June 4, 2001 love the MC5, kept hearing their cover of 'i can only give you everything' and had to get more, how fucking good is 'kick out the jams'?...band i've been into for years, Spacemen 3, are heavily influenced by MC5, their song 'revolution' could be MC5, well recommended REVOLUTION - PURITY - LOVE - SUICIDE - ACCURACY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taco bell bomber Posted June 4, 2001 Share Posted June 4, 2001 mr. chip would u email me at graffmatical2k@aol.com please..im from northern jerz..and i jus got flicks of that underpass on 78 yesterday ..good stuff...aiight hit me up if u please peacers [This message has been edited by taco bell bomber (edited 06-04-2001).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eros Posted June 5, 2001 Share Posted June 5, 2001 "DONE KICKED 'EM OUT!" Fuck yeah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mental invalid Posted June 5, 2001 Share Posted June 5, 2001 ...yo ive seen old clips of those dudes, rockin out and it looked like a hardcore show, then showed the date at the bottom as 1969..i was blown away i thought it was like late punk stuff...guess 69 wasnt all about love, some doods were fucking pissed off...ive been wanting to check em out..if anyone can recommend something...i hate getting greatest hit shits...ATI def. rocks-to bad the canceled the second leg.....thanks for any info... ...peace...roe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted June 5, 2001 Share Posted June 5, 2001 kick out he jams motherfuckers.... i dont know nearly as much about them as i should considering im from detroit... perhaps today is the day... i give you a week before you ditch that name haha... your just asking for dick riders... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie dundar Posted June 5, 2001 Author Share Posted June 5, 2001 Originally posted by seeking innocence: kick out he jams motherfuckers.... i dont know nearly as much about them as i should considering im from detroit... perhaps today is the day... i give you a week before you ditch that name haha... your just asking for dick riders... JUST CAME ON TO RESPOND TO SOME STUFF IN ANOTHER THREAD REGARDING ME.SORRY,BACK TO AN ALIAS..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mental invalid Posted June 5, 2001 Share Posted June 5, 2001 "BACK TO AN ALIAS"-????? ....wise choice....roe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TEARZ Posted June 6, 2001 Share Posted June 6, 2001 whoa, if you're just looking into them, have fun. that's a real fun band to look into. just wait until you get to all their political shit including working class revolt, marijuana legalization, and the white panthers (and no it wasn't no racist shit). hahaha. by all means do it to it.... ------------------ i don't know what you subject to, but i suppose it ain't a bed of roses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach Posted June 7, 2001 Share Posted June 7, 2001 hey chip7... thanks for the drawings for my dresses... i really appreciate it a lot and i would like to send you pictures... email me... booslew@yahoo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted June 7, 2001 Share Posted June 7, 2001 hey peach, wheres my tyvek? isnt that what it was called? i guess me and my friends are 'cool' enough for your dresses huh? jokes.. hope all is well, email if you get a chance... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CONTWO Posted June 8, 2001 Share Posted June 8, 2001 on trash day i copped an mc5 live album from detroit 1969,yessssssssssss!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie dundar Posted June 8, 2001 Author Share Posted June 8, 2001 Originally posted by peach: hey chip7... thanks for the drawings for my dresses... i really appreciate it a lot and i would like to send you pictures... email me... booslew@yahoo.com wow from the mc5 to the person i first heard the words at the drive in from, around the release of vaya.i see everybody's on here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DripOfAWish Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 MC5 were the real deal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIBS Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 i am with seeking. as a fellow detroiter, i should know more about the mc5. they were the real deal, there is a movie out right now about them, i just camt remember the name, its a smallish indie type film. i will searchout the name and get back later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIBS Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 its called "a true testimonial". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ETHREADZNY Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 THEY WERE WAY AHEAD OF THEIR TIME, BUT SO IS MY 8 MONTH OLD COUSIN, HE CAN SPEAK FIVE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harpo Marx Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 The MC5 is some damn good stuff. Has anyone heard of an albatross? They're a weird rock/hardcore band from PA. They all dress in the 70's gear and have some wild shows. They have a keyboard player too. the stuff is gnarly. http://www.mp3.com/AnAlbatross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harpo Marx Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 http://analbatross.com/1.gif'> http://analbatross.com/19.gif'> http://analbatross.com/18.gif'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harpo Marx Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 The Motor City Five were head-crushingly loud, intensely self-destructive, boisterously fun, and so politically controversial the FBI tapped their phones. They are also widely credited with inspiring two of the most important rock innovations of the '70s, punk and metal. In short, they were one of the greatest rock bands that ever lived. They are also one of the most representative groups of their era, epitomizing the explosive energy and conflict of America during the Vietnam era. The mid-'60s social landscape of Detroit was crucial to the formation of the MC5 and an essential part of everything the band did musically. The band's three most famous members, singer Rob Tyner and guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred "Sonic" Smith, were also the principal architects of the band, sons of Detroit auto workers who joined together in high school to play music inspired by the Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, James Brown, free jazz, and the blues, seeking to become a rock and roll success in the hopes of avoiding the fates of their fathers. By late 1965, the group had added permanent bassist Michael Davis and drummer Dennis Thompson and landed a gig at Detroit's Grande Ballroom, where they spent the next two years building a devoted local following with their frenzied, high-energy, high-stakes style of live performance. Sometime in 1967, the band hooked up with their notorious manager, political agitator John Sinclair, founder of radical White Panther party, an ancillary group to the Black Panther party (endorsed by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton). The band quickly became the mouthpiece for the party's views, calling for social revolution and the freedom of all oppressed peoples and pointed working the American flag into their rock and roll imagery. Consequently all the band members began to have regular legal problems. Later on Kramer learned through the Freedom of Information Act that the group's radical rhetoric had piqued the interest of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and other federal bureaucrats, who instituted a program of systematic harassment that involved tapping the band's phones and tailing its members. In the midst of all this turmoil, the MC5 were playing some of the most exciting rock and roll ever known to man. In 1967 the group signed to Elektra and a year later recorded their seminal debut album, Kick Out the Jams, live at the Grande Ballroom, promptly stirring up new controversy thanks to their refusal to censor Tyner's legendary exhortation to "Kick out the jams, motherfucker!" on the title track. The album's incendiary mixture of politics, blues, feedback, and adrenaline catapulted it into the Top 40, but Elektra dropped the band. In 1969, Sinclair was apprehended with two joints in his pocket and arrested for narcotics possession; since it was his third conviction he was sentenced to ten years in jail -- thus sparking the "Free John Sinclair" movement, which culminated in a spectacular benefit concert in Ann Arbor in 1971 that led the Michigan Supreme Court to overturn Sinclair's sentence three days later. Without their manager and mentor, the MC5 began to lose their way, soon abandoning the precepts of the White Panther party and falling deep into the throes of drug addiction. They did record a second great album, Back in the U.S.A., in 1970, this time on Atlantic. It was almost a full 180 from the ferocious live energy of their debut; a studio album with a thoroughly different, edgier kind of energy that reads almost as a dissertation on the history of rock and roll up to that point. A little-heard but solid third album, High Times, appeared in 1971 even as the band was on the verge of total collapse. The MC5 played their final show on December 31 of that year at the Grande Ballroom. Instead of declining in stature, the MC5 grew larger after their demise, as hundreds of musicians and critics acknowledged the scope of their influence. Drummer Thompson disappeared from view after the band's breakup, but all the other members continued to make music. Bassist Davis joined the Detroit cult band Destroy All Monsters (which has recently been revived) with former Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton. Guitarist Smith formed a Detroit cult band of his own, Sonic's Rendezvous Band with Asheton's brother and fellow ex-Stooge, drummer Scott, and Rationals guitarist/vocalist Scott Morgan. He later married Patti Smith and played on her 1986 album Dream of Life. He died of heart failure in 1994. Vocalist Tyner also died of heart failure in 1991, just after releasing a solo album. He spent much of his post-MC5 career fronting The Rob Tyner Band. Wayne Kramer's post-MC5 years were extraordinarily turbulent, involving serious heroin addiction and a few years spent in jail for dealing cocaine, but today he is the most active and visible of the group's living members. In 1995, he released his first solo album, The Hard Stuff (Epitaph), serving notice to the world that he was still able to summon the furious soul-punk power of the MC5 days. He's released a number of records since and even founded his own label, Muscle Tone Records, on which he released his 2002 album Adult World. In 1983, just a few years out of jail, Kramer assembled the cassette-only collection Babes in Arms for the great punk label ROIR from his own private tapes. It was one of the most popular ROIR releases ever and sold out in a heartbeat, but it has since been remastered for CD and is available domestically once again. The release features rare B-sides, rehearsal tapes, and outtakes from each of the band's three proper albums. Spanning the years 1966-1971, it's a great introduction to the incredible rock and roll phenomenon that was the MC5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harpo Marx Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Info stolen from Epitonic.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nG Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 "...KICK OUT THE JAMS MOTHERFUCKER!" weren't they lester bangs's favourite band or something? i'm racking my brain trying to remember all the useless things i know. :lol: truly essential music though, especially with all the wack impersonators coming out these days pretending like they invented it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p@ntyr@ider Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 awesome band..... check out gangwar w/ wayne kramer and johnny thunders. silver and gold fosho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr430n5_666 Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 http://www.brown.edu/webmaster/images/cafe.jpg'> band photography sucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
23578 Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 not hippies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~KRYLON2~ Posted August 9, 2003 Share Posted August 9, 2003 http://www.rockgreats.com/photos/productFullR-79783.gif'> yo my mom used to listen to them i got all her vinyls from back in the day and shes got a few mc5 albums i'll have to spin sum of that shit when i get home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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