MC5 The American Ruse (www.easyaction.co.uk)
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- Davis, Kramer and Thomson kick out the jams at the 100 Club London. We've got a couple of gigs coming up at the 100 club with Brian James and Penetration so here's something to get ur juices flowing!!!
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they were so ahead of their time. True genius
Absolutely right!!
Even when miming, the MC5 has an exiting stage presence that sets them apart from most other groups.
when the young ones ask me what is the ultimate rock band .. answer : MC5 !
Sonic rocking that Rickenbacker for one of his rare solos! Kramer's Telecaster looked great too!
Get rid of year 69
"22, America in terminal stasis
The air's so thick, it's like drowning in molasses
I'm sick and tired of paying these dues
And I'm finally getting hip to the American ruse"
These lyrics are more relevant today than ever before and then afterwards
MC5 were a perfect, Rock & Roll machine.
''If you complain they're gonna get vicious
Kick in the teeth and charge you with assault''
This is scary because the absurdness rings true!
Actually worse now! They track your cell and there were no tasers then
Never more relevant than right now.
That's not 100 Club.
It's CKLW-TV Channel 9 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The show was called Swingin' Time. The voice you hear introducing show host Robin Seymour at the end of the song is that of David Compton, who many locals remember as the channels news anchor throughout the '70s.
Anne Murray following the 5? How about she join them onstage and sing "Ramblin' Rose"?
That would have been amazing!
No band has the balls like this anymore period
Not yet at least. I have a feeling we're going to be seeing this spirit come back in a huge way (in music) here pretty soon. Especially with all the shit going down right now in 2020. However I don't think it's going to sound anything like this.
@@Brewzerr still haven’t sadly, I think humanity has just given up
Sure they do. But they can't get on TV anymore period.
…my band has the balls.
To lip sync?
AWESOME.... I've loved these guys just as soon as they had an album and their last album was the best I thought. - they were so ahead of their times. -
No wonder the Ramones loved these guys so much.
Solos starts with “ Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory”… and gets raunchy immediately thereafter. BRILLIANT.
"Nahhhhh. Knock 'em back, Sonic......". One of rock's great moments.
LOL @ Anne Murray following the MC5 after they tore it up.
Eric Rose She probably sang "Snowbird"
Eric Rose, my thoughts exactly, lol
I wonder if she sang "Snowbird." What an introduction.
I think punk evolution goes something like..
Rock and roll->Rock a billy->Surf music-> British Invasion->MC5's/Iggy pop->Ramones.
Insert Velvet Underground between British invasion and MC5/Iggy, then New York Dolls between MC5/Iggy and Ramones... and there ya go.
Wow! MC5 followed by Anne Murray....what a combo!
Nice to see them on stage here, but I swear that's their miming to the track of that name on that great LP "Back in the USA"....I'm sure...agree??
I am leaning toward no, but a very faithful live cut...maybe
The clarity of the "Oh no!" backing vocals when nobody else is mic'd up seems to indicate that it was partially mimed if not all. That's the way a lot of TV studio performances roll I reckon. Still I love seeing the MC5 live or faking it on mass media - it's good for the young 'uns to learn about speaking up for what you believe in.
it's too perfect to be entirely live. I just want to know when the original LP will be corrected, as there isn't nearly enough bass, as everyone now knows. aside from that, it's a great LP! they pay tribute starting off, w/ Little Richard, and end up w/ Chuck Berry. title track.
Yea, I've been wondering about that too. I used to look at it a LOT, and suddenly it's nowhere to be found. Wayne Kramer was amazing on it!
Pure punk genius !
wayne kramer is like a god to me
slint69: He and Fred, both -- like Thor and Odin together!
Go Sonic, GO!!
Best group ever!!!!
Damn. Tonight sucks. Rest in Power, Wayne. This is a deep ouch.
R.I.P. Michael Davis
Midwest American hardcore. First among equals.
Literally, nothing has changed. Just the ruse is a lot more blatant
Brother Wayne Kramer and Rob Tyner kicking Up a Storm....
Welcome Back Sonic...……
Fucking Epic....
RIP Wayne Kramer
Lemmy, form MOTORHEAD has said many times the MC5 was an inspiration for him when he put motorhead together...
Brilliant band , deserved far better...
Najbolja garage rock grupa!
Istina.
That guitarist has the original punk stare! :)
Fred "Sonic" Smith - he married CBGB Punk priestess/poet Patti Smith a few years later. I'm glad to see him get a rare solo on this.
@@ronbo11 Plenty of his lead work on TH-cam Sonic's Rendezvous Band music.
the james brownes of rock n roll
actually
the james brownes a pretTy good name for a band :):):)
stoked!
What did Fred Smith say at the end of the video putting his hand over his mouth ????!!! ?
The missing link in rock and roll, which is sad, they had everything right, the radio stations gave them no air play at all.
this was actually filmed at the cbc tv studio here in windsor ontario
great tune very unappreciated band
As relevant as ever, the OG RATM Grandfathers, the Motor City 5.
Freakin Great!!!!!
All hail the Godfathers of punk rock!
If it was
wasn't for the MC5. There would have been no Foo Fighters, Gree
Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers..182 Blink...theMC5 was the real deal
So good!
I love the MC5 but I always wondered what they were talking about when he says, "Joe's primitive bar". Does anyone know?
+Scott Trevathan The non sequitur, and obscurities make it heavy.
I think Joe's Primitives was a line of kitschy Americana giftware boutiques. So it fits in with the phony stars, crummy cars and cheap guitars.
The local corner bar- joe the average guy
@@louclark3388 Yeah that's how I always interpreted that line.
@MaceMn I agree. And on top of all this, there's no good "dangerous" rock bands to help us realize this like there was in the 60's with free mindedness, and in the 70's with punk.. it's all crappy safe stuff in the top 40.
DrugStabbingTime Rage was fucking trying.
That's because 'rock' has been done to death. It still had teeth in 1969 (and all the way through until roughly the late 90's, in bits), but it has cycled itself out. We're way past due for some new form of revolutionary music, and an accompanying youth movement... and in light of all the shit going down right now the ground has never been more fertile than it is today. And I'm not talking about hip-hop or electronic music either. Those have also been done to death. It's time for something COMPLETELY new and dangerous. A complete break with the past. Our generation probably won't be into it, but that's ok. That's how it should be. The younger people have got to stand up and own it for themselves.
🔥💙🔥
It's not "Swingin' Time". It's from Robin Seymore's later show called "The Lively Spot".
Punk Rock Gem!
Descansa en paz, Michael Davis!!! RIP
Pub laws never entered my mind ! Interesting and telling it's what you thought I meant by "pub-worthy." I meant, rather, who'd want to have a pint with you? Then or now.
TOO COOL~
Now thats a tune right there.
Perfection 🤘❤️
Yeah!!!!!!!!
2 dead from drugs one spent 8 years in jail and no they weren't rich 7 never had a drink with you and in the USA when they played in 68 it was really truly war--like danger like kick the shit out of you--and Detroit wasn't safe--It was hard core and not youtube porn or world's biggest tongue but invested music--art--culture hardcore.
I liked it, I liked it
MC5 opened for Anne Murray?
Dig that -- MC-5 as the warm-up act for Anne Murray of all people?!?!
Reminds me of that marquee at the Longhorn Ballroom in Texas in 1978, when the Sex Pistols were sharing space with Merle Haggard. Though pairing the MC5 with Anne Murray is admittedly a bit weirder.
this was filmed in my city
@2Tricky who got their moves from Chuck Berry and Little Richard ask any of the "British Invasion" bands of note and they'll agree.
The best thing about This is no wrecking crew in site
awsome!
godfathers. all hail.
This just sounds like the record version sped up
The exchange between Jblacktree & Nickmart is hilarious, in a pathetic sort of way, & far sadder than The MC5 lyp-synching, Xyloplax. Are these people who leave comments 10-year-olds or just retarded? Anyway, Fred "Sonic" Smith didn't die of "drugs", but of cancer, although he had a severe alcohol "habit". The MC5 will always be one of the best R&R bands ever, because of their music, not because they died, did drugs, lived in dangerous times, were around in 1968, etc... Thanks for posting this
@bombthrower77 I never realized they looked so much alike until this video. She's not been the same without him either.
Um... Have you ever been to Newark, NJ?
MC5, NY Dolls, then all rest..
The line "chickens coming home to ruse" is what Malcolm X said when Kennedy was assassinated.
+madelefant05 'Roost' not 'ruse'. Chickens roost.
Fred “Sonic” Smith
Who fucking cares about any shit that any one post' (includuding mine) Dig 'em if you're young. Dig 'em if you are old. Who cares? Just dig the MC5. A great band. They are like the Dr Who of Rock and Roll. Completly timless. Fantastic Stuff.
This don’t happen often
The soundtrack for Occupy Oakland.
thumbs up cataclysmic abyss
1. They wouldn't drink with you and 2. if you're the age you say you are then the band had long since broken up by the time you were pub-worthy. 3. To quote Iggy: "I lived in Berlin and visited East Berlin and neither was as scary or as bad a police state as an Ann Arbor in 1968." Think World Cup Hooligan riots times 10 with live ammo, not rubber bullets.
what happened to the Looking At You clip from this same show..cant find it anymore
Knock 'em back Sonic!
M C MOTHER FUCKING 5!!!!!
sonic rules
what year is it?
wiki says it was late in 1969
@xXGoreXKillerXx
Detroiters brought me here
No cover cause it can't be......never. You will play tomorrow. If your old.... I'll be 88 in awhile....I'll turn it up.....fkn movie? No that's real shit. Movie good tho... Was a guide line... Fkn a. Let's smoke........ Patti. Introduce your husband again. Wayne,. Call anndelisi,. Bang a gong...... 100 billion can't be wrong.....,..amerii ruse
i know what the song is and i was stating that no place in america is the worst place to live (since the point of the comments they made was x place is the worst place to live). you seemed to have completely missed the point of my comment.
American Ruse=No amps or cords
I love 'em but without the British Invasion there would of been no MC5, their mannerisms remind me so much of The Who from 64-66.
OH NO
what year was that recorded ? i ll go for 69 anybody out there really know ?? thanks
Back in the USA release was 1970. Promo clip after the record release. Likewise the Tartar Field footage.
I said this before, I'll say it again. TELL me a band was better than the MC5, other than the Stones. And then tell me where you live. I'll fight to the death.
I imagine they believe what they professed, but they were young musicians who stayed in nice hotels and were happily played on little TV bandstands, not freedom fighters with muskets. Once I shared a drink in a UK pub with most of the band members. They were talking about how great the affluent and very white Detroit suburb Birmingham was when suddenly one of them remembered his obligation and said, "But it's so bourgeois." How very hard core.
Bullshit you had a drink with them.
@@aliceborealis Your opinion doesn't matter. It was during their 1972 trip to London when this video was probably made. I met them in Aylesbury, and there are two clips of the show on YT. I couldn't give a crap about celebrity, much less rock and roll musicians, my only point is that their politics was adolescent and superficial. In introduced myself while they were rehearsing, and explained I went to high school at Cranbrook, outside of Detroit. So, some of them invited me for a drink. Not very startling.
Okay, random rando on YT, your stirring account has convinced me that you MUST SURELY have had a drink with the MC5. And you weren't impressed- I bet THEY weren't either. And FYI, neither of our opinions matter. @@nicmart
@@aliceborealis Jesus, you gotta grow up some day. It doesn't matter to me in the slightest whether you think it happened or not. They were a minor rock n roll band, and that was an amusing day in my life. I have no investment at all in it.
"cheap guitars!" : )
Joe's primitive bars (???)
At least '70. Sorry.
It's 2023 and I'm still sick of the American ruse
fuckin a
these guys having a real stoner life xd
The Rolling Stones -> New York Dolls -> Ramones -> Sex Pistols ->Buzzcocks
menteur !!!
Please go study geography. The song is called American Ruse. We're mentioning US cities and you come up with a country in Africa.