MC5 at Tartar Field, Wayne State University, Detroit on July 19th
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- MC5 at Tartar Field, Wayne State University, Detroit on July 19th, 1970 (undoubtedly the peak of their live performance).
"Ramblin' Rose", "Kick Out The Jams", and "Looking At You"
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16 years old and I was there. Great times for Detroit local music sound in the late 60's and early 70's.
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
MC5 rockin like hell here. These guys were rockin this hard in 1968. Crazy stuff.
visionaries !!!
Best video of the MC5 on TH-cam. Dare I say one of their best performances captured on film. Awesome!!!
remarkable
Absolutely!
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.
Best fucking band ever.. Rest in peace Brother Tyner..
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
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!!
Incredible footage, when everyone stands up at 3:08 brings tears to my eyes...should be played in schools this.
seriously!!!! milestone!!!
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
A free gig by a band from the community for the community is the best. Rock and Roll is currently hibernating.
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!!!
The crowd is freekin hypmotized ! Except for the dude that got pushed off stage...hahahha!!!
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.
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
Down on the Street...............I'm Loose......
greatest album of all time
hell yes!!
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!!!
Best front man ever.
And it was all free, courtesy of WABX.
back in the days of brilliant radio
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!
who did they say invented punk?. personally i think the 5 might be among the first. and maybe best. thanks growing up in detroit this vid put tears in my eyes
Their last intense year before the smack kicked in...These guys hadn't a Michael Jagger to keep things on track despite the dope...
Saved from becoming their own tribute band, perhaps?
***** That's a good one..
I should've put "on track" between brackets..Still ...The Stones were still a valid unit in the 70's..Oh well..at least this bunch shone short but bright...
Does anyone know who Miss MacKenzie is?
Wonder if that is one of the members of Death (Detroit punk band) to Wayne K. right side.
Doubtful. Would be amazing if true. Careful not to get too far into "but they look so alike" territory.
@@MrDoctorMabuse That's on you, not me. Are you a person looking for an ongoing race war? Dumb concept as a humans are the same race/species. So you be careful.
R.I.P. Captain Wayme. You guided the massive MC5 ship into rock and roll history. Thank you!!
48 years ago - what were you doing?
This was 9 days before my 3rd birthday. Too young to know . Always heard of these guys but never bothered to look or listen until now.....all I can say is WOW !!!
We were born out of time. 1970
Wayne's guitar appears to be a Dan Armstrong
yup
RIP Wayne Kramer
Cub Koda at 10 minutes, in airbrush star shirt
I thought that was him too, so it must be. I saw Brownsville Station a couple times back in those days, great band!
super bon!!!
Most of the audience looks like they are attending a lecture on economics or zoology at Wayne State, as opposed to seeing an incredible performance that should have made their heads explode. Weird...
Brian Salk, as a 14-year-old attending one of his first concerts, and buying the Kick Out The Jams album (censored version at Hudson's Northland in the first week it came out,) I was also disappointed in the low energy of the front rows audience at the Tartar Field show, especially after the obvious enthusiasm of the Grande live album show audience. I sat close up in the risers, and wondered if these hippies were just too stoned, or WTF was wrong with them? Pissed me off Big Time. Glad you noticed it, live was even more disturbing. The evils and sapping of energy of pot and other drugs? The hippies, commies, and potheads were never as cool as they liked to believe. Often Stooopid. But the music was great, except for bands like 3rd Power emulating the worst of Cream and Hendrix, with 30 minute self-indulgent jams complete with Marshall banks of stacks and ear-damaging guitar and bass solos. Two great live shows, with more musical exceptions of that sometimes excessive Detroit scene. The rockin' Brownsville Station with Cub Koda, and Catfish with the Hodge Brothers with Catfish singing and Dallas Hodge on tasteful blues guitar. And of course Scotty Morgan and The Rationals. Well, can't beat Ig The Popstar and Stooges for mostly concise great rock songs, excepting LA Blues, LOL!
You gotta remember that NOBODY had ever heard ANYTHING like this before. This was radically new and different. People were absorbing every little detail: the sounds the moves.....everything.
Brother Wayne .... time stamp 9:45......!!!!!!
S.O.U.N.D.
9:11 the cute black couple get it. This rock music MUST MOVE YA
Be careful what you say. Why it hafta have an adjective added before "couple"? WayneO wouldn't dig it, remember that.
is it true that Abba attempted a version of this but it turned out rubbish so they binned it.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh la concha de la loraaa
lol what is this 😂
Fucking greatness mate.....
@@TheGrandmasterMan you said it Steve
Back when white and people listened to the same music
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.
This is one of the best pieces of live footage ever shot on film
ever!!!! so vital!!!
Too damn SHORT!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!!
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!
@@terryk5412 right!!!
Literally one of the finest displays of rock n roll ever
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
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.
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 TH-cam? 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
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?
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!
these guys were just fucking incredible. thanks for the great upload. good god!!!
You can totally tell that Johnny Thunders was heavily influenced by Wayne Kramer
Understatement, Thunders loved Wayne and the MC5. He and others drove to Detroit to see some gigs.
THE FIVE INMORTALS.
MC5 - ROCK'N'FUCKIN'ROLL GODS!
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
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!
I spent the last hour crying b/c of the memories that this brought.
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!
This is the best video on the internet.
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!!!
Tartar Field Forever. Bring Back the Tartars. VIVA Tartaria.
That guy on the side of the stage wearing glasses playing air guitar is priceless.
FANTASTIC!!! Sharing a joint !!
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!
What ya wanna' be when ya grow up son? Dennis Thompson dad.. Dennis Thompson.
lmfao
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.
DOES THIS AWESOMENESS STILL HAPPEN TODAY??? WHEN? WHERE? WHO!!!?
Ya gotta do it yourself.
Helsinki, Finland
Robin tyner was so overlooked as far as vocal skills.. rip Robyn and Fred ‘sonic’ smith
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.....
In case anyone is wondering, at the start of ‘Kick out the jams’ he says “ Motherfuckers”.
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
FANTASTIC ... PURE ENERGY !!
Why don't we pray to Wayne Kramer instead Mahona or Yeova o Jesus Cristh!?
ClubMicrobio because Jesus Christ is perfect and holy and Wayne kramer is just awesome
Rob Tyner would have been 71 today
If this is the original or the first to be posted on TH-cam? Where is the rest of the set? We need those others songs, please.
Whew!!! High Energy Rock n Roll!!!! Wayne Kramer was on FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Like Wayne says 'Come ON!'
what a beautiful mess and chaos
If this performance was at 1991 lalapalooza, they wouldve needed the national guard for crowd control...pure fire!
ignition !!
Wayne is such a show-off ;) but has major entertainer qualities - and the playing abilities, for the time, wow. Looking at you ist one of the best rock songs ever !!! Love Rob, and Machine Gun, and Sonic Smith - what a combo !!!
the greatest. they really rehearsed and choreographed.
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...
They just played Philly. Well MC50, way ahead of their time. It was simple, they loved jazz, rock and the Blues so why not combine them. They influenced every Punk band to follow. It's a shame that only 1 surviving member gets to enjoy their new tour. Everyone is talking about their political views and drug use. Who gives a shit. Of course they did drugs, name a group in the 60s that didn't. Yes a few members spent time in the Iron bar hotel, selling coke to undercover agents is never a good thing. They protested the right the left, the war in Nam, stores that refused to sell their albums and radio stations that wouldn't play their music and anything else that might get them laid. They were outside of the mainstream, said and did what they wanted and told people to fuck off. I think they had 1 song to barely break the top 100. The infighting, egos and drugs were their downfall but they played some awesome shit.
You from Philly?
love the modest stage. they'd play anywhere !!!!
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.
Fucking fantastic....what else can you say. Pisses on The Beatles, & The Stones added together.....
MC5 were ahead of their time.
Warrogue1 n
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!
It calms down my anxiety...
I just realized how bad The Mars Volta (Cedric and Omar) ripped these guys off.
real talk
That little Ricky sounds quite good coming of of that Marshall stack.
The world wasn’t quite ready yet for them .
For real. Although the crowd gathering is so refreshing here.
It still isn't.
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!!
Compare this to all the shit we are served today!
Wow, amazing walk at 0:56 yeah baby, chuck would a liked this.....
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
I'm from Michigan Detroit rocks need I say more they've been doing it since the 60s
Rock from this era and mid 70's are so pure.
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.