Fred's "Sonic Suit" is stellar. I had the pleasure and privilege to have a few hours of face time with brother Wayne in a Swiss hotel after a show played together in 1995. Wayne was very friendly and patient. Little did I know back then that a few years later, I would end up in a band with Scott Morgan - for a decade.
I was at this show. Hours before I was confronted at gunpoint by British troops for climbing the tower steps in Aylesvury . The UK was tense about IRA violence and I was young and naive. They were firm but polite with me; clearly surprised I was American. They didn’t search or detain me when I explained I was in town for the MC5.
Bloody amazing , 1972 and the pogo was already invented at 2.27 , ( and i thought Sid Vicious was the man!) , great stuff from a band so underrated and yet massively influential.
In this day and age of inducting posing wankers into the rock n roll "hall of fame",it's so refreshing to see and hear REAL ROCK N ROLL!!!!! Thank you Brother Wayne...!!
There was a lot of prog and adventurous music around in 72, but there was also plenty to jump around or headbang to as well. We took it all and loved it all.
I have a slightly longer version of this, recorded from French TV around 1981, by chance the video tape it is on also has a load of rare video from Willy Barrett
Yo! Fred's doing a Devo over there on the floor at 1:38! Hey Fred, you're about seven years early, man! Devo were from Akron, what, maybe 150 miles from the Motor City?
Brother Wayne, Keep them coming. The Tartar field footage is seriously fucking rocking... See you in Seattle & Vancouver. Brothers & Sisters, Take your 5 seconds and spread the word about the MC5. Give the testimonial.
I wonder how many kids in that crowd later formed punk bands? I think I see some proto-pogo dancing going on in that hall. If it was today, they'd be moshing for sure! Sure beats the bored, stoner response that US fans gave them. The UK got the Five!
Looking forward to seeing Wayne Kramer and 'friends' for the 50th anniversary tour in the Fall of 2018. I am going to round up all my music loving friends and give them an education on where it all began. See you at the 930 Club the premier music venue in Washington, DC. Rock on!
Thanks for posting this, Wayne! Met you a few times when you played Denver and Boulder;can't tell you how much it meant to me when you took time out to listen to me ramble on about my love for the 5!
Wow I live in Aylesbury , near London they have a statue of Bowie which is cool, I would rather have a Kramer statue wicked guitarist and showman rob what a front man what a band , raw as fuck!
If you haven't heard it yet, listen to Marc Maron's interview of Wayne Kramer on his WTF podcast. Here is the TH-cam link. th-cam.com/video/ZjMb8wwA9Bg/w-d-xo.html
That's what wrong with the people and their unrest and misunderstanding of what is going on in today's world, we have no good music and story tellers, in all kinds of music that is but the hard rockers were not afraid to put feeling into it!
It seems like the rest of the band is pissed at Fred for dressing up like Buck Rogers. Or at least Rob is. Brother Wayne Kramer does not look too happy either.
Yeah, I was thinking to myself--who is that geek over there replacing Sonic? I guess it was that "hippie hick kid from West Virginia"--as Iggy called him---trying to show off for the UK crowd
High speed energetic Psychodelia......Punk, Hard Rock, Heavy metal Roots. What a pie e of history.
Mr Wayne Kramer's band.
Fred Sonic Smith in his spacesuit 🎸🎸🎶🎶💞
😂
Tyner was a beast! Great stage presence too. Timeless, and I'm so glad we can enjoy this stuff on the web now..
Absolutely sensational footage
As much love as Kramer and Smith get for crafting the sound of MC-5, Rob Tyner has got to be one of the least-appreciated frontmen in Rock history!
He was Roger Daltrey to Kramer's Pete Townshend
The DTK/MC5 show at the Black Cat in DC made it pretty clear that singing in front of this band required a strong vocalist.
5 dudes who were there...back catalog is faultless in many jammin ways, motherfuckers🎤🎸🎸🎸🥁
You got that right! What a front man and one hell of a vocalist!
That's why any "Reunion" fell flat. He was the kind of vocalist who could be imitated but never duplicated.
I'd heard of Fred's stage gear - this is the first time I've seen it on video
Good Question!?
I don’t know,I wonder,that’s all
Fred's "Sonic Suit" is stellar.
I had the pleasure and privilege to have a few hours of face time with brother Wayne in a Swiss hotel after a show played together in 1995. Wayne was very friendly and patient. Little did I know back then that a few years later, I would end up in a band with Scott Morgan - for a decade.
I was at this show. Hours before I was confronted at gunpoint by British troops for climbing the tower steps in Aylesvury . The UK was tense about IRA violence and I was young and naive. They were firm but polite with me; clearly surprised I was American. They didn’t search or detain me when I explained I was in town for the MC5.
Thank you Brother Wayne for Keeping the Faith
Bloody amazing , 1972 and the pogo was already invented at 2.27 , ( and i thought Sid Vicious was the man!) , great stuff from a band so underrated and yet massively influential.
Ladies and gentlemen the ultimate Super Sonic Smith
The MC5 always played every single show, balls out...
you gotta love it right?
Like it was their last show ever!
Fred and Wayne are off the hook jamming.
Over 46 years old and still making modern music look like a pile of crap.
Yep, frightening isn't it!!!?
That's not difficult lol !
Maybe Greta Van Fleet should model their next album after MC5 to prove they're more than just a Led Zeppelin tribute band?
Yep modern music is garbage
@@swellybibbs747 the darkness is doing a pretty good job capturing this style of music
48 years old this performance still a blast to play! Kick out the jams and it’s time to testify!
MC5 never sold out the forum in Los Angeles which was the benchmark of any great band. MC5 was nothing but a garage band.
This is the level of effort I expect to see from every live band.
If you're not trying this hard, give up.
The communication @ 2.16 is truly emotional. I mean for that kid. His world just went a thousand times faster than anybody else's.
No doubt. That was sweet
I want Fred smiths outfit!!
Flash Gordon rack
In this day and age of inducting posing wankers into the rock n roll "hall of fame",it's so refreshing to see and hear REAL ROCK N ROLL!!!!! Thank you Brother Wayne...!!
YES !!!!!
But, But John Mayall never made it in while he was alive. Something is very wrong with the rock and roll hall of fame.
Still badass after all these years! No onstage monitors back then and no drum mics either!
2:19 Almost a mosh pit!
This kind of things are the ones that can bring you up even in the worst days. Thank you Brother Wayne!
Definitely
Absolutely right
(Sucks teeth) you bros are gonna make me cry. MC5 4 EVA!
Best strap malfunction reaction ever.
SoNotDown Similar reaction when Wayne blew a Marshall head at an outdoor concert in Rouge Park in Detroit many years ago.
When were strap locks invented? ;)
Brilliant loved MC5 since I was a kid at the start of the 70s. Got several of their albums and CDs. They were and still are great.
Many thanx for posting this rare footage.
Gives the idea of what a MC5 show really was : a total sonic assault .
The kids are jumping - Rare in 1972.
Prog rock was rife, raw power hard to come by.
There was a lot of prog and adventurous music around in 72, but there was also plenty to jump around or headbang to as well. We took it all and loved it all.
yeah that one guy was doing 'the Pogo' about 4 years before Sid Vicious in the Sex Pistols.
What planet did you live in 1972
Can’t wait to see you in Detroit next week Wayne!!
We had to wait another 5 years before anything this exciting came our way again and by that time I was old enough to be in the audience.
Punk had already begun and we didn't even realise it!
Weird shit dude, which planet was that. Here only 4 years
New York dolls happened just a year after this
No Band today generates this kind of steam-Thank You for this awesome clip !!!!
Hats-off to whoever located/restored this! Y'know how HARD it is to find MC5 footage?!
There’s not a whole lot..!! Which is a DAMN shame..!😔
Enjoyed the bio, "Hard Stuff," and have passed it on... wild that you're alive and all professorial/wise. Go Tigers!
Fred and his Sonic Suit pre-dated Ace Frehley by a few years. RIP Rob, Fred, and Mike.
Kiss would have mopped the floor with MC5.
Absolutely boffo!
And finally the camera pans to the people in the front rows dancing and jumping around.
Thank God for TH-cam.
Thanks for posting. Any film of the MC5 is brilliant and any film of Friars is brilliant!!
Wayne you friggin rock, thank you so much for the inspiration.🙏🏼🙏🏼✌🏻️🇺🇸
Best rock band ever!
U2 rules. When's the last time MC5 sold out the Rose Bowl? U2 did.
Thanks so much for all this new stuff, Wayne! Looks like Fred really took the Sun Ra thing to heart - beautiful!
Awesome!
Awesome!
Where did Fred ‘ sonic ‘ smiths crazy outfits end up??? I hope displayed or with his wife patti still.. anyone know??
Man, I remember what passed for music in 1972, and these kids dancing were lucky A.F.
I have a slightly longer version of this, recorded from French TV around 1981, by chance the video tape it is on also has a load of rare video from Willy Barrett
Can’t you upload it?
i saw 'em live with this line -up .....FORMIDABLE !
Yo! Fred's doing a Devo over there on the floor at 1:38! Hey Fred, you're about seven years early, man!
Devo were from Akron, what, maybe 150 miles from the Motor City?
Devo's beginnings date back to 1972, so it's right in that ballpark actually.
Awesome 😊👍❤️❤️❤️
All hail the mighty Zenta! Astonishing stuff, I had never seen or heard this before, thanks for sharing.
...what...can...I...say...about this ELIXER!?!?!
oh, EFFFFF YEAH!!!
...um, one of tops band USA ever to be!!!
Thank you, MC5!
(Wild) Willy Barrett is in my personal list of favourite entertaining guitarists. Still going now and still wonderful. That gig must have been great.
It was. I was there.
65p for a ticket to see three acts. That means about 22p to watch the MC5 !! Talk about the glory days !!!!!
Thank you so much, Wayne! Loving the uploads so far.
Hell fucking yes! Keep em coming brother!
Real Music
Good footage, gig. I like the Blowfly cape look. Going for some fast food later would have been interesting.
Brother Wayne, Keep them coming. The Tartar field footage is seriously fucking rocking...
See you in Seattle & Vancouver.
Brothers & Sisters, Take your 5 seconds and spread the word about the MC5. Give the testimonial.
Fuck yes. Thank you, Wayne.
I wonder how many kids in that crowd later formed punk bands? I think I see some proto-pogo dancing going on in that hall. If it was today, they'd be moshing for sure! Sure beats the bored, stoner response that US fans gave them. The UK got the Five!
i used to have a ricky just like the one fred smith is playing. damn i miss that guitar! killer footage!
MC5は狭いハコがよく似合う！で実はバンドのダイナミズムだけじゃなくて、かなり歌が上手いんだよなあ！
Happy Birthday Wayne!
Looking forward to seeing Wayne Kramer and 'friends' for the 50th anniversary tour in the Fall of 2018. I am going to round up all my music loving friends and give them an education on where it all began. See you at the 930 Club the premier music venue in Washington, DC. Rock on!
Thanks for posting this, Wayne! Met you a few times when you played Denver and Boulder;can't tell you how much it meant to me when you took time out to listen to me ramble on about my love for the 5!
Gotta GOTTA find a live run of 'I want you right now'... Gotta find it... somehow
No one went this far. No one.
And Brother Wayne with the Kubrick Stare at 1:28!
From Lincoln Park, Mich., my hometown
Fucken brilliant!
Wow I live in Aylesbury , near London they have a statue of Bowie which is cool, I would rather have a Kramer statue wicked guitarist and showman rob what a front man what a band , raw as fuck!
Great content
Keep making great videos like this
New supporter
Wow aylesbury !?
RIP Wayne 😔
🔥🔥🔥🚀🚀🚀
Got to be when punk first started . Pogo aswell
Whatta fuc...you were simply the best rock’n’roll EVER...Thanx for your energy
Is that the one and only Sonic Spaceman up there with you, Mr Kramer?
One of the best bands to grace this mofokin land
Yeah rock on smoke /vape/eat/drink thc!!!!
Brother Wayne Kramer!!! 👑👑👑👑
'back in the daze - - -
Promise du punk🙋💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐🦉✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨😇😇😇😇😇
Fuck Yes!!
Someone has a some very flavorful Wah Wah tones early on.
So scary, these guys are the band your Mother warned you about☆☆
we'll NEVER get there again!!! WOW!!!!
Black to Comm , interstellar overdrive ,ahh give the singer some ...
Ajjjjjjj 🖤
Were they avoiding showing Michael Davis or his replacement. For no better I can hear is there a bassist lol
Michael Davis is the bass player at this show. You can see him on another clip " Tonight" on you tube.
🧨🔥💣☝️🔥
Is this at the Grande?
where's the love button???
If you haven't heard it yet, listen to Marc Maron's interview of Wayne Kramer on his WTF podcast. Here is the TH-cam link. th-cam.com/video/ZjMb8wwA9Bg/w-d-xo.html
Where can I get some of that stuff?
kick out the jams motherfuckers!
Greetings from Brazil!!
I have to say it,which is what I forgot to say,I have a big gray dog, in the month of May.He plays all day ‘good boy!) fill in blank ____ ____ ____
Kramer on the old Epiphone
Thanks,I thought it was a silvertone
That's what wrong with the people and their unrest and misunderstanding of what is going on in today's world, we have no good music and story tellers, in all kinds of music that is but the hard rockers were not afraid to put feeling into it!
Not the mc5. Mc4. Where’s MD?
He is there. You can see him in another clip from this same show with the band playing the song 'Tonight".
RIP Machine Gun...
My five are ausome
!!!
What in the wide, wide world of sports is Fred wearing? 😂
I reckon it's an influence from when Sun Ra opened for the 5
Looks like traditional cricket whites to me.
It seems like the rest of the band is pissed at Fred for dressing up like Buck Rogers. Or at least Rob is. Brother Wayne Kramer does not look too happy either.
Yeah, I was thinking to myself--who is that geek over there replacing Sonic? I guess it was that "hippie hick kid from West Virginia"--as Iggy called him---trying to show off for the UK crowd
we paid bootleg price for this back in the days. . EXCELLENT indeed. . thank you Wayne.
Just like with most of the great, seminal rock bands in history, most of their early gigs were playing to guys.
Ditch P Smith, zeros of talent image only sad no talent excellent poser
@@maxsno😅Huh?😅
@@maxsno😅 I"m so glad they taught me about punctuation back in grade school!😅