How comes nobody ever mentions the MC5 round here?

each to his own, but...liking the Pink Fairies but not liking MC5 = liking Badfinger but not liking the Beatles.

+ the Groundhogs "Hoggin' the Stage" that's a fucking lost gem of fucking ROCK if ever there was one, eh? How could 3 people make such a RICH sound?

X-post I've heard them all FFS!

I think the people who thought of the fairies as a brit mc5 most were the fairies themselves, but, y'know, PAUL RUDOLPH, man!!

Yeah, I believe that as it's ths standard critical line on them. The fact that everyone judges them by their worst album is why I think the band is underrated (though I'll concede that one album is overrated). Your statement kind of implies that you haven't really listened to them in years and when you did you were listening with the baggage of "received wisdom." But I guess that's fair enough. MC5 might be one of those bands where if you don't hear it when you're a teenager you'll never hear it.

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/08/the-john-sebast.html

I'm not a huge fan of the ROCK these days but I respectively submit that any fan of 70s guitar music needs to have "I Can Only Give You Everything" and "Looking At You" in their collection. While they may not have actually ever hit that transcendental moment, for me their best tunes always have them striving for it.

i don't know. maybe because i think YES to i can only give you everything (who wrote that?, by the way? i know it's like a nuggets staple you can hear van morrison &c doing), but not necessarily yes to looking at you. but i think their most interesting stuff isn't so rock. even if it's stupid-heavy, things like come together aren't really riff-rockin' classics. and then there's the totally not-rock stuff, revolutionary blues and skunk and stuff. i don't think their best stuff's abides to the form of heavy-ass rock-songs or anything.

I think I Can Only Give You Everything was originally written for the Troggs by one of those songwriting teams, but every garage band and his dog did a version of it.

Yeah, I've got "Trogglodynamite" which is where I know it from.

http://www.youtube.com/v/gyrcUlX7sPg

lyrics are kinda cheese but that electric autoharp sounds amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot_-B-83Lb0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cg0qJ-ieRk&feature=player_embedded#

I didn't know there was another rockin' electric autoharp player. I mean, aside from the guy from Cold Sun.

Also that Ted Taylor tune is fucking boss

Yeah, I was kind of surprised when I first heard it to hear how close the MC5 stayed to the original - obviously they rock it up a bit, but all the good stuff in their version is right there in the Ted Taylor tune.

The comparison between those two videos is like the perfect example why rock music sucks compared to R&B/soul. That MC5 dude can't sing at all, and the awesome groove is lost under guitar theatrics.

awww come on. there's room for awesome R&B grooves and bad singing/guitar theatrics rock music in the world.

One thing that flips my wig on that Ted Taylor 45 is the production is credited to Billy Sherrill, which is probably is the same guy eventually known for the country-politan sound of early 70s recordings by George Jones, Tammy Wynette and Charlie Rich.

The music biz used to be a way smaller place.

RIP Michael Davis:

Michael Davis, the bassist of influential late 1960s rock band MC5, has died of liver failure, his wife said Saturday. He was 68.

Davis died at Enloe Medical Center in Chico, Calif., on Friday afternoon after a month-long hospitalization for liver disease, said Angela Davis.

aw man

RIP

I stood frontrow before him during the '04 reunion show here. After the show I swiped his setlist only to have this cute girl ask me to see it and run away after I handed it over.

Fortunately I was able to get back to the stage to steal Marshall Crenshaw's copy.

This is deeply saddening. A good friend of mine played with him in Destroy All Monsters, had nothing but nice things to say about him.

oh shit.

i was facebook 'friends' with him, he always seemed very happy and content and full of life. what a fucking huge bummer

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/308419_258302137553306_100001205648611_799405_640381130_n.jpg

;_;

Looking over thread...

One thing that flips my wig on that Ted Taylor 45 is the production is credited to Billy Sherrill, which is probably is the same guy eventually known for the country-politan sound of early 70s recordings by George Jones, Tammy Wynette and Charlie Rich.

The music biz used to be a way smaller place.

Billy Sherrill also produced some of The Remains studio stuff. Also, I have a copy of Jerry Lee Lewis doing "Ramblin' Rose" near the end of his Sun tenure. Supposedly he recorded it first, but his version didn't hit the streets 'til '69-70.

oh man, so sad to hear. <3 you always.

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/185460_209570895759764_100001205648611_626752_5849388_n.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwV5Sqlhlgc
their earliest footage unless I'm mistaken.
Shows them off as dandyish, I always thought they were a jeans & tshirt band until I heard that they had wives and girlfriends making a lot of clothes for them.

Sorry to hear about Mike Davis, hope he didn't suffer too much at the end. He was in hospital for a month. So have to assume he must have been.

Do wish somebody would release a compi of whatever complete footage with sound there is. Would love to see a True Testimonial released, it's a pretty good film.
So wonder if this death will trigger any new releases. A remastered set of lps would be good too. & will assume that Easy action will rerelease Purity, Accuracy the box set of rehearsal & live material.

Aww RIP Mike Davis.

Been listening to High Time like crazy lately, kind of an amazing record and I wish it hadn't taken me forever to get that.

My brother texted me this news this morning. RIP Mike D. MC2 now?

Just reading various stuff about him on the internet this evening and it sounds like he was a genuinely good dude all round.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BuYbahkdFpY/S8_W3jdw2oI/AAAAAAAAADE/sU6lCY8I-Ys/s1600/-2.jpg

woooah, some people here seem to totally miss the point of the mc5. man, this is some fucking batshit freak the fuck out wild music. the energy and vibe they put out is phenomenal and they definitely set a high note for that kinda style. if you don't feel it, that's cool, but I'll never get enough of it.

Hello.

https://www.metrotimes.com/city-slang/archives/2017/06/13/brothers-and-sisters-wayne-kramer-uploads-rare-remastered-mc5-footage-to-youtube

oh wow

Holyyyyy fuck at this:

Wayne Kramer, the founding guitarist and leader of Detroit's proto-punk/hard rock band the MC5, will celebrate the landmark anniversary of its incendiary debut album Kick Out the Jams with the 35+ date "Kick Out the Jams: The 50th Anniversary Tour" and a memoir The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities (Da Capo Press). Kramer has put together his wish-list worthy band of fellow travelers, dubbed MC50 -- Brother Wayne on guitar along with guitarist Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), drummer Brendan Canty (Fugazi), bassist Dug Pinnick (King's X), and the afro'd secret weapon frontman, 6-foot-7-inch Marcus Durant (Zen Guerrilla).

Dug Pinnick on bass, cool. Only festival dates in Europe, though :/

seriously - Pinnick, Thaiyl and Canty could be one of the greatest bands ever assembled

lol at the cruel snapshot of an early ilm argument at the start of this thread

my braxton joke is good tho

We got tour dates:

9/5 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution Live
9/6 - St. Augustine, FL @ Backyard Stage at St. Augustine Amphitheatre
9/7 - Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
9/8 - Raleigh, NC @ Hopscotch Music Festival
9/9 - Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
9/11 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
9/12 - New Haven, CT @ College Street Music Hall
9/13 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
9/14 - Huntington, NY @ The Paramount
9/15 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
9/17 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
9/18 - Montreal, QC @ Corona Theatre
9/19 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
9/21 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
9/22 - Grand Rapids, MI @ 20 Monroe Live
9/23 - Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
9/25 - Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom
9/26 - St. Louis, MO @ The Ready Room
9/28 - Austin, TX @ Mohawk
9/29 - Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
10/1 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Marquee
10/2 - Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
10/3 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
10/4 - San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom
10/5 - Los Angeles, CA @ John Anson Ford
10/15 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
10/16 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
10/17 - Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
10/19 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall
10/20 - Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre
10/23 - Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater
10/24 - Chicago, IL @ Metro Chicago
10/25 - Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart's
10/26 - Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew's Hall
10/27 - Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore

And the site to check for more is https://mc50th.com/

house of blues?

sigh