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The band's classic line-up included Kramer, Smith, vocalist Rob Tyner, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson. At the time of Kramer's death in February 2024, the band consisted of Thompson, vocalist Brad Brooks, rhythm guitarist Stevie Salas, bassist Vicki Randle, and drummer Winston Watson (all since 2022).
The band members were also all using the drugs LSD and marijuana. Hippies at a live music festival in Lincoln Park, Chicago. MC5 can be seen playing - Sunday, August 25, 1968. The band performed as part of the protests against the Vietnam War at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago that were broken up by a police riot. The group's ...
Members of the proto-punk band MC5. Pages in category "MC5 members" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
All five original members of the band MC5 pose in Ann Arbor, MI, in 1969. (Credit: Leni Sinclair/Getty Images) ... And that group of people never embraced the MC5. They couldn’t wait to get rid ...
Wayne Kramer, the co-founding guitarist and composer of Detroit’s punk band MC5, whose social activism carried on throughout his lengthy solo career, died on Friday at 75. The news was confirmed ...
Kramer also founded the nonprofit Jail Guitar Doors.
Robert W. Derminer (December 12, 1944 [1] – September 18, 1991), known as Rob Tyner, was an American musician best known as the lead singer for the Detroit proto-punk band MC5. His adopted surname was in tribute to the jazz pianist McCoy Tyner. It was Tyner who issued the rallying cry of "kick out the jams, motherfuckers" at the MC5's live ...
Kramer came to prominence in the 1960s as the lead guitarist of the Detroit rock band MC5. Kramer and guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith co-founded the MC5 in 1963, with vocalist Rob Tyner, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson joining shortly after. The MC5 became known for their powerful live performances and radical left-wing ...