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In 2004, Davis, Kramer and Thompson toured under the name DKT/MC5. [10] By 2005, the trio were joined by singer Handsome Dick Manitoba (ex-The Dictators), and rhythm guitarist Gilby Clarke (ex-Guns and Roses). [11] [12] This version of the band disbanded in February 2012, following the death of Davis. [13]
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.
The passing of Kramer — who was preceded in death by Tyner, bassist Michael Davis and guitarist Fred Smith — left drummer Dennis Thompson as the last MC5 member standing. In recent years, band ...
All five original members of the band MC5 pose in Ann Arbor, MI, in 1969. (Credit: Leni Sinclair/Getty Images) ... I’m going to run some names by you and I’d like to hear your thoughts on what ...
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 ...
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 ...
Frederick Dewey Smith (September 14, 1948 – November 4, 1994), known professionally as Fred "Sonic" Smith, was an American guitarist and member of the rock band MC5. He married and raised two children with poet and fellow rock musician Patti Smith. The couple also collaborated musically.