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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.
The MC5, whose combustible sound and edgy politics came to define Detroit hard rock before the band flamed out in 1972, was one of three Motor City-related figures announced Sunday by the RRHOF ...
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 ...
When it comes to the vast, undulating history of rock music, you’d be hard-pressed to find a band as innovative, invigorating, provocative and perpetuating as the MC5.Oozing up from the mean ...
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 ...
Thompson was born Dennis Andrew Tomich in Detroit in 1948. [3] He began playing drums by the time he was nine years old. [4] Joining the MC5 by 1965, [5] Thompson was later given the nickname "Machine Gun" because of his "assault" style of fast, hard-hitting drumming that sonically resembles the sound of his namesake Thompson machine gun (commonly referred to as a "Tommy Gun").