@@kgobrien1 Man that made me laugh. The only way the MC5 were underrated was because no one outside of the Detroit area heard of them. Same as the early Stooges they were local bands. Bob Seger same thing. Fuck the Stooges played my high school in 1970 :-) Peace
I was on the video engineering crew for this. Shot in the Wayne State Univ. studios, the show, "Conversations in Depth," aired on ch. 56, was hosted by Seymour Ricklin. That night's show topic was "The Hippies." John Sinclair and Harvey Ovshinsky on the panel, don't recall who the other two were.
crvideo Jesus Christ! Seriously? I lived in Royal Oak from 1967 and 72. I was 8 to 13 years old. So I was a little too young for the MC5 but we knew they said the word.....
This shows how quickly rock had changed within a short period of time. It’s doubtful a performance like this would be seen just a year before in 1966. The Experience, Cream and The Who were changing the dynamics. Music was becoming louder, longer and more abrasive. In fact proto heavy metal. In San Francisco some guys called Blue Cheer were taking note.
MC5 would only get louder the year after this performance. The SUNN amps they were using here were only Yardbirds/KInks level. Once they upgraded to Marshall stacks in time for "Kick Out The Jams" they were up to Blue Cheer levels, sonically, and in fact---even gigged with Blue Cheer at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit in June 1968 which was considered to be the loudest gig of the 60s!
@@mookytc. Todo eso se explica por la existencia de talento. Los grupos populares dejan la valla alta para que los que continúen puedan superarla. El período desde el nacimiento del rock hasta mediados de los '70 fue el mejor de la música. Y no solo hablo de rock, hablo, además, de blues, soul, jazz, rythm and blues, pop, música latina, etc.
The only thing it was missing was John Sinclair coming out and blowing some freeform sax skronk. Awesome. (Unfortunately, just as they were reaching a killer crescendo around 9:40, an ad popped up that I had to wait 5 seconds to kill. Wtf. Talk about buzz kill. If you gotta have ads, put them at the beginning or end, not right in the midst of a performance. Even broadcast TV doesn't do THAT.) R.I.P. Wayne Kramer, Rob Tyner, Fred Sonic Smith, Michael Davis)
Jesus, insane! They're all bowing to the drummer at the end, who deserves it. This shows what they were listening to at the time: jazz, blues, psychedelic rock and roll, OMG! What a tour de force, they were blowing the roof off! One of the best bands ever!
The old guy's reaction at 4:22. Priceless! 😂 If it's too loud you're too old. I love the host's assessment at the end comparing the MC5's performance to the Vietnam War. The MC5 were definitely waging sonic war on the uptight corrupt segments of American society.
Well, I was young when I saw the MC5 six times, and I still like some of their songs. I'm old now too, and I heartily agree with this old guy's posture -- this particular song sucks and is self-indulgent, obnoxious drivel. Give me Kick Out the Jams or Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa.
Nope. This guy is smart enough to protect his hearing. I have protected my hearing since I was 11 years old. It's paid off. at middle age, I can hear better than most 20 yr olds. I hear the music better at concerts, whether it's rock or classical, etc when I wear hearing protection. No shame in what he's doing.
@@mjt11860 totally agree,most bands sound clearer in the bathroom.Aplification has outstripped the power of music.What was once maybe an exciting novelty in the hands of Clapton and Hendrix is now a boring yawn.
Matters not what you believe to me. They say if you remember the 60's you weren't really there and that may apply to me as well. It was a different time and place.
Were there hippies in Michigan ? I mean , other than the fashion I really don't think the Hippie movement landed well there . They really didn't carry that "peace/ love vibe" very well .
My first musical memories were the Doors and CCR, etc, blasting out of our hippy neighbors reel-to-reel in 1969. My folks thought Elvis was too much. "The Cowdens sure do burn a lot of incense!" I vividly remember my Mom saying. I was besties with their kid, so I was there a lot. I got a second hand taste, so to speak, and developed a deep appreciation for all things 60s, especially cats like the MC5. This is what the internet is for. They will mostly be gone in 10 years, but as the past becomes more high def as we instantly conjure it from our pockets I appreciate this generation even more. I've been lucky to cross paths over the years with many of my heroes, including Brother Wayne, the Stooges... and Tony Bennett... who was an activist in his own right. His driver was murdered by the Klan. So, yeah, keep on keeping' on ya'll. Peace!
This is a fairly early version of Black To Comm. A year or so they ended up fine tuning it and trimming off the improv fat. When they did, it became a god damn rock n roll monster. Drop that BOMB
Drop the bomb , black to common ground indeed, or at least the amateur producer who insists on stupid camera dissolves zoom flickering,post production crap , like wow man . B to comm ranks with Sun Ra , Coltrane, Ornett Coleman . Camera foolish jive , give the control room idiots a full on wet hand shake with bare 220 voltage, MC 5 straight up show time!
Even at their rawest and sloppiest they had that primal edge that made them one of the best. Gotta love the raveup at the end. (lol) One has to chuckle at the host covering his ears at the performance.
I went with a friend to go see Larry Livermore who founded lookout records. He was responsible for signing greenday and other popular California punk bands. He grew up in Detroit and told stories about the mc5 and how they used to dress up in mod style clothing before being the mc5 that we are all familiar with. Sensing some yardbirds inspired jams. Another great story he told us was how his band ended up beating the mc5 in a local battle of the bands! Super awesome footage obviously the practice and original material is what eventually made them really friggen cool.
I never understand the comment about a band being ahead of its time? How was MC% ahead of its time? Mc5 is a prime example of being a product of its time. It is just that most people don't know what was going on in the underground and there fore later say they were ahead of their time. Pure '67 Detroit MC5 here.
@@photoslum mc5 was heavier than every band around, just watch their documentary on here or pretty much any other rock documentary of bands that played with them back then
@@mj.l they blew cream away at the grande ballroom battle of the bands in the late 60s to the point that cream complained to the owner about the MC5 s attitude
I played with Dennis at a club in wyandotte..,1 yr later I got a job at a machine shop..he was the day shift boss of my dept.i was afternoons...mid 80s
Guitarist outfits were pretty typical for 1967. Later they would have a very different style, especially Fred Smith. Wayne Kramer you can see was heavily influenced by Hendrix who exploded at Monterey Pop Festival earlier that year. Wayne was experimenting with the distortion from the amps. All in all a very low energy performance by the MC5. Not typical for them at all in later years. Rob Tyner especially looked like he was just not into it at all. Not typical for his later high energy performances. This is a group that needed a live audience of kids. They fed off of that energy. Old guys covering their ears in a TV stuido didn't quite do that for them.
Wayne Kramer looks kind of shy here, looking backwards at the drums and amps. Quite different from the later twirls and cool dance moves across the stage.
Everyone is "influenced" by someone else. It was 'the sound' of that time, but they were way ahead of their time! Their sound was MC5. Call out the kudos on the shredding and the feedback/distortion and what have you but, they wouldn't have had "that sound" if they didn't have Rob Tyner for their front man. RIP Rob. Punk on, brother.
This song during this live TV performance by The MC5, sounds like it has elements of The Yardbirds and Cream in it. That is not a knock or swipe at the band. They sounded great!
Ok... I love this version... I love it a lot... I go back to this version a lot because I love it a lot.. ... BUT IS ANYONE ELSE GETTING AN AD WHEN SHIT IS KICKING OFF AT THE END???????? Such a buzzkill! Great shit, nonetheless! Long live the MC5!
The "CLANG-CLANG-CLANG" of Fred's guitar is more like early-Eric Clapton--era Yardbirds. I would say the early sound of the MC5 was equal parts Who and Yardbirds
Two thoughts: 1) Rob Tyner's afro "starter kit". 2) Sonic Smith's "CLANG-CLANG-CLANG" would soon become "BUZZ-BUZZ-BUZZ" once they progressed from Sunn Amps to Marshalls. At this point in 1967, their tone was at Yardbird levels. Not bad, but not the Blue Cheer like metal crunch they would have the following year once they got the Marshall stacks
is that Wayne kramer with the mo-stash ? looks totally different from the 1972 Wayne kramer the weird thing is also that the guys are positioned in exactly the same places on stage as 5 years later
It's quite amusing to see the MC5 in kaftan robes à la Strawberry Alarm Clock (except for Rob Tyner that looks like an early Byrd). However their music say otherwise. RIP Brother Wayne.
Yes. It had mostly educational and local current affairs shows. Late at night it was where we kids got our first glimpses of nudity on screen, when they aired Monty Python and Benny Hill, uncensored. Unfortunately the signal was weak and reception was terrible in most places.
It's a shame that the cable revoulution gradually killed UHF -- there was some good, quality, and original programming available via that format back in the day.
That strange part starting around 5:30 is so far out this is the best thing they ever did for me. I love shit like this that just falls apart and comes together again. this kinda thing they did here is like what The Godz did. Yeah, The Godz I guess werent near as good technically but stil.. They had a lot of balls (MC5) to do this on tv and not give a shit. Its great
That is a nothing to be sad about this group right here who are the Godfathers of punk rock along with the New York Dolls the Stooges and The Velvet Underground
waaaaaaaaa goddamn............................... check out also motorpsycho live version..... well, it doesnt make such an effect until you see them playing live. motorpsycho is the best band ever.
MC5 sound like The Yardbirds with Jimmy Page, albeit always half a year later. But this is good stuff anyway, just not original stuff. They obviously seen The Yardbirds live at this point.
Punk rock eating punk rock before the idea punk rock was even a thing. the future doesn't bode well for musical creativity. 😢Oh well, at least the youth have the MC5 to draw inspiration and KICK OUT THE JAMS MUDDAPUCKA!!!!!!
Those Ramones who were inspired by The Dictators featuring Handsome Dick Manitoba and Ross the Boss Funichello. So don't talk about music you don't understand including MC5. Thank you.
The Raymonds were pre Ramones, even before Dust. They were Manitoba and Dee Dee's lil side project. I'm surprised you didn't know that already, grease nugget.
Best rock'n'roll band of this whole era. MC5 are criminally underrated
Cmon man
Criminally Underrated... I'm surprised no one named a band that
@@kgobrien1 Man that made me laugh. The only way the MC5 were underrated was because no one outside of the Detroit area heard of them. Same as the early Stooges they were local bands. Bob Seger same thing. Fuck the Stooges played my high school in 1970 :-) Peace
Hardly "underrated".
Underappreciated by the masses, maybe.
Well this vid ?
Sounds ĺike crap,nonsense improvisational..
and drunkenly slop
I was on the video engineering crew for this. Shot in the Wayne State Univ. studios, the show, "Conversations in Depth," aired on ch. 56, was hosted by Seymour Ricklin. That night's show topic was "The Hippies." John Sinclair and Harvey Ovshinsky on the panel, don't recall who the other two were.
is there a full show
The guy at 4:22 wasn't digging it.
Year?
crvideo Jesus Christ! Seriously? I lived in Royal Oak from 1967 and 72. I was 8 to 13 years old. So I was a little too young for the MC5 but we knew they said the word.....
Was this the national Educational Television channel
Brother Wayne...rest well, with 3, of the 5
This shows how quickly rock had changed within a short period of time. It’s doubtful a performance like this would be seen just a year before in 1966. The Experience, Cream and The Who were changing the dynamics. Music was becoming louder, longer and more abrasive. In fact proto heavy metal. In San Francisco some guys called Blue Cheer were taking note.
MC5 would only get louder the year after this performance. The SUNN amps they were using here were only Yardbirds/KInks level. Once they upgraded to Marshall stacks in time for "Kick Out The Jams" they were up to Blue Cheer levels, sonically, and in fact---even gigged with Blue Cheer at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit in June 1968 which was considered to be the loudest gig of the 60s!
Jeff Beck's Yardbirds mixed with John Coltraine.
Was just thinking that. The Beatles first Ed Sullivan appearance until this stage was actually a pretty short stretch of time.
@@mookytc. Todo eso se explica por la existencia de talento. Los grupos populares dejan la valla alta para que los que continúen puedan superarla. El período desde el nacimiento del rock hasta mediados de los '70 fue el mejor de la música. Y no solo hablo de rock, hablo, además, de blues, soul, jazz, rythm and blues, pop, música latina, etc.
@@MariaalbertinaEscateGomez Agreed.
Acid and Assatate what a combo . Just gotta love it all. 1967 Yorkville Toronto Rock N FN Roll
DAMN! Rob Tyner was an intense underrated frontman! Seek out his obscure 1990 solo album "Blood Brothers"...
The birth of true punk. Game over.
wow Fred and Wayne were 19 years old here!!
The only thing it was missing was John Sinclair coming out and blowing some freeform sax skronk. Awesome. (Unfortunately, just as they were reaching a killer crescendo around 9:40, an ad popped up that I had to wait 5 seconds to kill. Wtf. Talk about buzz kill. If you gotta have ads, put them at the beginning or end, not right in the midst of a performance. Even broadcast TV doesn't do THAT.) R.I.P. Wayne Kramer, Rob Tyner, Fred Sonic Smith, Michael Davis)
Wow, great historic footage, the earliest I have ever seen. Funny to see everyone with short hair, which would continue to grow with their music.
Jesus, insane! They're all bowing to the drummer at the end, who deserves it. This shows what they were listening to at the time: jazz, blues, psychedelic rock and roll, OMG! What a tour de force, they were blowing the roof off! One of the best bands ever!
_"They're all bowing to the drummer at the end"_ .....aren't you seeing things ? 11:09 👈🏻?
I agree
Nah. They're kinda pissed at how badly the drummers playing and song going nowhere.
@@brobert4172dig🤺
Rest in peace Wayne Kramer
Psychedelic punk rock... This is my authentic American roots.
4:20 LOL Avant Rock! I think the little PA under the drum stand was where "Black to Comm" was written, describing how to hook up the wires.
The old guy's reaction at 4:22. Priceless! 😂 If it's too loud you're too old.
I love the host's assessment at the end comparing the MC5's performance to the Vietnam War. The MC5 were definitely waging sonic war on the uptight corrupt segments of American society.
If it's not too loud your too old.Music of old guys now baby
Well, I was young when I saw the MC5 six times, and I still like some of their songs. I'm old now too, and I heartily agree with this old guy's posture -- this particular song sucks and is self-indulgent, obnoxious drivel. Give me Kick Out the Jams or Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa.
Nope. This guy is smart enough to protect his hearing. I have protected my hearing since I was 11 years old. It's paid off. at middle age, I can hear better than most 20 yr olds. I hear the music better at concerts, whether it's rock or classical, etc when I wear hearing protection. No shame in what he's doing.
@@mjt11860 totally agree,most bands sound clearer in the bathroom.Aplification has outstripped the power of music.What was once maybe an exciting novelty in the hands of Clapton and Hendrix is now a boring yawn.
Saw them in 1967 in Toronto loud as hell thought a tornado hit then...the Who came out still smiling!
Ginger Baker's Air Force meet MC5! Free concerts in Ann Arbor was the very best! Aired on UHF after The Lou Gordon Show, lol!
Best "High" energy band on the planet! Saw them numerous times and hung out occasionally at their house on Hill St. in Ann Arbor.
David Kazimer really
I’d like to believe u
Matters not what you believe to me. They say if you remember the 60's you weren't really there and that may apply to me as well. It was a different time and place.
That’s awesome!😁👍
High School, rah rah rah , likely not maybe so who cares just listen and jam tight
11:48 an unwittingly profound statement. History was definitely made with this performance
RIP thanks for the music.
I saw them live many times at the old Grande. Ball Room in Detroit. Good times,
Trippy hippies so young and experimental. Great editing and sound!! Makes me more proud to have gone to WSU Art school.
Were there hippies in Michigan ? I mean , other than the fashion I really don't think the Hippie movement landed well there . They really didn't carry that "peace/ love vibe" very well .
My first musical memories were the Doors and CCR, etc, blasting out of our hippy neighbors reel-to-reel in 1969. My folks thought Elvis was too much. "The Cowdens sure do burn a lot of incense!" I vividly remember my Mom saying. I was besties with their kid, so I was there a lot. I got a second hand taste, so to speak, and developed a deep appreciation for all things 60s, especially cats like the MC5.
This is what the internet is for. They will mostly be gone in 10 years, but as the past becomes more high def as we instantly conjure it from our pockets I appreciate this generation even more. I've been lucky to cross paths over the years with many of my heroes, including Brother Wayne, the Stooges... and Tony Bennett... who was an activist in his own right. His driver was murdered by the Klan. So, yeah, keep on keeping' on ya'll. Peace!
This is a fairly early version of Black To Comm. A year or so they ended up fine tuning it and trimming off the improv fat. When they did, it became a god damn rock n roll monster. Drop that BOMB
Memphis Mike, true, so true. 😎
Drop the bomb , black to common ground indeed, or at least the amateur producer who insists on stupid camera dissolves zoom flickering,post production crap , like wow man . B to comm ranks with Sun Ra , Coltrane, Ornett Coleman . Camera foolish jive , give the control room idiots a full on wet hand shake with bare 220 voltage, MC 5 straight up show time!
Love this MCychedlic5
Even at their rawest and sloppiest they had that primal edge that made them one of the best. Gotta love the raveup at the end.
(lol) One has to chuckle at the host covering his ears at the performance.
I wonder if George Pierrot would have fallen asleep, like he occasionally did during his travel show.
Drummer was awful.
He was probably saying "Drat, l forgot my earplugs!"
Ultimate GarageBand... Not a criticism
"I was barely 5 years old when this came out, living in East Norwalk, Connecticut
Hammer and tongs, bringin the heat.
The starting point for punk and metal
Enough of the term paper sir
yes
I would have liked to have seen that old mans face if they played kick out the jams.
This is a like a new MC5.
I went with a friend to go see Larry Livermore who founded lookout records. He was responsible for signing greenday and other popular California punk bands. He grew up in Detroit and told stories about the mc5 and how they used to dress up in mod style clothing before being the mc5 that we are all familiar with. Sensing some yardbirds inspired jams. Another great story he told us was how his band ended up beating the mc5 in a local battle of the bands! Super awesome footage obviously the practice and original material is what eventually made them really friggen cool.
DeepestCoconuts
all excellent up until the green day part
Epitaphforyesterday hahahaha
Them and13th Flr Elevators as well. Them were quite far out live, and of course their 1st single was a Them coover.
@@Epitaphforyesterdayyeahs to you sir , green beans and rice better choices for sure
What TV show would let this go on for 12 minutes? Amazing!
"Educational" TV - This was the PBS affiliate in Detroit
My type of TV show!!!
Brother Wayne with a Les Paul!! Old Sunn concert amps....sweet
This is really early MC5. They were indeed ahead of their time
I never understand the comment about a band being ahead of its time? How was MC% ahead of its time? Mc5 is a prime example of being a product of its time. It is just that most people don't know what was going on in the underground and there fore later say they were ahead of their time. Pure '67 Detroit MC5 here.
Nobody was doing this kind of thing...yet. Check the Billboard 100 for this time and see what was going on. MC5 was definitely ahead of the curve.
@@kathy2trips what about the who? cream?
@@photoslum mc5 was heavier than every band around, just watch their documentary on here or pretty much any other rock documentary of bands that played with them back then
@@mj.l they blew cream away at the grande ballroom battle of the bands in the late 60s to the point that cream complained to the owner about the MC5 s attitude
Eu amo essa música ❤
I played with Dennis at a club in wyandotte..,1 yr later I got a job at a machine shop..he was the day shift boss of my dept.i was afternoons...mid 80s
BRUTAL!!!!!
Valuable footage. Thanx for uploading it!
improv jazz,blues,punk,metal 'let them go,anything goes' jam.'black to comm' (right there along with 'starship') by the motor city 5/mc5.
+Angelo Catapang starship didn't exist in 67. It was called the jefferson airplane
herry linn the song 'starship' by the mc5.
I love the crowd reaction 4:20!
Priceless early clip!
Catchy melody, wise lyrics, sexy performers… it’s all there. 😂
wow,the entertainment. The political movement
THANKS FOR SHARE AGAIN THIS VIDEO!! HISTORY!
MOST AVAILABLE VERSION OF THE GREATEST TUNE OF ALL TIME
Too heavy!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!
The old dude covering his ears .
Rob tyner best frontman
They had better TV shows back then.
PBS was way better back then! Now it might as well be network TV!
awesome prog rock song ⚡️✨
That's some serious Detroit thing! There is nothing before me but thing.
I love the guy at 4:23
Sunn amps were good for the time but when they got the Marshalls, that is when the big sound came to be.
happy b in h Rob ;-)
Just sounds like a practice-jam, with Tyner in charge of spinning-off remnants here 'n there... for future song-ideas.
Guitarist outfits were pretty typical for 1967. Later they would have a very different style, especially Fred Smith. Wayne Kramer you can see was heavily influenced by Hendrix who exploded at Monterey Pop Festival earlier that year. Wayne was experimenting with the distortion from the amps.
All in all a very low energy performance by the MC5. Not typical for them at all in later years. Rob Tyner especially looked like he was just not into it at all. Not typical for his later high energy performances. This is a group that needed a live audience of kids. They fed off of that energy. Old guys covering their ears in a TV stuido didn't quite do that for them.
Wayne Kramer looks kind of shy here, looking backwards at the drums and amps. Quite different from the later twirls and cool dance moves across the stage.
Everyone is "influenced" by someone else. It was 'the sound' of that time, but they were way ahead of their time! Their sound was MC5. Call out the kudos on the shredding and the feedback/distortion and what have you but, they wouldn't have had "that sound" if they didn't have Rob Tyner for their front man. RIP Rob. Punk on, brother.
This song during this live TV performance by The MC5, sounds like it has elements of The Yardbirds and Cream in it. That is not a knock or swipe at the band. They sounded great!
Where's the rest of this episode? I'm sure that The MC5 portion is not the only part that survived.
This is kind of franz zappa, it's great the MC5 changed to a more agressive sound.
Good one " Franz Zappa " has a nice ring to it '
Grateful MC5.
I was a kid in Dearborn HTS at this time it was such a rush man
Phenomenal!!
Just wow..fusion meets blues meets psychedelic meets punk..melts into heavy metal..
Melts into Hippyfied Mongoloidism Jism..
Merci. Juste MERCi.
Oh so much.
Ok...
I love this version...
I love it a lot...
I go back to this version a lot because I love it a lot..
...
BUT IS ANYONE ELSE GETTING AN AD WHEN SHIT IS KICKING OFF AT THE END????????
Such a buzzkill! Great shit, nonetheless! Long live the MC5!
MC5 Ruled, 2 of them went to my high school in Lincoln Park, Cousin Figel
It Sounds like The late Yardbirds...
The "CLANG-CLANG-CLANG" of Fred's guitar is more like early-Eric Clapton--era Yardbirds. I would say the early sound of the MC5 was equal parts Who and Yardbirds
black to comm - best as a 3 min song. the end of this kinda redeems it
Two thoughts: 1) Rob Tyner's afro "starter kit". 2) Sonic Smith's "CLANG-CLANG-CLANG" would soon become "BUZZ-BUZZ-BUZZ" once they progressed from Sunn Amps to Marshalls. At this point in 1967, their tone was at Yardbird levels. Not bad, but not the Blue Cheer like metal crunch they would have the following year once they got the Marshall stacks
Yeah they’re very different here. Crazy how much they changed within two years to then release the KOTJ album
INCREDIBLE!!!
Michael Davis looks like some kind of psychedelic kebab shop owner. I kid....this is rules!!!
this IS rules
Super Legends!!!!
At 4:20 This sez it all!!! hahaha
is that Wayne kramer with the mo-stash ? looks totally different from the 1972 Wayne kramer the weird thing is also that the guys are positioned in exactly the same places on stage as 5 years later
nope... the guy with the mustache is michael davis (bass), while wayne kramer is just next to him, showing us his back at the begining of the show.
Mike Davis on Bass had the mustache.
1,000th like!!! what a gem
It's quite amusing to see the MC5 in kaftan robes à la Strawberry Alarm Clock (except for Rob Tyner that looks like an early Byrd).
However their music say otherwise.
RIP Brother Wayne.
The Stooges ans The MC5 have changed my life 20 years ago now.
Channel 56, was that a UHF channel local to Detroit in those days?
Yes. It had mostly educational and local current affairs shows. Late at night it was where we kids got our first glimpses of nudity on screen, when they aired Monty Python and Benny Hill, uncensored. Unfortunately the signal was weak and reception was terrible in most places.
It's a shame that the cable revoulution gradually killed UHF -- there was some good, quality, and original programming available via that format back in the day.
John Clifford thank you😁👍
The guitars, do sound a little bit like heavy metal, at times.
That strange part starting around 5:30 is so far out this is the best thing they ever did for me. I love shit like this that just falls apart and comes together again. this kinda thing they did here is like what The Godz did. Yeah, The Godz I guess werent near as good technically but stil..
They had a lot of balls (MC5) to do this on tv and not give a shit. Its great
wow
Hard to beliive now the look and sound was seen as threatening .😊
Im srarting to think detroit was heavier music than the bay area during 60s? Sanfransico bands sound country wearing overalls
ABSOLUTE CINEMA
That is a nothing to be sad about this group right here who are the Godfathers of punk rock along with the New York Dolls the Stooges and The Velvet Underground
Spinal Tap in a great way!
Before Led Zeppelin, There was MC5
Wow!
WTF? That was on channel 56??? Seriously? The same channel 56 that George Pierrot and Lou Gordon were on??? What show was this?
There's more to the name of this band than anyone will ever know or understand I cannot say what it is but I will give you a clue
33🔺️
a good 20 years before Sonic Youth and no wave got lauds for this very thing
waaaaaaaaa
goddamn...............................
check out also motorpsycho live version..... well, it doesnt make such an effect until you see them playing live. motorpsycho is the best band ever.
This was preformed Real flipping high on Drugs 😮
MC5 sound like The Yardbirds with Jimmy Page, albeit always half a year later. But this is good stuff anyway, just not original stuff. They obviously seen The Yardbirds live at this point.
yes of course bass player !
Yeeeeehh 🛸
Channel 56...Yes
Michael Davis looks like Anton Newcombe from the Brian Jonestown Massacre
Punk rock eating punk rock before the idea punk rock was even a thing. the future doesn't bode well for musical creativity. 😢Oh well, at least the youth have the MC5 to draw inspiration and KICK OUT THE JAMS MUDDAPUCKA!!!!!!
.......and The Raymonds were the first 'punk' band, hahahaha.
Those Ramones who were inspired by The Dictators featuring Handsome Dick Manitoba and Ross the Boss Funichello. So don't talk about music you don't understand including MC5. Thank you.
The Raymonds were pre Ramones, even before Dust. They were Manitoba and Dee Dee's lil side project. I'm surprised you didn't know that already, grease nugget.