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    MC5 is an American rock band formed in Lincoln Park, Michigan, in 1963. The classic line-up consisted of vocalist Rob Tyner, guitarists Wayne Kramer and...
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    Wayne Kramer (guitarist) (category MC5 members)
    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...
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  • Rob Tyner (category MC5 members)
    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...
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  • MC5: A True Testimonial, also written as MC5 * A True Testimonial, is a 2002 feature-length documentary film about the MC5, a Detroit-based rock band of...
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  • Back in the USA (1970) is the first studio album by the American rock band MC5. It is their second album overall, following 1969's live album Kick Out the...
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    Michael Davis (bassist) (category MC5 members)
    as a member of the MC5. After dropping out of the fine arts program at Wayne State University, Davis became the bassist for the MC5 in 1964, replacing...
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  • the second studio album (third album overall) by the American rock band MC5, released in 1971 by Atlantic Records. High Time was co-produced by the band...
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  • The Big Bang!: Best of the MC5 is a greatest hits album by MC5, released in 2000. Rhino remastered and released the anthology, which draws from each of...
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    mid-1960s, Sinclair took on the role of manager for the Detroit rock band MC5. The band's politically charged music and its Yippie core audience dovetailed...
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  • Fred "Sonic" Smith (category MC5 members)
    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...
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  • Kick Out the Jams (category MC5 albums)
    Kick Out the Jams is the debut album by American rock band MC5. It was released in February 1969, through Elektra Records. It was recorded live at Detroit's...
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    Dennis Thompson (drummer) (category MC5 members)
    last surviving member of the 1960s–70s Detroit proto-punk/hard rock group MC5, which had a No. 82 US single with "Kick Out the Jams" and a No. 30 US album...
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  • Elevators and the Sonics. By the late 1960s, Detroit bands the Stooges and MC5 had used the influence of these groups to form a distinct prototypical punk...
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    and Robby Krieger from the original Doors. He replaced Rob Tyner during an MC5 reunion in 2003, as well as appearing on several one-off guest vocal performances...
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  • Babes in Arms (album) (category MC5 albums)
    Babes in Arms is an album by the American band MC5, released in 1983. Originally released as a cassette, it has been reissued several times. The album...
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  • Kick Out the Jams (song) (category MC5 songs)
    "Kick Out the Jams" is a song by MC5, released as a single in March 1969 by Elektra Records. The album of the same name caused some controversy due to...
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    No. 4 (album) (redirect from MC5 (song))
    "Glide" Weiland, R. DeLeo 4:59 9. "I Got You" Weiland, R. DeLeo 4:16 10. "MC5" Weiland, D. DeLeo 2:42 11. "Atlanta" Weiland, D. DeLeo 5:19 Total length:...
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    Richard Manitoba (category MC5 members)
    (1978) and D.F.F.D. (2005). Manitoba also sang with a reunited version of MC5 from 2005 to 2012. Manitoba is Jewish, and was raised in the Gun Hill Projects...
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    "Pop" after a local character whom he resembled. Shortly after witnessing an MC5 concert in Ann Arbor, Osterberg began using the stage name Iggy Pop, a name...
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  • Michigan had one of the largest scenes in the country. In early 1966, Detroit's MC5 released a version of "I Can Only Give You Everything" before they went on...
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  • rock's legacy remained alive into the early 1970s, with bands such as the MC5 and the Stooges, who employed a much more aggressive approach to the form...
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    Chicago, attending a Yippie organized event, approximately five miles north of the 1968 Democratic National convention. The band MC5 can be seen playing....
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    Ertegun Award) Suzanne de Passe Award for Musical Excellence Jimmy Buffett MC5 (Michael Davis, Wayne Kramer, Fred "Sonic" Smith, Dennis Thompson, Rob Tyner)...
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    of Cypress Hill, Jill Sobule, Boots Riley, Alexi Murdoch, Wayne Kramer of MC5 and others. On October 10, 2008, the Nightwatchman appeared on The Late Late...
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    24. Canada: Global Television Network. 2007. "Bruce Botnick: The Doors, MC5, Pet Sounds". Tape Op. Retrieved July 7, 2022. Paul, Alan (January 8, 2016)...
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    Ertegun Award) Suzanne de Passe Award for Musical Excellence Jimmy Buffett MC5 (Michael Davis, Wayne Kramer, Fred "Sonic" Smith, Dennis Thompson, Rob Tyner)...
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  • Detroit, Michigan in early 1967. Along with fellow proto-punk bands the MC5 and The Stooges, The Up served as a "house band" for the Grande Ballroom...
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    Vanian sang with MC5 for their 40th anniversary singing "Looking at You", which was released as part of Revolution: A Celebration of the MC5. In 2008, Vanian...
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    Ertegun Award) Suzanne de Passe Award for Musical Excellence Jimmy Buffett MC5 (Michael Davis, Wayne Kramer, Fred "Sonic" Smith, Dennis Thompson, Rob Tyner)...
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