#rob tyner

[blackros78]

MC5 circa 1970

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The MC5, 1970

Happy Birthday to Michael Davis 🎂

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MC5 by Alexandre Morillas Marques

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HEAD CULTURE MEETS MOTOR CITY MANIA AT ITS MOST BEST-DRESSED.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1509x1766 -- Spotlight on a group portrait of American rock and roll/ proto-punk band, MC5 [MOTOR CITY 5], photographed by Raeanne Rubenstein, c. 1969.

PIC #2: The photograph was later repurposed for "MC5 Total Assault" (2018 UK/EU limited edition triple LP box set, released to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the world's most dangerous band, comprising the "Kick Out the Jams" [pressed on Red Vinyl], "Back in the USA" [White Vinyl] and "High Time" [Blue Vinyl] albums, issued in picture sleeves replicating the original artwork complete with a double-sided insert containing photos & essay by Jaan Uhelszki of "CREEM" Magazine, housed inside the hype-stickered picture slipcase.

Sources: https://wct.live/app/10789/enter-to-win-a-trip-mc5/sign-out & Rare Vinyl.

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DENNIS "MACHINEGUN" THOMPSON SKUNK

MC5 - Skunk (Sonically Speaking)

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Rob Tyner

December 12, 1944 - September 18, 1991

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[eternal--returned]

WAYNE KRAMER: We had existed in a couple of forms before we were known as the MC5. Me and Fred Smith had been in rival neighborhood bands in Lincoln Park, a suburb of Detroit. Fred's band had been called the Vibratones and mine was the Bounty Hunters, named after Conrad Colletta's dragster of the same name. We all shared a love of hot rods and big-assed engines. I even took a job at the drag strip selling ice cream—"ICE COLD, ICE COLD ICE CREAM!"—just so I could be there every week. Drag racing was in our blood. I mean, it was loud and fast, just like the music. It's funny about the cross-pollination between drag racing and rock & roll—my first experience seeing live rock & roll was at the drag strip. It was Del Shannon, backed by this Detroit instrumental band called the Ramrods. They had matching red blazers, all new Fender gear, and they did choreographed moves on the return road at the drag strip. I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. So Fred Smith and me formed a neighborhood supergroup by combining the best players of our two bands. Later we got Rob Tyner, who was a beatnik kind of a guy, and he came up with the name the MC5. Rob said it sounded like a serial number—it fit the whole auto factory life. You know, we were from Detroit, and the MC5 sounded like it had been stamped out of the auto factories. And we had the juvenile delinquent look, the grease look. We combed our hair back in a kind of pompadour, and wore our trousers tight.

Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain ֍ Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (1996)

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This week on Content Abnormal we celebrate the induction of the MC5 into The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame as we present Maurice Tarplin in The Mysterious Traveler's tale "S.O.S."!

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Wayne Kramer and Fred “Sonic” Smith tore a hole into Rock n Roll. Motor City goodness.

SONG OF THE DAY - Monday, April 14, 2024

[blackros78]

The MC5, circa 1970

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Rob Tyner & Fred “Sonic” Smith, 1972

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MC5 - Rocket Reducer no. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa)

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Rob Tyner  *December 12, 1944