Im sure Ive commented here at some point...some time ago.......gawd....never gets old. Rob Tyner............those pants aahhah ! Sorry had to say it. Lovely fellas and they rip our heads OFF! True Amerikan rock n roll and passion and guts and SPIRIT. I love this performance. One of my most favorite songs. It wold blow the kiddies minds for sure huh people?? FORGET the pop garbage and recognize. ♥Peace and hugs and lets get crazy and dig on this as long as we can xo ♥
When my grandchildren ask "grandpa, what's this?" I'll need to explain to them that there once was a time when rock music didn't mean quirky cute songs devoted to the singer's pet fish and played with a ukelele... no grandchild. There was a time when it meant you didn't leave the stage without tearing it to shreds first. But that was long long ago, and we'll probably never see the likes of it again.
Check out my garage/rock band from sweden, The Soulmovers with a lot of insperation from the Mc5. You can find us on Facebook and youtube if you go to my page! Thanx! spread the word!
No fucking around-------The 5 were the shit--------the (mostly) brainless youth of today have no clue as to what REAL music is all about. Packaged, profit margin bullshit is not where it's at!
@JDroid i'm 15 man and thought you might like to know I fuckin' believe in what you said man. i can't take all this corporate bs anymore. haha, that's why i'm in a grunge band.
The crowd is so far behind the concept of this music, stunned is probably the apt description. No band stuns anymore, maybe we have played all the chords there are since its mostly sissy pop, mass corp sell to the masses garbage. Not to say there isnt some decent stuff out there, its just that the airwaves are SO jammed with shit you caint find your way home
Re: the crowd...this was also at a time when people were there to appreciate the music, to internalize it, and to be in their own headspace, not like today, where people are more concerned with acting up, acting out, and acting like an asshole in public. Despite their amazing energy, MC5 were also a very "cerebral" band...I'm sure a lot of those folks were on strange little trips to inner space. "Black to Comm" must have simply blown minds, lol.
All right, I'll agree with that. They were pioneers for sure, people didn't quite know how to interpret that kind of energy. It takes a little while to knock the squareness loose!
said it before think it everytime I play this vid, the audience must be deaf! how can they stand still, I am jumping around my house and do everytime...Go MC5...can someband today please produce anything close to this, I doubt it, sorry guys, had some hope for Kings of Leon but they have sold out also, that's my opinion..come on someone out there prove me wrong!! Less emo and more rock!
Not only are they MC5 awesome but who ever was on the cameras and the editing was equaly incredible. This video is 1970 and black and white. Ican't see it enough!
rob tyner...joe cocker... they should have switched bands for a night and really done a shocker...you don't dance to this you gaze in amazement and dance to the car afterwards
@grizz22604 i'm very happy watching this video.i'm 56and had a stroke recently and am in poor shape but making a comeback! this was my heyday in high school 68-72.makes me happy to relive my youth here on youtube and the comments from young people makes me feel so great i cry tears of joy though.
@AntipodeanAl I was joking of course. Yes there was plenty of dancing going on before the 60s and in the early 60s too. But white folks did seem to loose there mojo for a bit in the late 60s. I've seen so many classic gigs like this from that era where people are just sitting there not moving. And no I'm not black.
@AntipodeanAl It was the 60s, white folk hadn't learned how to dance yet. They where used to sitting cross legged watching some dude with an acoustic guitar. They probably didn't know what to make of this.
"...Looked hard into the dancing crowd, felt like screaming out loud, I saw you standing in there, I saw your long, saw your long hair.." mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm yeeeeeeeeahhhhhhhh!! :D <3
why isn't this band in the r&r hall of fame? whoever posted everyone else followed got it spot on. great posting of a slamming song. wayne kramer and fred sonic smith - best two guitar assault ever!
the move at 3:33 is the MOTHER of guitarist's dips in Rock History, you could not do this COOLER than what you witness here! The Motor City 5, everyone else, followed.
the sound of Fred Sonics Ricky with the humbuckers belting it out after the break down and Wayne's Dan Armstrong... best 2 chord song. what a rush still after all these years.
“It’s a great document of the band, it’s a great document of life, and it’s a great document of things ... far and beyond the band.” - Jackson Smith, Detroit-based musician son of Fred & Patti Smith
"Music so extraordinary that it transformed the lives of all who experienced it demands the release of a documentary that does the MC5 justice." - Don McLeese, author of Kick Out The Jams (Continuum 33 1/3 series)
@georgeneuman Hehe...I love to see this. It never gets old. ♥ Very fuckin awesome indeed. ........makes me wish I was 15 again.......just to hear them for the first time again. Gawd that was stunning. Somethin I can tell the Grand-kids.....if Im ever blessed with any.
i was at this show, it was free and featured savage grace, alice cooper, the 5 and commander cody and the lost planet airmen. the comments on this are funny so let me tell you, we were sick of having bob seeger play at our high school dances - someone said that "if you look at the old movies, no one new how to take this" well i just want to say, if you see them sittin' it was because they was trippin' this was just regular neighborhood stuff
Anyway, Kramer & Sonic were arguably one of the best guitar-partners in rock history. Their styles complemented each other in such a ... sweet...not-so-sophisticated..powerful...trippy.. way ...man
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@MagicDolphinGO That's right it's only two chords and it still rocks harder than anything you and your dumb little buddies "rock out" to! I guarantee whatever shit bands you listen to were influenced by the MC5, look it up! You can't be a rock n roll fan and not respect the Stooges and the MC5, that's common knowledge. I swear this country is going to shit lol, just turn on the radio!
I remember I saw these guys play in a stubbly hay field out in the country near Ypsilanti. I think it was 1969. It was a benefit concert to get legal defense funds for John Sinclair. The band was great, as usual, but the location was miserable. Wayne Kramer was more manic than usual that day, and I saw him make a move that was almost identical to the move that Michael Jackson, years later, named the Moon Walk. Very original, short eyes.
Anyway, it was a great time to be a delinquent in Detroit.
ha, yeah. these morons need to realize that their bullshit ideas of "punk" all stem from political hippies. and still is. hippies own you!. eat the weeds from the sidewalk fucks.
Kind of see what they were not the huge success they could of been, like to the next level. They were too way radical for the masses, unlike Grand Funk RR who appealed to a lot more people.
Never the less MC5 rocked out like nobody's business.
@freezerkid1 - yep! then spraying the crowd at 3:45- this vid should be mandatory viewing for upstart musicians, see now, this is how its done, this is rock n roll, this is THE MC5.
i had a tune stuck in my head for like a year and thought it was so simplistic and genius at the same time. But low and behold it's looking at you by the mc5 dam these guys are awesome.
@mgmads ya don't have to be a dancing fool to enjoy the music,besides if you were on acid or anything else you were immersed into the music .you didn't have to put on a public display to enjoy the moment.
How the eff is the crowd just STANDING there?!?! I can't even watch this clip without bursting out of my seat and jumping around!
dwightfartschrute 22 hours ago
The FBI has files on all these guys.
StoneyMcJuicyBuds 1 week ago
What an amazing song.
raphater2000 3 weeks ago
Brothers Wayne Kramer and Fred "Sonic" Smith, two as one. You often cannot tell who is playing they are so in tune....
NormanLake1 1 month ago in playlist YouTube Mix for MC5
typos sorry ,,,,i dont feel like repostin what i said hehe! xxxxx
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NoRosesForMe 1 month ago
Im sure Ive commented here at some point...some time ago.......gawd....never gets old. Rob Tyner............those pants aahhah ! Sorry had to say it. Lovely fellas and they rip our heads OFF! True Amerikan rock n roll and passion and guts and SPIRIT. I love this performance. One of my most favorite songs. It wold blow the kiddies minds for sure huh people?? FORGET the pop garbage and recognize. ♥Peace and hugs and lets get crazy and dig on this as long as we can xo ♥
NoRosesForMe 1 month ago
Ohhhhh!!!!!!!
LodoGrdzak 2 months ago
That move 3:33 is perfectly carried out.
ethicomm 2 months ago 2
i need to go back in time..... dman man !
sadiqpatel 2 months ago
0:15 ... tat guy looks irritating with the dance..
finepix89 2 months ago
they wrere too fast for these hippies,at least 15 years ahed of their time. fuckin brilliant band
boskoantonijevic 2 months ago
kick out the jams, mofos
RebelSpiritof77 3 months ago
Ford and Chevy and keep it heavy!!!!!!!!
LodoGrdzak 3 months ago
Detroit - the bored and stroked v-8 powerhouse of rock and roll for so damn long
TubobRainbowUnicorn 3 months ago
When my grandchildren ask "grandpa, what's this?" I'll need to explain to them that there once was a time when rock music didn't mean quirky cute songs devoted to the singer's pet fish and played with a ukelele... no grandchild. There was a time when it meant you didn't leave the stage without tearing it to shreds first. But that was long long ago, and we'll probably never see the likes of it again.
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Good music straight from the sixties!
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thesoulmoversswe 4 months ago
to latreuw auto to tragoudiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
marialenaki9117 4 months ago
Why the fuck is no one raging? WTF!?!? I'd be flying off peoples shoulders! Must've been real mellow L goin around that day ;)
sirmegallot 4 months ago
I heard that Lemmy said " Back in the USA" would be a record he'd want on a desert island. Me too.
emdeth 4 months ago
No fucking around-------The 5 were the shit--------the (mostly) brainless youth of today have no clue as to what REAL music is all about. Packaged, profit margin bullshit is not where it's at!
JDroid 4 months ago 14
@JDroid i'm 15 man and thought you might like to know I fuckin' believe in what you said man. i can't take all this corporate bs anymore. haha, that's why i'm in a grunge band.
DavidVOJr 2 months ago 2
@JDroid Well, I am apart of this youth (almost 12) and I agree with you.
raphater2000 3 weeks ago
Fuckin' great!
SuperGeraldo666 4 months ago
Had to watch it several times. 1970, these guys were seriously fuckin rockin that shit. I don't know what else to say. gotta watch it again...
brainwashvictim 4 months ago
True Shock and Awe
tacey505 4 months ago
Oh fuck yes.
Qamila1 4 months ago
The crowd is so far behind the concept of this music, stunned is probably the apt description. No band stuns anymore, maybe we have played all the chords there are since its mostly sissy pop, mass corp sell to the masses garbage. Not to say there isnt some decent stuff out there, its just that the airwaves are SO jammed with shit you caint find your way home
tacey505 5 months ago 3
@tacey505 Well said.
mikestrat56 4 months ago
Re: the crowd...this was also at a time when people were there to appreciate the music, to internalize it, and to be in their own headspace, not like today, where people are more concerned with acting up, acting out, and acting like an asshole in public. Despite their amazing energy, MC5 were also a very "cerebral" band...I'm sure a lot of those folks were on strange little trips to inner space. "Black to Comm" must have simply blown minds, lol.
GoMonkey66 5 months ago 3
Two great chords, five great guys. that's meant as a compliment on both counts
glammis09 5 months ago
If I only had a time-machine.....
B0BBYBH0Y 5 months ago
Having been there many times, I can tell you that sheer volume probably stunned some of the crowd into immobility.
aprilglaspieable 5 months ago 2
All right, I'll agree with that. They were pioneers for sure, people didn't quite know how to interpret that kind of energy. It takes a little while to knock the squareness loose!
CWake1 5 months ago
About the crowd -
First - the 5 were unlike anything most had ever seen before. The first time I saw them I pretty much stood there in a trance.
Secondly - I'm guessing more than a few in the crowd were stoned.
chaajoad 6 months ago 2
Wow, what a rowdy crowd!
CWake1 6 months ago
@CWake1 I don't think they new what just hit them....stunned into shock :))
theslice2 5 months ago
best acctitud in rock n roll, and do not understand why these people are not excited
javier911019 6 months ago
I'm addicted to this video
javier911019 6 months ago
Wayne Kramer is bustin' some serious moves here whilst simultaneously cracking out the guitar - respect..
Deandwl 6 months ago
Oh, GOD!, what a pity we can't see bands like these anymore!.
MOnialv 6 months ago
i love how this song start
javier911019 6 months ago
lol, the crowd is just standing there
zegmensen 6 months ago
They put their heart and soul into that performance. Simply amazing!!!
xf8b1 6 months ago
I'm driving that white car across the bridge at 4:03 on a suspended driver's license. FTW!!!
8aPeach2 7 months ago 14
said it before think it everytime I play this vid, the audience must be deaf! how can they stand still, I am jumping around my house and do everytime...Go MC5...can someband today please produce anything close to this, I doubt it, sorry guys, had some hope for Kings of Leon but they have sold out also, that's my opinion..come on someone out there prove me wrong!! Less emo and more rock!
56music 7 months ago
Not only are they MC5 awesome but who ever was on the cameras and the editing was equaly incredible. This video is 1970 and black and white. Ican't see it enough!
old614 7 months ago
how the hell could you 'dislike' this?! it boggles the mind.
sydinchicago 7 months ago
MC５ ROCK！It so good
ovvvvvvvvrz 7 months ago
Is there a DVD of this show? I mean the entire show including the other songs that were posted
YouCube7 7 months ago
I love Les MC5 !! Du rock à l'état pur !!!
billylebraillard 7 months ago
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Not impressed.
RoslynJoyJohnson 7 months ago
why do today skinnyjeans make bodies look like crap?
gmob718 7 months ago
Nice mental groove. Def some bro fro envy tho!
PeregrineTrousers 8 months ago
3:32...as good as it gets in this world.
squidinking13 8 months ago 2
What you have here is what sets the greats apart....showmanship and a flat out fucked performance....puts the White Stripes into perspective!
TheGrandmasterMan 8 months ago
@TheGrandmasterMan fuck the white stripes and their packaged rebel fasad
shutdownthefed 8 months ago
rob tyner...joe cocker... they should have switched bands for a night and really done a shocker...you don't dance to this you gaze in amazement and dance to the car afterwards
scotty1tube 8 months ago
rob tyner was energy personified
javier911019 8 months ago
amarzing performance! great year for rock!
evaristocarriego1 8 months ago
fxxxx great
EVEgoFLOWERS 8 months ago
words fail me
ReneInfante1 8 months ago
Only two stupid chords and still a great time of rock n roll. Awesome.
Blousemane666 8 months ago
i can't stop watching this video. been like the 15th times since last night.
grizz22604 9 months ago 4
@grizz22604 i'm very happy watching this video.i'm 56and had a stroke recently and am in poor shape but making a comeback! this was my heyday in high school 68-72.makes me happy to relive my youth here on youtube and the comments from young people makes me feel so great i cry tears of joy though.
steve89z 8 months ago 4
@AntipodeanAl I was joking of course. Yes there was plenty of dancing going on before the 60s and in the early 60s too. But white folks did seem to loose there mojo for a bit in the late 60s. I've seen so many classic gigs like this from that era where people are just sitting there not moving. And no I'm not black.
badboyrhythmdub 9 months ago
@AntipodeanAl It was the 60s, white folk hadn't learned how to dance yet. They where used to sitting cross legged watching some dude with an acoustic guitar. They probably didn't know what to make of this.
badboyrhythmdub 9 months ago
"...Looked hard into the dancing crowd, felt like screaming out loud, I saw you standing in there, I saw your long, saw your long hair.." mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm yeeeeeeeeahhhhhhhh!! :D <3
InfameLocura 9 months ago
I love the MC5!
And the Stooges!!
klepzo 9 months ago
why isn't this band in the r&r hall of fame? whoever posted everyone else followed got it spot on. great posting of a slamming song. wayne kramer and fred sonic smith - best two guitar assault ever!
kem31753 10 months ago 3
the move at 3:33 is the MOTHER of guitarist's dips in Rock History, you could not do this COOLER than what you witness here! The Motor City 5, everyone else, followed.
neezledoo 10 months ago
mc5 é orgasmo infinito!!!!
simoescba 10 months ago
I'm doomed, had to replay it again and again.... soooo cooool!!
Gerry666 10 months ago
You young guys out there this how you ROCK!!!
STCOMPLINE 10 months ago 2
what a lame crowd
MrRDiggity 11 months ago
the sound of Fred Sonics Ricky with the humbuckers belting it out after the break down and Wayne's Dan Armstrong... best 2 chord song. what a rush still after all these years.
tedplaysguitar 11 months ago
love them!
wouldyouspin 11 months ago
I'm 22 and mc5 still holds it down better than 98% of the crap we're force fed through the media
ishyboo 11 months ago 3
Tas de poilus !!
torpeligneB 11 months ago
wayne kramer you are amazing!
steve89z 11 months ago
i'm curious what young people think of this music.i'm 56 and this was my heyday 1968-1972 high school
steve89z 11 months ago
@steve89z i'm 20 and this is amongs a lot of my favorite bands
PixelPwner 11 months ago 10
@steve89z
I'm in my early 30s' .
Heard about them for a few years (White Stripes were influenced by them) and just kinda started checking em out.
They seem similar to Grand Funk Railroad. Ahead of their times. Has a punk rock and soulful combination. Simply amazing band.
jkbezo 11 months ago
@jkbezo check out the bellrays.they are mc5 clones modern day
steve89z 11 months ago
@steve89z
Wow!
They were pretty good.
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"Music so extraordinary that it transformed the lives of all who experienced it demands the release of a documentary that does the MC5 justice." - Don McLeese, author of Kick Out The Jams (Continuum 33 1/3 series)
DetroitTango 11 months ago
MOTOR CITY FIVE
tarssan1 11 months ago
Wow.
YogaforCynics 11 months ago
1:19-1:26 simply fucking awesome...
georgeneuman 1 year ago 25
@georgeneuman Hehe...I love to see this. It never gets old. ♥ Very fuckin awesome indeed. ........makes me wish I was 15 again.......just to hear them for the first time again. Gawd that was stunning. Somethin I can tell the Grand-kids.....if Im ever blessed with any.
NoRosesForMe 10 months ago
@georgeneuman haaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahaha
dirtcom7 8 months ago
@georgeneuman And that little move that Wayne Kramer does at 3:33 is pretty damned cool, too.
milossarian 6 months ago
welcome to 1970 motherfucker
10mannyman 1 year ago 2
HI!
ON WHICH DVD ARE THE RECORDINGS AVAILABLE?
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!
DIRK
DE61 1 year ago
Detroit was FUN
sothnabe 1 year ago
damn thats good iam eating a reeses at the same time and i dont know wich ones better
XheroinxchicX 1 year ago
Twelve people stood up on the stand with their eyes shut tight...and missed the like button.
samuraistalin 1 year ago
sweet air guitar at 1:54
ningaman129 1 year ago
The crowd looks exactly like The Mothership just landed in the backyard...two or three people get it
bronxeel1 1 year ago
@bronxeel1 Does anyone in the crowd have a pulse?
kurtizzyflush 11 months ago 5
Twelve people DIDN'T like this clip?!?
Artaud1957 1 year ago
STAND BACK! Someone might GET HURT!
Rock & roll is good.
gtrrs71 1 year ago
DANCE MOTHERFUCKER DANCE FFS
9hawklord 1 year ago
Hail Kramer!
Hail MC5!
baxtrom 1 year ago
Ho ly Crap.
barnacleboymtk 1 year ago 2
When this performance was filmed, this was the greatest rock band in the world!
SpinePunchMusic 1 year ago
i was at this show, it was free and featured savage grace, alice cooper, the 5 and commander cody and the lost planet airmen. the comments on this are funny so let me tell you, we were sick of having bob seeger play at our high school dances - someone said that "if you look at the old movies, no one new how to take this" well i just want to say, if you see them sittin' it was because they was trippin' this was just regular neighborhood stuff
Kid Rock sucks.
theunkowndemocrat 1 year ago 3
Crowd of zombies. They really didn't know what to do though.
rvdsm 1 year ago
Have seen hundreds of bands live over the past 40+ years NONE of them have ever came CLOSE to the energy and excitement generated by the MC5.
danielgirard 1 year ago
this makes my fuckin heart race
MrNatchural69 1 year ago
Brother Wayne Kramer!
Anyway, Kramer & Sonic were arguably one of the best guitar-partners in rock history. Their styles complemented each other in such a ... sweet...not-so-sophisticated..powerful...trippy.. way ...man
firefly87 1 year ago
yeeeeeeaaaahh!
lordbitterness 1 year ago
wayne kramer is my fucking hero!
510wtf 1 year ago
Their like a punk band with afros!
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TheRisinSunBand 1 year ago
The black guy on 1: 20 is thinkin: My 'fro is bigger then yours!
gianca60 1 year ago 22
@gianca60 LOL!!! Awwwwwww but ya gottta love the '5' !
NoRosesForMe 10 months ago
Wayne Kramer's the blonde one? Anyway, that's the best look in Rock. All you need, really.
Kelly14UK 1 year ago
Kickin' out da jams, muthafuckas!
gcurb 1 year ago
Young people do know this music. If they don't, then they don't desrve to
veygewn 1 year ago 3
@MagicDolphinGO That's right it's only two chords and it still rocks harder than anything you and your dumb little buddies "rock out" to! I guarantee whatever shit bands you listen to were influenced by the MC5, look it up! You can't be a rock n roll fan and not respect the Stooges and the MC5, that's common knowledge. I swear this country is going to shit lol, just turn on the radio!
robertblue 1 year ago
The White Stripes covered this on the John Peel show around 2001... Really appreciate the nod from one Detroit band to another.
9999bigb 1 year ago
Very innovative for that time. Can't believe it's 40 year old music.
MiGrm9 1 year ago
Oh no, this is so funny, I understood the line "Looking at you looking at your babe..." So he's gay and jealous.
desasterz 1 year ago
this for You Al!!! happy Sunday.
zzalik21 1 year ago
I have one word for this band... Conditioner!!!
a2sarah 1 year ago
just in case you weren't listening, this is badass
Deerogue 1 year ago
This is one of those performances that makes ya wonder why the fuck I'd wanna listening to any band besides The MC5, forever.
OttoErickson 1 year ago
THE MC5 MOTHER FUCKER!!!!!!!!!!
AaronAndersonify 1 year ago
Ja ja como dicen mis amigos del fructas!!!
jossie1991COF 1 year ago
Watch Wayne at 3:33, not only is he a great rocker, but also an athlete!
freezerkid1 1 year ago
@freezerkid1 And he never misses a note. Cool move for sure!!
3bar 1 year ago
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freezerkid1 1 year ago
YEEAHHHHH
LouGypsyBlue 1 year ago
very raw
yepheth 1 year ago
amen brother
steve89z 1 year ago
pierrelivernois, eat shit and die motherfucker!
johntw1000 1 year ago
This is the most ROCK N ROLL thing that I have ever seen
MateoTejanoCubano 1 year ago
Holly shit, these guys were good! Why have I never heard of them?
johntw1000 1 year ago
@johntw1000 because your head is full of shit.
pierrelivernois 1 year ago
fuck yeah!
Grogie4dagurlz 1 year ago
The James Brown of guitarists at 3:30.
mg196 1 year ago
See that Kids? Yeah!!!!
ex1le444 1 year ago
holy shit goddamn, now THAT is rock n roll!
crackersjenkins 1 year ago
Along with the Stooges, MC5 demonstrate why punk wasn't really required all that much.
dantean 1 year ago
I remember I saw these guys play in a stubbly hay field out in the country near Ypsilanti. I think it was 1969. It was a benefit concert to get legal defense funds for John Sinclair. The band was great, as usual, but the location was miserable. Wayne Kramer was more manic than usual that day, and I saw him make a move that was almost identical to the move that Michael Jackson, years later, named the Moon Walk. Very original, short eyes.
Anyway, it was a great time to be a delinquent in Detroit.
moojeed 1 year ago 3
@moojeed Oh Man, really? Oh Man. That's fucking Awesome, OMG you are so Lucky. I would Murder somebody to have done that! I was Born in 1967 :(
I interviewed Wayne in the early '90's for a local FM Radio Station & I was so nervous I could hardly talk, He's one of my great Rock'n'Roll Idols.
ex1le444 1 year ago
THATS MUSIC!
allangomescieri 1 year ago
high energy!
adric137 1 year ago
The crowd don`t know whats hitting them. MC5 was the ultimate rock band. Love the stuff. Keep on doing it. Love from Sweden.
kentommybolin 1 year ago
i'm a teenage and the first time i hear this song, i start to love this band, is foking awesome !!!!!
shifer22 1 year ago
Look at all these punk ass hippies in the crowd. . .They dont even know what they're seeing
CanucksSuck 1 year ago
@CanucksSuck It was 1970, OF COURSE there were hippies, you fucking tool.. Pre punk.
biglloyddobbs 1 year ago
ha, yeah. these morons need to realize that their bullshit ideas of "punk" all stem from political hippies. and still is. hippies own you!. eat the weeds from the sidewalk fucks.
vikingluv7 1 year ago 2
Sick check out the Wayne move from 3:30- 3:40 with the '69 Ampeg Dan Armstrong
mickstun 1 year ago
Why isn't the crowd going nuts? A mosh pit at the front should have erupted, how are they basically standing there all cool like? Too stoned?
chetek65 1 year ago
when black sabbath came to us it changed every thing with the crowd...when ozzy shout out..... get up and shake ure ass fuckers
wasbush 1 year ago
L.B.H.
FANTASTIC STUFF
VONCEIL1 1 year ago
RAR!
Amsterjamland 1 year ago
This is not a band...this is a force of nature. God Damn this is so good.
NapalmHeart7 1 year ago
Kind of see what they were not the huge success they could of been, like to the next level. They were too way radical for the masses, unlike Grand Funk RR who appealed to a lot more people.
Never the less MC5 rocked out like nobody's business.
ptcrescent 1 year ago
su-weet
TonySlug 1 year ago
el cantante me hace acordar al cantante de The mars Volta
Veronikaynadamas 1 year ago
The move that Wayne Kramer makes at 3:33 is unsurpassed by anybody.
freezerkid1 1 year ago 38
@freezerkid1 - yep! then spraying the crowd at 3:45- this vid should be mandatory viewing for upstart musicians, see now, this is how its done, this is rock n roll, this is THE MC5.
dd2112 1 year ago
@freezerkid1 Wish I could give this comment a 1000 thumbs up.
shanatp 1 year ago
@freezerkid1 How the hell did he do that?!?!?
kirkbzzz123 1 year ago
@freezerkid1 Sorry, but you're wrong it's surpassed by Wayne Kramer doing "Ramblin' Rose" a few minutes before at the same show.
Hister333 1 year ago
@freezerkid1 That WAS a sweet rock and roll move! Classic !
loungelizard5000 1 year ago
@freezerkid1 Oh my. Unfreakin believable. So nice, top to bottom.
fweekstir 1 year ago
there are 2 brothers in the crowd dancin' and groovin' but the white kids are dead! what the hell wake the f up!
steve89z 1 year ago
wayne kramer you are 1 cool mofo of an entertainer.this performance is killer! the band members are top shelf!
steve89z 1 year ago
Brill
paddlepop77 1 year ago
The drummer's on fire......and the crowd are dead. They should have played this gig in England !!
flickofdaswitch 1 year ago
Merci pour cette video légendaire !
261101957 1 year ago
They're okay, i guess
Edgardo4993 1 year ago
i had a tune stuck in my head for like a year and thought it was so simplistic and genius at the same time. But low and behold it's looking at you by the mc5 dam these guys are awesome.
Nobodie92 1 year ago
WTF is grong with crowd!? I will be moving and dancing like crazy!
alonss13 1 year ago
FUCKING AMAZING
GAUDYBLOOD777 1 year ago
Why do people just stand there?
mgmads 1 year ago
@mgmads ya don't have to be a dancing fool to enjoy the music,besides if you were on acid or anything else you were immersed into the music .you didn't have to put on a public display to enjoy the moment.
Heckle100 1 year ago
@mgmads Shock has rooted them to the spot
theslice2 1 year ago