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  • DAT AFRO

  • Best part guy in the green at 1:57

  • STUNNING. Pure Rock. Look at the floor of that stage. NOT A STOMP BOX ANYWHERE TO BE FOUND. The whole sound of this band is the honesty of guitars plugged straight into amps, a drummer that hits 'em, and a singer that can get on top of all that RAW POWER.

  • Great - no wonder Jeff Beckley idolized them.

  • Best Jewfro ever!

  • Awesome. Can't stop laughing at 1:30. This is real music.

  • funny that this is sort of a jam session itself

  • mc5 i think he most have been at number 1 in the count vh1 hard rock songs

  • Too fucking cool!!

  • I hit the "like" button cause I wasn't able to find the "love" button..........

  • Wonderful sound and look... grunge bands should learn this lesson ahahah!

  • Best song to ride with!Two trips in one time!

  • i love his hair its great! ...............but we seem to be watching this vid about halfway through its such a shame because "kick out the jams" is an untamed monster!

  • you just cant stop watching this man, you never tire of such gems wayne kramer was never given enough credit for his role in this band i salute you brother wayne

  • OH Hell yes!!!!

  • mars volta from the past century

  • @mirna06 It's Other Way Around The Mars Volt = MC5 From The New Century

  • @mirna06 i agree!!!!!!!!!!

    

  • @mirna06 

  • When them MC5 boys kicked out those jams. Holy Shit, Mr marshell now I understand why u made those amplifiers.

  • i just wanna slide my hand up Tyner's thigh slowly and cup his fantasitc ass with a nice squeeze,,,,,,cant help it,,,,,one of the best lookin mofo's in history. They blow my mind everytime.

  • Just wondering who the nine people are who don't like this...?

  • @jplew138

    Children? Aliens?......I can't explain it any other way?

  • The video promotion they want us to click on is for an Artificial Reef Aquarium. Eh?

  • This is as great as much tyner's haircut!

  • MC5 should sue everyone rock band thats been rerecording their original version of this classic song :)

    You know how rich these mother fuckers from Detriot would be right now?? :)

  • many songs are just noise, some suck and some others are pretty well,but this is just fucking amazing!!!

  • Thumbs up if reading a bathroom reader book got you to look on youtube for "MC5"!

  • I was THerE!!

  • @stpgroov dat must have been very very cool!!

  • @rockandroller4ever6 ya living in Detroit Michigan was a trip during the late 1960s/ mc5 were out of ann harbor/ college town, where john sinclair had the 5th estate.(boring you zzz?)..underground > white panther party etc!!/ anyways peace out

  • first came The Who , then MC5, then The Stooges, then New York Dolls and then ...PUNK.

  • What the fuck is up with the hair on the singer?

  • @goladen it was cool in that time ,it was original.

  • @goladen He has an Afro dumbass. It's the 1960's in this video. FOOL.

  • @JosephR00lzD00d Really? So that's what those are called! Jackass....

  • @goladen LOL you're the one who said it buddy.

  • out of all the UNDERGROUND GROUPS JEFFERSON AIRPLANE WITH THEIR "VOLENTEERS OF AMERICA" AND THE REST OF THE SO CALLED ANTI WAR MUSIC GROUPS...THIS GROUP IS THE ONLY ONES THAT HAD THE BALLS TO SHOW UP AT THE 1968 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION WHERE THERE WERE REAL "STREET FIGHTING MEN/WOMEN..NOT JUST LETS WRITE A SONG TO MAKE MONEY ABOUT REVOLUTION CAUSE THAT IS IN RIGHT NOW AND LET OUR AUDIANCE GET THEIR HEADS GET BEAT IN WHILE WE MAKE A TON OF MONEY OFF IT,!!!

  • Hey! That's Christopher Walken on vocals...before becoming a famous actor. LOL!

  • This band would have been even bigger had they had a horn section like James Brown.

  • the solo guitar must be a teisco one

  • DETROIT WHAAAAAAAAT!!!!!! MC5!!!!!

  • waggin his hiney around like a gay tom jones

  • Wayne Kramer...OUCH!!!! Shred-Daddy!!

    Fred 'Sonic' Smith, on 12-string electric guitar, before he played bass with Richard Hell & the Voidoids!!

  • @TruthinEden with all due respect for even knowing who Richard Hell & The Voidoids were, Fred "Sonic" Smith never played with them.

  • Kick Out The Jams Motherfuckers! - MC5: One of Detroits finest.

  • Kick Out The Jams Motherfuckers! - MC5: One of Detroits finest.

  • @spectro52 --One of? The Five were to Detroit R&R what the Beatles were to R&R in general!!!

  • Does anyone Know the exact Orange amp head that Wayne Kramer is using here?

  • what a wonderful orange ampli sound!!

    what a wonderful band!!

  • kick out the jams brothas and sistas

  • MC5. Goosebumps every fucking time!!!!!

  • what a fucking great band !!!!

  • ROBS FRO RULES.

  • Right now, right now, right now its time to...KICK OUT THE JAMS MOTHERFUCKER!

    I want that on my gravestone at this point in my life...

  • @BigTymerPimp ....from a japanese imports' lyric sheet: "And presently, brothers and sisters, it is time for the kicking out of the fruit preserves"...

  • No way, that is hilarious. I think those kind of translations happen all the time with Japanese imports.

  • @BigTymerPimp

    Deceptibly spacious

    Mr Spud

  • bien ahi la concha de la loraaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  • The 5 were very influenced by black music and you can clearly see that in Rob Tyners moves and the hair. I've got a very poor quality recording of 'em doing James Brown's "It a mans mans mans world" and it's genius.

    The sad thing about the MC5 is the fact that there's so few recordings of them and this video is very welcome. As you can see here they were awesomely powerful and a pointer to a lot of cool bands.

  • Wonderful. Kids today should see this

  • This is THE ROCK!

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  • @r4scuache fuck i just wrote that on another vid of this song.... i totally agree...its like he totally got heaps of his shit from this guy even the hair style

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  • @r4scuache amen dude, i totally agree. its uncanny. i feel ive figured cedric out a little more. hahaha

  • @r4scuache and his hair too

  • Dith ith awthum!

  • Take your peace and love hippy crap and Kick Out The Jams, Mother Fucker!!!

  • Get over the poor sound quality...like all of Robert Johnson's (or Charley Patton's, or Louis Armstrong's, or...) recordings are in Hi-Fi! Rob Tyner FUCKIN' RULES!!!

  • fuckign rite bud, tell it like it is, Your the first person Ive ever saw on youtube to make a Charley patton reference! right on bud!, ya this sounds great to my ears anyway nice and RAW!

  • This sounds terrible...

  • Kramer is using a very hot Epiphone, Gibson budget guitar. My neighbor had one, and it was a very, very good insturment. Kramer is through the Orange Amp (very, very rare today), i believe. Sonic is on the Mosrite with a huge Fender, I think. The bass player is using a Marshall? Anyway you cut it, very, very good live sound.

  • just fucking awesome.

  • These guys seriously deserve a good documentary! Being a Michigander, I am very proud to have grown up in a home where this kind of music was played! Long live their memory and influence!

  • I think they should make a feature length film about the MC5 Story. They could make it here! It would be a kickass flick, have local musicians playing the parts of the band members along with some famous actors. That would be a way to really put Detroit on the map for the film industry.

  • Dude, the people that matter know how influential the midwest was to rock, punk and soul. Ever great musician that has followed the MC5, James Gang, Stooges, and the gazzillion soul and R&B acts too, have creditted them as their influences. Personally, I like it better that the squares don't "get it." They'd never understand the full scope of what all those groups did anyway. It'd just be the yuppy buzz word for a year or so, until the next Lady Gaga CD came out.

  • You don't like Sonic Revolution?

  • damn, the mars volta!!!! lol

  • People talk about the rock guitar -- but to me its the heavy/funky bass and drums that add so much. You can here the big soul/jazz influence. Great track.

  • that's true rock n roll right there

  • iggy pop was a huge fan of mc5 and this means a lot of their importance in the rock scene not only in 70's

  • hahhahahah :DDDDD 2:00

  • Satsning...

  • Wayne is a great guitar player right on it - for sure

  • I always thought they sound a lot like Die Scherben. Very nice, thanks!

  • Fantastic. This video changed my life when I was 16. Superb.

  • These guys invented punk rock!

  • these guys are better than punk

  • @jimmyp73  these guys are were punk b4 there was punk

  • i was just saying these guys can actually play their instruments unlike most punk bands.

  • i would put it like this: the first of the hard rock bands

  • AS good now as they where then

  • Let's not forget The Seeds, MC5 used to play live w/them and I'm sure their records were in the MC5's collection. R.I.P Sky Saxon (1940-2009)...Sean Bonniwell is still alive and well in Los Angeles and still sings The Music Machine material...Check him out while you can...He still rocks!! Check out "Talk, Talk" by Music Machine on You Tube...Also check out "Trouble" by Music Machine...Very ahead of its time !!! 60's garage and freakbeat rule !! So does the MC5...Also check out The Dictators.

  • The MC5 are great. They were influenced by other earlier 60s garage punk bands like The Sonics, The Wailers, The Music Machine, The Trashmen...also...Chuck Berry, Soul, and avant garde jazz, etc. ...Check out "Talk, Talk" by The Music Machine. Very heavy and raw for 1966. These are the true roots of punk rock or outlaw rock n' roll...

  • MrDucktail, you bring up some good points here -- MC5 had many diverse influences, including free jazz greats like Sun Ra and Ornette Coleman. And thanks for reminding me about Music Machine. I agree that they wrote some excellent and creative garage rock songs. I'm going to have to check out their videos now.

  • Yeah, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, too.

  • If it were not for the MC5 and The Stooges, there would be no Black Sabbath!! Ozzy was a big fan of MC5, Blue Cheer, The Music Machine, The Sonics, etc., hence their heavy sound. U.S. RnR bands are much better than British bands...

  • The Hair Bear bunch!!

    Superb!!!!

  • btw just had a look on your page and listened to your song. are you in maroon 5???

  • lol!!

  • The mars volta of that time.

  • in a way they were real unique,white,but black panther involved,and playin real heavey stuff with funky suits,...and a real radical manager,john sinclair,who got charged 2yrs for a joint,..but lennon and co got him freed,..!!!

  • My comment is, Detroit rock and roll was not peace and love. Listen to Mitch Ryder.

    It was kids of factory workers, where the machinery was pounding in their ears all day. And these guys will kick your ass and steal your girlfriend.

  • true . but they were all 120 lbs and could not kick anyone's ass...except for mentally and philosophically. Detroit thrives on toughness but what made this great was the people behind the angst; the poetry.That's why you lost your girlfriend to guys like Iggy.

  • I don't know what you're gettin at man. These guys were tough as nails. I mean the band was born from a fist fight. Look it up.

  • HELL YEA!

  • I totally agree with you. Same environment that Black Sabbath originated in England. That is why the music is so great! Badass stuff = MC5 and Black Sabbath.

  • I was thinking the same thing. Birmingham, England in the late 60's made places like Detroit and Gary, IN look like Disneyland.

  • I grew up just outside of Detroit. The music from here is great. However, I totally believe that the music from the cites of England was better. Bands like the MC5 and the Stooges were the best of this area, but not as good as Black Sabbath or Judas Priest. Just MHO.

  • haha!

    look up the Detroit Riots 1968

  • That's a good point. However, I was speaking more in general quality of life terms. There are always exceptions like Watts, DNC '68 in Chicago, Detroit Riots, Selma, AL, etc.

  • lmao....your post is epic win!

  • theselector ... thats a true example of an ignorant

  • Can't remember what I wrote but it must've been funny coz TankMurdock said my post was EPIC. Unfortunately all u MOFOs here deleted my post.....don't believe in free speech eh? I find it so fuckin hilarious how one critical comment about a band can drive ppl so completely round the twist that they go frickin mental. Fanatics!!!!

  • KICK OUT THE JAMS MOTHER FUCKERS (8)

  • It's called a guitar solo.

    It's called 1970.

    Hey man, in 1970 Gary Glitter and Elvis were cool a hell--plus MC5 influenced The Stooges, The Ramones, The Clash, and all those other bands that you wear on your t-shirts but never actually listened to.

    Time for an education, brother!

  • Cool a hell?

  • Yup, my finger misplaced a letter and you saw it. In fact, you might be the only one who cares.

    The fact that you are such a spelling whiz with nothing else to contribute to this thread, no insight to make on the conversation happening makes you infinitely superior to everyone. Do you drive around in a bulletproof limousine? You must get chased around by throngs of teenage girls when you leave the house.

    I'm interested to see your answer.

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  • I was under the impression that "cool a hell" was a new term being used, a new addition to an informal urban patois. it hadn't reached me yet, but good to know.

  • Lol, nice work of education bro!

  • Yeah man fuck that shit were the kids were band Tshirts when they have never heard of the band there are heaps of kids wearing Ramones tshirts and have never heard of them.

  • @suburbanindie ooo iwas thinkning MC5 influenced the stooges, the second stooges funhouse completely different from the stooges first album and there are actually alot of similarities in the pace and riffage of the two albums and the last songs are both chaotic so i assume since same scene, area, label stooges took from the MC5 on the funhouse, still like funhouse better than kick out the jams tho; fave stooge album

  • @suburbanindie well done ,your'right.

  • you have no idea what real original rock is.

  • RIP Fred "Sonic" Smith.

  • o:44 looks very wrong lol

    KICK OUT THE JAM MOTHERFUCKER!!

  • so cool. thanks for posting this gem

  • now thats what i call a hair cut

  • RIP Rob Tyner and Fred Smith

    Met Wayne Kramer and Dennis Thompson a few years back....fuckin love this band. One of the godfathers of punk and metal

  • Detroit rock and roll at it's finest

  • Dude was moonwalkin.

  • yeah i totally agree with ShadowCrowX this is probobly where cedric bixler got inspiration for stage performances, they got the same fro too!

  • ???

  • it was called like that.

    like it or not

  • I'm guessing the lead singer here is what inspired most of Cedric from Mars Volta's style and behaviour lol

  • HAHA so true

  • Como siempre geniales los gruesos de MC5, aunque se extraña al bajista original.

  • whats with the band name flashing across the screen? toto did it too WTF

  • Saw them live in Detroit in 1970 and they were a MONSTER. One of Americas best bands of the day and their stuff holds up today........ way ahead of their time and they always fucking rocked!!

  • totally agreed man my dad met them way back when

    RIP MC5

  • haha is he moon walking at :50 - :52

  • great band, if they had the either video to the song, it kicks axx

  • strat: on the german rolling stone you´ve got a bonus dvd - beat club rare tracks - it was on the same time like the modaration for that song.

  • this makes me want to keep a rocking til the morning comes

  • Good enough reason to go buy a guitar

    spud

  • where is the "Kick out the jams mother fucker" part?

  • its the intro but this video cuts it off

  • Play the intro from this song ,from the live album in reverse (with some music editing software) and you'll hear Tyner speaking his mind about Rockefeller.☺

  • Like a Gang of White James Brown's.

  • haha i was gonna say it was like james brown with distortion. amazing stuff

  • Kick out the jams mother fucker!

  • Wayne and Sonic loose it at about 48,49 seconds in, One of the most influential rock bands of all fuckin time. LONG LIVE THE MC5.

  • that is the best song intro ever PERIOD. and theres isnt gonna better

  • kick out the jams MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!

  • FlammingCannibal can't you accept intelligent music like Radiohead and The Mars Volta but still listen to the raw energy of MC5?

  • This is still good stuff even after 40 years.

    KICK OUT THE JAMS MOTHERFUCKERS

  • Did i say good I ment this is Great stuff

  • fuck mars volta and fuck radiohead. KICK OUT THE JAMS

  • I like Radiohead.

  • what song can you yell motherfucka!! to when announcing a radiohead song? "KARMA POLICE MOTHERFUCKA!" im a creep...muthafucka!!!...ANYWAY this band makes radiohead sound like a person taking a diahrrea shit in a taco bell bathroom

  • HAHAH! Dude, I love the similie! Gives me another perspective on Radiohead.

  • They are completely different kinds of music.

    Yeah there is time to kick out the jams in every way possible and just go crazy.

    But there are also times to be a bit quieter and be more metaphorical and lyrical.

    They are both good for different reasons.

    LISTEN TO DIVERSE MUSIC PEOPLE!

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  • Lmao

    Karma Police Motherfucka had me in stitches.

  • awesome, enjoy your music. =)

  • KICK OUT THE JAMES MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!

  • best part he´s taking his mirco in the mouth and he´s clapping his hands like a seal^^

  • My GOD, that has to be one of the catchiest bass lines ever!

  • absolutely amazing.