MC5: A Brief History｜Vinyl Monday

The Who, except when I'm on a Small Faces trip! While I'm here, could I slip in another cheeky request for you to do 'Ogden's Nut Gone Flake'? 👍

Wayne played in "Rocks Gang" for a while. In the 70's

Thank you for a great tribute to a great band. The MC5 is my favorite band. I know why but the reason is hard to put into words. They had an edge that I have not heard in other bands. Maybe it is the working-class Detroit culture they came from? I really appreciate your kind words you spoke for the different members of the band, but lifting up Machine Gun Thompson as an underrated drummer, I think is very important. Watching and listening to them, and, being a musician who appreciates playing with a good drummer, I know the difference a drummer makes to a band! Dennis, I think was a big part of that edge. I’m so thankful that Rob took care of Dennis when he needed it! The story moved me emotionally too! They all contributed to that wonderful edge, but I just think Dennis was the biggest part?

I don’t really appreciate the drug use. I know drugs was a big part of that whole scene, but I think we all would have liked to have seen what they could have accomplished without the drugs, but I appreciate everything else about the band. I like the message of them being part of the White Panther thing. I like their emphasis on a cultural revolution. I love their stage presence. I love their recordings. “Too political for the music industry but not political enough for the counterculture”—seems like this happens to a several artists trying to do their thing.

I think they will be my favorite band for a long time too!

Thanks again for this wonderful tribute!

Your video had my brain so giggley i couldn't pour water ( boiling) from a pan into a jug over in the kitchen. Omg. Lennon did a song @Sinclair@72 and it helped…☮️Wait, was Atlantic rec really the MAN?! Think about it. Their crowning rock band had 0.0 political slant…hmm🥲

Brother and sisters. I give you a testimonial: The MC5 and Abigail Devoe OOWWWWW!

Kick out the jams is amazing

WHERED YOU GET THE KOTJ SHIRT ??

I befriended Brother Wayne in his later years in life after a mural he hired my company to paint of him on the Grande for the 50th anniversary show. My hearts been crushed the last few weeks man, I listen to the 5 almost every single day normally! Thanks for taking the time to make this. I'd love to send you an extra piece of my merch gifts from Wayne if you'd like. Cheers dude!

nice shirt!

Miss X is actually sick, what

Great vid
I see them at Aylesbury uk I think with Edgar broughton band who were kinda uk equivalent. I was young but my older friend interviewed them for his college mag. I’m pretty sure they split when tour finished. But I still remember Rob in white like he was electrocuted.
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I grew up in Ann Arbor. 1967-1982. Experienced the MC5 while riding my Schwinn Stingray through West Park one day while this LOUD band was playing. We asked someone who was making all the noise. They smiled at the lil kids and said "The FIVE!". Free range parenting was not a term then. It was just how my mom, like most in the mid-west rolled. Home by sunset. She was also a peace activist and we went to the Sinclair White Panther House one day for a meeting about an upcoming protest. Since us kids didn't understand what was being discussed – or care – we wandered. We found a door in the kitchen and went down into the basement and it was dark and smelled of weed and we saw lots of amps and egg cartons on the ceiling. We went back upstairs to hear the droning of the adult peoples. Now in hindsight, we had wandered into the MC5 rehearsal studio.John Sinclair was the manager and that was his castle. As much as you credit this band being from Detroit, like Iggy and the Stooges, they were really from Ann Arbor. I only got to see Fred Smith once at the Second Chance with Sonics Rendezvous Band when I got in with a fake ID. This was when I finally appreciated who he was, and where I was. I love, that you love, the MC5. Todays music is so safe and corporate.

A really fantastic video about a really fantastic band. I love the energy, playfulness, and research… Damn the research! I learned a lot about the MC5! Thanks for that! And I especially love the end. Thanks for sharing the texture of your hair, as well as your passion for ground breaking music!

hello AD .. do you remember your own past (lives).. I know Duane Allman now and he recalls a little of his and this life still has many fine guitars and knows the old music really well … He struggled with drugs in his twenties too born 1977…I am sure you were in the 60's/1970 because you know the music so well and what was happening exactly right… YOU WERE T'Here.. SAN FRAN Flower Child? surely.. LA Love forever changes…you set the SCENE…JIMI experience little wing Clapton Layla even MC5 (really) kick out the Jams MF and all that…I am the HEY PANEAGLESONG and SOLARIST Loving what you do…and the music was all mine too 1970…what happened to you? probably like many the drugs alcohol or sex styles and maybe (not you) with bad lovers or a good musician? more likely ARTIST what is I can see..the signs are there for everything you have known.. we all had many lifetimes, some sweet, some sour..naturally…I am the one universal galactician founding the NU SOLAR Astrology anthem of the SUN SOLASTRY

WK's Kramers Kreamers also played outside SE MI as MC5. WK claimed at the time he owned the name. Not my words.GOLDMINE interview. I did hear Kramer's Kreamers play the Scene club in A2 sept '74 and Fred Smith on Ch 50 UHF out of Detroit playing "Tell the Truth" I don't recall the band and reception in East Quad was not so great. My buddy Greg Kjolhede played with Tyner when he did the autoharp stuff.

Thank you, Abigail, for your extensive and exhaustive research, for your passionate love for this rock band, and for the well-crafted thoroughness of your engaging and entertaining presentation. We MC5 fans are grateful.

37:00 Rob beats up Eric Clapton after you tell him the Layla story and how the whole time Eric was dating Pattie’s sister

We need an MC5 movie. Actually a miniseries would be even better

You're not the only one interested in Rob's shirts!!! I would love to see their costumes,I hope Robs wife saved his