Michael Davis joined Detroit band Destroy All Monsters for several years in the late 70s /early 80s; the band broke up in 1983. Dennis Thompson played with various bands, including The New Order, New Race, The Motor City Bad Boys, and The Secrets.

Jan 23, 2025 · The MC5 came roaring out of Detroit in the late 1960s with their first album, recorded live at the Grande Ballroom, which opens with the iconic call to arms: “Kick out the jams, motherfuckers!”

Nov 26, 2024 · Overlords of rebellious hard-garage/punk rock, in their early days the MC5 set off the first flares of revolution, exacerbated teenage unrest, and legitimised and elevated the counterculture.

Feb 19, 2025 · The MC5 were an American rock group and one of the most controversial and ultimately influential bands of the late 1960s. The band’s sound paved the way for punk, heavy metal, and grunge.

Oct 19, 2024 · MC5 was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday. The band made it in on the Musical Excellence award after being nominated six times over the years.

Oct 19, 2024 · The MC5's next record, 1970's Back in the USA, followed, but so too did fallings out with Sinclair, who in 1969 had ended up with a prison sentence of 10 years for possessing two marijuana...

MC5 were an American rock band founded in 1963 by guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred Smith. [1] The band's classic line-up included Kramer, Smith, vocalist Rob Tyner, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson.

Some called the MC5 (for "Motor City Five," after their home base) the first '70s band of the '60s. The group's loud, hard, fast sound and violently antiestablishment ideology almost precisely prefigured much of punk rock.

Aug 22, 2018 · Now 70 years old, Wayne Kramer — co-founder of the short-lived, influential Detroit rock band The MC5 — reflects on life as an artist, near-revolutionary, bumbling outlaw and prison reform...

Oct 9, 2024 · Its release comes near the end of a year in which the last remaining founding members of the MC5 and its manager have died, and right at the cusp of the band’s induction into the Rock and Roll...