McDuff's Food & Wine Trail: Looking At You

Friday, December 21, 2007

Looking At You

1970. Without meaning to, Wayne Kramer -- in spite of Rob Tyner's crazy fro, gap tooth, bad t-shirt and white pants -- led the MC5 down the path toward becoming one of the most influential punk precursor bands of his generation. The video quality is not particularly good but that's more than made up for by Fred "Sonic" Smith's action on stage. Just watch the legs. Anne Murray, eat your heart out.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...: Great video great song. Not to be too picky, but Kramer is the guy on the left with the see through shirt doing the guitar solo. They guy in the white pants in Rob Tyner. Then there's Fred Smith doing some variation of the Charleston on the right. My favorite part of that is when Kramer finishes one of the guitar solo's without strumming, letting you know if you didn't already that it's just some lip-syncing for tv.; December 23, 2007 at 5:39 PM
David McDuff said...: D'oh! I think I remembered that in the back of my head somewhere. The hair just got the better of me.; December 23, 2007 at 6:05 PM
David McDuff said...: Fixed, by the way. Cheers!; December 23, 2007 at 6:05 PM
Wicker Parker said...: Fantastic stuff! I'd no idea that there WAS any MC5 captured on video. And I certainly had no idea that Anne Murray was from Nova Scotia (even if I knew she was from Canada). Thanks, this probably made my day.; December 30, 2007 at 8:07 AM
David McDuff said...: Hey WP,
I'm glad I could brighten your day. You may want to do a quick MC5 search on YouTube, as you'll find at least a couple of other video snippets.; December 30, 2007 at 10:11 AM
Little_Jewford said...: what do you mean "in spite" of the crazy fro? Big hair is always good...; January 3, 2008 at 6:23 PM
David McDuff said...: Are you sure, LJF?
Are you really sure?; January 3, 2008 at 10:32 PM