Tag: "MC5"

Alex Winston : King Con
0 Comments. 1,000 Views. Posted 20 Mar 2012 @ 10:14am.
  A few years ago, in a piece featured in Mojo Magazine, MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer opined that the spirit of Detroit lived on in hip hop artist Eminem. Eminem, Kramer asserted captured the sense of rebellion that epitomised working class Detroit, an attitude that lies latent in the classic Motown sounds of the early '60s, and roars as loud as a V8 Ford in the MC5 and Psychedelic Stooges.... Read More
Primal Scream and DTK-MC5 : Black to Comm
0 Comments. 1,612 Views. Posted 8 Feb 2012 @ 10:54am.
  Back in 2008 Primal Scream – at the time still trying to steer clear of the chemical abyss into which so many of the band’s 60s heroes had fallen – appeared at the Meltdown Festival in London alongside surviving MC5 members Wayne Kramer, Michael Davis and Dennis Thompson (alias DTK-MC5). With a common heritage in drug abuse and intra-band tension, this was a marriage made in rock’n’roll... Read More
Deniz Tek : The Citadel Years
0 Comments. 2,203 Views. Posted 26 May 2011 @ 4:08pm.
Mark Sisto might have been gilding the lily when he suggested that former Radio Birdman guitarist Deniz Tek was the inspiration for Val Kilmer's character in Top Gun, but there's no doubt Tek's personal and professional narrative is worthy of Hollywood adaptation.   As chief songwriting protagonist in Radio Birdman, Tek's garage pop canon propelled 'Birdman to the heights of cult fame;... Read More
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