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June 11, 2010
Detroit's Wayne Kramer: He always meant business.
The MC5 truly believed in the power of rock & roll to change the world. --Rolling Stone
For all you Detroit-area boomers and ex-hippies now living in Grosse Pointe Shores and Birmingham, below is the MC5's Wayne Kramer singing "Ramblin' Rose" and dancing around on stage in July 1970 at Tartar Field (since razed) at Wayne State University. This concert happened about two months after the shootings on May 4 at Kent State--just a few hours drive south and around Lake Erie to northeastern Ohio. Note that Patti Smith's husband, Fred "Sonic" Smith, now deceased, is the non-dancing guitarist in the dark cowboy shirt. If you were born after 1970, don't bother with any of this.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at June 11, 2010 11:59 PM