MC5 Live in Europe '72

FRIARS CLUB, AYLESBURY, UK, 2/11/1972
0:00 | Tonight
5:59 | Kick Out the Jams
FRENCH TV, Feb. 1972
9:58 | Kick Out the Jams
11:17 | Empty Heart
BEAT CLUB, BREMEN, GERMANY, 3/25/1972
18:11 | Kick Out the Jams
26:35 | Ramblin' Rose
29:46 | Motor City's Burning
34:49 | Tonight
43:04 | Black to Comm
KULTTUURITALO, HELSINKI, 11/17/1972
44:49 | Ramblin' Rose
49:06| Let It Rock
53:24 | Louie Louie
59:40 | Kick Out the Jams

1:11:10 | Interview French TV
1:17:26 | Gold (studio recording)

MC5 was an American rock band from Lincoln Park, Michigan, formed in 1964. The original band line-up consisted of vocalist Rob Tyner, guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred "Sonic" Smith, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson.

MC5 earned national attention with their first album, Kick Out the Jams, recorded live on October 30 and 31, 1968, at Detroit's Grande Ballroom. Their second album, Back in the USA, produced by future Bruce Springsteen mentor Jon Landau, virtually provided a prototype for punk rock with its short, fast, hard-edged angry guitar rock.

Reviews were again mixed; however, sales were mediocre (it only peaked at #137 in the American charts in March 1970 during a seven-week stay) and the band's tours were not as well-received as before. Exhaustion was partly to blame, from the band's heavy touring schedule and increasingly heavy drug use. Their third album, High Time, produced by Geoffrey Haslam and recorded by Artie Fields, would also prove influential on 1970s hard rock bands.

The album was poorly promoted, and sales were worse than ever, but High Time was the best-reviewed of the band's original records upon its initial release. The group had much more creative control, and were very satisfied with the results. This release saw the band stretch out with longer, more experimental pieces like "Future/Now" and the Sun Ra-influenced "Skunk (Sonically Speaking)".

Both Back in the USA and High Time lost money for Atlantic Records, which dropped the band. Early in 1972, the band toured Europe, playing dates in England including Cambridge with Syd Barrett's band Stars and Canterbury with former Tyrannosaurus Rex percussionist Steve Peregrin Took, as well as a TV session in Bremen, Germany for Beat Club.

On February 13, 1972, Michael Davis left the band (he was using heroin and was all but forced out by the others), and was replaced by a series of bassists (Steve Moorhouse, Derek Hughes, and Ray Craig). The remaining members recorded two new songs — "Gold Rush" (also known as "Gold" and "Train Music") and "Inside Out" — in London shortly afterwards for the soundtrack of a film called Gold. This would be the band's final recording session.

The group limped along a while longer, eventually reduced to Kramer and Smith touring and playing with Ritchie Dharma on drums and Derek Hughes on bass, playing R&B covers as much as their original material.

MC5 reunited for a farewell show on December 31, 1972 at the Grande Ballroom. The venue that had only a few years before hosted over a thousand eager fans now had a few dozen people, and, distraught, Kramer left the stage after a few songs. The band dissolved not long after the event.

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