VINTAGE VIDEO: “Kick Out The Jams” By MC5
Amid the dross on You Tube, there are some quite incredible gems. One of those gems is the video below, a scorching live version of “Kick Out The Jams” by MC5 that was recorded at Detroit’s Wayne State University in 1970 and aired on the Detroit Tube Works TV program.
This version of “Kick Out The Jams” just sizzles. The highlight of the clip is a spectacular guitar duel between Wayne Kramer and Fred “Sonic” Smith. Oh, yeah! This is the real deal. Accept no imitations.
Enough with the intro. This clip speaks for itself. To watch one of America’s finest-ever bands, MC5, blast their way through their signature tune, “Kick Out The Jams,” click below:
The hippie chick at the end of the clip always cracks me up.
We need a band like MC5 today, don’t you think?
May 30, 2008 at 12:16 am
hell yeah! these guys were the best. i owe curley a beer for digging this one out. good stuff.
May 30, 2008 at 7:08 am
What about Sacred Reich? I wonder what Phil Rind is up to.
May 30, 2008 at 2:50 pm
MC5 rules as well…. I wrote a post about them not too long ago…and hey
ROCK ON BROTHER!
May 31, 2008 at 1:33 am
sandylove:
Hi. It’s too bad that Rob Tyner and Fred Smith have passed away. I would’ve loved to have seen a full-fledged MC5 reunion. I’m too young to have seen them back in the day.
MC5 are one of the most incredible bands I’ve ever heard. And they are criminally underrated.
November 20, 2008 at 10:51 pm
I remember this well. This was an event put on by radio station WABX fm. I was one of the DJs on that station, and one of the MC’s that day. I even led the audiende in the good old “gimme an F…” cheer.
Tubeworks was our TV show, and the hippy chick was a member of the staff.
Anybody got anymore Detroit Tubeworks footage?
Larry Miller
August 6, 2009 at 2:23 pm
“Anybody got anymore Detroit Tube Works footage?”
Hey Larry, there is rumor that Doug Podell of WRIF has the entire Detroit Tube Works library.
Does anybody know what channel Detroit Tube Works was on back in those days?
David
January 19, 2012 at 6:15 pm
Chanel 62,uhf did det t works-I’ve seen the “Heatwave ” clip w me & S R C -needs a “Cleaner ” Copy ! Help ! Anyone Kno where this Treasure Trove Lives ?? EVERYBODY Did Tube Works ! Alice,Ted,MC5,SRC,Maybe SEGER ?-More- Some one’s got the footage,otherwise these clips wouldn’t Exist ! ROK ON ! GQ/SRC
November 20, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Larry:
Thanks for your comment. It looked like an incredible gig. It must’ve been something to actually be there.