phenomenal!!! a real treat huh? Lets bring this back!!!

amazing!! I would love to talk about what Detroit was like during that era. I really hope the Grande holds shows again someday.

ever!!!! so vital!!!

Too damn SHORT!

explosive time wish i was there

Punk yeah but Metal? I'd say no, Black Sabbath already released their debut album as well as Led Zeppelin 1 and 2 being out and about

Yeah, not metal so much... I'd look to Blue Cheer for that

love the cars going by right!! you're saying there is housing on that same field now?

brilliant

visionaries !!!

+jp lujack I hate you because you were there :):).. I wish i could see the end og 60ś early 70ś. I feel so born in the wrong decade

+jp lujack AWWW LUCKY YOU!!!!

Damn. i wish i was there too! if i was i'd meet you

audience looks like they were stunned by cattle prods

I was only 5 years old when this happened, but I think I see my dad's 4 door Pontiac Laurentian driving eastbound on I-94 behind the stage, taking our family to Windsor to see my Grandma and Grandpa. I don't obviously, but it could've very well happened as we drove from Dearborn to Windsor a lot.

Punk yeah but metal? Black Sabbath already released their first album as well as Led Zeppelin 1 and 2 already being out and about

​@@rocknroll_jezus9233oh really? That makes quite a difference… you probably don't remember but KOTJMFs came out in early 69. Spare us the technicalities, St James is right. MC5 are the fathers, sons and holy ghosts of everything wild, and then Iggy and Ron proceeded with the ceremonies- i ' m a Sabbathead but MC5 were something else ( and so said Ian Fraser Kilmister, oh yeah…)

@@rocknroll_jezus9233 You got to understand that this concert was farther into their career. They were underground and the beginning of Metal in America. They were around before Hendrix and Ozzy just not as well known and were Blacklisted from Radio and TV. I had older cousins and Uncles that brought this stuff around in it's bootlegged form. People used to record on Reel to Reel machines and share these tapes and re- record them and pass them on. Metal in America and Punk began in the Midwest not on the Coasts. The closest thing to it was coming out of the South. Some of the Swamp rock that was hard and driving with some metal Blues electric guitar and a fast beat. I t did not have the exposure in America like it did in Europe , especially England in that time period. It took off like wildfire on the underground through the middle of America. MC5 were the Grandfathers of early metal and Black Sabbath and Led Zepplin were God Father and Great Uncle of it. Give credit where credit is due. Ted Nugent came from the same area as did many others. Detroit birthed a lot of angry energetic hard driving musicians and groups. I am a fan of all Metal groups in one way or another. I came into it in the late 70's but my older relatives already were playing the classics. 💪

@@desertdan100 I no longer am that hard headed and narrow-minded with genres. Infact they do not exist

🤘🤘🤘🤘✌️✌️

Jim Ray Shocking that you learned a new word from this band that night ! A word that you had never heard before!😂😂😂! And I guess the vice principal didn’t catch ‘ The more you suck it the more it grows’!

you made my day hearing this.

Wow

Boat Axe the more you suck it the more it grows isn’t the official lyric Mr Wayne Kramer substituted it at this concert

Yea man.This is some great stuff.

Jack C. Lamb Dose the whole gig exist, do you know? ?

I dont know. This is pure gold. Different camera angles, set up to record a real event. There must be more, somewhere.

Right, I've been trying to find the gig but no luck... But this is just SMOKIN'!!! The MC5 just staight up KICK ASS!!!

I had heard of MC5, but that was about all. Then I saw this video a few months ago and was like,'Holy shit, where the hell did this come from, what planet have I been on?'. Anyway these guys were the bomb, and this performance is really high energy, Jack C. isn't exagerating, thank God somebody filmed this.

a sight to behold!!!

+Rob Robichaud This and the Beat Club sessions is something i too often come back too.

Only 25 times? For me, maybe easily 125 times, or 225, including the live show, taking the Grand River bus from NW Detroit the week after I turned 15 years old.

@@0Imtheslime0 beat club sessions are top !!! super psych'd - out Kick Out The James middle section!!!

It NEVER gets old!

remarkable

Absolutely!

@Jack Burton Sorry, you just can't beat Detroit. MC5, The Stooges, Funkadelic, Grand Funk Railroad, Ted Nugent & Amboy Dukes, Bob Seger, Rodriguez, Brownsville Station, Rare Earth, Death, SRC and not to mention all of Motown.

@@andrewdkussmaul Can't forget SRB!!! Sonic's Rendezvous Band. And also the White Stripes. And so much more. As I always say there must be something in the water man.

You think you're in any way close to knowing which music was produced in each place.

@@roy_for_real2674 in terms of contemporary music, he's really not wrong

@@stephenkane2464 You got 34 million people living in Tokyo.

coyoteandroadrunner1 I would pay Wayne to kick my ass while he plays....:). Hear that Wayno???!!!!

Sick move, I would have been going mental if I was there. Sober or stoned.

hell yea!!

justave dean, I agree, but would push your figure to at least 99%, and to quote Wicked Wilson Pickett, little known fact, also got his start in Detroit, "99 1/2 Just Won't Do," I'm sure "The Five," as they were affectionately known in my home town of Detroit, could also kick butt on Funky Broadway. Pathetic Rolling Stone and all the weeny San Francisco writers and DJ's panned both the MC5 and Stooges first records. Creem Magazine had balls and knew the score, Dave Marsh, Lester Bangs, and others digging it, of course. Believe it or not, I got a year's subscription and free Stooges' Fun House album for $5 around 1970. Arrived in a plain brown wrapper, which unfortunately got intercepted permanently from the mailman when my mother found a few 4-letter-words and bare titties in it while I was in class at Cerveny Junior High or Catholic Central High School. I can honestly tell you, being there in NW Detroit during those days, living near the Mouse House run by the super cool and nice immigrant parents of Stanley House, Motor City denizens could have cared less, and hardly a soul would have the left this show or an MC5 or Stooges Grande Ballroom or Ann Arbor Sunday park concert to go see the Airplane or Dead. Not even for Janis and Big Brother. But a few LA bands like The Doors and Spirit were pretty damn cool, I'll grant you that, and MANY British bands. But one SF band I would have loved to have seen live was Sly and the Family Stone. Stole the Woodstock soundtrack from all else, including Jimi, IMHO. Heavy airplay on WABX and Keener FM.

originalmrjojangles - You know, of course, that Rolling Stone gave good bands bad reviews because they were trying to manipulate the kiddies into listening to what Jann Wenner wanted them to hear. All you have to do is look at the RRHOF to know that this is true. I never read Rolling Stone......always, always Creem.

@@originalmrjojangles incredible. It's interesting to think what the dynamic was like between music listeners back then. You physically carried your music everywhere. People were closer to the music with albums and 45s, tapes even. In other words, you knew what you were into! And with some of the bands that the MC5 performed with, like the Velvet Underground talk about the interesting crowds! Sly and Family Stone's set at woodstock is stunning I totally agree. JIMI's set is mind-bending!!

And to think over 10 years prior to bands like The Ramones.

enjoy the dose!!

Super bummer! Never saw him live, but he epitomized guitar God as much as Page or Townsend.

For real. Although the crowd gathering is so refreshing here.

It still isn't.

seriously!!!! milestone!!!

chicanochrist dude this in sure would be like seeing metalica in 1967 the energy is too good to even fathom.

so pure. bring this crowd back!! totally enthralled by the music. not a cellphone in sight

Ramones in ‘77 in England, maybe. This is wilder, that’s more focused. Pick your poison.

FANTASTIC!!! Sharing a joint !!

+Real Strat Frightened is the word.. Tyner scaring the shit out of the people..

+Real Strat there were these funny looking cigarrettes bein' passed around.

NO WAY!!! I was at ALL the WSU Tartar Field FREE concerts, and many MC5 performances. It was a Hot and Muggy July day, and their were other Detroit bands that played earlier in the afternoon. I remember it differently--like everyone having a Great Time!!!

Here's the complete Lineup of bands 7-19-70. Catfish Hodge--Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen---Frut---MC5----Savage Grace. The reason Savage Grace headlined was like the old adage, you're only as good as your last hit--haha. Savage Grace had redone Dylan's 'All Along the Watchtower', and it was up in the charts. Back then, it was a cut throat mad dash to stay on top!!! This is when..."MUSICAL DINOSAURS ROAMED THE EARTH!!!!! hahaha.

uh...ahhh-choo.........whacos...just a bunch of wacos around here...

Peter Nolan Smith Best, most truthful, most correct comment on the internet!

sTARt a new ONe.....call it "tHe haLL of Mc5"

they made the hall of fame

Hell YEAH

great hypothetical scenario. the band definitely aided in generating those types of crowds early on allowing for the progression to begin.

it's been 50 years and this still is cutting edge

it's a clubfoot glide like the Devil himself would perform… and Lord Byron too quite so naturally...ahah

@@jocksilver7 hell yea!

@@terryk5412 right!!!

ignition !!

Ya gotta do it yourself.

Helsinki, Finland

you said it

unreal right???

Super bummer!

the greatest

Mauroleiicus He didn't toss em, the sticks jumped out because they were sick of him beating them so hard against the drums. The drums didn't like it either, but they were nailed down and couldn't move. Ow!

Your not listening to the right bands...

they gave it all every performance

That was a nice comment, originalmrjojangles! I didn't realize so many of them were Polish. It makes me extra proud of them, being half Italian and half Polish myself.

awesome

MC5 were ahead of their time.

Warrogue1 n

greatest album of all time

hell yes!!

totally agree!!!