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Fred "Sonic" Smith. Frederick Dewey Smith (September 14, 1948 – November 4, 1994), known professionally as Fred " Sonic " Smith, was an American guitarist and member of the rock band MC5. He married and raised two children with poet and fellow rock musician Patti Smith. The couple also collaborated musically.
Brendan Canty. MC5 was an American rock band formed in Lincoln Park, Michigan, in 1963. [5][6] The classic line-up consisted of vocalist Rob Tyner, guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred "Sonic" Smith, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson. MC5 were listed by Parade as one of the best rock bands of all time [7] and by VH1 as one of the ...
www.waynekramer.com. Wayne Stanley Kramer (né Kambes; April 30, 1948 – February 2, 2024) was an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer, and film and television composer. Kramer came to prominence in the 1960s as the lead guitarist of the Detroit rock band MC5. Kramer and guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith co-founded the MC5 in 1963, with ...
Indeed, after the deaths of MC5 singer Rob Tyner in 1991 and guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith in 1994, Kramer continued carrying the torch for MC5’s loud, outrageous sound and revolutionary ...
MC5 (L-R Fred “Sonic” Smith, Wayne Kramer, Rob Tyner, Wayne Kramer, Dennis “Machine Gun” Thompson and Michael Davis) in 1969 (Credit: Leni Sinclair / Michael Ochs Archive / Getty Images)
The MC5, left to right: Fred "Sonic" Smith, Dennis Thompson, Michael Davis, Rob Tyner and Wayne Kramer. On the MC5 and politics: They were just regular people. Even during the so-called political ...
Kramer and the late Fred “Sonic” Smith were the dual guitar attack for the MC5, one of the leading exponents of late ’60s Detroit-area horsepower that helped paved the way for not just punk ...
Jac Holzman, Bruce Botnick. MC5 chronology. Kick Out the Jams. (1969) Back in the USA. (1970) Kick Out the Jams is the debut album by American rock band MC5. It was released in February 1969, through Elektra Records. It was recorded live at Detroit's Grande Ballroom over two nights, Devil's Night and Halloween, 1968.