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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.
Don Was. 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 ...
See media help. Dream of Life was her first album after the dissolution of The Patti Smith Group, and the only album that she made with her husband Fred "Sonic" Smith. Lead single "People Have the Power" received some album-oriented rock airplay at the time, and later was revived by Michael Stipe as a theme song for the 2004 Vote for Change ...
Consisting of Wayne Kramer, Rob Tyner (1944-1991), Fred “Sonic” Smith (1948-1994), Dennis Thompson and Michael Davis (1943-2012), it was a quintet of childhood friends and kindred spirits ...
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 ...
In 1965, Kramer co-founded a band in Detroit with bassist Michael Davis, rhythm guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith, drummer Dennis Thompson and vocalist Rob Tyner. View the original article to see ...
Smith (left) and her daughter Jesse Smith at the Time 100 gala in 2011. In 1979, at approximately age 32, Smith separated from her long-time partner Allen Lanier and met Fred "Sonic" Smith, the former guitar player for Michigan-based rock band MC5 and Sonic's Rendezvous Band. Like Patti, Fred adored poetry.
February 2, 2024 at 5:19 PM. Wayne Kramer, the co-founding guitarist and composer of Detroit’s punk band MC5, whose social activism carried on throughout his lengthy solo career, died on Friday ...