Mr. Thompson, I'd like to thank you for all of the cool stories and pictures you've been adding to your website. Looking them over for a few minutes at work really helps the day move along. I also feel like I am getting a better idea of how the Detroit music came to be. It may be because of the 'home town' familiarity but nothing sounds better to me. I really enjoyed reading your story about the New Order. I'll be trolling for some of those sounds for sure. Also, I saw your drum tutorial on Youtube. It was cool to see the breakdown of Skunk (Sonically Speaking). I am trying to learn to play a bit and it means something to a beginner to get that encouragement.
I want to ask if you'll be appearing anywhere in the near future. I have been looking for a calendar of dates on the website but haven't found one. I might just be missing it somewhere, so I'll keep looking. It would be really great to meet you sometime.
I hope the change in weather is treating you well. I'm going to miss the hot days, but maybe the cooler temps will keep me indoors where I should be- practicing...
No other band is more closely associated with the 1960s hippie, free love, abundant drug, activism movement than Detroit's MC5. The hard rocking five-piece band poured body and soul into formenting a social-psychoactive revolution that they hoped would reshape the buttoned down, conventional landscape of contemporary American culture. The MC5 was founded on the notion that rules are to be broken and they became the very embodiment of no-holds-barred rock and roll.
Click Triangle To Start the Music
MGT TALKS WITH KEN SHIMAMOTO
Welcome to Machinegun's Blog
The Rock & Roll Dictionary states that a “machinegun” is a drummer from Detroit, Michigan who employs a battering style of rapid, hard strike drumming whom is also a founding member of the legendary MC5 Jarrod Dicker
Gary Grimshaw Poster
Great Interview with Mike
MACHINEGUN'S GALLERY
Ron Asheton and MGT
Ron described playing with Machine Gun, compared to others, as "like driving a Ferrari" ... unlimited power, speed, and you better know what the f*ck you are doing. --Deniz Tek
THE MOTOR CITY FIVE
Each MC5 record showed a chronological maturity based on growth from our first records to the next one. We went through so many experiences from the bizarre to the sublime. The 5 encountered the dangers of being so politically and musically honest & forthright. Changes we were uncontrollably thrown into, so we morphed like butterflies to survive! We rolled with the haymakers...MGT
The Motor City's Burning
MGT Plays Taye Drums
Taye Drums Studio Maple Stage 20 Drum Set in Piano Black
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"I've always said your first album with the MC5 ties with "Live at Leeds" as the best live rock album ever."
Mr. Thompson,
I'd like to thank you for all of the cool stories and pictures you've been adding to your website. Looking them over for a few minutes at work really helps the day move along. I also feel like I am getting a better idea of how the Detroit music came to be. It may be because of the 'home town' familiarity but nothing sounds better to me.
I really enjoyed reading your story about the New Order. I'll be trolling for some of those sounds for sure. Also, I saw your drum tutorial on Youtube. It was cool to see the breakdown of Skunk (Sonically Speaking). I am trying to learn to play a bit and it means something to a beginner to get that encouragement.
I want to ask if you'll be appearing anywhere in the near future. I have been looking for a calendar of dates on the website but haven't found one. I might just be missing it somewhere, so I'll keep looking. It would be really great to meet you sometime.
I hope the change in weather is treating you well. I'm going to miss the hot days, but maybe the cooler temps will keep me indoors where I should be- practicing...
Sincerely, Joe Wasukanis
Librarian, Allen Park Public Library
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