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MC50 Announce “Kick Out the Jams: The 50th Anniversary Tour” Dates

MC50 Announce “Kick Out the Jams: The 50th Anniversary Tour” Dates

April 3, 2018 (April 3, 2018) // Riot Fest

 


 

Wayne Kramer has announced tour dates for “Kick Out the Jams: The 50th Anniversary Tour” to celebrate the 50th anniversary of MC5.

Joining Kramer on the road in performing Kick Out the Jams (and other delights) will be fellow shredder Kim Thayil from Soundgarden, Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty, Dug Pinnick from King’s X on bass, and this time around, frontman Marcus Durant from Zen Guerrilla will glue it all together. Original MC5 drummer Dennis Thompson is the only other surviving member, and will join the band on select dates.

Tickets go on sale Friday, April 6 at 10 AM.

It’s been half a century since the Motor City Five rumbled into the popular lexicon with its landmark debut album, Kick Out the Jams—recorded live in a very dark place and time: Devil’s Night and Halloween in Detroit, 1968. Prior to their first national release, the band had been kicking up dust for a few years—and had just been kicked up themselves while protesting the Vietnam War and Democratic National Convention here in Chicago. Kick Out the Jams truly put the MC5 on the map, though, and this bruising document of Wayne Kramer and Fred “Sonic” Smith’s meandering lead guitar interplay, the thundering rhythm section of Michael Davis and Dennis Thompson, and the glue that was frontman Rob Tyner is as urgent and topical now as it was then.

That’s why the time has come for Brother Wayne Kramer to decide whether he was going to be the problem, or whether he was going to be the solution. It probably only took him five seconds to decide that it was indeed time to move, so he will get down with it by testifying across Europe and North America this year alongside an all-star cast, billed as MC50. In addition to a new memoir, 2018 is going to be a busy year for Brother Wayne.

Additionally, Kramer is set to release his memoir. The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities will come out on August 14 via Da Capo Press, and covers a very complex life that’s likely filled with some fascinating anecdotes about Kramer’s stint in federal prison, battling drug addiction and sobriety, and becoming a father for the first time… at age 65. Plus, there’s that whole band thing.

Kick out the jams, Wayne and Kim and Brenda and Dug and Marcus (and sometimes Dennis)! We’ll be waiting to testify along with you.


Kick Out the Jams: The 50th Anniversary Tour Dates
9/5 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution Live
9/6 – St. Augustine, FL @ Backyard Stage at St. Augustine Amphitheatre
9/7 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
9/8 – Raleigh, NC @ Hopscotch Music Festival
9/9 – Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
9/11 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
9/12 – New Haven, CT @ College Street Music Hall
9/13 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
9/14 – Huntington, NY @ The Paramount
9/15 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
9/17 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
9/18 – Montreal, QC @ Corona Theatre
9/19 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
9/21 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
9/22 – Grand Rapids, MI @ 20 Monroe Live
9/23 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
9/25 – Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom
9/26 – St. Louis, MO @ The Ready Room
9/28 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk
9/29 – Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
10/1 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Marquee
10/2 – Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
10/3 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
10/4 – San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom
10/5 – Los Angeles, CA @ John Anson Ford
10/15 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
10/16 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
10/17 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
10/19 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall
10/20 – Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre
10/23 – Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater
10/24 – Chicago, IL @ Metro Chicago
10/25 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart’s
10/26 – Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew’s Hall
10/27 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore

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