During this early period, the Stooges were originally billed as the " Psychedelic Stooges " at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, Michigan, and other venues, where they played with the MC5 and others.

The Sillies played their first show second-billed to The MC5.

Coffee sang and played in Thee Fourgiven and the Tommyknockers, influenced by late 1960s pre-punk hard-rock bands like the MC5 and The Doors as well as more recent acts like The Cramps, The Gun Club, and Billy Childish The bands of both Coffee and Flowers were associated with the Sympathy for the Record Industry record label.

The band last played live in a typically wild hit & run performance as special guests to the seminal Detroit band MC5 in 2004.

Those who did appear included The MC5, Pretty Things, Kevin Ayers, Steve Took's Shagrat, the Edgar Broughton Band, Mungo Jerry, Mighty Baby and the Pink Fairies " who were taking all their clothes off as they played ".

) with elements of Hard Rock played by bands like MC5, Stooges, AC / DC, Kiss, Mott the Hoople, Alice Cooper, and so on.

These bands, along with Detroit's MC5, set a precedent for mixing radical politics with rock music, and established the idea of rock as agent of social and political change in the public consciousness.

Tyner also invented their new name, The MC5: it reflected their Detroit roots ( it was short for " Motor City Five '), was vaguely reminiscent of a sports car name ( like the GTO ), and echoed the Dave Clark Five, at the peak of their popularity in 1964 – 1965.

The MC5 even later opened for a few U. S. midwest shows for Sun Ra, whose influence is obvious in

Playing almost nightly any place they could in and around Detroit, the MC5 quickly earned a reputation for their high-energy live performances and had a sizeable local following, regularly selling out to audiences of 1000 or more.

That summer, MC5 toured the U. S. east coast, which generated an enormous response, with the group often overshadowing the more famous acts they opened up for: McLeese writes that when opening for Big Brother and the Holding Company audiences regularly demanded multiple encores of the MC5, and at a memorable series of concerts, Cream — one of the leading hard rock groups of the era — " left the stage vanquished " by the Detroit upstarts.

As related in the notes for reissued editions of the Stooges ' debut album, Danny Fields of Elektra Records came to Detroit to see the MC5.

The group's appearance at the convention is also notable for their lengthy performance: in an interview featured in the documentary Get Up, Stand Up, Kramer reported that while many musicians were scheduled to perform at a day-long concert, only the MC5 initially appeared.

Elektra executives Jac Holzman and Bruce Botnick recognized that the MC5 were at their best when playing for a receptive audience.

The MC5 reunited for a farewell show on New Year's Eve, 1972-73 at the Grande Ballroom.

Wayne Kramer made scattered appearances on other people's records before being incarcerated for drug offenses ( in prison in Kentucky, Kramer was unexpectedly reunited with MC5 bassist Michael Davis, also behind bars on a drug charge ).

Tyner performed under his own name for many years but also performed under " The MC5 " for some live gigs for a brief period, though he was the only active original member involved.

During the mid-1980s, Tyner produced a single for Detroit band Vertical Pillows, and occasionally made brief guest appearances during some of their live shows, singing MC5 covers.

Since February 2005, the MC5 has stabilized its new lineup, with Handsome Dick Manitoba, vocalist of the 1970s New York punk band The Dictators, singing lead for the band.

Pearson has since moved on to play for the MC5.

The MC5 covered " I Want You " at their live shows and recorded the song for the album Kick Out the Jams, although they renamed it " I Want You Right Now ".

Kramer also claimed during a 1999 interview that was excerpted for Goldmine magazine that the phrase was specifically aimed toward British 1960s bands playing at the Grande who the MC5 felt were not putting enough energy into their performances.

Jim Jones contributed guitar tracks to each album as well, and guitarist Wayne Kramer of MC5 fame joined the band for their 1998 summer tour.

Influenced by Detroit rock groups including MC5 and The Stooges, they used extended distorted guitar solos and psychedelic sound effects, coupled with surreal imagery and stage antics, especially on early albums such as Funkadelic ( 1970 ), Free Your Mind ... And Your Ass Will Follow ( 1970 ), and Maggot Brain ( 1971 ), producing over forty singles, including three in the US top ten, and three platinum albums.

In addition to the Protopunk of New York's The Velvet Underground and Suicide, and Detroit ’ s The Stooges and MC5, Kember's and Pierce's musical influences included: US 60s Psychedelic rock, such as The Thirteenth Floor Elevators ; US 60s Garage rock ; 60s British Invasion bands ; Rock n ' Roll ; Buddy Holly ; Surf music ; The Beach Boys ; early, seminal Electronic music, e. g. Silver Apples, Delia Derbyshire and Laurie Anderson ; Krautrock ; The Gun Club, The Cramps and Tav Falco ’ s Panther Burns ; early Chicago blues, e. g. Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Howlin ’ Wolf ; early Delta blues ; gospel and early Staple Singers ; Otis Reading ; the production techniques of Brian Wilson, Joe Meek and Phil Spector ; and the avant-garde jazz and free jazz of Sun Ra and John Coltrane.

Becoming close with Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler was his chance and led Landau to the politically radical MC5, who had just been picked up by Atlantic after being dropped from Elektra Records in 1969-ironically, the Kinney National Company ( later known as Time Warner ), parent of Atlantic, would acquire Elektra in the same year of this album's release ; both labels are now part of the Warner Music Group ( now a separate company from TW ), through the Atlantic Records Group.

Unlike many other hardcore bands of the era, they also acknowledged proto-punk bands like the New York Dolls and MC5.

Its location also meant it was among the first national publications with in-depth coverage of many popular Detroit-area artists, such as Bob Seger, Mitch Ryder, Alice Cooper, The MC5, The Stooges, Iggy Pop, and Parliament-Funkadelic, as well as other Midwestern acts such as Raspberries and Cheap Trick.

On the other hand, Jawbox had been influenced by " the tradition of Chicago's thriving early -' 80s scene ", while The Nation of Ulysses are " best remembered for lifting the motor-mouthed revolutionary rhetoric of the MC5 " with the incorporation of " elements of R & B ( as filtered through the MC5 ) and avant jazz " combined with " exciting, volatile live gigs ", and being the inspiration for " a new crop of bands both locally and abroad ".

The band's sound has been influenced primarily by other famous Motor City rockers like the MC5 and the Stooges.

While Huhn and Shirley were the only permanent members of the group, several other musicians appeared, including " Rick Craig " Lead Guitarist formerly of Halloween, MC5 and formerly of " NOON " with Lynyrd Skynyrd bassist Ean Evans Also Wally Stocker formerly of Rod Stewart's band, bassist Sean Beavan ( who was engineering their 1989 independent single release " Still Rockin '", and went on to engineer, produce, and mix Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Slayer, System of a Down, No Doubt, Thrice and others ) and Cleveland guitarist Alan Greene.

Key acts included British Invasion bands like The Who and The Kinks, as well as psychedelic era performers like Cream, Jimi Hendrix and The Jeff Beck Group and American bands including Iron Butterfly, MC5, Blue Cheer and Vanilla Fudge.

The origins of the MC5 can be traced to the friendship between guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred Smith.

According to Kramer, the MC5 of this period was politically influenced by the Marxism of the Black Panther Party and Fred Hampton, and poets of the Beat Generation such as Allen Ginsberg and Ed Sanders, or Modernist's poets like Charles Olson.

2003 saw the three surviving members of MC5 — Kramer, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson — performing as the MC5 at the 100 Club in London with Fred " Sonic " Smith's place temporarily being taken by Nicke Andersson of The Hellacopters, vocal chores at that time being filled variously by David Vanian of The Damned, Lemmy of Motörhead, Ian Astbury of The Cult, and singer Kate O ' Brien, as well as seeing Charles Moore and Buzzy Jones reprise their roles in the brass section from the High Time album.

At that time he was collaborating with Wayne Kramer of the MC5, as ' Gang War '.

Other members included John Morgan, Ron Cooke, Philippe Marcade and former MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer.

To quote MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer from his interview with Caroline Boucher in Disc & Music Echo magazine on August 8, 1970:

After releasing " By the Grace of God ", Andersson was invited to join Wayne Kramer and the remaining members of the MC5 for their reunion tour in 2003 and 2004.

* Wayne Kramer ( guitarist for MC5 )

Wayne Kramer of the MC5 once said that the Nymphet Noddlers was one of his favorite bands.

lang, Wayne Kramer ( of MC5 fame ) and the Holly Cole Trio of Canada.

While on tour in America the band also had the opportunity to jam with legendary Detroit rockers Scott Morgan of the Sonic's Rendezvous Band and Wayne Kramer of the MC5, beginning long working relationships with both.