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Wayne Kramer
Born
in Detroit, Michigan, The United States
April 30, 1948
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“In Detroit, it was an average night to go and hear the Stooges, Parliament-Funkadelic and the MC5 on the same show. We were all into the 'Free Jazz' movement, the musics of Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra; and experimenting with guitar sounds, and trying different beats, and pushing the rhythm farther...”
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“Our neighborhood, the Cass Corridor,was a bohemian/ghetto area surrounding Wayne State University. It was no big deal to smoke weed, have long hair, or play music loud at night around here; it was a live-and-let-live type of neighborhood. We all knew each other, and there was a nice community vibe.”
― The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities
― The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities
“What I noticed about the West Coast bands was that they had awful rhythm sections. The bassist was just the guy who couldn’t play guitar as well as the other guy. In Detroit, the bar was very high—it was the home of Motown.”
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