NEW YORK (AP) — Wayne Kramer, the co-founder of the protopunk Detroit band the MC5 that thrashed out such hardcore anthems as “Kick Out the Jams” and influenced everyone from the Clash to Rage Against the Machine, has died at age 75. Kramer died Friday at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, according to Jason Heath, a close friend and executive director of Kramer’s nonprofit Jail Guitar Doors USA. Heath said the cause of death was pancreatic cancer. From the late 1960s to early 1970s, no band was closer to the revolutionary spirit of the time than the MC5, which featured Kramer and Fred “Sonic” Smith on guitars, Rob Tyner on vocals, Michael Davis on bass and Dennis “Machine Gun” Thompson on drums. Managed for a time by White Panther co-founder John Sinclair, they were known for their raw, uncompromising music, which they envisioned as the soundtrack for the uprising to come. “Brother Wayne Kramer was the best man I’ve ever known,” Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello wrote on Instagram Friday. “He possessed a one of a kind mixture of deep wisdom & profound compassion, beautiful empathy and tenacious conviction. His band the MC5 basically invented punk rock music.” (…) Survivors include his wife, Margaret Saadi, and son, Francis. Associated Press
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Grémio Editions deeply regrets the death of American musician Wayne Kramer (1948-2024), founder of the MC5 and coordinator of the Jail Guitar Doors programme in Los Angeles.Wayne Kramer and the Jail Guitar Doors are central to the album “Louisville” published by Tradisom in 2022 (Grémio collection).On the album, the recording of an interview with Wayne Kramer about the political situation in the United States was set to music by guitarist Oscar Pinho.
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“Louisville” no caderno Ípsilon, jornal Público 17/2/23 texto do jornalista Mário Lopes
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“Alabama” tema de Francisco F. Cerqueira para o álbum “Louisville” / Apresentação Jazzmessengers Lisboa 03 de fevereiro 2023
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Apresentação “Louisville”, 03 de Fevereiro / Jazzmessengers / LX Factory/ Lisboa
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“Louisville” na Antena3 – Programa “Defeitos Especiais” de Luís Oliveira (parte 1 e parte 2)
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“Louisville” na Antena 3 – Programa “Defeitos Especiais” de Luís Oliveira para ouvir na segunda-feira, 16 de janeiro e terça-feira, 17 de janeiro
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Concerto “Bastardos do Cardeal”, banda que integra músicos que participam no álbum (LP) “Louisville”, 03 de Fevereiro / Barracuda Clube de Rock / PORTO
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Message sent by Demontaze Duncan, from freezing Louisville, Kentucky. Read all about in “Louisville” album/LP
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Louisville: um retrato do “campo de batalha” que são os Estados Unidos | Fotografia | PÚBLICO (publico.pt)
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Filme exibido na apresentação “Louisville” em Lisboa (Narrativa). Excertos dos temas: “Black Panther” Thee Magnets (João Calheiro, Carlos Moura e Maurício Mau Mau); “Amerika” de Óscar Pinho; “Miami Booby Trump”, O Imundo Dêcoro; “Alabama” de Francisco F. Cerqueira; “Twenty Twenty” LÖDO (Luís Vaz Patto, Hélder Pechorro e Luís Antero); “Barbarella”, Guilherme Lucas e “The Bee and Butterfly”, The Chrystal Cabinet (Rui Sousa e JMN). Fotografias: Mário Cruz.
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Apresentação “Louisville” em Lisboa, dia 15 de dezembro / 19:00, NARRATIVA, Rua Dr. Gama Barros, 60,1700-147
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Apresentação em Viseu (03 dezembro) + “Twenty Twenty” LÖDO (com a colaboração do fotógrafo Rui Pereira – Viseu, pelas imagens vídeo).
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Bom Natal / Merry Christmas
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“(D)o Fundo do Poço” na apresentação do álbum/LP “Louisville” na Associação Fora de Rebanho, em Viseu
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Excerto do texto Pedro Sousa Pereira da apresentação de “Louisville” PortoPostDoc
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Apresentação do Álbum “Louisville” em Viseu 03 de dezembro, 22 horas. Fora do Rebanho
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Louisville: The African-American Desmontaze
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Lançamento do álbum “Louisville” PortoPostDoc, 26 de Novembro Cinema Passos Manuel, Porto.
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jn.pt – Um manual anticrime em forma de arte
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LusoAmericano – Portuguese journalist edits album “Louisville” about violence in last US presidential election
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Le journaliste Pedro Sousa Pereira cree louisville sur le racisme et la violence aux Etats Unis
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Revista Sábado – “O Crime Combate-se com Arte”
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24.sapo.pt – jornalista Pedro Sousa-Pereira edita Louisville um manifesto sobre racismo e violência nos EUA
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Lusa – The journalist Pedro Sousa Pereira edits this month the album “Louisville”, with the photojournalist Mário Cruz
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Concerto de BAsTArdos do cArdEAl – o regresso do limbo. 26 de Novembro, 22:30 no “Carmo 81”, Viseu
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Concerto dos “Necro Chaos” hoje, 12 de novembro, no Cave Avenida, Viana do Castelo