Tag Archives: Dennis Thompson

It’s a little-known reality that a long time before the ex – members of Pleasure Division find the New Purchase moniker because of their subsequent group, a music group called New Purchase existed in LA. Hardly several unknowns, previous Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton produced the short-lived music group in the …

Possessing perhaps one of the most explosive concert events of all-time fueled by high-octane rock and roll, the MC5 needed a larger-than-life frontman to lead the proceedings, and Rob Tyner was an ideal man for the work. Born Dec 12, 1944, Tyner co-formed the MC5 originally in 1963 (combined with …

Alongside their Detroit-area brethren the Stooges, MC5 essentially laid the foundations for the emergence of punk; deafeningly noisy and uncompromisingly intense, the group’s politics had been ultimately as important as their music, their groundbreaking sloganeering and anti-establishment outrage crystallizing the counterculture motion at its most volatile and intimidating. Under the …