Guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith of The group MC5 performs live in 1969
Today we pay homage to Fred 'Sonic' Smith, rhythm guitarist and songwriter with the revolutionary '60s Detroit band MC5: a Visionary Motherfucker who died of ill health at the age of just forty-five.
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MC5 is shown at a 1969 performance in its native Michigan. From left are drummer Dennis "Machine Gun" Thompson, lead guitarist Wayne Kramer, rhythm guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith and lead.
Guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith of The group MC5 performs live in 1969
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Frederick Dewey Smith(September 14, 1948[1][lower-alpha 1]- November 4, 1994), known professionally as Fred"Sonic" Smith, was an American guitarist, best known as a member of the influential and politicalDetroit rock band MC5.[3] At age 31, he married and raised a family with poet and fellow rock musician Patti Smith.
Photograph of Fred Smith of MC5 by Leni Sinclair of the White Panther
"They were the two smartest, most talented guys I knew," said MC5's Wayne Kramer of fellow bandmates Rob Tyner and Fred "Sonic" Smith, in a key scene from unreleased documentary about the.
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Fred Sonic Smith of MC5 Home / GUITARISTS / Fred "Sonic" Smith 11/1994 Posted on November 6, 2015 by Macamba0 — Leave a comment Fred "Sonic" Smith 11/1994 November 4, 1994 - Fred "Sonic" Smith was born on September 13, 1949 in West Virginia, but raised in Detroit.
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Nov. 13, 1994 12 AM PT Fred (Sonic) Smith, original guitarist for the rock band MC5 and several other groups, including his Sonic's Rendezvous Band, has died. He was 44. He died Nov. 4 of.
Fred Sonic Smith, of the MC5, at the Grande Ballroom, Detroit MI
Music Book Review: Two Dueling Narratives Pick Through the Wreckage of the MC5 Guitarist Wayne Kramer and bassist Michael Davis offer differing takes on a revolutionary band's tragic story. By.
The first photographs of the MC5's Fred Smith wearing his Sonic Smith
Fred "Sonic" Smith was one of the key architects of the Detroit High Energy rock sound as guitarist and co-founder of the legendary MC5, and while his work after the band's breakup was sporadic,… Read Full Biography STREAM OR BUY: Active 1960s - 1990s Born September 14, 1949 in West Virginia Died November 4, 1994 in Detroit, MI Genre Pop/Rock
Photo of MC5; MC5 Wayne Kramer in striped shirt, Fred 'Sonic' Smith
fred "sonic" smith. As guitar heroes go, Fred "Sonic" Smith was one of the best, his musical legacy firmly established by his time spent as one half of the dual guitar arsenal that fueled the legendary MC5, and later fronting his own Sonic's Rendezvous Band and collaborating with his wife, Patti Smith. In the late '60s and early '70s, the Motor.
Guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith of The group MC5 performs live at the
Fred (Sonic) Smith, a guitarist for the influential rock band the MC5, died on Friday at St. John's Hospital in Detroit. He was 44 and lived in St. Clair Shores, a suburb of Detroit. The.
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In late 1994, her husband, Fred "Sonic" Smith, guitarist with '60s agit-rockers the MC5, died of heart failure. A few weeks later, Smith's brother Todd, who was her road manager, suffered.
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MC5 is an American rock band formed in Lincoln Park, Michigan, in 1963. [5] [6] The classic line-up consisted of vocalist Rob Tyner, guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred "Sonic" Smith, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson.
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He introduces readers to the band's original members, Rob Tyner, Wayne Kramer, Fred "Sonic" Smith, Michael Davis, and Dennis Thompson, and links the power of the MC5 phenomenon to its early days as the raucous house band of Detroit's legendary Grande Ballroom.
Fred 'Sonic' Smith and Dennis Thompson of the MC5, Free Concert in the
Frederick Dewey Smith (September 14, 1948 [1] [a] - November 4, 1994), known professionally as Fred " Sonic " Smith, was an American guitarist, best known as a member of the influential Detroit rock band MC5. [3] At age 31, he married and raised a family with poet and fellow rock musician Patti Smith.
Guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith of The group MC5 smashes his guitar on
Fred "Sonic" Smith was the archetypical quiet one of the group, yet he was the main architect of their sound, entirely taking over the direction of the MC5's radical final album High Time..