The MC5
Kulttuuralo
Helsinki, Finland
November 17, 1972
Pre-Broadcast Tape/Soundboard Recording
DVD Audio Rip
MP3 320kbps
No Cover Art
Screen Shots Included
Lineage: Bootleg DVD > DVD Audio Extractor v4.5.5 > Goldwave v 6.31 (editing) > Traders Little Helper (align sector boundaries) > MP3 320kbps
01 - Introductions 3:01
02 - Ramblin' Rose 4:55
03 - I Want You Right Now 11:04
04 - Gloria (Them) 10:14
05 - Looking At You 15:10
06 - Let It Rock (Chuck Berry) 4:27
07 - Louie, Louie (The Kingsman) 7:42
08 - Kick Out The Jams 12:00
total playing time: 1hr 8mn 35scFred Smith Guitar,Vocals
Wayne Kramer Guitar, Vocals
Ritchie Dharma Drums
Derek Hughes Drums
justdave notes:I used DVD Audio Extractor to rip the audio waves. I the used Goldwave to raise the volume and re-edit some track marks. No EQ, or noise reduction was needed. Since the DVD had lossy audio I encoded the waves to MP3 320kbps wih Traders Little Helper.
from the bootleg zone:The MC5 live at the Kulttuuralo, Helsinki, Finland, on 17 November 1972. Presumably recorded for Finnish TV (in black and white, which seems odd, as colour TV was introduced in the UK in the late 1960s, and it would be surprising if northern Europe was far behind), there is a time counter at the bottom of the screen throughout - the picture is, well, it looks like old TV footage! The sound is very good. This European tour came at near the end of the road for the band, which would perform its last show a few weeks later at the
Grande Ballroom, site of their triumphant shows recorded for the incandescent
"Kick out the Jams" album in 1968 - but the last show, on New Year's Eve 1972, was a dispirited affair to a very small crowd, with one of the band leaving well before the end to go off and get a fix. Anyway, back to this one. After touring and recording in Europe a few times that year with indifferent success, two of the band baulked at yet another trip, leaving only
Fred "Sonic" Smith and
Wayne Kramer to keep the flag flying (bass player
Michael Davis had been sacked earlier).
Dave Hughes had joined the band on a semi-permanent basis on bass, and
Jay Scharma joined the tour on drums - as Hughes later put it (in the
"Testimonial" documentary), "it was the
MC2, plus one, plus one".
Wayne Kramer reminisced in the same documentary that these shows were the pits, with having to sing lead vocals in
Rob Tyner's absence, and not even knowing some of the words, having never sung lead vocals before. The show plods early on, but it does pick up for the last two or three songs. But pro-shot
MC5 footage being almost as rare as rocking-horse shit, it's hard to pass up on something like this...
MP3
