The first photographs of the MC5's Fred Smith wearing his Sonic Smith regalia were taken May
Kill their enemies! And that was not the revolution we were talking about." The MC5 (which stands for "Motor City" in honor of their Detroit hometown) formed in 1964 with Kramer, his friend.
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Fred (Sonic) Smith, a guitarist for the influential rock band the MC5, died Friday at St. John's Hospital in Detroit. He was 44 and lived in St. Clair Shores, a suburb of Detroit.
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The rock group MC5 (Fred 'Sonic' Smith, Dennis 'Machine Gun' Thompson, Rob Tyner, Wayne Kramer and Michael Davis) pose for a photo in front of an American flag in Detroit, Michigan, in.
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Fred (Sonic) Smith, a guitarist for the influential rock band the MC5, died on Friday, Nov. 4, at St. John's Hospital in Detroit. He was 44. The cause was heart failure, said his wife, Patti Smith, the poet and musician.Smith was born in West Virginia but soon moved to Detroit.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, and author who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.. Called the "punk poet laureate", Smith fused rock and poetry in her work. Her most widely known song, "Because the Night", co-written with Bruce Springsteen, reached number 13 on.
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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..
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4th November 1994 the Death of Fred 'Sonic' Smith Sonic - a forward-thinking motherfucker 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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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.
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Singer Rob Tyner died in 1991, guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith died in 1994, and bassist Michael Davis died in 2012. Kramer has kept the band touring over the past several years and published his.
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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.