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WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Wayne Kramer from 2014

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.629.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Marc's 2014 conversation with Wayne Kramer, co-founder of the legendary rock group MC5, covering the ‘60s, jazz, Iggy Pop, the White Panther Party, prison, drugs and more. Wayne died on February 2, 2024 at age 75.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Wayne Kramer is on the show today is a very special episode for me because I you know sometimes with musicians. I'm like holy shit. I can't believe I'm talking to fucking Wayne Kramer. Are you fucking kidding me? Oh my God. I don't know how much you guys know about the MC5, but the MC5 were the shit man.

0:27.2

They were three albums of the shit.

0:30.0

Pure fucking rock and roll at a at a moment in history that will never come again.

0:37.0

Three records of beautiful chaos.

0:41.0

I mean without the MC5 you get no punk rock you get no

0:44.3

Iggy pop you get no you know balls to the walls rip it open kind of rock and roll

0:49.2

comes right out of Detroit man late 60s baby never going to be the same again the world is

0:56.1

never going to be the same that was a turning point and these guys were at the

0:59.9

center of the hurricane the eye of the storm.

1:04.0

I didn't even know what to do with Wayne Kramer.

1:07.0

I had this opportunity to interview him and I started listening to the MC5 records.

1:12.0

You can listen to all of it, man.

1:13.4

There's only a few records, maybe one bootleg.

1:16.2

There's only a few records.

1:18.1

And then it was over.

1:19.7

It was fucking over.

1:21.4

And lives went awry. Lives went rogue man. Wayne Kramer has at least three glives and I'm thinking he might have a cat's disposition. So I'm listening to the MC5 and you know when Wayne Kramer comes up.

1:37.2

You know he drives up and you know Wayne Kramer's in his 60s now and I'm listening to kick out the jams

1:42.2

loud like it's supposed to be listened to and I walk out I see him pull out I walk out into the driveway and you can hear the music pouring out into the street if I can first tune. And I'm walking

1:56.3

up to driveway Wayne and I'm like do you hear that man? Do you hear that? He's like,

1:59.2

yeah. And like you know what that is? He's like, I don't know what? What? I don't know if I do. I'm like listen to it. Do you know what that is? He's like, I don't know what? I don't know if I do.

2:03.7

I'm like listen to it. Do you know what that is? Uh, no not not right off and and we walk in I'm like it's

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