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Curiosity got the better of me after I took the accompanying upload of one of the latest Citybus Enviro 500 Training Buses with its recycled registration mark from an earlier era, and as shown here in this view from 31 years earlier, the very same vehicle that bore the identity from new way back in August 1978. China Motor Bus MC5, an MCW Metrobus DR102/2 fitted with coach seating, was an early example of the type and part of a batch of 12. Pictured at Edinburgh Place, Central Hong Kong in October 1992, it would see 20 years of CMB service before passing with most of the active fleet to New World First Bus Services on 1st September 1998 after CMB's franchise operations ended just after midnight. It remained in service for a short period before moving to the Training Fleet where it spent quite a few more years before donating its BV 2048 (shades of Blackburn) plate to its Leyland Olympian replacement, which was then replaced by a newer Volvo
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- followed by a Dennis Trident and its current host, Trident E500 T38.
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Matrícula UIC: Laagrss 41 71 437-8-000 a 41 71 437-8-074
Matrícula nacional: MC 490001 a 490075 (MC5)
Familia: Plataformas/Portacontenedores
Propietario: Renfe
Carga: Contenedores, cajas móviles
Matrícula UIC: Laagrss 41 71 437-8-000 a 41 71 437-8-074
Matrícula nacional: MC 490001 a 490075 (MC5)
Familia: Plataformas/Portacontenedores
Propietario: Renfe
Carga: Contenedores, cajas móviles
29/04/2023 - Truckfest Peterborough 2023
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Originally from Lincoln Park, a suburb of Detroit, the MC5 came to represent DETROIT in the late 60's through their hard work/constant gigging, rough edge, and take no crap attitude. To this day they still represent what it truly means to be a Detroiter.
A Mercedes Citaro bus dating from 2000 and a Volvo Caetano coach dating from 1996 are parked up awaiting the scrap man at LImerick.
My album cover contest has come to a close and the scores have been tallied. Contestants received a half point for each artist correctly identified and a half point for each album, making the highest possible score 55 points.
And the winner is... Raul Gutierrez!
Combining his own considerable musical knowledge with that of several friends, as well as incorporating some clever cyber-sleuthing techniques, Raul was able to at least partially identify a whopping forty-four of the fifty-five album covers for a total of 41 points.
I will be creating a song for Raul, tailored to the topic of his choice. It remains to be seen if this prize makes him a lucky winner.
My thanks to everyone who participated! Here is the full list of album covers, in order of appearance (also annotated in the image above):
MC5: Kick Out the Jams (1969)
Slayer: Haunting the Chapel [EP] (1984)
Tortoise: TNT (1998)
Mission of Burma: On Off On (2002)
Godflesh: Hymns (2001)
Andrew W.K.: 55 Cadillac (2009)
Dream Theater: The Silent Man [Single] (1994)
NPR: Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me [Podcast] (2011)
Danzig: Danzig III: How the Gods Kill (1992)
Adolescents: Adolescents (1981)
Necrophagist: Epitaph (2004)
Quicksand: Quicksand [EP] (1989)
Berlin: Love Life (1984)
Tuatara: East of the Sun (2007)
Morphine: Cure for Pain (1993)
Daughters: Daughters (2010)
Poison: Open Up and Say… Ahh! (1988)
Tomahawk: Mit Gas (2003)
Fugazi: 13 Songs (1988)
Neurosis: Times of Grace (1999)
Dead or Alive: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know (1986)
Gwar: Hell-O! (1988)
The Magnetic Fields: The Charm of the Highway Strip (1984)
Terry Riley: The Book of Abbeyozzud (1999)
Karp: Suplex (1995)
The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
Belle & Sebastian: Dog on Wheels [EP] (1997)
Hum: Electra 2000 (1993)
Orange 9mm: Driver Not Included (1995)
King Crimson: Discipline (1981)
Tone Language: Patience Is the Key (2000)
Various Artists: Jackass the Movie: The Official Soundtrack (2002)
Suicidal Tendencies: The Art of Rebellion (1992)
Beatallica: A Garage Dayz Nite (2001)
The Dismemberment Plan: ! (1995)
Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes / Gradual Requiem / Gambuh I (1990)
TV on the Radio: New Health Rock [EP] (2004)
The Dismemberment Plan: Emergency and I (1999)
Peter Gabriel: Security (1982)
Nirvana: Incesticide (1992)
Shellac: Terraform (1998)
The B-52s: Wild Planet (1980)
Information Society: Information Society (1988)
Wolves in the Throne Room: Black Cascade (2009)
Mr. Bungle: Mr. Bungle (1991)
Mr. Bungle: Goddammit I Love America [Demo] (1988)
Falco: Falco 3 (1986)
Michael Jackson: Thriller (1982)
Sepultura: Beneath the Remains (1989)
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult: Hit and Run Holiday (1995)
His Name Is Alive: Always Stay Sweet (1999)
Mogwai: Rock Action (2001)
Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (1980)
Quicksand: Slip (1993)
Modern English: After the Snow (1982)
Matrícula UIC: Laagrss 41 71 437-8-000 a 41 71 437-8-074
Matrícula nacional: MC 490001 a 490075 (MC5)
Familia: Plataformas/Portacontenedores
Propietario: Renfe
Carga: Contenedores, cajas móviles
New arrivals at Universal PSV are these two former Bus Éireann Mercedes-Benz O530 Citaros. Both were former Limerick based and have seen better times!
Matrícula UIC: Laagrss 41 71 437-8-000 a 41 71 437-8-074
Matrícula nacional: MC 490001 a 490075 (MC5)
Familia: Plataformas/Portacontenedores
Propietario: Renfe
Carga: Contenedores, cajas móviles
Bus Éireann (Limerick) Mercedes-Benz 0530 / Citaro MC 5 (00-D-83656) on William Street, Limerick 10th April 2004.
MC5, ‘Kick Out The Jams’, 1969. An immense blast. An ur-riff. Recorded LIVE in Detroit 1968. Still sets the pulse racing today. The MC5 invented punk. THE great lost band of the Sixties.
6.2.94. North Entrance, Gardiner. These MCI-MC5's were bought new in 1975. Five still exist, and the fleet also includes a few of the famous 1930's-vintage White "Park" buses reintroduced in recent years.
Another enhanced photo from my senior Sonora High School yearbook, capturing the passion, lust, short-skirts and apathy of 1970.
This shot was snapped at the "Softer than the Kiss of Snow" Christmas Dance sponsored by the Girls League. According to the yearbook, "the decor was very romantic and mystical" - quite unlike anything else that ever took place in the same gymnasium.
Background Music from the era, provided courtesy of a fresh epiclectic vinyl rip of MC5's High School, from their great album Back In The USA.
Slash Does Sid. He was waiting to go on stage, where he played explosive guitar on Thin Lizzy's 'Jailbreak' with vocals by ex-jailbird Wayne Kramer of The MC5. Weirdly - or maybe not - CBGB rocked mega again.
© BP Fallon 2008
Just to break my streak of both HDR ( which this isn't ) and abandoned buildings ( which this isn't ).
United Sound is a big part of the musical history of Detroit. It was Detroit's first recording studio when it opened in 1933. John Lee Hooker first recorded here in 1948, and in 1959 Berry Gordy Jr - after borrowing some money - recorded the first Motown Records song ( it was later released on the Tamla label ) here - Marv Johnson's " Come to Me ". Bands/Artists that have recorded here include Marvin Gaye ( parts of What's going on ) , Aretha Franklin, The Red Hot Chili Peppers ( with George Clinton producing ) , Funkadelic ( almost all of their albums were recorded here ) , MC5, Parliament, Stevie Wonder ( "my cherie amour" ), and Martha Reeves. It is still open and now records local Techno and Hip-Hop artists using the latest equipment and software. Located on Second Avenue in Downtown Detroit, right near the Wayne State University Campus. This studio was closed for a while and re-opened in 2004.
Long abandoned, the Grande Ballroom is an icon in Detroit. Designed by Charles Agree, it opened in 1928 and the hardwood dance floor was located on the second floor. In 1966 it was turned into a concert venue, with The Who, Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Janis Joplin, Cream, Jeff Beck, Led Zeppelin, and Alice Cooper among others playing here. The two house bands here were also of note: the MC5 and Iggy and the Stooges. The MC5 recorded their album Kick Out The Jams here. The psychedelic art posters have become highly collectable from these shows and easily fetch over $2000. The last gig at the Grande was December 31, 1972 and also happened to be the last gig the MC5 ever played. There has recently been a ministry's logo painted on the front that was considering moving into this building.
MC5 / Kick Out the Jams
Side one:
- "Ramblin' Rose" (Fred Burch, Marijohn Wilkin) - 4:15
- "Kick Out the Jams"- 2:52
- "Come Together" - 4:29
- "Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa)" - 5:41
Side two:
- "Borderline" - 2:45
- "Motor City Is Burning" (Al Smith) - 6:04
- "I Want You Right Now" (Colin Frechter, Larry Page) - 5:31
- "Starship" (MC5, Sun Ra) - 8:15
Rob Tyner – lead vocals
Wayne Kramer – lead guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Ramblin' Rose"
Fred "Sonic" Smith – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Michael Davis – bass guitar
Dennis Thompson – drums
Live at Grande Ballroom, Detroit, Michigan (October 30–31, 1968)
sleeve design: cover photography by Joel Brodsky
Label: Elektra Records / 1969
ex Vinyl-Collection MTP
Booty shaking before we called them booties.
Background Music from the era, provided courtesy of a fresh epiclectic vinyl rip of MC5's Shakin' Street, from their great album Back In The USA.
Courtesy of Wikipedia:
In string theory, a heterotic string is a closed string (or loop) which is a hybrid ('heterotic') of a superstring and a bosonic string. There are two kinds of heterotic string, the Heterotic type SO(32) and the Heterotic type E8 × E8, abbreviated to HO and HE. Heterotic string theory was first developed in 1985 by David Gross, Jeffrey Harvey, Emil Martinec, and Ryan Rohm (the so-called "Princeton String Quartet"[1]), in one of the key papers that fueled the first superstring revolution.
In string theory, the left-moving and the right-moving excitations almost do not interact with each other, and it is possible to construct a string theory whose left-moving (counter-clockwise) excitations are treated as a bosonic string propagating in D = 26 dimensions, while the right-moving (clock-wise) excitations are treated as a superstring in D = 10 dimensions.
The mismatched 16 dimensions must be compactified on an even, self-dual lattice (a discrete subgroup of a linear space). There are two possible even self-dual lattices in 16 dimensions, and it leads to two types of the heterotic string. They differ by the gauge group in 10 dimensions. One gauge group is SO(32) (the HO string) while the other is E8 × E8 (the HE string).[2]
These two gauge groups also turned out to be the only two anomaly-free gauge groups that can be coupled to the N = 1 supergravity in 10 dimensions other than U(1)496 and E8 × U(1)248, which is suspected to lie in the swampland.
Every heterotic string must be a closed string, not an open string; it is not possible to define any boundary conditions that would relate the left-moving and the right-moving excitations because they have a different character.
A heterotic string is embedded in the membrane that creates harmonics on the string which translate into mass and energy through mechanisms discussed above.
So there.
In the mid-1990s, the backs of three venerable buses. From L-R, a General Motors Silversides coach, an MCI MC-5, and an AM General transit bus.
The Great Loo Roll Crisis of 2020 cont.
More classic vinyl distraction you can discover, or rediscover, for yourselves, while you’re waiting…
The MC5. From Detroit, the Motor City. One of my fave bands from the Sixties, along with the Velvet Underground and the Stooges. Don’t get me wrong, I love Beatles, Stones, Who, Kinks etc. from that time, but the MC5 sound like the Future. Punk before Punk.
‘Back in The USA’ from 1970 was their second album. They only made three before imploding from too many gigs and drugs, unpopular radical politics, prison visits, and no money. Theirs is the great untold story of the Sixties.
A fierce live band, the MC5 (as a support act) used to blow visiting UK bands to Detroit, like Cream and The Who, away. Detroit was a hard-werkin’ blue-collar town: people wanna party at the weekend! After their first album, (recorded live at the Grande Ballroom in 1968), failed to break big they needed help. Enter Jon Landau, later to make millions by ‘discovering’ Bruce Springsteen, who produced their second album despite never having produced an album before.
It’s a tinny, tight, coiled-spring set of songs, the lack of bass adding to the compressed fierce twin guitar attack of Wayne Kramer and Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith (later to marry Patti Smith) and the machine-gun drumming of Dennis Thomson. These are not the extended hippy ramblings du jour. They’re short, sharp stabs of rockin’ pop. These guys are tighter than a gnat’s chuff. With lyrics from the Sticking It To The Man school of thought. ‘American Ruse’, with the Vietnam war at its height, is the funniest, spikiest putdown of the war you’ll ever hear. ‘Looking at You’ has a one string guitar solo that explodes. Old skool rocknroll in the shape of ‘Tutti Frutti’ and ‘Back in the USA’ are twice their original speed. ‘Tonight’, ‘Teenage Lust’ and ‘High School’ speak to youth of any age. ‘Let Me Try’ is the only ‘ballad’ and is gorgeous. ‘Shakin’ Street’ has a solid acoustic chug and ‘The Human Being Lawnmower’ is rapid fire chords.
The whole album is only 30 minutes long - a sweaty, breathless rush and sounds like it could’ve been written today. Future Now was one of their slogans. It made it to the giddy heights of #137 on the charts. It bombed. But the future generation of punks waiting in the wings had their ears turned and burned by the MC5 (and the Stooges, also from Detroit). Listen LOUD.
Matrícula UIC: Laagrss 41 71 437-8-000 a 41 71 437-8-074
Matrícula nacional: MC 490001 a 490075 (MC5)
Familia: Plataformas/Portacontenedores
Propietario: Renfe
Carga: Contenedores, cajas móviles
Nothing like an unexpected, and much-appreciated reach-around while sitting on the planter at lunch chatting up the ladies.
Background Music from the era, provided courtesy of a fresh epiclectic vinyl rip of MC5's Shakin' Street, from their great album Back In The USA.
Another one of my favorite buildings in Detroit - The Eastown Theater. I love the Architecture and the History of this place. It has seen quite a bit of damage in the 2 years since I first shot it ( see pic below ).
Originally a movie theater that opened in 1930, it was also a big concert venue from 1969 thru 1972 seating 2,500 people. Concerts there included MC5, Stooges, Buddy Miles, Amboy Dukes, Rush, Howlin' Wolf, Alice Cooper, War, BB King, Albert King, Mountain, Steve Miller, Sly and the Family Stone, Grand Funk - and that was just in the first few months it was open! It has been known as the Eastown Theater it's whole life. The theater operated from 1930 until 1967. Outside of Rock Acts, it did reopen briefly in 1975 for Jazz acts, again in 1976 for Performing arts and plays, 1980 for avant garde and exploitation films, and a last attempt in 1984 for live performing arts again. It has also hosted a few techno raves in it's time. It was originally designed by VJ Waier.
This is the place where Alice Cooper first started wearing a Top Hat, he had found it in the dumpster here.
- Sony ILCE-7R M2, Test Asahi Super-Takumar 55mm f/1.8 ( MF-lens)
- f8 - 1/320 sec - ISO 200
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All Rights Reserved. © Horst Beutler 2020
The Great Loo Roll Crisis of 2020 cont.
More vinyl distraction. Classic albums you can discover, or rediscover, for yourselves, while you’re waiting…
Patti Smith. She’s a mum. She married Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith of the MC5 and had kids. She was Smith before she met Fred, not that she’s a married name changing kinda gal, probably. Fred died young so Patti raised the kids pretty much on her own for a decade and dropped out of music. That’s my nod to Mother’ Day.
Anyway. This album. THIS album. I got my brother to use his pocket money to buy it in WH Smiths, Andover. I’d seen Patti do ‘Horses’ on the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1976. It was 40 years before I saw the clip again – thank you Youtube. Search it out. She’s utterly cool, compelling, convincing, raw, brilliant.
Wimmin in Rawk. Before Punk there was nobody like Patti Smith, and since really. Just the cover photo by an unknown Robert Mapplethorpe (her boyfriend) lets you know, this is… different. Poetry was Patti’s thing and a rock band was the easiest way to get it out there. She grew up on Kerouac and the Beats, even sitting at Allen Ginsberg’s dying bedside.
If you’ve never heard this album, you’re in for a treat. In fact, in case you haven’t, I’m not going to say much more. It’s from 1975 and I defy you to name anything else from then (or now) that sounds like it. Sure, it’s word heavy in parts and can be, er, intense. It’s not Carole King MOR. And if you don’t like it, Patti don’t care. This is her Art, her words, what she wanted to do with her Life, so she went out and did it. She ain’t no phoney.
old picture my dad took of the MC5's last surviving members, Dennis Thompson on drums, Wayne Kramer on lead guitar and Michael Davis on bass guitar. Picture taken at the Metro in Chicago Illinois. This tour was called the MC5 / DKT - Reunion Tour. All three original members have since passed away. MC5 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2024.
Vintage September 1969 issue of Circus Magazine featuring Detroit’s own MC5 on the cover. Kick Out the James - indeed! It’s always a thrill when it’s from Vinnie DeVille!
Ahora ya es algo normal pero desde hace bien poco el Logitren de Plaza a Valencia y su inverso traen cada vez más MC5 de Renfe Mercancías. ¿Será porque el servicio es mixto y así se puede correr más? En fin, donde este la variedad que no falte. Cuarte de Huerva. 24/02/2012
Love tokens left by fans on the top of Fred "Sonic" Smith`s grave headstone. Elmwood Cemetery. Detroit, Michigan. February 17th, 2017.
Operated by: [Out of Service]
Built in: 1979
Manufacturer: Motor Coach Industries
Model: MC-5C
Notes: Greyhound Taseco unit, 1979 may be the year and not the fleet #
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The Grande Ballroom is located on Grand River in Detroit. It is a historic dance hall and music venue. It became a popular place of emerging Detroit musicians, like MC5. It would also see stars like The Who, Janis Joplin and Pink Floyd play here. It has been primarily abandoned since it closed as a rock venue in 1972.