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MC5 is a Punk rock act. Their sound grew out of Download Festival, Ted Taylor, Chuck Berry, Dick Dale and John Coltrane. Those roots explain a lot about how MC5 arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as New York Dolls, The Sonics, Dead Boys, Flamin' Groovies and Iggy Pop, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Sex Pistols, The Clash, Black Flag, Ramones and The Damned, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 64 connections around MC5, reaching back through Download Festival and forward to Sex Pistols. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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MC5 connections
MC5 grew out of Download Festival, Ted Taylor, Chuck Berry and Dick Dale, shares an orbit with New York Dolls, The Sonics, Dead Boys and Flamin' Groovies, went on to shape Sex Pistols, The Clash, Black Flag and Ramones. 64 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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