1971’s Back in the USA and 1972’s High Time both for Atlantic Records. The MC5 recorded three major label albums including 1969’s Kick Out The Jams on Elektra. Sinclair became a mentor to then 20 year old Kramer and introduced him to the world of free jazz, poetry and progressive political awareness. In 1967, the MC5 were designated “House Band” at Detroit's famous Grande Ballroom and was managed by Poet, John Sinclair, a radical left-wing writer and co-founder of the White Panther Party, until 1969 when Sinclair was sentenced to nine and a half years in the Michigan Department of Corrections for giving two joints to an undercover police woman. Rolling Stone ranked him among the "100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time".
For Kramer, this led to several fallow years as he battled drug addiction before returning to an active recording and performing schedule in the 1990s. The MC5 broke up amid government harassment, poverty and drug abuse. Kramer came to prominence as a teenager in 1967 as a co-founder of the Detroit rock group MC5, a group known for their powerful live performances and radical left-wing political stand. Wayne Kramer (born Wayne Kambes April 30, 1948) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and film and television composer.
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