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beefandbones · Post by **beefandbones** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 11:58 am

I just saw a great documentary about the MC5, called MC5: A True Testimonial, and it had a BUNCH of footage of Fred 'Sonic' Smith and his Mapleglo 450/12. Does anyone have any photographs of him with this guitar? Seems like he used it for quite a few years.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 3:05 pm

I saw a DVD the other day with him playing a Ric, I forgot about it until just now, they were a great band huh? The DVD is a bootleg and there is no info with it unfortunately, had a lot of great stuff on it from the late 60's, early 70's, Fanny, The Byrds, MC5, It's a Beautiful day, Captain Beefheart (who were unbelievable in this video) etc.

dougp · Post by **dougp** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 1:39 pm

There's a picture of Fred with his Ric on the front cover of the Sonics Rendezvous Band (his post-MC5 band) reissues from a few years back.

That documentary is great, btw, and the reunion show (no Fred, of course, RIP) I saw a couple weeks ago was surprisingly satisfying (helped by the fact that Mark Arm and Marshall Crenshaw were both very good).

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 5:48 pm

Doug, where did you see them? I was supposed to go see them but my friend I was going to go with hurt her knee and couldnt go.

dougp · Post by **dougp** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 2:23 pm

Hi Steve - I saw them at the Independent in San Francisco (formerly the Justice League, Crash Palace & Kennel Club). One cool thing they've been doing on the tour is bringing up local "classic punk" (for lack of a better term) stars to guest (Handsome Dick Manitoba of the Dictators in NYC, for instance), so we got Roy Loney (ex-Flamin' Groovies - hey, that's even Rickenbacker content!) singing the Chuck Berry / Little Richard covers from 'Back In The USA' (Evan Dando sucked BTW, but Arm, Crenshaw & Loney more than made up for him).

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 3:15 pm

They played at a little theatre here (Magic Stick in Detroit) and I really wanted to go, but it didnt happen. I'm glad they rocked!!
Handsome Dick is also late of Manitoba's Wild Kingdom, whose only CD I am really fond of.

bobby_peru · Post by **bobby_peru** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 1:19 pm

Kick out the jams...

tnelson · Post by **tnelson** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 10:27 pm

I think he used it as a 6

Chrome Aardvark · Post by **Chrome Aardvark** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 1:24 am

Fred's 450/12 strung as a 6 has been discussed here: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=399070

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